Google Workspace offers subscription options for individuals, small businesses, large organizations, and schools.
Compare Business editions (1-300 users)
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Use these tables to compare the following editions, available to customers with 1-300 users:
- Business Starter—Professional productivity suite for up to 300 users with 30 GB storage per user
- Business Standard—Enhanced productivity suite for up to 300 users with 2 TB storage per user
- Business Plus—Advanced productivity suite for up to 300 users with 5 TB storage per user
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Core services
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Gmail and Calendar | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Groups for Business | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Chat and chat rooms | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Drive storage and Docs editors | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Video conferencing with Meet | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Directory management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Sites | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Additional Google services: Blogger, YouTube, and more | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Advanced chat rooms: Threaded rooms and guest access rooms | ✔ | ✔ | |
Google Cloud Search for internal search and assist (across Google services, only) |
✔ | ✔ | |
Google Vault for eDiscovery and information governance | ✔ |
Usage and support
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Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus |
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Number of users | 1-300 | 1-300 | 1-300 |
Email, document, photo storage per user | 30 GB | 2TB | 5TB |
99.9% uptime guarantee | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
24/7 phone support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
User access options
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Supported browsers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Access across devices (computers, phones, tablets) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Offline access | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Microsoft Outlook | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
IMAP and POP mail clients | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Security and data protection
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Reports and audit logs
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Usage trends of apps and users (many reports) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Audit logs of user and admin activity (many logs) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Advanced Drive auditing and reports | ✔ | ✔ | |
Google Meet attendance reports | ✔ |
3rd-party app integration
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Device management
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Fundamental endpoint management (many features) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Android app management | ✔ | ||
Advanced endpoint management (many features) | ✔ | ||
Enterprise endpoint management (see below) | |||
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Selectively distribute mobile apps | ✔ | ||
Devices audit log | ✔ | ||
Report inactive company owned devices | ✔ | ||
Company owned Android devices | ✔ |
Email addresses and mailing lists
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Your email address (you@yourcompany.com) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Additional addresses per user (sales@yourcompany.com) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Addresses at multiple domains (you@company2.com) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Mailing lists (administrator controlled) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Mailing lists (user controlled) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Email usage and limits
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Email storage (shared with documents and photos) | 30 GB | 2TB | 5TB |
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) |
Email security and compliance
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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 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Vault for email/IM eDiscovery and archiving | ✔ |
Advanced email delivery options
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Catch-all address | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Email routing options for split and dual delivery | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Inbound gateway | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Outbound gateway (for entire domain) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Outbound relay server (for alternative From: addresses) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Receiving from multiple POP addresses | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Drive and Docs editors
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Google Meet
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Maximum number of participants per meeting | 100 | 150 | 250 |
External participants | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Secure meetings | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Presentations and screen sharing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
App for Android and iOS | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Dial in (U.S. & international numbers) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Record meetings & save them to Drive | ✔ | ✔ | |
Hand raising | ✔ | ✔ | |
Polls | ✔ | ✔ | |
Q&A | ✔ | ✔ | |
Track Attendance | ✔ |
Groups / Groups for Business
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Email list groups | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Groups for content sharing, calendar invitations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Collaborative Inboxes and message moderation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
User managed groups | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Configuration groups for use by admins | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Target audience groups (preset sharing options) | ✔ | ✔ |
Calendar
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Team calendars | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Resource booking (rooms, buildings, equipment) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Add video conferencing to events | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Sync calendars with Microsoft Exchange | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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