I'm not seeing any direct comparisons of features from the Business plans to the Enterprise plans? I'm trying to see/justify the specific features that come with Enterprise. We're interested in DLP, which I know requires Enterprise, but seeing these two plans side by side seems like a rather basic need. But Google separates Business plan comparisons from Enterprise plans.

Hi! I hope someone would be able to help us. We are planning to migrate from Dropbox to Google Workspace. We're a team of 5 at the moment and we have over 600GB of files. In our past few meetings, we have discussed about whether to (1) stick with our current Business Starter plan and get a 10TB additional storage for a one-time $300 fee or (2) upgrade to Business Standard with 2TB per user.

With Starter + additional 10TB, we get 10.15TB in total but I'm not sure how the 10TB is going to be shared across all users. Is anyone able to allocate any portion from the 10.15TB of storage?

If we go with Standard, I understand that we get more features such as more Gemini features, 150 participants cap for Google Meet (which I don't think we'll be using anytime soon), NotebookLM Plus, etc.

During our meetings, we use Fathom (AI notetaker) to give a summary, takeaways, task lists, and more from our meeting. Fathom will send those information to each participant via email. Plus, I think Fathom also stores some files locally in the owner's computer drive. Does NotebookLM Plus do that as well? Fathom actus as another participant during calls. If we can replace Fathom with NotebookLM Plus, that would really be great.

Having searched all over this sub I can't find any firm info.

Lots of people say that despite the 2TB limit for Business Standard, their larger Drives have transitioned correctly.

Others have said that you can't add more than 2TB of new files but I can't find where people are saying this.

Most people say that Enterprise Standard is completely fine.

1. Can you use any of the Business editions with >5TB in a single user?

2. If I transition to Business Standard but it turns out that there are limits, can I later switch to Enterprise Standard?

Like many others I need to transition before the end of the month.

Hey all!

Currently, my company is utilizing google workspace - basic version with about 100 users and now considering switching over to M365 for its reduced cost and the fact that M365 offers 1TB of storage per user vs 30GB for google. Additionally, teams here is a great addition where google chat works fine but seems half baked with the lack of desktop apps etc. I am considering M365 basic right now.

Down the road - in about a year or two, I am expecting my user count to grow well past 300 which is the threshold for being forced into enterprise licensing. Is there anything I should watch out for when I get forced into enterprise license? I already know I will end up losing teams access here, has anyone had luck of getting it recently clubbed with enterprise M365?

Currently, we are not using much from workspace, drive, meet, mail, sheets, docs are being used and I have a couple internal tools that rely on workspace as the IDP (SSO w/ google) which will all need to move to using Entra ID.

I recently switched my company from primarily an ubuntu workspace to windows primarily because we have been hiring like crazy and training so many people to use ubuntu is a giant pain + plus the constant bickering of why can't we just get windows was getting on my nerves. I am an avid ubuntu user, but I can not expect non-technical people to work the way I want to. Having said this, I believe having a single cohesive environment will do good for my company.

Any experiences of this move or suggestions, warnings, anything would be very welcome here.

Thank you so much!

Hi,

There's been quite some FUD going around about Google Workspace, so let me talk to you about how I upgraded just now to unlimited storage as a single user.

I was on the €10/month business plan before and currently have around 28TB of data on Google Drive; this includes backups of my git server, multiple websites, sample libraries (those add up _fast_), created music / video content in raw quality, family photos and videos, old HDD disk images from computers long-gone, incremental backups for my personal mail server. (lol, not using gmail) etc.

Today I got the mail to look into transitioning to Google Workspace.

The enterprise accounts are, by default, a bit of hidden, but they're available in your Google Admin panel regardless.

The Enterprise Standard plan offers "unlimited storage" for €17.30 / month.

Here's my single user account with usage report:

Albeit €17,30 is more than €10,00, it's still cheap enough :-) I guess the USD pricing will be similar to this.

There also is no 5-user minimum. From the fine print on the pricing page:

Business Starter, Business Standard, and Business Plus plans can be purchased for a maximum of 300 users. There is no minimum or maximum user limit for Enterprise plans.

So here I am, a one-man enterprise. :-)

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?

Has anybody upgraded Google Workspace one user license from the pro to enterprise? If so do you know how much it cost for that one license per month?

I have Google Workspace Enterprise Standard (1 user) and it says you get as much cloud storage as you need but I'm getting 5TB. Can any one tell me why?

Hi, sorry for asking something that may be obvious to everyone else, but for some reason reading google help pages and explanation on their site wasn't helpful or at least I don't get it.

I got business standard when it had a different name that is now escaping me. Basically I needed just two things, to have an email with a custom domain so that I can use my site for emails (when I was on a different server, most of the email I sent was ending up in junk), and to have my personal backup for files in the cloud. I basically don't use any other features.

I wasn't checking out features of my account literary for a few years. From what I remember, few years ago, Business standard was offering 2tb of storage, but with an asterisk. As a single user, I was limited to just 1Tb, unless I start paying for additional users, that obviously don't exist. I have just noticed that that limit has changed, but I am not sure if I am getting it right? It now says that it is 2Tb of pooled storage. Does that mean that now as a single user I can have access to the full 2Tb of storage, even if I am a single user? Or I will still get the warning If I cross 1Tb of storage?

Can someone also explain if there is some other option that I am missing when it comes to gsuite. As far as I understand Business Standard is still the only package that will get me what I need, even if I don't have any use for other features, so using email for my website through gmail interface and to have storage space in the cloud for backup?

Hello,

I see people saying that they're limited to 5TB/account on new accounts for Google Workspace Enterprise edition, and others say it's unenforced.

I'm talking about shared drives, are they unlimited or not, in other words, will they count towards my 5TB limit (if a limit exists at all) or not?

Please comment if you know about recently created accounts. Thank you.

Just received an email from Google to say the cost of the subscription has gone up again. The justification is AI and additional functions that we have no use for.

We are a small business with about 20 accounts several of which we only use for the email address. It would be great if Google offered cheaper versions of the subscription for email only or accounts that didn't require storage.

Has anyone here transferred from Google to an alternative or found a way to reduce the cost of the Google subscription?

Thanks

I've recently started my own business and paid for my own domain. I am trying to use google workspace, but the only options I see are "google workspace essentials" for $8 and "google enterprise essentials" for $15. Workspace essentials doesn't give me gmail, which is all I really need. I've searched online and it tells me that there should be a "business starter" option for $7, with gmail included, but I can't see it. I tried to contact support, but in order to talk to a human, I need to upgrade to essentials and pay $15 a month- how ridiculous. I also read something about google not letting you switch plans after a free trial or while you're in the middle of another billing period. I am currently paying for the essentials- because I thought it would include gmail.

Has anyone had issues with not being able to subscribe to the basic business starter pack? I am losing my mind.

Which is better for a small business (4 total employees in mental health industry): Google Workspace or Microsoft 365? Currently, we have the Business Starter ($6 per user) and were thinking of upgrading to Business Standard ($12 per user).

I think the most important thing is deciding on using either Google Shared Drive or Microsoft Share Point. I need to be able to allow only certain users into certain folders since we have to comply with HIPAA. For example, I want a folder for one client and only 2 of our employees can have access to this folder since they are assigned to this client. I don't want any other employees to be able to access this folder.

Thanks in advance!