Google Workspace by Google Cloud

Business Family & Enterprise Family Details

Google Workspace Pricing Overview

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Business Family (300 Users max) Enterprise Family Frontline Family Essential Family
Starter Standard Plus Starter Standard Plus Starter Standard Essentials Plus
New Sign-up Discount* - Monthly RM 14.60 RM 35.04 Volumn Discount Available
New Sign-up Discount* - Annual RM 175.20 RM 420.48
Normal Price - Monthly RM 35.00 RM 70.00 RM 110.00 RM 55.10 RM 134.70 RM 175.00 RM 25.20 RM 60.00 RM 50.00 RM 100.80
Normal Price - Annual RM 350.40 RM 700.80 RM 1100.40 RM 552.00 RM 1,347.60 RM 1,750.80 RM 252.00 RM 600.00 RM 500.00 RM 1,000.80
Partial Domain Licensing - PDL** ✔ ✔ ✔
Special Offer Upgrade / Multi-Year / Migration Offer Available

* Offer available to new Google Workspace customers only. This introductory price is only available for the first 20 users added, for 12 months. Standard pricing will apply to all users after 12 months  
** PDL – Customers can subscribe to multiple plans in the same family plans.

Compare Business editions (1–300 users)

Use these tables to compare the following editions. Sign up for a single-user account with a Gmail address. Or, sign up with a business email address or verified domain to add up to 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.

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Reports and monitoring

Security and data management

Endpoint management

3rd-party app integration

Gemini features

Advanced Gemini features

Gmail

Drive and Docs editors

Groups / Groups for Business

Google Meet

Google Chat

Calendar

Service availability

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Chat and chat spaces ✔ ✔ ✔
Drive storage and Docs editors ✔ ✔ ✔
Video conferencing with Meet ✔ ✔ ✔
Directory management ✔ ✔ ✔
Sites ✔ ✔ ✔
Tasks ✔ ✔ ✔
Notetaking with Keep ✔ ✔ ✔
Colab ✔ ✔ ✔
Gemini app with data protections* ✔ ✔ ✔
Gmail and Calendar ✔** ✔** ✔**
Google Workspace Studio ✔† ✔† ✔†
Groups for Business ✔† ✔† ✔†
AppSheet Core ✔† ✔† ✔†
Additional Google services ✔† ✔† ✔†
Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ (add-on) ✔† ✔† ✔†
Google Vids ✔†† ✔** ✔**
Google Cloud Search ✔† ✔†
Google Vault ✔†

* Enterprise-grade data protection requires verifying your domain.
** This feature requires signing up with a personal Gmail address or verifying your domain.
† This feature requires verifying your domain.
†† Users will have full access to generative AI features in Google Vids for a limited time.

Usage and support

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 ✔ ✔ ✔

* This feature requires signing up with a business email address or verifying your domain.

User access options

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Supported browsers ✔ ✔ ✔
Access across devices ✔ ✔ ✔
Offline access ✔ ✔ ✔
Microsoft Outlook ✔* ✔* ✔*
IMAP and POP mail clients ✔* ✔* ✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.

Migration products

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

* This feature requires verifying your domain.

Reports and monitoring

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 ✔* ✔* ✔*
Drive DLP data protection insights report ✔** ✔**
Google Meet attendance reports ✔*

* This feature requires signing up with a business email address or verifying your domain.
** This feature requires verifying your domain.

Security and data management

Security policies and data protection

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Set session length for Google Cloud services ✔ ✔ ✔
Enforced SSL connections ✔ ✔ ✔
2-Step Verification ✔* ✔* ✔*
Password monitoring and strength control ✔* ✔* ✔*
Basic data exports ✔** ✔** ✔**
Security keys for 2-Step Verification ✔† ✔† ✔†
Collaboration with trusted external domains ✔† ✔† ✔†
Drive data protection insights report ✔† ✔† ✔†
Set session length for Google services ✔†
Security advisor data protection ✔†

Security dashboards & investigation tools

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Alert center ✔* ✔* ✔*
Audit and investigation tool ✔* ✔* ✔*

Data regions

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Fundamental data regions
Set a single data at rest region policy ✔ ✔

Log events of user and admin activity

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Admin, Calendar, Chat, Chrome, Drive, Groups, Keep, Meet, Vault log events ✔* ✔* ✔*
Advanced log events (Data actions, Sync, Cloud Search, Contacts, Context Aware, Device, Directory, Gmail, SAML, Rules, etc.) ✔** ✔** ✔**

* Requires signing up with a business email address or verifying domain.
** Requires verifying your domain.

