Gmail features and capabilities are different depending on your edition of Google Workspace. Use the tables below to compare editions in each product category.
Gmail features for Business editions (1-300 users)
Email addresses and mailing lists
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| 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 | ✔* | ✔* | ✔* |
| Personalized email campaigns with mail merge | ✔* | ✔* |
* Requires verifying your domain.
Email usage and limits
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| Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Email storage (shared with documents and photos) | 30 GB* | 2 TB* | 5 TB* |
| 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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* Requires verifying your domain.
Email security & compliance
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| 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 | ✔* | ✔* | ✔* |
| Advanced email attachment scanning (Security Sandbox) | ✔* | ✔* | |
| Vault for email/IM eDiscovery and archiving | ✔* |
* Requires verifying your domain.
Advanced email delivery options
Compare instead: Enterprise editions | Education editions
| Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catch-all address | ✔* | ✔* | ✔* |
| Email routing options for split and dual delivery | ✔* | ✔* | ✔* |
| Inbound gateway | ✔* | ✔* | ✔* |
| Outbound gateway (for entire organization) | ✔* | ✔* | ✔* |
| Outbound relay server (for alternative From: addresses) | ✔* | ✔* | ✔* |
| Receiving from multiple POP addresses | ✔* | ✔* | ✔* |
* Requires verifying your domain.
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