By contrast, all the Google Workspace pricing is based on a per-month basis, which may suit some organisations a bit better - for example, those with regular changes in the number of staff, or those using contractors. Each 365 ‘Business’ plan comes in a couple of dollars more expensive if you pay monthly, and with the ‘Enterprise’ plans, there’s no option to do so. To get the best value out of Microsoft 365, you need to pay annually.The Microsoft ‘Business’ plans are aimed at small or new businesses and are priced accordingly. These are as follows: Small business / SMEs In this comparison, I’m going to focus on the Microsoft 365 plans which are geared towards small business and enterprise users. This means there’s a lot of flexibility - but it’s rather confusing trawling through all the plans to work out which one is best suited to your requirements. The pricing options for Microsoft 365 are considerably more complicated, because there are home, business, enterprise, government, non-profit and education versions available - and within these, a lot of sub-versions! Now, let’s take a look at Microsoft 365 pricing. This is a ‘no-code’ tool that aims to let you build mobile and web apps without coding.Īs with most software as a service tools, to get a sense of which plan is the right fit for your business, you can try Google Workspace free for 14 days. App creation - if you’re on the ‘Enterprise’ plan, you get access to Google’s ‘Appsheet’ tool.This functionality makes it easier to locate files within an organisation’s Google Workspace storage. Searching features - all plans except the ‘Business Starter’ plan give you access to a ‘smart search’ tool called ‘Google Cloud Search’.These include ‘Vault’, a tool for retaining and searching your users’ data, and endpoint management, which gives you more control over how users can access Google Workspace features and data across different devices. Security features - on the ‘Business Plus’ and ‘Enterprise’ plans you get significantly more security features.Video calls - you can have 100 participants on a call using the ‘Business Starter’ plan, 150 with ‘Business Standard’ and 500 with ‘Business Plus’ and ‘Enterprise.’ (All plans let you record calls, but ‘Business Plus’ lets you record video and track attendance ‘Enterprise’ plans go one further again by giving you noise cancellation and in-domain live streaming features).User accounts – the ‘Business Starter,’ ‘Business Standard’ and ‘Business Plus’ plans all cap the number of user ‘seats’ at 300 if you want more user accounts, you have to purchase an ‘Enterprise’ plan.Storage - this is limited to just 30GB per user on the ‘Business Starter’ plan by contrast the ‘Business Standard’, ‘Business Plus’ and ‘Enterprise’ plans give you 2TB, 5TB and unlimited storage respectively per user.

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