Google Basic G Suite to Workspace Business Standard – A Comparison

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Note: This blog post has been updated Feb 2025, to reflect the new prices that are due to change 2025.

Google has now moved all previous G Suite customers to an equivalent Google Workspace plan. 

This means that you will need to move your account over to a new package. The new Google packages are slightly different to the previous ones – varying in both features and price.

Here is a simple comparison table of the G Suite Basic plan, compared to the new Google Workspace Business Standard plan.

Basic G Suite vs Workspace Business Standard

Below is a table of features that differ for each plan, to view the full list of features, please see the Workspace Admins full comparison table here. 

Basic G SuiteBusiness Standard
Price (per user, per month)£4.60£14
Gmail, Calendar, Chat, Drive Storage & Meet✔✔
Advanced Chat rooms✔✔
Number of usersUnlimited1-300
Email, document and photo storage30 GB2 TB (pooled)
Collaboration with trusted external domains✖✔
Fundamental Data Regions✖✔
Advanced Drive auditing and reports✖✔
Auto-provisioning of SAML apps3Unlimited
Company owned Android devices✔✖
Gmail Multi-Send✖✔
Shared drives for teams✖✔
Advanced Drive sharing permissions✖✔
Visitor Sharing✖✔
Maximum number of participants per meeting100150
Google Meet Enhanced noise cancellation✖✔
Appointment Schedules✖✔

Compare Workspace Plans

Compare Google Business Starter, Standard and Plus plans here.

Business StarterBusiness StandardBusiness Plus
Gmail Business email✔✔✔
Phishing and spam protection✔✔✔
Meet Video participants100150500
Max Meeting Length 24 hrs24 hrs24 hrs
Noise Cancellation–✔✔
Meeting Recordings saved to Google Drive–✔✔
Drive Secure Cloud storage (per user)30GB2TB5TB
Email Storage (per user)30GB2TB5TB
Shared Drives for Teams–✔✔
Chat✔✔✔
Appointment Booking Pages–✔✔
Docs, sheets & slides✔✔✔
Cloud search smart search–1st party data1st party data
Android App Management––✔

View full breakdown of plans here.

Ballyhoo are Google Partners and Google Resellers, meaning we can sell and help support Google Workspace, Google Voice and other Google apps for our clients. If you need help transferring over to a Google Workspace package, please contact us now.

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