Compare Google Workspace editions

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 Education editions

K–12 and higher-education institutions may qualify for our Education editions, which provide a suite of productivity tools tailored for teaching and learning. Use these tables to compare the following editions and add-ons, available to qualified education institutions:

Education Fundamentals—A foundational suite of secure and easy-to-use tools — provided at no cost — that help improve collaboration, productivity, and class management. Provides access to apps like Google Docs, Classroom, Meet, Gmail, Forms, Chat and more.
Education Standard—A paid edition that builds on the functionality of Education Fundamentals and helps you proactively protect your education institution from digital threats with advanced security and analytics tools.
Education Plus—A paid edition that is our most comprehensive solution, including everything in Education Fundamentals and Standard and more, providing advanced security and insights and easy-to-use tools that enrich and personalize learning

Suite wide	Service specific
Service availability Usage and support User access options Reports and monitoring Security and data management Migration products Endpoint management 3rd-party app integration	Gmail Drive and Docs editors Groups / Groups for Business Google Meet Google Chat Calendar Classroom and Assignments

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User access options

Reports and monitoring

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Migration products

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Gmail

Drive and Docs editors

Groups / Groups for Business

Google Meet

Google Chat

Calendar

Classroom and Assignments

Service availability

Compare instead: Business editions (1-300 users) | Enterprise editions | Essentials editions

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education Plus
Gmail and Calendar	✔	✔	✔
Groups for Business	✔	✔	✔
Chat and chat rooms	✔	✔	✔
Storage and collaboration: Drive, Docs editors	✔	✔	✔
Sites	✔	✔	✔
Tasks	✔	✔	✔
Notetaking with Keep	✔	✔	✔
Video conferencing with Meet	✔	✔	✔
Directory management	✔	✔	✔
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 Vids†	✔	✔	✔
AppSheet Core		✔	✔
Google Cloud Search for internal search and assist (across Google and third-party services)			✔**
Integrate third-party repositories in Cloud Search			✔**
Index third-party data using Cloud Search			✔**

* Compare Gemini app offerings.
** For third-party services your organization must have at least 500 user licenses and a Google Cloud Search certified partner.
† Generative AI features in Google Vids are unavailable.

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education Plus
Cost	Free*	Fee per user
Allowed number of users	Any number
99.9% uptime guarantee	✔	✔	✔
Purchase additional pooled storage	✔	✔	✔
Standard Support	✔	✔	✔
Email, document, photo storage	100 TB pooled storage
Additional pooled cloud storage**			20 GB per user

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

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education 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 Log event reporting (See log events below)	✔	✔	✔
Export reports to BigQuery		✔	✔
VirusTotal reports		✔	✔
Google Meet attendance reports			✔
Drive DLP data protection insights report
Log-event exports to Google Security Operations
Work Insights reports for users

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education 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	✔	✔	✔
Set session length for Google services	✔	✔	✔
Data loss prevention (DLP)	✔	✔	✔
Generative AI security protections	✔*	✔*	✔*
Multi-party approval for sensitive actions		✔	✔
Advanced data exports		✔	✔
Control access based on user and device context		✔	✔
Cloud Identity Premium security management (no separate license required)		✔	✔
Client-side encryption		✔	✔

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education Plus
Alert center: Notifications of potential security issues	✔	✔	✔
Audit and investigation tool Log event reporting (See log events below)	✔	✔	✔
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 See also below: Common use cases Log events		✔	✔
Security dashboard reports (See dashboard reports below)		✔	✔
Security health page (See settings analyses below)		✔	✔

	Education Standard	Education Plus
Data regions for Education *
Set a single data at rest region policy for everyone in your organization	✔	✔
Set data at rest region policies for organizational units or groups	✔	✔
Basic data regions reports (Includes data at rest, versions, and policy summaries)	✔	✔

	Education Standard	Education 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	✔	✔

