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?

1. I have recently retired and shut my 3 business websites at Hostgator and am letting my ownership of 2 associated domains lapse because I no longer need them.

2. I have maintained ownership of the 3rd domain simply to continue using my "professional" email address [email protected] . because that's the only email address 90% of my contacts have used to reach me for the last 20+ years. But Hostgator charges $118/year (more) to host this domain, even without a website ... plus they're constantly pulling tricks with add-ons and up-selling that are beyond my feeble understanding.

3. The Hostgator rep suggested setting up a Google Workspace Individual account and moving my single email account [email protected] there.

Will this work? Is this a good solution for a retired professional who needs to continue using a single old email account but no longer needs full website hosting?

Thanks for your advice (Explain To Me Like I'm 68yo)

Does Google still offer the individual Workspace plan?

When I search for the individual plan, there's plenty of info about it, and it shows a price of $9.99 on the search page. The AI answer also says that it's available. I click the link to the Google help page about the individual plan, which contains a link to sign up.

The link to sign up takes me to the Workspace page where I click the sign up (start free trial) button. However, on the next page, it shows a price of about $18 per month and indicates that I'm signing up for Business Standard.

Whatever I do, I can't get the pricing and link to actually sign up for Individual.

Any advice or help is much appreciated.

This is a joke. I don't need Gemini, but they're enforcing it on all plans and charging $2/month or more whether you like it or not. Google announced a price increase for monthly plans in 2023, and now this in the new year of 2025! Expect more increase in coming years!

Starting 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.

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.

I am trying to sign up for the $6/user a month "Business Starter" plan on Google Workspace but when I go through the sign up process, the end price ends up to be $7.20/user per month. This is in the U.S.

Because of this, I was curious what others are paying? Is anyone actually able to pay $6 a month?

I just made deal with guy who sold me google workspaces for $3.50 a month instead of $7, is there any risk?

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 know Google One plans are for individuals and Google Workspace is for organizations. However, currently I pay 20/month for Google One 2TB AI Enhancement. Google Workspace 2TB (which includes full AI features and more apps,) is 14/month (per user, but you only need one user.)

Am, I missing something, am I dumb to keep the Google One plan when for 5 dollars less per month I can get the same storage and more features/ more apps, with an individual Google Workspace account? Or is there something I am missing here?

I'm setting up a small business. I've got a Google Workspace Individual which I've been using for Google.Meets and the Google.Drive, but now want to setup to use it for the business.

I'm planning on getting a domain through Google for a website and branded email.

Can this be done? Or do I need a Google Workspace Business account? Can I upgrade seamlessly?

Which are the implications of choosing between "With a your-company.com address" & "With a gmail.com address"?

Thank you

Hi there, guys!

I've been looking at which plan to buy for a couple of days now, and I'm not sure which one to choose. Let me give you a little context: I'm an online language teacher, and in my case, I need something very basic. I would be satisfied with Google Meet's premium storage and features. The thing is, I see that both plans have their advantages and disadvantages.

It seems that Google One doesn't have premium features of Google Meet like creating polls, questions, and more. I also noticed that Workspace Individual can't play video at 1080p (through the webcam, which is absolutely essential for my case).

And there's also the pricing aspect to consider. Workspace Individual costs around €7.5 per month, whereas Google One is a bit more expensive.

In the end, if I were to go for Workspace, would the Individual plan suffice for me, or would I have to opt for a business plan like the Standard, which costs around €12 per month?

Thanks in advance!

I've been using the free g suite product for YEARS as many of you have. I wouldn't hesitate to pay for it if there was going to be a personal tier. But at $6 per user per month, that would get expensive for me and my wife. I would gladly pay something to keep my same personalized email address rather than migrate everything to a gmail account. I've had the same email address for over 20 years and don't really want to forward it to a gmail account. I've also got a lot of videos on my Youtube account and don't really want to lose all of that history.

Anyway, I'm new to this subreddit so I hope this post is not against any rules. I'm just trying to figure out my options now that free g suite is going away. I'm still holding out hope that Google decides to create a more reasonably-priced tier for individuals or non-businesses. :-( There is a sweet spot for pricing for people like me and $6/user/month is too much. :-(

I have the option of setting up google workspace standard plan with the standard $12/user rate. I know an IT provider who has a lower negotiated reseller rate, but haven't decided if I want to use them.

Is it possible to sign up for google workspace independently now, and then later move to the preferential rate with the IT provider down the line? Or would I have to start a new google workspace account from scratch?

It’s around $10 a month and I need something fairly simple to keep track of everything so my adhd doesn’t lose crap.

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'm getting messages from Google Workspace that the prices are going up in February. I cannot tell if I opt to go annual instead of flexible, if I have to prepay the entire amount for the year, upfront. It appears these are only accounts that I managed before the legacy migration fiasco. Anyone have any insight if the legacy accounts that were migrated to paid WorkSpace accounts are doing this also, and if so, when? I have some clients that were paying ZERO before, not paying in the 3 figures per month for email and I'll just have to bump their email up a lot more but for the accounts with one or two email addresses, I could probably swing the upfront fee.

So Workspace has been nagging our users to death about buying Gemini. I finally find a way to turn it off. We just do not want it and do not want to pay for it! What does Google do?

I got an email this morning that the price of workspace is going up and here's the bonus, we get Gemini forced down our throats. You cannot get people to buy it, so you force it on your faithful users in an attempt to recover your investment costs? I dont want it.

Sadly, I went to Microsoft for the first time in a long time to look at their pricing models and Workspace is now priced higher than Microsoft and I still have to jump through hoops to open up excel documents sent by business partners and customers.

I do love Workspace but this really irks me.

I have 6 user accounts that I have been using with Google Workspace for over 10 years, but now Google is charging per user, and it is expensive. I have 4 kids and host a family domain. They also use Gmail, and I forward their family email to their Gmail account.

I'm looking for a good alternative, and I am afraid to host the mail server myself since email seems to be the biggest hack and the ability to get screwed if someone gets access to the email account and like Google security like 2mfa. But the cost now per month per user is not suitable. I did buy the domain through GoDaddy. Should I go back to them to host the email?