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

To find out your edition, go to What's my subscription and payment plan?

Compare Essentials editions

Essentials editions are designed to provide seamless integration with your existing email solution. Use these tables to see exactly which features are included with the following editions:

  • Essentials Starter—Collaboration and video conferencing at no cost for teams of up to 100 users. (Or if you signed up for Essentials Starter before June 3, 2022, teams can have up to 25 users.)
  • Essentials—Collaboration and video conferencing, additional security features, pooled storage, and policy controls. Essentials edition is no longer available for new customers.
  • Enterprise Essentials—Collaboration and video conferencing with more participants and advanced features, more pooled storage, and enterprise-grade security and management.
  • Enterprise Essentials Plus—More advanced security and compliance controls for greater productivity and collaboration, with 5 TB of pooled storage per user.
Suite wide Service specific

Service availability

Identity management

Usage and support

User access options

Reports and monitoring

Security and data management

Endpoint management

3rd-party app integration

Other admin features

Drive and Docs editors

Groups / Groups for Business

Google Meet

Google Chat

Service availability

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

  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
Calendar ✔ ✔ ✔  
Drive storage and Docs editors ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Video conferencing with Meet ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Digital whiteboarding with Jamboard ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Tasks ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Directory management  ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Sites ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Notetaking with Keep ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Chat and chat spaces ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔*
Groups for Business   ✔*  ✔* ✔*
Additional Google services (admin managed)   ✔*  ✔* ✔*
Google Cloud Search for internal search and assist
 

 

 

 

 
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)   ✔* ✔* ✔*
Google Vids   ✔ ✔ ✔
Gemini app with enterprise-grade data protections†      ✔* ✔*
Gemini for Google Workspace†
 		     ✔* ✔*
Google Vault for eDiscovery and information governance     ✔* ✔*
AppSheet Core       ✔*

* Requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.
† Compare Gemini app offerings.

Note: If your organization has Essentials Starter or an email-verified account for Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, or Enterprise Essentials Plus, users can access additional services that aren't admin-managed, such as Google Groups and Photos.

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Identity management

  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
Add or remove existing user accounts ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Assign a super admin role ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Create and delete user accounts   ✔* ✔* ✔*
Assign custom admin roles   ✔* ✔* ✔*
Manage user profiles   ✔* ✔* ✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.

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Usage and support

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

  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
Number of users 100† Any number Any number Any number
Email, document, photo storage per user 15 GB 100 GB per user, up to a maximum of 2 TB†† 1 TB per user†† 5 TB††
99.9% uptime guarantee ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Purchase additional pooled storage   ✔ ✔  
Enhanced Support     ✔ ✔
Standard Support   ✔    

** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.
† If you signed up for Essentials Starter before June 3, 2022, the user limit is 25 per team.
†† Storage is pooled across all users.

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User access options

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

  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
Supported browsers ✔  ✔ ✔  ✔
Access across devices (computers, phones, tablets) ✔  ✔ ✔  ✔
Offline access ✔  ✔ ✔  ✔
Microsoft Outlook   ✔* ✔* ✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.

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Reports and monitoring

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  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials 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)		 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Drive DLP data protection insights report     ✔ ✔
Google Meet attendance reports   ✔ ✔ ✔
Export reports to BigQuery       ✔*
VirusTotal reports        
Log-event exports to Google Security Operations        
Work Insights reports for users       ✔*

* Requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.

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Security and data management

Security policies and data protection

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  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
2-Step Verification (admin managed)   ✔* ✔* ✔*
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     ✔* ✔*
Generative AI security protections     ✔†† ✔††
Drive data protection insights report     ✔ ✔
Set session length for Google services       ✔*
Data loss prevention (DLP)       ✔*

Control access based on user and device context (Context-Aware Access)

       ✔*
Cloud Identity Premium security management
(no separate license required)		       ✔*
Advanced data exports       ✔
Client-side encryption        
Assured Controls for managing compliance & security requirements (add-on)        

*  Requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.
†† Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.

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Security dashboards & investigation tools

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

  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials 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:

See also below:

       ✔*
Security dashboard reports
(See dashboard reports below)		       ✔*
Security health page
(See settings analyses below)		       ✔*

*  Requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.

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Data regions

  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
Fundamental data regions
Set a single data at rest region policy for everyone in your organization        ✔*
Enterprise data regions †
Set data at rest region policies for organizational units or groups        ✔*
Basic data regions reports
(Includes data at rest, versions, and policy summaries)		       ✔*
Set data region processing policies
(including for organizational units and groups)		       ✔*
Advanced settings for data regions       ✔*
Assured Controls data regions (add-on)
Advanced data regions reports 
(Includes data processing by region and service, and data at rest by service)		        

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.
† Users who don't have a supported edition for Enterprise data regions aren't covered by data region policies—even if you apply a data region policy to their organizational unit.

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Security investigation tool: Common use cases

Compare instead: Enterprise editions | Essentials editions

  Essentals Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials 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        

* Requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.
† Users can't report inappropriate chat messages for investigations.