Endpoint management

Device security settings

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Basic passcode enforcement (mobile) ✔* ✔* ✔*
Google Credential Provider for Windows ✔* ✔* ✔*
Network management (ChromeOS) ✔* ✔* ✔*
Strong passcode enforcement & Mobile device security policies ✔*
Android work profiles ✔*

Device management

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Basic mobile & computer device management ✔* ✔* ✔*
Endpoint verification & inventory ✔* ✔* ✔*
Remote account sign-out & wipe ✔* ✔* ✔*
Advanced mobile & Windows device management ✔*
Zero-touch enrollment & Admin approval of devices ✔*

Mobile app management

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Public and private app management (Android) ✔* ✔* ✔*
Public app management (iOS) & Android app runtime permissions ✔*

Device details

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Basic device details & reports ✔* ✔* ✔*
Advanced device reports & logs ✔*

3rd-party app integration

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 ✔*

Gemini features

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Gmail
Side panel, Help me write, Suggested Replies, AI Overview ✔ ✔ ✔
Google Chat & Meet
Side panel, Summarize, Translate, Take notes, Backgrounds ✔ ✔
Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Drive
Side panel, Help me write/create, Generate image ✔ ✔
Gemini app
Access Standard access Pro access

Advanced Gemini features

Advanced AI feature Business Starter Business Standard/Plus AI Expanded Access
Avatar Generation in Vids 25 per month* 25 per month 100 per month
Video Generation in Vids 50 per month* 50 per month 200 per month
Workspace Studio 100 flows / mo 400 flows / mo 2,000 flows / mo

Gmail

Email addresses and mailing lists

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

Email usage and limits

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Email storage (shared with documents and photos) 30 GB* 2 TB* 5 TB*
Attachment size limit (sending/receiving) 25 MB / 50 MB*
Recipients per message & Unique recipients per day 2,000 / 3,000*

Email security & compliance

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Junk email filtering, virus blocking, Gmail ads turned off ✔* ✔* ✔*
Custom filtering, retention policies, allowlists/denylists ✔** ✔** ✔**
Vault for email/IM eDiscovery and archiving ✔**

Advanced email delivery options

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Catch-all, Email routing, Inbound/Outbound gateways ✔* ✔* ✔*

Drive and Docs editors

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Google Drive for desktop, Connected Sheets, Sharing permissions ✔ ✔ ✔
Shared drives, Turn Docs creation on/off, Advanced logs ✔* ✔* ✔*
eSignature, Smart chip extraction, Document approvals ✔ ✔

Google Meet

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Maximum meeting length 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours
Maximum number of participants per meeting 100 150 500
Secure meetings, Screen sharing, Hand raising, Reactions, Dial-in ✔ ✔ ✔
Noise cancellation, Breakout rooms, Recordings, Polls, Q&A ✔ ✔
Track attendance, Automatic meeting recordings ✔

Google Chat

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Turn chat history on/off, External chat, Discoverable spaces ✔ ✔ ✔
Turn external spaces on or off ✔ ✔
Control file sharing & Automatically delete Chat messages ✔*

Groups/Groups for Business

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Email list groups, Collaborative Inboxes, User/Admin managed groups ✔* ✔* ✔*
Target audience groups (preset sharing options) ✔* ✔*

Google Calendar

Business Starter Business Standard Business Plus
Team calendars, Video conferencing, Automatically add events ✔* ✔* ✔*
Resource booking, Sync with Microsoft Exchange ✔** ✔** ✔**
Set up appointment schedules ✔*† ✔* ✔*
Allow users to share working location ✔**†† ✔**
Let users view analytics about their time allocation ✔*

Compare Enterprise editions

For larger organizations, Google Workspace offers solutions including flexible storage options, enterprise-grade video conferencing features, and our most advanced security and compliance. Use these tables to see which features are included with the following enterprise-grade editions:

  • Enterprise Standard—Complete suite of productivity and collaboration apps with flexible storage, and enterprise-grade security and management.
  • Enterprise Plus—Complete productivity and collaboration with flexible storage and the most advanced security and compliance controls.