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education Plus
Admin data action log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Admin log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Calendar log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Chat log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Chrome log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Chrome Sync log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Classroom log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Cloud Search log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Contacts log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Context Aware Access log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Device log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Directory Sync log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Drive log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Gmail log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Graduation log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Groups Enterprise log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Groups log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Keep log events	✔	✔†	✔†
LDAP 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	✔	✔†	✔†
Takeout log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Tasks log events	✔	✔†	✔†
User log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Vault log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Voice log events	✔	✔†	✔†
Access Transparency log events		✔†	✔†
Assignments log events		✔†	✔†
Chrome browsers events			✔†
Devices events			✔†
Gmail messages			✔†
Users events			✔†

	Education Standard	Education Plus
DLP incidents report	✔	✔
Top policy incidents report	✔	✔
User login attempts report	✔	✔
Failed device password attempts report	✔	✔
Compromised device events report	✔	✔
Suspicious device activities report	✔	✔
OAuth grant activity report	✔	✔
OAuth grants to new apps report	✔	✔
Sensitive content transfer on Chrome report	✔†	✔†
Users with most sensitive content transfer on Chrome report	✔†	✔†
Domains with most sensitive content transfer on Chrome report	✔†	✔†
Domain types with most sensitive content transfer on Chrome report	✔†	✔†
Chrome threat protection summary report	✔†	✔†
Chrome data protection summary report	✔†	✔†
Chrome high risk users report	✔†	✔†
Chrome high risk domains report	✔†	✔†
Suspicious attachments report	✔	✔
File exposure report	✔	✔
Authentication report	✔	✔
Custom settings report	✔	✔
Encryption report	✔	✔
Message delivery report	✔	✔
Spam filter report	✔	✔
User report	✔	✔
Spoofing report	✔	✔

	Education Standard	Education Plus
Device management settings that can be monitored Blocking of compromised mobile devices Mobile management Mobile password requirements Device encryption Mobile inactivity reports Auto account wipe Application verification Installation of mobile applications from unknown sources External media storage	✔	✔
Security settings that can be monitored Two-step verification for users Two-step verification for admins Security key enforcement for admins Security key enforcement for users	✔	✔
Gmail settings that can be monitored Automatic email forwarding Comprehensive mail storage Bypassing spam filters for internal senders POP and IMAP access for users DKIM, SPF records, & DMARC Approved senders without authentication Approved domain senders Email whitelist IPs Add spam headers setting to all default routing rules MX record configuration MTA-STS configuration Attachment safety Links and external images safety Spoofing and authentication safety	✔	✔
Drive settings that can be monitored Drive sharing settings Warning for out-of-domain sharing Access Checker Drive add-ons Access to offline docs Desktop access to Drive File publishing on the web Google sign-in requirement for external collaborators	✔	✔
Hangouts settings that can be monitored Hangouts out of domain warning	✔	✔
Groups settings that can be monitored Groups creation and membership	✔	✔
Marketplace apps settings that can be monitored Google Workspace Marketplace applications usage	✔	✔
Calendar settings that can be monitored Calendar sharing policy	✔	✔
Sites settings that can be monitored Access to Calendar when offline	✔	✔

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education Plus
Email storage (shared with documents and photos)	100 TB pooled cloud storage
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)

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education 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 data with Google Workspace Migrate		✔	✔

	Education Fundamentals**	Education Standard	Education 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		✔	✔

	Education Fundamentals**	Education Standard	Education 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		✔	✔

	Education Standard	Education 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	✔	✔

	Education Fundamentals**	Education Standard	Education 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		✔	✔

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education 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	✔	✔	✔
Secure LDAP: Connect LDAP-based apps and services	✔	✔	✔
Autoprovisioning of SAML apps (maximum number)	Unlimited

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education 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		✔	✔

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education 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)	✔	✔	✔
S/MIME encryption for email	✔	✔	✔
Advanced phishing and malware protection	✔	✔	✔
Gmail log search in BigQuery		✔	✔
Malware detection in email attachments (Security Sandbox)		✔	✔
Client-side encryption for email		✔	✔
Use optical character recognition to read images		✔	✔

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education 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	✔	✔	✔

