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Google Workspace Price Increase March 2025
from $1.98 to $288 for google workspace
Google Workspace Price Increases
Google raises G Suite prices: Basic to $6 a month per user, business to $12 a month
AFAIK, O365 pricing hasn't changed, so what's driving this? It's not like G Suite is the 800lb gorilla in cloud collaboration suites.
From an outside perspective, it seems like they're just further undercutting their own product. I'd be curious what the impetus was.
More on reddit.comStarting mid-March 2025, Google Workspace will introduce new pricing across all SKUs and roll Google AI features (Gemini for Workspace) directly into its Business and Enterprise plans. This update marks the end of the standalone Gemini SKU, streamlining AI capabilities into the Workspace experience.
If you’re currently on a flexible plan, the following prices will apply starting March 17, 2025. Commitment plan users will maintain their current pricing during their contract term.
| Workspace Edition | Annual Plan | Flexible Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Business Starter | $7.00 USD | $8.40 USD |
| Business Standard | $14.00 USD | $16.80 USD |
| Business Plus | $22.00 USD | $26.40 USD |
| Enterprise Standard | $27.00 USD | $32.40 USD |
| Enterprise Plus | $35.00 USD | $42.00 USD |
You might consider switching your subscription to a Annual or multi-year commitment plan to lock in cost savings before then. If you have an actively managed account, reach out to your Google Sales Point of contact. For SMB customers, reach out to a Google Workspace Partner. A few to suggest include: Wursta, HiView Solutions, and 66 Degrees.
I registered my 3 letter DNS domain over 25 years ago and had my cool email address since then. I got it parked at number of ISPs and for the last 10 or so years at the G-suite - cost ~$10/year for DNS domain hosting. Then came android phone with Google pictures backup. The whole family got their Google ids in my domain and slowly each account needed more then 5GB of disk and we got 100GB each for $1.98/month. That amount of space was good for decades of snapping pictures. I anticipated issues and started evicting all family members out of my domain to gmail.com accounts. I left with the last user this year with its own 100GB limit consuming 50GB and my account with about the same in my 100GB. Then came the email to google workspace admin that our 100GB plans are forcibly discontinued and my two users in the workspace have 30GB each and we are 10GB over the limit. Options - buy Google workspace business standard for $12/user/month with yearly commitment = 12/12/2=$288. So far my cost was $1.98/m and suddenly I had to pay $288 next month. Emailed workspace support to see what happens if I do not pay - the answer - you loose your email address, your family looses their email addresses, you all loose you pictures and email history. Options: First pictures with Google takeout - tried that and downloads went at about 100kB/s - that is 2 weeks of uninterrupted transfer - not doable. Email migration - more or less possible after finding new email hosting and moving all folders by-hand in IMAP client. Now explain all that to your generation-Z users.
Hi All,
We're in the process of doing a 3 year renewal for our Google Workspace licensing. Currently we're looking at a 77% increase in Workspace Enterprise Plus Licensing, and a 86% increase in Workspace Enterprise Standard. This feels insane! Is everyone else dealing with the same thing?