Compare Essentials 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

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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	Gemini 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
Drive storage and Docs editors	✔	✔	✔	✔
Video conferencing with Meet	✔	✔	✔	✔
Tasks	✔	✔	✔	✔
Directory management	✔	✔	✔	✔
Sites	✔	✔	✔	✔
Notetaking with Keep	✔	✔	✔	✔
Chat and chat spaces	✔	✔	✔	✔*
Google Vids	✔††	✔	✔	✔
Calendar	✔	✔	✔
Groups for Business		✔*	✔*	✔*
Additional Google services (admin managed)		✔*	✔*	✔*
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)		✔*	✔*	✔*
Gemini app with enterprise-grade data protections†		✔*	✔*	✔*
Google Vault for eDiscovery and information governance			✔*	✔*
AppSheet Core				✔*
Google Cloud Search for internal search and assist

* Requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.
† Compare Gemini app offerings.
†† Generative AI features in Google Vids are unavailable.

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

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	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

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

	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			✔*	✔*
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)				✔*
Multi-party approval for sensitive actions				✔
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.

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Security dashboards & investigation tools

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	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: Take action based on search results Automate security threat response with activity rules Customize searches with nested queries Group results by attribute when searching Create a custom chart based on an investigation Save, share, delete, and duplicate investigations See also below: Common use cases Log events				✔*
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)
Policy compliance log events

* 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

	Essentials 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	✔*