Compare Google Workspace editions

Google Workspace offers subscription options for individuals, small businesses, large organizations, and schools. Compare editions in these categories:

• Business—Productivity suites for businesses with 1-300 users
• Education—Discounted suites for qualifying educational institutions
• Enterprise—Adds premium security and advanced controls for unlimited users
• Essentials—Productivity and collaboration tools without Gmail

To find out your edition, go to What's my subscription and payment plan?

Compare Business editions (1-300 users)

Use these tables to compare the following editions, available to customers with 1-300 users:

• Business Starter—Professional productivity suite with 30 GB pooled storage per user*
• Business Standard—Enhanced productivity suite with 2 TB pooled storage per user
• Business Plus—Advanced productivity suite with 5 TB pooled storage per user

* New Business Starter customers have pooled storage by default. Rollout to existing customers began in May 2023 and will continue over the coming months.

To learn about subscription plans tailored for your specific needs, contact sales.

Suite wide	Service specific
Service availability Usage and support User access options Migration products Reports and monitoring Security and data management Endpoint management 3rd-party app integration	Gmail Drive and Docs editors Groups / Groups for Business Google Meet Google Chat Calendar

Service availability

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Chat and chat spaces	✔	✔	✔
Digital whiteboarding with Jamboard	✔	✔	✔
Drive storage and Docs editors	✔	✔	✔
Video conferencing with Meet	✔	✔	✔
Directory management	✔	✔	✔
Sites	✔	✔	✔
Tasks	✔	✔	✔
Notetaking with Keep	✔	✔	✔
Gmail and Calendar	✔*	✔*	✔*
Groups for Business	✔*	✔*	✔*
AppSheet Core	✔*	✔*	✔*
Additional Google services	✔*	✔*	✔*
Colab to collaboratively develop data science and machine learning models (as an additional Google service, no user licenses required)	✔	✔	✔
Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ (add-on)	✔*	✔*	✔*
Gemini app with enterprise-grade data protections**	✔	✔	✔
Gemini for Google Workspace**	✔	✔	✔
Google Cloud Search for internal search and assist (across Google services, only)		✔*	✔*
Google Vault for eDiscovery and information governance			✔*

* Requires verifying your domain.
** Compare Gemini app offerings.

Usage and support

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Number of users	1-300	1-300	1-300
Email, document, photo storage per user	30 GB pooled	2 TB pooled	5 TB pooled
Purchase additional pooled storage	✔	✔	✔
99.9% uptime guarantee	✔	✔	✔
Standard Support	✔	✔	✔

User access options

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Supported browsers	✔	✔	✔
Access across devices (computers, phones, tablets)	✔	✔	✔
Offline access	✔	✔	✔
Microsoft Outlook	✔*	✔*	✔*
IMAP and POP mail clients	✔*	✔*	✔*

* Requires verifying your domain.

Migration products

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Migrate email (< 100 users)	✔*	✔*	✔*
Migrate email, calendars, contacts, files (many tools)	✔*	✔*	✔*
Migrate from Gmail or other webmail	✔*	✔*	✔*
Migrate from Outlook	✔*	✔*	✔*
Have users migrate their data	✔*	✔*	✔*
Migrate from Exchange		✔*	✔*
Migrate data with Google Workspace Migrate		✔*	✔*

* Requires verifying your domain.

Reports and monitoring

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Highlights reports summarizing metrics and trends	✔	✔	✔
Apps-usage reports (organization wide)	✔	✔	✔
User- and admin-specific activity reports	✔	✔	✔
Carbon footprint report	✔	✔	✔
Audit and investigation tool Log event reporting (See log events below)	✔	✔	✔
Drive DLP data protection insights report		✔*	✔*
Google Meet attendance reports			✔
Log-event exports to Google Security Operations
Export reports to BigQuery
VirusTotal reports
Work Insights reports for users

* Requires verifying your domain

Security and data management

Security policies and data protection

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
2-Step Verification	✔*	✔*	✔*
Security keys for 2-Step Verification	✔*	✔*	✔*
Set session length for Google Cloud services	✔	✔	✔
Collaboration with trusted external domains	✔*	✔*	✔*
Basic data exports	✔	✔	✔
Enforced SSL connections	✔	✔	✔
Password monitoring and strength control	✔*	✔*	✔*
Generative AI security protections		✔ **	✔ **
Drive data protection insights report		✔	✔
Set session length for Google services			✔*
Data loss prevention (DLP)
Control access based on user and device context (Context-Aware Access)
Advanced data exports
Client-side encryption
Assured Controls for managing compliance & security requirements (add-on)

* Requires verifying your domain.
** Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.