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Suite wide Service specific

Service availability

Usage and support

User access options

Migration products

Reports and monitoring

Security and data management

3rd-party app integration

Endpoint management

Gemini features

Advanced Gemini features

Gmail

Drive and Docs editors

Google Meet

Google Chat

Groups / Groups for Business

Calendar

Service availability

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Gmail ✔ ✔
Calendar ✔ ✔
Groups for Business ✔ ✔
Chat and chat spaces ✔ ✔
Drive storage and Docs editors ✔ ✔
Video conferencing with Meet ✔ ✔
Directory management ✔ ✔
Sites ✔ ✔
Tasks ✔ ✔
Notetaking with Keep ✔ ✔
Google Vault for eDiscovery and information governance ✔ ✔
Additional Google services ✔ ✔
Colab to collaboratively develop data science and machine learning models ✔ ✔
Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ (add-on) ✔ ✔
Gemini app with enterprise-grade data protections* ✔ ✔
Google Cloud Search for internal search and assist ✔
Only Google services
✔†
Google and third-party services
AppSheet Core ✔** ✔**
Google Workspace Studio ✔** ✔**
Google Vids ✔ ✔
Integrate third-party repositories in Cloud Search ✔*
Index third-party data using Cloud Search ✔*

* Compare Gemini app offerings.
** Requires verifying your domain.
† For third-party services your organization must have at least 500 user licenses and a Google Cloud Search certified partner.

Usage and support

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Number of users Any number Any number
Email, document, photo storage per user 5 TB pooled* 5 TB pooled*
Purchase additional pooled storage ✔ ✔
99.9% uptime guarantee ✔ ✔
Enhanced Support ✔ ✔

* Google Workspace provides flexible pooled storage that is shared across the organization. For customers with 5 or more users, more storage may be available at Google’s discretion upon reasonable request.

User access options

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

Migration products

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Migrate email, calendars, contacts, files (many tools) ✔ ✔
Migrate from Exchange ✔ ✔
Migrate from Outlook ✔ ✔
Migrate from IMAP servers ✔ ✔
Migrate from Gmail or other webmail ✔ ✔
Have users migrate their data ✔ ✔
Migrate data with Google Workspace Migrate ✔ ✔

Reports and monitoring

Enterprise Standard Enterprise 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 (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 ✔

Security and data management

Security policies and data protection

Enterprise Standard Enterprise 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 ✔ ✔
Gemini 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) ✔ ✔
Cloud Identity Premium security management ✔ ✔
Multi-party approval for sensitive actions ✔ ✔
Advanced data exports ✔
Client-side encryption ✔
Assured Controls for managing compliance & security requirements (add-on) ✔

Security dashboards & investigation tools

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Alert center: Notifications of potential security issues ✔ ✔
Audit and investigation tool ✔ ✔

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

Enterprise Standard Enterprise 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 ✔
Advanced settings for data regions ✔
Assured Controls data regions (add-on) **
Advanced data regions reports ✔
Policy compliance log events ✔

Security investigation tool: Common use cases

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Use the security investigation tool to end meetings ✔ ✔
Investigate file sharing ✔ ✔
Transfer a Drive file from an unknown owner ✔ ✔
Investigate users across data sources ✔ ✔
Search and investigate user log events ✔ ✔
Investigate and take action on suspicious session cookies ✔ ✔
Investigate Chat messages to moderate content and protect your data ✔* ✔
Investigate reports of malicious emails ✔
Use the investigation tool to view sensitive content ✔

Log events of user and admin activity

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Admin, Calendar, Chat, Chrome, Drive, Groups, Keep, Meet, Vault, Voice log events ✔† ✔†
Advanced log events (Data actions, Sync, Cloud Search, Contacts, Context Aware, Device, Directory, Gmail, SAML, Rules, Takeout, Tasks, Users, etc.) ✔† ✔†
Access Transparency log events ✔†
Chrome browsers events ✔†
Gmail messages log events ✔†

† All searches are performed with the security investigation tool, which provides premium reporting features.

Security Dashboard reports

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
DLP, Top policy incidents, User login attempts, Failed device passwords, Compromised/Suspicious devices, OAuth grants ✔ ✔
Sensitive content transfer on Chrome reports (Users, Domains, Domain types) ✔** ✔**
Chrome threat protection, data protection, high risk users, high risk domains ✔† ✔†
Suspicious attachments, File exposure, Authentication, Encryption, Message delivery, Spam filter, Spoofing reports ✔

Security health page reports

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Device management settings that can be monitored ✔ ✔
Security, Gmail, Drive, Hangouts, Groups, Marketplace, Calendar, Sites settings that can be monitored ✔

3rd-party app integration

Enterprise Standard Enterprise 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) Unlimited Unlimited
Secure LDAP: Connect LDAP-based apps and services ✔ ✔

