Google Workspace offers subscription options for individuals, small businesses, large organizations, and schools.
Compare Business editions (1-300 users)
Use these tables to compare the following editions, available to customers with 1-300 users: (Correct as of 1st Feb 2022)
- Business Starter — Professional productivity suite with 30 GB 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
| General | Service details | |
|---|---|---|
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Core and additional services
| Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gmail and Calendar | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Groups for Business | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Chat and chat spaces | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Drive storage and Docs editors | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Video conferencing with Meet | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Directory management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Sites | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Tasks | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Additional Google services | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Google Cloud Search for internal search and assist (across Google services, only) |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Google Vault for eDiscovery and information governance | ✔ |
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 | 2 TB pooled* | 5 TB pooled* |
| 99.9% uptime guarantee | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 24/7 phone support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
*Requires 5 or more users (1 TB if 4 or fewer users).
User access options
| Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supported browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Access across devices (computers, phones, tablets) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Offline access | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Synchronize Google Workspace with Microsoft Outlook | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| IMAP and POP mail clients | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Security and data protection
| Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2-step verification | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Security keys for 2-step verification | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Enforced SSL connections | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Alert center: Notifications of potential security issues | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Password monitoring and strength control | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Collaboration with trusted external domains | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Choose a location (data region) for your data | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Data protection insights report | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Set session length for Google services | ✔ |
Migration products
| 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 from SharePoint, OneDrive, Box, or file shares | ✔ | ✔ |
Reports and audit logs
| Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| 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 | ✔ |
Device management
| Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management (many features) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Android app management | ✔ | ||
| Advanced endpoint management (many features) | ✔ | ||
| Enterprise endpoint management (see below) | |||
| Selectively distribute mobile apps | ✔ | ||
| Devices audit log | ✔ | ||
| Report inactive company owned devices | ✔ | ||
| Company owned Android devices | ✔ | ||
Email addresses and mailing lists
| Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your email address (you@yourcompany.com) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Additional addresses per user (sales@yourcompany.com) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Addresses at multiple domains (you@company2.com) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Admin-controlled mailing lists | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| User-controlled mailing lists | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Email usage and limits
| Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |
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Email security and compliance
| 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 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Vault for email/IM eDiscovery and archiving | ✔ |
Advanced email delivery options
| Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turn Docs creation on or off | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Shared drives for teams | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Advanced Drive auditing and reports (Drive audit log) | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Advanced Drive sharing permissions | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Manage document approvals | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Manage Drive metadata (custom labels and fields) | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Organizational branding (custom templates) | ✔ | ✔ |
Google Meet
| Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Noise cancellation | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Hand raising | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Breakout rooms | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Record meetings & save them to Drive | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Polls | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Q&A | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Add co-hosts to meetings | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Track attendance (requires 5 or more attendees) | ✔ |
* Powered by Google Voice
Google Chat
| 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 chat bots | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Turn external spaces on or off | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Control file sharing in Chat | ✔ |
Groups / Groups for Business
| Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team calendars | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Resource booking (rooms, buildings, equipment) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Add video conferencing to events | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Sync calendars with Microsoft Exchange | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Allow users to share working location | ✔ | ||
| Let users view analytics about their time allocation | ✔ |
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