Google Workspace versus Microsoft 365

Microsoft Office now has a strong, feature-rich competitor in Google Workspace. We outline the benefits and drawbacks of each suite to assist you in selecting the one that is best for your company.

Quite a long time ago, Microsoft Office managed the business world. By the last part of the ’90s and mid-2000s, Microsoft’s office suite had ignored opponents like WordPerfect Office and Lotus SmartSuite, and there was no contest not too far off.

Then in 2006, Google showed up with Google Docs and Bookkeeping sheets, a cooperative web-based word handling and bookkeeping sheet couple that was joined with other business administrations to shape the Google Applications suite, later rebranded as G Suite, and presently as Google Work area. Despite the fact that Google’s efficiency suite didn’t promptly surprise the business world, over the long run it has acquired both highlights and fame, flaunting 6 million paying clients, as per Google’s latest public details in Walk 2020.

Microsoft, in the meantime, has moved its accentuation away from its customary authorized Office programming to Microsoft 365 (previously Office 365), a membership-based form that is dealt with more like help, with successive updates and new elements. Microsoft 365 we’ve zeroed in on in this story.

These days, picking an office suite isn’t as basic as it used to be. We’re here to help.

Google Workspace versus Microsoft 365

Google Work area and Microsoft 365 share much for all intents and purposes. Both are membership-based, charging organizations per-individual expenses consistently, in fluctuating levels, contingent upon the abilities their clients are searching for. In spite of the fact that Google’s Work area is electronic, it has the ability to work disconnected too. And keeping in mind that Microsoft 365 depends on introduced work area programming, it likewise gives (less strong) electronic forms of its applications.

The two suites function admirably with a scope of gadgets. Since it’s electronic, Google’s Work area works in many programs on any working framework, and Google likewise offers versatile applications for Android and iOS. Microsoft gives Office client applications to Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, and its online applications work across programs.

The suites additionally offer similar fundamental center applications. Each has word handling, calculation sheet, show, email, schedule, and contacts programs, alongside videoconferencing, informing, and note-taking programming. Each has distributed storage related to it. In any case, those singular applications are very unique in relation from one suite to the next, similar to the administration devices for dealing with them in a business climate. Also, the two suites offer scads of extra apparatuses too. So it very well may be extremely challenging to conclude which suite is better for your business.

That is where this piece comes in. We offer an itemized take gander at each part of the workplace suites, from an application-by-application correlation with how well every suite handles cooperation, and how well their applications incorporate, evaluate, and backing, and that’s just the beginning. Our attention is on the way the suites work for organizations, as opposed to individual use.

Pricing: Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 comparison of subscriptions

“Follow the cash” is the consecrated holdback of specialists all over, and while you’re beginning to conclude what office suite is better for you, it’s a decent spot to begin too. Users can use a few of the online programs from the two suites, including Microsoft Word and Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Succeed on the Internet On the web, and PowerPoint On the web — free of charge, yet organizations ought to shift focus over to the paid Work area and Microsoft 365 memberships for important security and the executive’s highlights.

Look at the accompanying tables, first for the Google Work area, and afterward for Microsoft 365, to think about plans and estimates.

Google Work area comes in four business renditions: Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Also, and Venture. Business Starter, at $6 per client each month, accompanies the full set-up of utilizations and 30GB of stockpiling per client. At $12 per client each month, the Business Standard arrangement incorporates all that, in addition to 2TB of stockpiling per client as well as chronicling, undertaking search abilities, and extra managerial apparatuses. Business In addition to at $18 per client each month incorporates everything the Business Standard form offers, in addition to significantly more regulatory controls and business devices.

Venture has all that Business In addition to does, as well as additional managerial controls and a low-code application developer. You’ll need to contact Google for estimating subtleties for Big business.

Google Workspace business plans

	Business Starter	Business Standard	Business Plus	Enterprise
Price	$6/user/mo.	$12/user/mo.	$18/user/mo.	Contact Google sales for pricing
Create documents, spreadsheets, presentations	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mobile versions1 of Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Email, custom domains, shared calendars, videoconferencing, team messaging	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Drive file storage	30GB per user	2TB per user; shared drives for teams; search across all company content in Google Workspace	5TB per user; shared drives for teams; search across all company content in Google Workspace	Unlimited; shared drives for teams; search across all company content in Google Workspace
Additional business tools	Forms, Sites, Keep, Smart Fill, Smart Cleanup, Answers	Forms, Sites, Keep, Smart Fill, Smart Cleanup, Answers	Forms, Sites, Keep, Smart Fill, Smart Cleanup, Answers	Forms, Sites, Keep, Smart Fill, Smart Cleanup, Answers, AppSheet
Security and management tools	Everything in Business Standard plus more powerful tools including secure LDAP, advanced endpoint management, and Vault for retaining, archiving, and searching data	Everything in Basic plus more powerful tools including Google Workspace Migration Tool	Everything in Business Standard plus more powerful tools including secure LDAP, advanced endpoint management, and Vault for retaining, archiving and searching data	Everything in Business Plus and more powerful tools including enterprise-level endpoint management, data loss prevention, S/MIME encryption, more

For more definite data, look at Google’s page contrasting evaluating plans. Likewise, note that a few elements accessible in more elevated level Google Work area plans are accessible for buying as independent administrations. Furthermore, Google offers particular renditions of Work area Undertaking for medical care and life sciences, retail, assembling, and government associations, and there is a scope of free and paid Work area variants for charities and instructive establishments.

Microsoft 365 choices for business pricing

Microsoft 365 business memberships are more convoluted and range from $5 per client each month for Microsoft 365 Business Fundamentals, the most essential variant for independent ventures, to $35 per client each month for Microsoft 365 E5, the most component-pressed rendition for endeavors. All confusingly, Microsoft renamed its private company plans from Office 365 to Microsoft 365, however at the undertaking level, it offers both Office 365 and Microsoft 365 plans.

The tables beneath frame what you get with every variant. The three plans in the main table are for private ventures with up to 300 workers; the ones in the subsequent table are intended for bigger associations.

Microsoft 365 small business plans

	Microsoft 365 Business Basic	Microsoft 365 Apps for Business	Microsoft 365 Business Standard	Microsoft 365 Business  Premium
Pricing	$6/user/mo.	$8.25/user/mo.	$12.50/user/mo.	$22/user/mo.
User limit	300	300	300	300
Create documents, spreadsheets, presentations	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Desktop1 / mobile2 versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook	No / Yes	Yes / Yes	Yes / Yes	Yes / Yes
Exchange email hosting, custom domains, shared calendars	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Microsoft Teams and SharePoint	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
OneDrive file storage	1TB per user	1TB per user	1TB per user	1TB per user
Additional business tools	OneNote, Outlook, Microsoft Forms, Visio, Microsoft Lists, Microsoft Bookings	Access3, Publisher3, OneNote, Visio	Teams, OneNote, Outlook, Microsoft Forms, Visio, Microsoft Lists, Microsoft Bookings	Teams OneNote, Outlook, Microsoft Forms, Visio, Microsoft Lists, Microsoft Bookings
Security and management tools	Basic tools including threat management, archiving, and auditing	Only basic tools, not including archiving and auditing	Everything in Business Basic plus email protection	Everything in Business Standard plus advanced threat protection, Azure information protection, and Intune mobile device management