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education Plus
Drive for desktop	✔	✔	✔
Turn Docs creation on or off	✔	✔	✔
Connected Sheets	✔	✔	✔
Advanced Drive logs and reports (Drive log events)	✔	✔	✔
Shared drives	✔	✔	✔
Drive data loss prevention (DLP)	✔	✔	✔
Smart chip data extraction	✔	✔	✔
Organizational branding (custom templates)	✔	✔	✔
Generative AI in Docs, Sheets, & Slides*	✔	✔	✔
Proofread documents *	✔	✔	✔
Delegate access to Connected Sheets		✔	✔
Target audience groups (preset sharing options)		✔	✔
Manage Drive metadata (custom labels and fields)		✔	✔
Trust rules for Drive sharing permissions		✔	✔
Client-side encryption for Drive files		✔	✔
eSignature			✔
Drive inventory export		✔	✔
Manage document approvals			✔
Organizational branding (default templates and themes) **			✔

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Service availability

Usage and support

User access options

Reports and monitoring

Security and data management

Security policies and data protection

Security dashboards & investigation tools

Data regions

Security investigation tool: Common use cases

Log events of user and admin activity

Security Dashboard reports

Security health page reports

Migration products

Endpoint management

Device security settings

Device management

Mobile app management

Device details

3rd-party app integration

Gmail

Email addresses and mailing lists

Email usage and limits

Email security and compliance

Advanced email delivery options

Drive and Docs editors

Groups/Groups for Business

Google Meet

Google Chat

Google Calendar

Classroom and Assignments

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	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education 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)		✔	✔

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education Plus
Maximum meeting length	24 hours	24 hours	24 hours
Maximum number of participants per meeting	100		1,000¹
External participants	✔	✔	✔
Secure meetings	✔	✔	✔
Presentations and screen sharing	✔	✔	✔
App for Android and iOS	✔	✔	✔
Hand raising	✔	✔	✔
Raise a room's hand using Meet hardware	✔	✔	✔
Moderation controls	✔	✔	✔
Add Meet video to Microsoft Outlook	✔	✔	✔
Custom backgrounds	✔	✔	✔
Closed Captions, viewer initiated	✔	✔	✔
Add co-hosts to meetings^†	✔	✔	✔
Reactions	✔	✔	✔
Generative AI in Meet **	✔	✔	✔
Meet eCDN	✔	✔	✔
Dial in (U.S. & international numbers)*	U.S. only		✔
Control Slides presentations		✔	✔
Client-side encryption for audio and video		✔	✔
Record meetings & save them to Drive			✔
In-domain live streaming (maximum number viewers)			100k
Noise cancellation			✔
Breakout rooms^†			✔
Polls			✔
Q&A			✔
Track attendance (requires 2 or more attendees)			✔
Set recording quality for screen shares			✔
Live translated captions
Automatic meeting recording, transcripts, and notes			✔
Live stream to YouTube			✔
Waiting rooms in Meet			✔

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education 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 external chat	✔	✔	✔
Allow or restrict Chat apps	✔	✔	✔
Turn external spaces on or off	✔	✔	✔
Integrate Chat with a third-party archiving solution	✔	✔	✔
Use discoverable spaces	✔	✔	✔
Chat data loss prevention (DLP)	✔	✔	✔
Automatically delete Chat messages for your organization		✔	✔
Control file sharing in Chat		✔	✔
Moderate Chat content		✔	✔

	Education Fundamentals	Education Standard	Education Plus
Team calendars	✔	✔	✔
Resource booking (rooms, buildings, equipment)	✔	✔	✔
Add video conferencing to events	✔	✔	✔
Automatically add events to calendars	✔	✔	✔
Sync calendars with Microsoft Exchange	✔	✔	✔
Set a default duration for events	✔	✔	✔
Set up appointment schedules	✔	✔	✔
Automatically free unused meeting rooms	✔	✔	✔
Allow users to share working location	✔	✔	✔
Let users view analytics about their time allocation		✔	✔
Client-side encryption for event descriptions		✔	✔

	Education Fundamentals	Education Plus
Originality reports for student assignments	5 assignments per course	Unlimited
Classroom add-ons		✔
Peer comparison on originality reports		✔
Practice sets		✔
Designate users with analytics data access		✔
Designate users with temporary class access		✔
SIS roster import		U.S. only