Endpoint management

Device security settings

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Fundamental endpoint management
Basic passcode enforcement, Google Credential Provider for Windows, Network management ✔ ✔
Advanced endpoint management*
Strong passcode enforcement, Mobile device security policies, Android work profiles ✔ ✔
Enterprise endpoint management*
iOS data protection, Mobile device certificates, Context-Aware Access ✔ ✔

Device management

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Fundamental endpoint management
Basic mobile device management, Endpoint verification, Remote wipe/sign-out, Block devices, Drive for desktop ✔ ✔
Advanced endpoint management*
Advanced mobile management, Zero-touch enrollment, Admin approval, Windows device management ✔ ✔
Enterprise endpoint management*
Company-owned device inventory (Android & iOS), Mobile device management rules, BeyondCorp Alliance ✔ ✔

Mobile app management

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Public and private app management (Android) ✔ ✔
Public app management (iOS), Android app runtime permissions, Managed Android app configurations ✔ ✔
Private iOS app management ✔ ✔

Device details

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Basic device details & reports ✔ ✔
Advanced device reports (mobile) ✔ ✔
Devices log events ✔ ✔

Gemini features

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Gmail
Side panel, Help me write, Suggested Replies, AI Overview, Proofread ✔ ✔
Google Calendar & Chat
Help me schedule, Side panel, Summarize conversations, Automatic translation ✔ ✔
Google Meet
Take notes, Studio enhancements, Adaptive audio, Translated captions, Speech translation ✔ ✔
Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Vids, Drive
Help me write/create, Generate images, Summarize, AI function, AI avatars ✔ ✔
Gemini app
Pro Access, Deep research, Image generation, Video generation, Audio overviews ✔ ✔

Advanced Gemini features

Advanced AI feature Business Starter Enterprise Standard/Plus AI Expanded Access AI Ultra Access
Avatar Generation in Vids 25 per month* 25 per month 100 per month 500 per month
Video Generation in Vids 50 per month* 50 per month 200 per month 1,000 per month
Workspace Studio 100 flows/mo 400 flows/mo 2,000 flows/mo 10,000 flows/mo
Audio overviews for PDFs No Access 20 per day 40 per day 200 per day

Gmail

Email addresses and mailing lists

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Your email address, Additional addresses per user, Addresses at multiple domains ✔ ✔
Admin/User-controlled mailing lists, Personalized email campaigns ✔ ✔

Email usage and limits

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Email storage (shared with documents and photos) As much as you need* As much as you need*
Attachment size limit (sending / receiving) 25 MB / 35 MB 25–50 MB / 35–50 MB
Recipients per message / Unique recipients per day 2,000 / 3,000 2,000 / 3,000

Email security & compliance

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Junk email filtering, virus blocking, Gmail ads turned off ✔ ✔
Custom filtering, email retention policies, Vault for eDiscovery ✔ ✔
Advanced phishing and malware protection, Security Sandbox ✔ ✔
S/MIME encryption & Client-side encryption for email ✔

Advanced email delivery options

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Catch-all, Email routing, Inbound/Outbound gateways ✔ ✔

Drive and Docs editors

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Drive for desktop, Shared drives, Advanced sharing permissions ✔ ✔
Manage document approvals, custom metadata, eSignature, Connected Sheets ✔ ✔
Drive data loss prevention (DLP), Ransomware detection, Trust rules ✔ ✔
Client-side encryption for Drive files & Drive file suggestions in Chrome ✔

Google Meet

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Maximum meeting length 24 hours 24 hours
Maximum number of participants per meeting 500 1,000†
Secure meetings, Hand raising, Reactions, Record meetings ✔ ✔
Breakout rooms, Polls, Q&A, Track attendance, Live stream ✔ ✔
Client-side encryption for audio and video ✔

Google Chat

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Turn chat history on or off, External chat, Allow Chat apps ✔ ✔
Chat data loss prevention (DLP), Automatically delete messages, Interoperability ✔ ✔
Moderate Chat content ✔

Groups / Groups for Business

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Email list groups, Collaborative Inboxes, User/Admin managed groups ✔ ✔
Target audience groups, Dynamic groups, View nested groups ✔ ✔

Google Calendar

Enterprise Standard Enterprise Plus
Team calendars, Video conferencing, Resource booking ✔ ✔
Appointment schedules, Automatically free unused meeting rooms ✔ ✔
Client-side encryption for event descriptions ✔

