Google Workspace offers subscription options for individuals, small businesses, large organizations, and schools. Compare editions in these categories:
- Business—Productivity suites for businesses with 1-300 users
- Education—Discounted suites for qualifying educational institutions
- Enterprise—Adds premium security and advanced controls for unlimited users
- Essentials—Productivity and collaboration tools without Gmail
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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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Service availability
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
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| Gmail | ✔ | ✔ |
| Calendar | ✔ | ✔ |
| Groups for Business | ✔ | ✔ |
| Chat and chat spaces | ✔ | ✔ |
| Digital whiteboarding with Jamboard | ✔ | ✔ |
| 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 (as an additional Google service, no user licenses required) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ (add-on) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Gemini app with enterprise-grade data protections* | ✔ | ✔ |
| Gemini for Google Workspace* | ✔ | ✔ |
| Google Cloud Search for internal search and assist |
✔ Only Google services |
✔† Google and third-party services |
| AppSheet Core | ✔** | ✔** |
| 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
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of users | Any number | Any number |
| Email, document, photo storage per user | 5 TB per user with ability to request more* | |
| 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. Learn how to request storage.
User access options
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
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| Supported browsers | ✔ | ✔ |
| Access across devices (computers, phones, tablets) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Offline access | ✔ | ✔ |
| Microsoft Outlook | ✔ | ✔ |
| IMAP and POP mail clients | ✔ | ✔ |
Migration products
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
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| Migrate email, calendars, contacts, files (many tools) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Migrate from Exchange | ✔ | ✔ |
| Migrate from Outlook | ✔ | ✔ |
| Migrate from IMAP servers | ✔ | ✔ |
| Migrate from HCL Notes | ✔ | ✔ |
| Migrate from Gmail or other webmail | ✔ | ✔ |
| Have users migrate their data | ✔ | ✔ |
| Migrate data with Google Workspace Migrate | ✔ | ✔ |
Reports and monitoring
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
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| Highlights reports summarizing metrics and trends | ✔ | ✔ |
| Apps-usage reports (organization wide) | ✔ | ✔ |
| User- and admin-specific activity reports | ✔ | ✔ |
| Carbon footprint report | ✔ | ✔ |
| Audit and investigation tool Log event reporting (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
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
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| 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 | ✔ | ✔ |
| Generative 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 (no separate license required) |
✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced data exports | ✔ | |
| Client-side encryption | ✔ | |
| Assured Controls for managing compliance & security requirements (add-on) | ✔ |
† Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.
Security dashboards & investigation tools
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
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| Alert center: Notifications of potential security issues | ✔ | ✔ |
| Audit and investigation tool Log event reporting (See specific log events below) |
✔ | ✔ |
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Security investigation tool
See also below: |
✔ | ✔ |
| Security dashboard reports (See dashboard reports below) |
✔ | ✔ |
| Security health page (See settings analyses below) |
✔ | ✔ |
Data regions
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
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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 (Includes data at rest, versions, and policy summaries) |
✔ | |
| Set data region processing policies (including for organizational units and groups) |
✔ | |
| Advanced settings for data regions | ✔ | |
| Assured Controls data regions (add-on) ** | ||
| Advanced data regions reports (Includes data processing by region and service, and data at rest by service) |
✔ | |
* Users who don't have a supported edition for Enterprise data regions aren't covered by data region policies—even if you apply a data region policy to their organizational unit.
** Requires purchasing the Assured Controls data regions add-on
Security investigation tool: Common use cases
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* Users can't report inappropriate chat messages for investigations.
Log events of user and admin activity
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
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| Admin data action log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Admin log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Calendar log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Chat log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Chrome log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Chrome Sync log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Cloud Search log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Contacts log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Context Aware Access log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Device log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Directory Sync log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Drive log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Graduation log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Groups Enterprise log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Groups log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Jamboard log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Keep log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Looker Studio log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Meet log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Meet recordings in Drive log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| OAuth log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Profile log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Rule log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| SAML log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Secure LDAP log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Takeout log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Tasks log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| User log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Vault log eventsUsers events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Voice log events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Devices events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Users events | ✔† | ✔† |
| Access Transparency log events | ✔† | |
| Chrome browsers events | ✔† | |
| Gmail log events | ✔† | |
| Gmail messages | ✔† |
† All searches are performed with the security investigation tool, which provides premium reporting features.