Security dashboards & investigation tools

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Alert center: Notifications of potential security issues	✔	✔	✔
Audit and investigation tool Log event reporting (See specific log events below)	✔	✔	✔
Security investigation tool Log event reporting with premium features: Take action based on search results Automate security threat response with activity rules Customize searches with nested queries Group results by attribute when searching Create a custom chart based on an investigation Save, share, delete, and duplicate investigations
Security dashboard reports
Security health page

Data regions

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Fundamental data regions
Set a single data at rest region policy for everyone in your organization		✔	✔
Enterprise data regions
Set data at rest region policies for organizational units or groups
Basic data regions reports (Includes data at rest, versions, and policy summaries)
Set data region processing policies (including for organizational units and groups)
Advanced settings for data regions
Assured Controls data regions (add-on)
Advanced data regions reports  (Includes data processing by region and service, and data at rest by service)

Log events of user and admin activity

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Admin data action log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Admin log events	✔	✔	✔
Calendar log events	✔	✔	✔
Chat log events	✔	✔	✔
Chrome log events	✔	✔	✔
Chrome Sync log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Cloud Search log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Contacts log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Context Aware Access log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Device log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Directory Sync log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Drive log events	✔	✔	✔
Graduation log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Groups Enterprise log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Groups log events	✔	✔	✔
Jamboard log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Keep log events	✔	✔	✔
LDAP log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Looker Studio log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Meet log events	✔	✔	✔
Meet recordings in Drive log events	✔	✔	✔
OAuth log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Profile log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Rule log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
SAML log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Takeout log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Tasks log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
User log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Vault log events	✔	✔	✔
Voice log events	✔*	✔*	✔*
Access Transparency log events
Chrome browsers events
Devices events
Gmail log events
Gmail messages
Users events

* Requires verifying your domain.

Endpoint management

Device security settings

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Fundamental endpoint management
Basic passcode enforcement (mobile)	✔*	✔*	✔*
Google Credential Provider for Windows (standalone)	✔*	✔*	✔*
Network management (excluding mobile)	✔*	✔*	✔*
Advanced endpoint management**
Strong passcode enforcement			✔*
Network management (ChromeOS, meeting room hardware)			✔*
Mobile device security policies			✔*
Android work profiles			✔*
Enterprise endpoint management**
iOS data protection
Mobile device certificates
Context-Aware Access

* Requires verifying your domain.
** Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management.

Device management

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Fundamental endpoint management
Basic mobile device management	✔*	✔*	✔*
Fundamental management for computers	✔*	✔*	✔*
Endpoint verification	✔*	✔*	✔*
Company-owned device inventory (endpoints)	✔*	✔*	✔*
Remote account sign-out	✔*	✔*	✔*
Remote account wipe (mobile)	✔*	✔*	✔*
Block devices	✔*	✔*	✔*
Drive for desktop	✔*	✔*	✔*
Advanced endpoint management**
Advanced mobile management			✔*
Zero-touch enrollment for Android devices			✔*
Admin approval of devices			✔*
Remote device wipe			✔*
Windows device management			✔*
Enterprise endpoint management**
Company-owned device inventory (Android)			✔*
Company-owned device inventory (iOS)
Mobile device management rules
BeyondCorp Alliance partner integrations

* Requires verifying your domain.
** Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management.

Mobile app management

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Fundamental endpoint management
Public and private app management (Android)	✔*	✔*	✔*
Advanced endpoint management**
Public app management (iOS)			✔*
Android app runtime permissions			✔*
Selectively distribute mobile apps to users			✔*
Publish private Android web apps			✔*
Managed Android app settings configurations			✔*
Enterprise endpoint management**
Private iOS app management

* Requires verifying your domain.
** Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management.

Device details

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Fundamental endpoint management
Basic device details (mobile)	✔*	✔*	✔*
Basic endpoint details (computer & smart home devices)	✔*	✔*	✔*
Basic device reports (Chrome & mobile)	✔*	✔*	✔*
Advanced endpoint management**
Advanced device reports (mobile)			✔*
Enterprise endpoint management**
Devices log events			✔*

* Requires verifying your domain.
** Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management.

3rd-party app integration

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Single Sign On (SSO) using Google as IdP	✔*	✔*	✔*
Single Sign On (SSO) using a 3rd-party IdP	✔*	✔*	✔*
App catalog of 200+ preconfigured SAML apps	✔*	✔*	✔*
Autoprovisioning of SAML apps  (maximum number)	3	Unlimited	Unlimited
Secure LDAP: Connect LDAP-based apps and services			✔*

* Requires verifying your domain.