Compare Essentials editions

Essentials editions are designed to provide seamless integration with your existing email solution. Use these tables to see exactly which features are included with the following editions:

  • Essentials Starter—Collaboration and video conferencing at no cost for teams of up to 100 users. (Or if you signed up for Essentials Starter before June 3, 2022, teams can have up to 25 users.)
  • Essentials—Collaboration and video conferencing, additional security features, pooled storage, and policy controls. Essentials edition is no longer available for new customers.
  • Enterprise Essentials—Collaboration and video conferencing with more participants and advanced features, more pooled storage, and enterprise-grade security and management.
  • Enterprise Essentials Plus—More advanced security and compliance controls for greater productivity and collaboration, with 5 TB of pooled storage per user.

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Identity management

Usage and support

User access options

Reports and monitoring

Security and data management

Endpoint management

3rd-party app integration

Other admin features

Gemini features

Drive and Docs editors

Groups / Groups for Business

Google Meet

Google Chat

Service availability

Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
Drive storage and Docs editors ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Video conferencing with Meet ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Tasks ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Directory management ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Sites ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Notetaking with Keep ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Chat and chat spaces ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔*
Google Vids ✔†† ✔ ✔ ✔
Calendar ✔ ✔ ✔
Groups for Business ✔* ✔* ✔*
Additional Google services (admin managed) ✔* ✔* ✔*
Colab to collaboratively develop data science and machine learning models ✔ ✔ ✔
Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ (add-on) ✔* ✔* ✔*
Gemini app with enterprise-grade data protections† ✔* ✔* ✔*
Google Vault for eDiscovery and information governance ✔* ✔*
AppSheet Core ✔*

* Requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.
† Compare Gemini app offerings.
†† Generative AI features in Google Vids are unavailable.
Note: If your organization has Essentials Starter or an email-verified account for Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, or Enterprise Essentials Plus, users can access additional services that aren’t admin-managed, such as Google Groups and Photos.

Identity management

Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
Add or remove existing user accounts ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Assign a super admin role ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Create and delete user accounts ✔* ✔* ✔*
Assign custom admin roles ✔* ✔* ✔*
Manage user profiles ✔* ✔* ✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.

Usage and support

Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
Number of users 100† Any number Any number Any number
Email, document, photo storage per user 15 GB 100 GB per user, up to a maximum of 2 TB†† 1 TB per user†† 5 TB††
99.9% uptime guarantee ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Purchase additional pooled storage ✔ ✔
Enhanced Support ✔ ✔
Standard Support ✔

** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.
† If you signed up for Essentials Starter before June 3, 2022, the user limit is 25 per team.
†† Storage is pooled across all users.

User access options

Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
Supported browsers ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Access across devices (computers, phones, tablets) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Offline access ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Microsoft Outlook ✔* ✔* ✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.

Reports and monitoring

Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials 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 (See log events below) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Drive DLP data protection insights report ✔ ✔
Google Meet attendance reports ✔ ✔ ✔
Export reports to BigQuery ✔*
Work Insights reports for users ✔*

* Requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.

Security and data management

Security policies and data protection

Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
2-Step Verification (admin managed) ✔* ✔* ✔*
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 ✔* ✔*
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) ✔*
Cloud Identity Premium security management (no separate license required) ✔*
Multi-party approval for sensitive actions ✔
Advanced data exports ✔

Security dashboards & investigation tools

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Alert center: Notifications of potential security issues ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Audit and investigation tool ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Security investigation tool (Log event reporting with premium features) ✔*
Security dashboard reports ✔*
Security health page ✔*

Data regions

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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 ✔*
Set data region processing policies ✔*
Advanced settings for data regions ✔*

Security investigation tool: Common use cases

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Use the security investigation tool to end meetings ✔ ✔
Investigate file sharing ✔ ✔
Transfer a Drive file from an unknown owner ✔ ✔
Investigate users across data sources ✔ ✔
Search and investigate user log events ✔* ✔*
Investigate and take action on suspicious session cookies ✔* ✔*
Investigate Chat messages to moderate content and protect your data ✔† ✔†

Log events of user and admin activity

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Admin data action, Admin, Calendar, Chat, Chrome, Drive, Groups, Meet, Vault log events ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔†
Advanced log events (Sync, Cloud Search, Contacts, Context Aware, Device, Directory, Graduation, Groups Enterprise, LDAP, Data Studio, OAuth, Profile, Rules, SAML, Takeout, Tasks, Users, Voice) ✔* ✔* ✔* ✔*†
Access Transparency, Devices, Users log events ✔*†

