Find answers to common questions about Google Workspace for Education editions.
Availability
What editions does Google Workspace for Education offer?Google Workspace for Education offers the following options for your organization:
- Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals—A foundational suite of secure and easy-to-use tools — provided at no cost — that help improve collaboration, productivity, and class management. Provides access to apps like Google Docs, Classroom, Meet, Gmail, Forms, Chat and more.
- Google Workspace for Education Standard—A paid edition that builds on the functionality of Education Fundamentals and helps you proactively protect your education institution from digital threats with advanced security and analytics tools.
- Google Workspace for Education Plus—A paid edition that is our most comprehensive solution, including everything in Education Fundamentals and Standard and more, providing advanced security and insights and easy-to-use tools that enrich and personalize learning.
You can choose from the Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, or Education Plus editions to meet the needs of your organization. You must be using Education Fundamentals before you can upgrade to Education Standard or Education Plus.
No, you must have an active subscription for Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals to purchase a paid edition such as Google Workspace for Education Plus.
You can purchase the following add-ons to your Google Workspace for Education edition to equip individual users at your institution with premium features and functionality.
- Additional storage—Increase your pooled storage in Google Drive in 10 TB increments.
- AppSheet—Build no-code spreadsheet and database apps with Google AppSheet
- Colab—Let users collaboratively develop data science and machine learning models.
- Endpoint Education Upgrade—Get more control over mobile devices that access your organization's data to keep your school’s data more secure for users with Education Fundamentals.
- Gemini Education—Use Gemini in Workspace apps and get premium versions of the Gemini app and NotebookLM with expanded access to our most capable AI models.
- Teaching and Learning add-on—Increase the functionality of Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals and Education Standard.
For Education Standard and Education Plus, customers must purchase Education Standard or Education Plus with enough licenses to cover all users with an active Fundamentals license. Refer to our pricing and licensing model for more information.
You can upgrade your subscription at any time. Paid editions are annual subscriptions. You can’t downgrade your edition until the end of your subscription term.
- Education Fundamentals—You can add the Teaching and Learning add-on or upgrade to Education Standard or Education Plus.
- Education Standard—You can add the Teaching and Learning add-on or upgrade to Education Plus.
- Education Plus—Includes all the features available in all Google Workspace for Education editions.
You must have an Education Fundamentals edition to upgrade to any of the other paid editions—Education Standard or Education Plus. You can have Education Plus in combination only with Education Fundamentals, not with Education Standard or the Teaching and Learning add-on.
Education Standard and Education Plus are only sold through Google Workspace for Education resellers. You can purchase the Teaching and Learning add-on in the Admin Console on a monthly, flexible billing model or through your reseller.
Trials and purchases
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Can I get a trial of the paid Google Workspace for Education editions?Yes, you can get a 60–day trial of 50 licenses for Education Standard and Education Plus. For details, contact an authorized Google Workspace partner. Visit the Partner Directory.
Can I purchase the Google Workspace for Education paid editions directly from Google?Education Plus and Education Standard are sold through Google Workspace for Education resellers.
Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals is available at no cost for all qualifying institutions. Education Standard and Education Plus are paid editions.
Customers in the U.S. and Canada can see prices and feature information for each edition on the Google for Education website.
Customers outside of the U.S. and Canada who want information on prices and features can contact our sales team.
If you commit to 2 or more years of Google Workspace for Education Plus, you may be eligible for an additional discount. For details, contact an authorized Google Workspace for Education partner. Visit the Partner Directory
Education Standard and Education Plus are annual subscriptions. You can commit to more than one year of Education Plus.
Prices are locked for the subscription term. For details, contact an authorized Google Workspace for Education partner. Visit the Partner Directory.
For Education Standard and Education Plus, you must purchase enough licenses to cover all users with an active Fundamentals license. Add-ons are available to purchase for specific individuals at your institution. Refer to our pricing and licensing model for more information.