Gmail

Email addresses and mailing lists

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Your email address ([e-mail])	✔*	✔*	✔*
Additional addresses per user ([e-mail])	✔*	✔*	✔*
Addresses at multiple domains ([e-mail])	✔*	✔*	✔*
Admin-controlled mailing lists	✔*	✔*	✔*
User-controlled mailing lists	✔*	✔*	✔*
Personalized email campaigns with mail merge		✔*	✔*

* Requires verifying your domain.

Email usage and limits

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Email storage (shared with documents and photos)	30 GB*	2 TB*	5 TB*
Attachment size limit (sending)	25 MB*
Attachment size limit (receiving)	50 MB*
Recipients per message (To, Cc, Bcc fields combined)	2,000 (500 external)*
Unique recipients per day (Each unique address counts once.)	3,000 (2,000 external, 500 external for trial accounts)*

* Requires verifying your domain.

Email security & compliance

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Junk email filtering and virus blocking	✔*	✔*	✔*
Gmail ads turned off	✔*	✔*	✔*
Custom filtering and content policies	✔*	✔*	✔*
Email and chat retention policies	✔*	✔*	✔*
Allowed IP addresses	✔*	✔*	✔*
User-managed denylists	✔*	✔*	✔*
Enforced-compliance footers	✔*	✔*	✔*
Option to disable IMAP & POP access	✔*	✔*	✔*
Advanced phishing and malware protection	✔*	✔*	✔*
Advanced email attachment scanning (Security Sandbox)		✔*	✔*
Vault for email/IM eDiscovery and archiving			✔*

* Requires verifying your domain.

Advanced email delivery options

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Catch-all address	✔*	✔*	✔*
Email routing options for split and dual delivery	✔*	✔*	✔*
Inbound gateway	✔*	✔*	✔*
Outbound gateway (for entire organization)	✔*	✔*	✔*
Outbound relay server (for alternative From: addresses)	✔*	✔*	✔*
Receiving from multiple POP addresses	✔*	✔*	✔*

* Requires verifying your domain.

Drive and Docs editors

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Google Drive for desktop	✔	✔	✔
Turn Docs creation on or off	✔	✔	✔
Connected Sheets	✔	✔	✔
Advanced Drive logs and reports (Drive log events)	✔	✔	✔
Drive sharing permissions	✔	✔	✔
Shared drives membership, creation, and external moves	✔	✔	✔
Generative AI in Docs, Sheets, & Slides†	✔	✔	✔
Proofread documents †	✔	✔	✔
Shared drives advanced sharing, access, and storage limits		✔	✔
eSignature		✔	✔
Smart chip data extraction		✔	✔
Manage document approvals		✔	✔
Manage Drive metadata (custom labels and fields)		✔	✔
Organizational branding (custom templates)		✔	✔
Organizational branding (default templates and themes) ‡			✔

* They can comment on and edit files that are directly shared with them from shared drives.

^† Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.
 ^‡ Only Google Slides, Forms, and Sites.

Google Meet

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Maximum meeting length	24 hours	24 hours	24 hours
Maximum number of participants per meeting	100	150	500
External participants	✔	✔	✔
Secure meetings	✔	✔	✔
Presentations and screen sharing	✔	✔	✔
App for Android and iOS	✔	✔	✔
Dial in (U.S. & international numbers)*	✔	✔	✔
Digital whiteboard	✔	✔	✔
Add Meet video to Microsoft Outlook	✔	✔	✔
Hand raising	✔	✔	✔
Raise a room's hand using Meet hardware	✔	✔	✔
Reactions	✔	✔	✔
Generative AI in Meet **	✔	✔	✔
Meet eCDN	✔	✔	✔
Noise cancellation		✔	✔
Breakout rooms†		✔	✔
Record meetings & save them to Drive		✔	✔
Polls		✔	✔
Q&A		✔	✔
Add co-hosts to meetings†		✔	✔
Control Slides presentations		✔	✔
Transcribe meetings & save them to Drive		✔	✔
Set recording quality for screen shares		✔	✔
Track attendance (requires 2 or more attendees)			✔

* Powered by Google Voice.
** Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.
† Dependent on Google Calendar limit of 200 invitees

 

Google Chat

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	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus
Turn chat history on or off	✔	✔	✔
Set space history option for users	✔	✔	✔
Automatically accept chat invitations	✔	✔	✔
External chat for 1:1 and group direct messages	✔	✔	✔
Allow or restrict external chat	✔	✔	✔
Allow or restrict Chat apps	✔	✔	✔
Use discoverable spaces	✔	✔	✔
Turn external spaces on or off		✔	✔
Chat Interoperability for interaction between Chat and non-Chat users (add-on)		✔	✔
Control file sharing in Chat			✔
Automatically delete Chat messages for your organization			✔

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