This document compares the features available in three tiers of Google Workspace: Business Starter, Enterprise Starter, and E1. The Business Starter plan offers basic features for $6 per user per month and supports up to 300 seats. The Enterprise Starter plan for $10 per user per month removes some limitations and adds features like recording meetings, shared drives, and audit logs. The E1 plan also costs $10 per user per month and provides additional advanced features for enterprise customers like retention policies, management controls, and integration with Microsoft Office formats.
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This document compares the features available in three tiers of Google Workspace: Business Starter, Enterprise Starter, and E1. The Business Starter plan offers basic features for $6 per user per month and supports up to 300 seats. The Enterprise Starter plan for $10 per user per month removes some limitations and adds features like recording meetings, shared drives, and audit logs. The E1 plan also costs $10 per user per month and provides additional advanced features for enterprise customers like retention policies, management controls, and integration with Microsoft Office formats.
This document compares the features available in three tiers of Google Workspace: Business Starter, Enterprise Starter, and E1. The Business Starter plan offers basic features for $6 per user per month and supports up to 300 seats. The Enterprise Starter plan for $10 per user per month removes some limitations and adds features like recording meetings, shared drives, and audit logs. The E1 plan also costs $10 per user per month and provides additional advanced features for enterprise customers like retention policies, management controls, and integration with Microsoft Office formats.
Product Feature name Business Starter Enterprise Starter E1
Price $6 $10 $10
Min/Max Seat Cap 300 Any number of seats Any number of seats Meet Meeting participants (max.) 100 500 (1000 is on roadmap) 1000 Meeting length (hours max.) 24 hrs 24 hrs 24hrs Dedicated Mobile Apps ✓ ✓ Web Present to meetings / Screen sharing ✓ ✓ ✓ External participants ✓ ✓ ✓ Works with Meet room hardware ✓ ✓ ✓ (Teams Room Hardware) (Additional room license required) Record meetings and save them to Drive x ✓ ✓ Dial in to a US phone number ✓ ✓ ✓ Dial in to an international phone number ✓ ✓ ✓ Add someone by phone ( US/ Canada) ✓ ✓ ✓ (60 minutes pupm) Add someone by phone (international number) ✓ ✓ ✓ (60 minutes pupm) (Coming soon) Real-time Captions ✓ ✓ ✓ Enhanced noise cancellation x ✓ ✓ Meet Audit Logs in BigQuery x ✓ x Background blur x ✓ ✓ Hand-raising x ✓ ✓ Audience polling and Q&A for Meet x ✓ ✓ Breakout rooms x ✓ ✓ Attendance tracking x ✓ ✓ Lock meetings to invite-only (coming soon) x ✓ ✓ Can mute and lower ppl Meeting Safety Controls x ✓ reaction. Tiled View Layouts x ✓ ✓ Livestream participants (in-domain) x 10k 10K Meet Quality tool ✓ ✓ ✓ 3rd Party Interop ✓ ✓ ✓ Drive & Editors Drive Storage 30GB 1 TB/user 1TB/user Shared drives x ✓ ✓ Document approvals x ✓ x Visitor sharing (pincode sharing) x ✓ x Outlook Plugin for Drive and Meet ✓ ✓ x Advanced MS interop with Drive File Stream ✓ ✓ x (MSFT only support Office) Instant suggestions and search results ✓ ✓ ✓ Drive search in Chrome URL bar x ✓ IRM Controls for Shared Drive x ✓ ✓ Docs, Sheets, Slides online and mobile productivity ✓ ✓ Online only, no mobile apps suite Forms online and mobile survey tool ✓ ✓ ✓ Keep online and mobile note taking app ✓ ✓ ✓ Sites online website editor x ✓ ✓ Compatibility with Microsoft Office formats on web ✓ ✓ ✓ or mobile Grammar and spelling suggestions ✓ ✓ ✓ Collaborate in real-time with up to 100 collaborators ✓ ✓ x in Docs, Sheets, Slides Publish document to the web for unlimited viewers ✓ ✓ ✓ Comment, suggest and assign tasks in documents ✓ ✓ ✓ Access all historical document versions (view, copy ✓ ✓ ✓ or restore prior versions) Advanced document history management x ✓ Optional Keep track of collaborators' activity on your ✓ ✓ x documents in a dashboard Maximum Cloud dataset size in Google Sheets 10M 10M 1M Intelligent spreadsheets: Answers, Smart Fill and Data ✓ ✓ ✓ Prep Forms and Sheets integration for survey answers ✓ ✓ ✓ collection Organizational branding in Google Docs, Sheets, ✓ ✓ ✓ Slides, Forms and Sites Drive Audit logs for Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms and x ✓ x Sites GMail GMail Mail (custom) ✓ ✓ ✓ Inbox Delegation 1000 1000 x (Information not available) Gmail Retention x ✓ ✓ (limited to 50GB) Content Management Filters and Custom Policies ✓ ✓ ✓ Outbound Footer ✓ ✓ ✓ Search & Assistant Instant search results x ✓ x Cloud Search 1st and 3rd party search x First Party First Party Chat Chat ✓ ✓ Teams Chat Add-ons ✓ ✓ x Chat History ✓ ✓ ✓ Group Chat Rooms ✓ ✓ ✓ Room Productivity Features: Files, Tasks Tabs, Inline ✓ ✓ x File editing User can create Guest Access rooms ✓ ✓ x Product Feature name Business Starter Enterprise Starter E1 Data security & reporting - Admin can control history default on/off - Admin can control auto accept invitations x ✓ x - Admin can control if users can chat outside the domain Security & Compliance Anti-abuse features ✓ ✓ x 2-step verification ✓ ✓ ✓ Advanced Protection Program ✓ ✓ x Whitelist trusted external domain x ✓ ✓ Roles and Delegated Access ✓ ✓ ✓ Alert Center ✓ ✓ ✓ Fundamental endpoint management ✓ ✓ ✓ Administration Admin Console ✓ ✓ ✓ Group Based policy controls ✓ ✓ Yes, Azure AD Active Directory Syncing ✓ ✓ Yes, Azure AD Audit logs (basic) ✓ (180 days) ✓ (180 days) ✓ (90 days only) Consumer calendaring (events, sharing, secondaring Calendar ✓ ✓ ✓ calendars, vc integration, task integration) App development (API) ✓ ✓ ✓ Knowledge worker calendaring (ooo, working hours, appointment slots, working elsewhere, focus ✓ ✓ x time, etc.) Calendar basics and safety (calendar sharing ACL management, event defaults - external user warning ✓ ✓ Partially on/off, working hours on/off, vc defaults, user and event transfer mgmt) Room /resource creation, management & ✓ ✓ ✓ analytics Email and calendar interoperability with MSFT / IBM (Single endpoint exchange interop, multi ✓ ✓ x endpoint exchange) Tasks Creating, editing, viewing Tasks across G Suite apps ✓ ✓ x Task lists in rooms, shared task lists ✓ ✓ x