Business features of Google Meet, Drive, and docs editors
If you own or manage a domain, you can get advanced business features of G Suite Essentials. These include Google Meet for secure video meetings; Google Drive for cloud storage; Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for content creation; and administrative controls. With G Suite Essentials, you get many of the features of other editions of G Suite but without the cost of services you might not need, like Gmail and Calendar.
You can also buy G Suite Essentials through a Google Sales representative or local reseller.
Other options
- If you don't own or manage a domain, use G Suite Essentials with a team.
- If you need Gmail and Calendar, sign up instead for G Suite Basic, Business, or Enterprise.
Pricing
There are two offerings: G Suite Essentials, and G Suite Enterprise Essentials:
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Free through September 30, 2020—This offer includes free access to Meet’s advanced features during this period, such as larger meetings with up to 250 participants and the ability to record meetings and save to Google Drive. You'll need to provide your payment information during sign-up, but won't be charged until this promotional period ends.
- After the promotional period—G Suite Essentials is USD $10 per active user per month, with up to 2 TB of pooled cloud storage. G Suite Enterprise Essentials includes up to 25 TB of pooled storage; for per-user pricing, contact sales.
For details about billing and storage limits, go to How G Suite Essentials billing works.
Use G Suite Essentials with your domain
Use G Suite Essentials with a team at your company, simply by signing up with your business email address. Then optionally unlock more features by verifying you own your domain. Here's how it works:
- Sign up with your business email address (email verified). You can then add other users who have email addresses in the same domain. For example, if your address ends in @yourbusiness.com, you can use G Suite Essentials with other people whose addresses end in @yourbusiness.com.
Note: You can't sign up with an address at a public web host like gmail.com or yahoo.com. Instead, you must use a custom address, such as for a business or organization.
- Optionally unlock more business features (domain verified). If you're the owner or IT admin for your organization's domain name, you can unlock more features, such as identity management, security controls, and auditing. You also take over management of any existing G Suite Essentials users in your organization.
Compare key features below.
What you get when you verify your domain
The full suite of Google Meet and Drive features is available, depending on your G Suite Essentials edition and whether you've verified your domain.
Both G Suite Essentials editions
| Feature | Domain verified | Email verified |
|---|---|---|
| Voice and video conferencing
Host and join video meeting from anywhere, with up to 150 participants. With G Suite Enterprise Essentials, meetings can include up to 250 participants. Learn more |
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| Collaboration
Use shared drives to collaborate more easily within project teams or departments. Learn more |
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| Files available any time, any place
Get to Drive files from any location on any computer or mobile device. Learn more |
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| Productivity suite
Easily create and co-edit files with Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms. Learn more |
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| Robust audit logs
Monitor when your users view, create, preview, print, update, delete, download, or share Drive content. Learn more |
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G Suite Enterprise Essentials only
| Feature | Domain verified | Email verified |
|---|---|---|
| Meeting recording
Record meetings and save them to Drive. Learn more |
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| Live streaming meetings (coming soon)
Live stream your meeting to up to 100,000 viewers in your domain. Learn more |
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| Data loss prevention
Scan files for sensitive content to prevent users from sharing it with people outside your organization. Learn more |
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| Google Vault
Retain, hold, search, and export Drive files. Supports archiving, eDiscovery, and compliance. Learn more |
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| Security center
Advanced security information and analytics, and added visibility and control into security issues affecting your domain. Learn more |
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| Data regions
Create a policy to store your G Suite data in a specific geographic region. Learn more |
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| Context-Aware Access
Create access policies for which apps a user can access based on their context, such as location, device security status, and IP address. Learn more |
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| Advanced endpoint management
Make your organization's data more secure across your users' mobile devices, desktops, laptops, and other endpoints. Learn more |
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For a list of all G Suite Essentials features, see the G Suite Essentials site.
Identity management
G Suite Essentials can give you administrative control over user profiles across all your organization's domains.
| Feature | Domain verified | Email verified |
|---|---|---|
| Add and remove users
Control who in your organization can use G Suite Essentials. Learn more |
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| Assign a super admin role
Give another user full administrative control over your organization's G Suite Essentials account. Learn more |
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| Assign custom admin roles
Give other users a specific set of admin controls, such as for a Help desk. Learn more |
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| Manage user profiles
Reset Drive users' passwords, add photos, and update employee information. Learn more |
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| Manage security settings
Enforce password strength settings and 2-step verification. |
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| Add domains
Add other domains you own to your Admin console so users in those domains can use G Suite Essentials, too. Learn more |
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| Set up third-party single sign-on (SSO)
Set up single sign-on for managed Google accounts using third-party identity providers. Learn more |
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Bonus services
G Suite Essentials gives you the following services, too:
| Service | Domain verified | Email verified |
|---|---|---|
| Directory
Admins and users can manage personal and global contacts. Learn more |
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| Groups / Groups for Business
Create admin-controlled groups and mailing lists. Host community forums or collaborative inboxes. Or let users create their own groups. Learn more |
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Google Keep Capture, share, and collaborate on your notes on any device, anywhere. Easily create task lists, action items, voice memos, and more. Learn more |
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| Upgrade access to G Suite
Easily upgrade to G Suite Enterprise edition to get Gmail and Calendar. Learn more |
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Usage-based billing
You pay only for active users in your organization for the previous month. Learn more
Storage limits
You also get pooled storage across your organization. Storage increases with each user that joins G Suite Essentials, up to a limit. Learn more