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Log events of user and admin activity

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

  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
Admin data action log events  ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔†
Admin log events ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔†
Calendar log events ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔†
Chat log events ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔†
Chrome log events ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔†
Chrome Sync log events  ✔* ✔* ✔* ✔*†
Cloud Search log events  ✔* ✔* ✔* ✔*†
Contacts log events  ✔* ✔* ✔* ✔*†
Context Aware Access log events  ✔* ✔* ✔* ✔*†
Device log events  ✔* ✔* ✔* ✔*†
Directory Sync log events  ✔* ✔* ✔* ✔*†
Drive log events ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔†
Graduation log events  ✔* ✔* ✔* ✔*†
Groups Enterprise log events  ✔* ✔* ✔* ✔*†
Groups log events ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔†
Jamboard 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        ✔*†
Devices log events        ✔*†
Users events        ✔*†
Chrome browsers events         
Gmail log events         
Gmail messages         

* Requires verifying your domain.
† Performed with the security investigation tool, which provides premium reporting features.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.

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Security Dashboard reports

Compare instead: Essentials editions | Education editions

  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials 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       ✔*

* Requires verifying your domain
​​​​​​​†​​​​​​​ Requires Chrome Enterprise Premium

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Security health page reports

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  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials 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
       ✔*

* Requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.

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Endpoint management

Device security settings

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Essentials Starter

 Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials 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     ✔* ✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.
† This feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management.

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Device management

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  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials 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     ✔ ✔

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.
† This feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management.

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Mobile app management

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  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials 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     ✔* ✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.
† This feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management.

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Device details

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  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials 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)      ✔* ✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.
† This feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management.

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3rd-party app integration

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  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
Single sign-on (SSO) using a 3rd-party IdP 

✔
Microsoft (OIDC) only

 ✔* ✔* ✔*
Single sign-on (SSO) using Google as IdP   ✔* ✔* ✔*
App catalog of 200+ preconfigured SAML apps   ✔* ✔* ✔*
Autoprovisioning of SAML apps (maximum number)   Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Secure LDAP: Connect LDAP-based apps & services       ✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.

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Other admin features

  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
Admin SDK (APIs to manage users and services, create reports, and more)    ✔* ✔* ✔*
Upgrade directly to a Google Workspace Business or Enterprise edition with Gmail   ✔* ✔* ✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.

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Drive and Docs editors

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Essentials Starter

 Essentials* Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
Drive for desktop ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Connected Sheets ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Advanced Drive logs and reports (Drive log events) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Drive sharing permissions ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Shared drives   ✔ ✔ ✔
Manage document approvals   ✔ ✔ ✔
Manage Drive metadata (custom labels and fields)   ✔ ✔ ✔
Turn Docs creation on or off   ✔ ✔ ✔
Delegate access to Connected Sheets     ✔ ✔
eSignature     ✔ ✔
Smart chip data extraction     ✔ ✔
Generative AI in Docs, Sheets, & Slides †     ✔ ✔
Drive inventory export       ✔
Drive file suggestions in Chrome browser address bar       ✔
Organizational branding (custom templates)       ✔
Drive data loss prevention (DLP)       ✔**
Trust rules for Drive sharing permissions       ✔**
Client-side encryption for Drive files       ✔**

* New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.
** Requires verifying your domain.
† Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.

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Groups / Groups for Business

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  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
Groups for content sharing and 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 (direct & indirect) in all groups       ✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.

Note: If your organization has Essentials Starter or an email-verified account for Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, or Enterprise Essentials Plus, Google Groups is available to users but isn't admin-managed.

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Google Meet

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

  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
Maximum meeting length 60 minutes 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours
Maximum number of participants per meeting 100 100 250 1,0001
External participants ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Secure meetings ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Presentations and screen sharing ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
App for Android and iOS ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Digital whiteboard ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Add Meet video to Microsoft Outlook ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Works with Meet room hardware ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Hand raising ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Raise a room's hand using Meet hardware ✔ ✔ ✔* ✔
Reactions ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Meet eCDN ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Dial in (U.S. & international numbers)††   ✔ ✔ ✔
Record meetings & save them to Drive   ✔ ✔ ✔
Breakout rooms†††   ✔ ✔ ✔
Polls   ✔ ✔ ✔
Q&A   ✔ ✔ ✔
Track attendance (requires 2 or more attendees)   ✔ ✔ ✔
Add co-hosts to meetings†††   ✔ ✔ ✔
Control Slides presentations   ✔ ✔ ✔
Generative AI in Meet†     ✔ ✔
Noise cancellation     ✔ ✔
Set recording quality for screen shares     ✔ ✔
In-domain and trusted domain live streaming (maximum number viewers)       100k
Transcribe meetings & save them to Drive       ✔
Client-side encryption for audio and video       ✔*

* Requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.
† Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.
†† Powered by Google Voice.
††† Dependent on Google Calendar limit of 200 invitees.
1After 500, the next 500 join as View only.

Google Chat

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  Essentials Starter Essentials** Enterprise Essentials Enterprise Essentials Plus
Set spaces history option for users ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔*
Turn chat history on or off     ✔ ✔ ✔*
Automatically accept chat invitations   ✔ ✔ ✔*
Allow or restrict external chat   ✔ ✔ ✔*
Allow or restrict Chat apps   ✔ ✔ ✔*
Turn external spaces on or off   ✔ ✔ ✔*
Use discoverable spaces   ✔* ✔* ✔*
Chat Interoperability for interaction between Chat and non-Chat users (add-on)     ✔ ✔
External chat for 1:1 and group direct messages       ✔*
Control file sharing in Chat       ✔*

* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.

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