Security Dashboard reports
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** Requires Chrome Enterprise Core
† Requires Chrome Enterprise Premium
Security health page reports
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Device management settings that can be monitored
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3rd-party app integration
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
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| 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
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management | ||
| Basic passcode enforcement (mobile) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Google Credential Provider for Windows (standalone) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Network management (ChromeOS, meeting room hardware) |
✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced endpoint management* | ||
| Strong passcode enforcement | ✔ | ✔ |
| Network management (mobile) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Mobile device security policies | ✔ | ✔ |
| Android work profiles | ✔ | ✔ |
| Enterprise endpoint management* | ||
| iOS data protection | ✔ | ✔ |
| Mobile device certificates | ✔ | ✔ |
| Context-Aware Access | ✔ | ✔ |
* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
Device management
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management | ||
| Basic mobile device management | ✔ | ✔ |
| Fundamental management for computers | ✔ | ✔ |
| Endpoint verification | ✔ | ✔ |
| Company-owned device inventory (endpoints) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Remote account sign-out | ✔ | ✔ |
| Remote account wipe (mobile) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Block devices | ✔ | ✔ |
| Drive for desktop | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced endpoint management* | ||
| Advanced mobile management | ✔ | ✔ |
| Zero-touch enrollment for Android devices | ✔ | ✔ |
| Admin approval of devices | ✔ | ✔ |
| Remote device wipe | ✔ | ✔ |
| Windows device management | ✔ | ✔ |
| Enterprise endpoint management* | ||
| Company-owned device inventory (Android) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Company-owned device inventory (iOS) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Mobile device management rules | ✔ | ✔ |
| BeyondCorp Alliance partner integrations | ✔ | ✔ |
* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
Mobile app management
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management | ||
| Public and private app management (Android) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced endpoint management* | ||
| Public app management (iOS) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Android app runtime permissions | ✔ | ✔ |
| Selectively distribute mobile apps to users | ✔ | ✔ |
| Publish private Android web apps | ✔ | ✔ |
| Managed Android app settings configurations | ✔ | ✔ |
| Enterprise endpoint management* | ||
| Private iOS app management | ✔ | ✔ |
* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
Device details
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management | ||
| Basic device details (mobile) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Basic endpoint details (computer & smart home devices) |
✔ | ✔ |
| Basic device reports (Chrome & mobile) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced endpoint management* | ||
| Advanced device reports (mobile) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Enterprise endpoint management* | ||
| Devices log events | ✔ | ✔ |
* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
Gmail
Email addresses and mailing lists
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise 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 | ✔ | ✔ |
Email usage and limits
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Email storage (shared with documents and photos) | As much as you need* | |
| Attachment size limit (sending) | 25 MB | |
| Attachment size limit (receiving) | 50 MB | |
| Recipients per message (To, Cc, Bcc fields combined) | 2,000 (500 external) | |
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Unique recipients per day |
3,000 (2,000 external, 500 external for trial accounts) | |
* 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. Learn how to request storage.
Email security & compliance
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise 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 | ✔ | ✔ |
| Vault for email/IM eDiscovery and archiving | ✔ | ✔ |
| Gmail data loss prevention (DLP) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Use optical character recognition to read images | ✔ | ✔ |
| Gmail log search in BigQuery | ✔ | ✔ |
| Gmail integration with a 3rd-party archiving solution | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced phishing and malware protection | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced email attachment scanning (Security Sandbox) | ✔ | ✔ |
| S/MIME encryption for email | ✔ | |
| Client-side encryption for email | ✔ |
Advanced email delivery options
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise 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
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* Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.
** Only Google Slides, Forms, and Sites.
Google Meet
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Maximum meeting length | 24 hours | 24 hours |
| Maximum number of participants per meeting | 500 | 1,0001 |
| External participants | ✔ | ✔ |
| Secure meetings | ✔ | ✔ |
| Presentations and screen sharing | ✔ | ✔ |
| App for Android and iOS | ✔ | ✔ |
| Dial in (U.S. & international numbers)* | ✔ | ✔ |
| Record meetings & save them to Drive | ✔ | ✔ |
| Hand raising | ✔ | ✔ |
| Raise a room's hand using Meet hardware | ✔ | ✔ |
| Noise cancellation | ✔ | ✔ |
| In-domain and trusted domain live streaming (maximum number viewers) | 10k | 100k |
| Breakout rooms† | ✔ | ✔ |
| Polls | ✔ | ✔ |
| Q&A | ✔ | ✔ |
| Track attendance (requires 2 or more attendees) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Digital whiteboard | ✔ | ✔ |
| Add Meet video to Microsoft Outlook | ✔ | ✔ |
| Add co-hosts to meetings† | ✔ | ✔ |
| Control Slides presentations | ✔ | ✔ |
| Reactions | ✔ | ✔ |
| Generative AI in Meet ** | ✔ | ✔ |
| Transcribe meetings & save them to Drive | ✔ | ✔ |
| Set recording quality for screen shares | ✔ | ✔ |
| Meet eCDN | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatic meeting recording, transcripts, and notes | ✔ | ✔ |
| Client-side encryption for audio and video | ✔ |
* Powered by Google Voice
** Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.
† Dependent on Google Calendar limit of 200 invitees.
1After 500, the next 500 join as View only.
Google Chat
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Groups / Groups for Business
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| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise 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) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Inspect group membership | ✔ | ✔ |
| Restrict group membership | ✔ | ✔ |
| Dynamic groups (manage membership automatically) | ✔ | ✔ |
| View members of nested groups (indirect members) | ✔ | ✔ |
Google Calendar
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