Google Workspace
Business Starter from £5.90 per user a month, yearly, ex VAT. Based in United States.
Last checked 22 October 2026
How these stars are worked out. Commission never changes a star.
Key facts
- Cheapest plan
- Business Starter
£5.90 per user a month, yearly, ex VAT - Free plan
- No
- Storage
- 30 GB
- Your own domain
- ✓ Yes
- End-to-end encryption
- No
- Company based in
- United States
- Your data is kept in
- Choice of region only on Business Plus and above
- Founded
- 2006
- Free trial
- 14 days free
- Funded by advertising
- Yes, or its parent company is
- Works in any mail app
- ✓ IMAP and SMTP
- Calendar and contacts
- ✓ Yes
- Aliases
- Yes
- Open-source apps
- No
- Sign up without ID
- No
- White label
- No
- Reader offer
- Offer 10% off your first year
£ price from the UK G-Cloud 15 price sheet, January 2026
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Trust score
Still being checked
My Trust score counts only things Google Workspace controls: reliability, abuse handling, email security, account security, transparency, fair dealing and support. It doesn't change the stars above. I'll show a score once I've had a week of my own checks. So far 2.3 points are confirmed. How it's worked out
Reliability 0 of 1
- Website uptime over 30 daysFrom my hourly checks. 99% or more scores in full, 98% scores 0.75, 97% scores 0.5 and 95% scores 0.25. Needs a week of checks.Not checked yet: 0/1
Abuse and reputation 0.25 of 0.75
- Mail servers kept off blocklists for 30 daysFrom my daily checks of the free blocklists. A listing only counts if I see it on two separate days.Not checked yet: 0/0.5
- Publishes a way to report abuse SourceYes: 0.25/0.25
Email security on its own domain 0.8 of 1
- DMARC set to rejectFrom my DNS checks of the domain its mail comes from.Yes: 0.4/0.4
- MTA-STS, so mail to it can't be quietly downgradedFrom my DNS checks.Yes: 0.2/0.2
- DNSSEC on its domainFrom my DNS checks.No: 0/0.2
- Website on HTTPS with HSTSFrom my website checks.Yes: 0.2/0.2
Account security 0.5 of 0.5
- Two-step sign-inYes: 0.25/0.25
- PasskeysYes: 0.25/0.25
Transparency 0.25 of 0.75
- A security contact (security.txt or a security page) SourceYes: 0.25/0.25
- A transparency report, or a published policy on government requestsNot checked yet: 0/0.25
- A published security audit, or a bug bountyNot checked yet: 0/0.25
Fair dealing 0.25 of 0.5
- You can export all your mail SourceYes: 0.25/0.25
- You can cancel onlineNot checked yet: 0/0.25
Support 0.25 of 0.5
- A way to reach a person, listed on its website SourceYes: 0.25/0.25
- A public status pageNot checked yet: 0/0.25
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Plans
4 plans
Business Starter
- Paying yearly
- About £5.90 per person a month, paid yearly
- Storage
- 30 GB per person, pooled
- People
- Up to 300
- Also includes
- Gmail with your own domain, Meet calls for up to 100 people
Business Standard
- Paying yearly
- About £11.80 per person a month, paid yearly
- Storage
- 2 TB per person, pooled
- People
- Up to 300
- Also includes
- Meet calls for up to 150 people, with recording, and shared drives
Business Plus
- Paying yearly
- About £18.40 per person a month, paid yearly
- Storage
- 5 TB per person, pooled
- People
- Up to 300
- Also includes
- Meet calls for up to 500 people, Vault and stronger security controls
Prices as listed when I checked, before any tax. Dollar and euro prices are what the provider charges. Tap a plan to see what's included.
Before you sign up
5 of 7 checked
- Taking your email with you
- Google asks you to save your users' email and documents before you cancel Their page ↗
- How to cancel
- An admin cancels the subscription in the Google Admin console. If you bought through a reseller, cancel with them Their page ↗
- Refunds
- Cancelling an Annual/Fixed-Term Plan early still charges the rest of the contract. On the Flexible Plan, charges stop when you cancel Their page ↗
- Minimum term
- Flexible Plan (pay monthly, stop any time) or Annual/Fixed-Term Plan Their page ↗
- Price when it renews
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- After you close your account
- After you cancel, your users' Workspace data is deleted and can't be restored Their page ↗
- Getting help
- Unknown Suggest an edit
Taken from Google Workspace's own pages. Policies change, so check their page before you pay.
Reviews
App Store 4.7 · Google Play 3.7
App Store (UK)
4.7 out of 5
From 221,106 ratings, Gmail - Email by Google, iPhone app, checked 31 October 2026
See the app on the App Store ↗Google Play (UK)
3.7 out of 5
From 14,507,083 ratings, Gmail, Android app, checked 31 October 2026
See the app on Google Play ↗
These are other people's ratings, taken from each site on the date shown. They don't change my stars, which come only from the facts.
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Features
15 of 22 offered
- Your own domain✓ Yes
- Works in any mail app (IMAP)✓ Yes
- Calendar and contacts✓ Yes
- Open sourceNo
- White label (resell as your own)No
- Two-step sign-in✓ Yes
- Passkeys✓ Yes
- PGP encryptionNo
- Password-protected email to anyoneNo
- Catch-all address✓ Yes
- Filters and rules✓ Yes
- Sieve filtersNo
- Auto-reply✓ Yes
- Scheduled send✓ Yes
- Undo send✓ Yes
- Import from another provider✓ Yes
- Mobile apps✓ Yes
- Desktop appNo
- POP3✓ Yes
- CalDAV and CardDAV sync✓ Yes
- JMAPNo
- Tor (onion) addressNo
- Pay with cash or cryptoNo
- Export all your mail✓ Yes
- API✓ Yes
- AI features✓ Yes
- Single sign-on (SSO)✓ Yes
Policies and contacts
4 of 5 found
- Acceptable use policy
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Terms of service
- policies.google.com/terms?hl=en_us
- Report abuse
- support.google.com/groups/answer/81275?hl=en_US
Track record
No known breaches
- Known data breaches
- ✓ None on record for google.com
From public sources, last read on 31 October 2026: breaches from Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0), which lists breaches of the provider's own site, not of every account that uses it; incidents as the provider reports them. None of this changes my stars.
Company and servers
Founded, owner, servers, uptime and blocklists
- Founded
- 2006
- Owned by
- Google (Wikidata ↗)
- Domain first registered
- 1997 (google.com)
- Website hosted in
- United States (Google LLC)
Only the website. Where your mail is kept is under Your data is kept in. - Mail servers
- United States (Google LLC)
smtp.google.com - Mail security records
- SPF soft (~all) · DMARC reject · MTA-STS ✓ · TLS reporting ✓
- Blocklists
- ✓ Not listed on the 12 lists I check, for 4 of its mail servers
- Name servers run by
- DNSSEC
- Not signed
- IPv6
- ✓ website and mail servers
- Website certificate
- Google Trust Services · TLS 1.3
- Home page answered in
- 261 ms · HTTPS with HSTS
My automatic checks last ran on 31 October 2026. Server countries come from their IP addresses (IP geolocation by DB-IP), and big providers often run servers in many countries. Blocklists are the free lists that answer public look-ups.
Google Workspace home page
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News
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Price history
1 price since 22 October 2026
Cheapest plan per month, in pounds. Prices charged in dollars or euros are converted at a rough rate. Every change I find is added here with its date.
- 22 October 2026 £5.90 per user a month, yearly, ex VAT, when I checked
No earlier prices yet. The history starts from my first check.
Sources
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