Google Workspace plans start as low as 6 per user per month for Business Starter, 12 per user per month for Business Standard. Once it does, though, it’ll become the company’s eighth product with more than a billion users. Choose your Google Workspace pricing plan. I guess I appreciate that they don’t want to jump the gun and are actually waiting for that to happen instead of just announcing it now when it’s convenient. Google’s idea here is surely to convert those standalone Drive users to full G Suite users over time, but it’s also an acknowledgement on Google’s part that not every business is ready to move away from legacy email tools and desktop-based productivity applications like Word and Excel just yet (and that its online productivity suite may not be right for all of those businesses, too).ĭrive, by the way, is going to hit a billion users this week, Google keeps saying. Google will charge $8 per month per active user and $0.04 per GB stored in a company’s Drive.
Standalone Google Drive will come with all the usual online storage and sharing features as the G Suite version. Google says that a standalone version of Drive has been at the top of the list of requests from prospective customers, so it’s now giving this option to them in the form of this new service (though to be honest, I’m not sure how much demand there really is for this product). Google Workspace offers many collaboration-led tools that help employees work together such as Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, and Google Sheets, which can. Starting today, though, these businesses will be able to buy a subscription to a standalone version of Google Drive, too. If you are a business and want to use Google Drive, then your only option until now was to buy a full G Suite subscription, even if you don’t want or need access to the rest of the company’s productivity tools.