Security Dashboard reports

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DLP, Top policy incidents, User login attempts, Failed device passwords, Compromised/Suspicious devices, OAuth grants ✔*
Sensitive content transfer on Chrome reports (Users, Domains, Domain types) ✔*†
Chrome threat protection, data protection, high risk users, high risk domains ✔*†
Suspicious attachments, File exposure, Authentication, Encryption, Message delivery, Spam filter, Spoofing reports ✔*

Security health page reports

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Device management settings that can be monitored ✔*
Security, Gmail, Drive, Hangouts, Groups, Marketplace, Calendar, Sites settings that can be monitored ✔*

Endpoint management

Device security settings

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Fundamental endpoint management
Basic passcode enforcement, Google Credential Provider for Windows, Network management ✔* ✔* ✔*
Advanced endpoint management †
Strong passcode enforcement, Mobile device security policies, Android work profiles ✔* ✔*

Device management

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Fundamental endpoint management
Basic mobile & computer device management, Endpoint verification, Remote wipe/sign-out, Block devices ✔* ✔* ✔*
Drive for desktop ✔* ✔*
Advanced endpoint management †
Advanced mobile management, Zero-touch enrollment, Admin approval, Windows device management ✔ ✔

Mobile app management

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Fundamental endpoint management
Public and private app management (Android) ✔* ✔* ✔*
Advanced endpoint management †
Public app management (iOS), Android app runtime permissions, Managed Android app configurations ✔* ✔*

Device details

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Fundamental endpoint management
Basic device details & reports ✔* ✔* ✔*
Advanced endpoint management †
Advanced device reports (mobile) ✔* ✔*

3rd-party app integration

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Single sign-on (SSO) using a 3rd-party IdP ✔
Microsoft (OIDC) only
✔* ✔* ✔*
Single sign-on (SSO) using Google as IdP ✔* ✔* ✔*
App catalog of 200+ preconfigured SAML apps ✔* ✔* ✔*
Autoprovisioning of SAML apps (maximum number) Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Secure LDAP: Connect LDAP-based apps & services ✔*

Other admin features

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Admin SDK (APIs to manage users and services, create reports, and more) ✔* ✔* ✔*
Upgrade directly to a Google Workspace Business or Enterprise edition with Gmail ✔* ✔* ✔*

Gemini features

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Gemini app
Access Without enterprise-grade security & privacy With enterprise-grade security & privacy
Pro Basic access
Thinking Limited access
Fast, Context window (32K), General availability features General access
Audio Overviews, Deep research Limited access
Connect to Google Workspace apps* General access
NotebookLM
Higher limits General access

Drive and Docs editors

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Drive for desktop, Connected Sheets, Advanced Drive logs and reports, Drive sharing permissions ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Shared drives, Manage document approvals, Manage Drive metadata, Turn Docs creation on/off ✔ ✔ ✔
Delegate access to Connected Sheets, eSignature, Smart chip data extraction ✔ ✔
Drive inventory export, Drive file suggestions in Chrome, Organizational branding ✔
Drive data loss prevention (DLP), Trust rules, Client-side encryption for Drive files ✔**

Groups / Groups for Business

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Groups for content sharing, Collaborative Inboxes, User/Admin managed groups ✔* ✔* ✔*
Target audience groups (preset sharing options) ✔* ✔*
Inspect/Restrict group membership, Dynamic groups, View nested groups ✔*

Google Meet

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Maximum meeting length 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours
Maximum number of participants per meeting 100 150 150 1,0001
External participants, Secure meetings, Screen sharing, Hand raising, Reactions, Meet eCDN, Meet Media API ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Dial in (U.S. & intl), Record meetings, Breakout rooms, Polls, Q&A, Track attendance, Co-hosts, Control Slides ✔ ✔ ✔
Noise cancellation, Set recording quality, Automatic meeting artifacts, Waiting rooms ✔ ✔
In-domain and trusted domain live streaming (100k), Transcribe meetings, Client-side encryption, Test eCDN ✔

Google Chat

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Set spaces history option for users ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔*
Turn chat history on or off, Automatically accept chat invitations, Allow/restrict external chat & Chat apps ✔ ✔ ✔*
Turn external spaces on or off, Use discoverable spaces ✔* ✔* ✔*
Chat Interoperability (add-on) ✔ ✔
External chat for 1:1/group, Control file sharing, Auto delete Chat messages, Integrate archiving ✔*
Moderate Chat content ✔