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Google Workspace pricing 2026: what does each plan cost per user?

Published 2026-10-28 · Researched and price-checked on official sources

Google Workspace pricing is $7 per user per month for Business Starter, $14 for Business Standard and $22 for Business Plus on the annual commitment, before tax. Google's pricing page also lists a 50% discount on all three tiers from November 10, 2026 through February 10, 2027.

Key facts

What matters

$7, $14 and $22 per user per month are the annual-commitment prices for Starter, Standard and Plus, and Google labels that billing option 16% cheaper than paying monthly.
The 50% discount window runs November 10, 2026 to February 10, 2027, cutting the three tiers to $3.50, $7 and $11 per user per month.
A ten-person team on Starter pays $840 over twelve months at list, or $735 with the three discounted months, a 12.5% saving that holds at any headcount.
The discount footnote caps introductory pricing at the first 20 users for 12 months, and Starter, Standard and Plus stop at 300 users.
If you only need custom-domain email, Fastmail Standard is $6 per user per month monthly or $5 on yearly billing, and Hostinger's email Starter drops to $0.39 per mailbox per month on a 48-month prepay.

Google Workspace pricing at a glance

Google sells three business plans, all priced per user per month with a one-year commitment: Business Starter at $7.00, Business Standard at $14.00 and Business Plus at $22.00. Prices are in USD and exclude tax. Google bills them monthly even though the commitment runs for a year, and there is no minimum seat count.

The figures below were read from Google's own pricing page on October 28, 2026. The discounted column is the rate that page lists for the November 10, 2026 to February 10, 2027 window, not a rate you can get today. Enterprise plans appear on the same page without public prices, so the table covers the three plans a small business can buy without a sales call.

What each Google Workspace tier includes

Business Starter, $7.00: 30 GB of pooled storage per person, custom-domain email, Gemini in Gmail, video meetings for 100 participants, Google Vids and the standard admin controls.
Business Standard, $14.00: everything in Starter plus 2 TB of pooled storage (Google calls it 65x Starter), custom email layouts and mail merge, Gemini across Gmail, Docs and Meet, meeting recording and noise cancellation for 150 participants, appointment booking, eSignature and the Workspace Migrate tool.
Business Plus, $22.00: everything in Standard plus 5 TB (2.5x Standard), eDiscovery, attendance tracking for meetings up to 500 participants, Vault retention and search, Secure LDAP and advanced endpoint management.

Storage is pooled across the organisation rather than locked to each mailbox, so one person archiving years of attachments eats into everyone else's allowance. That matters most on Starter, where 30 GB per user sounds generous until three people stop deleting anything.

The 50% discount, and what it is worth over 12 months

Google's page shows a price timeline instead of one flat number. For each tier it lists 50% off from November 10, 2026 to February 10, 2027, then the list price from February 10, 2027 onward: $3.50 then $7.00 on Starter, $7.00 then $14.00 on Standard, $11.00 then $22.00 on Plus.

The banner above the plans says "Get up to 50% off your first 3 months", and a footnote adds two limits that the banner leaves out: the introductory price covers only the first 20 users added, and standard pricing applies to all users after 12 months. The two statements do not line up perfectly, so treat the discount as real but confirm the term in checkout before you size a team around it. A sign-up before November 10 also falls outside the discounted window shown on the page.

Here is what the promotion actually changes. Ten users on Business Starter cost $70 per month at list, or $840 a year. With three months at $3.50 and nine at $7.00 the first year comes to $735, a saving of $105. The same headcount costs $140 per month and $1,680 a year on Standard, or $1,470 with the discount, and $220 per month and $2,640 a year on Plus, or $2,310 with the discount.

The percentage never moves: three discounted months out of twelve is 12.5% off a year, whether you run five mailboxes or twenty-five. At 25 seats the saving on Starter is $262.50, at five seats it is $52.50. The promotion does not shift a team from one tier to another, so pick the plan on features and treat the discount as a rebate.

One timing wrinkle is unresolved on the page: the discounted rate itself lasts three months, but Google does not state whether those three months follow your sign-up date or the calendar window. A team signing up in late January lands in a different position from one signing up in mid-November, so the checkout summary is the only reliable quote.

Annual commitment versus paying month to month

Google labels the annual option "Save 16% with 1 year commitment" and collects it monthly. The flexible option costs more per user, and the default view of the pricing page does not print a flexible rate, so check the configurator before assuming the gap is trivial.

Two limits are worth knowing before you commit. Google caps Starter, Standard and Plus at 300 users; beyond that you land on Enterprise pricing that the page does not publish. Every plan also includes a 14-day trial, which is long enough for a small team to test the admin console and see how fast the pooled storage fills.

Cheaper options if you only need business email

If the office suite is not the point and you mainly need custom-domain mailboxes, Google's per-user price is hard to defend. Fastmail's cheapest business plan is Basic at $4 per user per month on monthly billing and $3 on yearly billing, but its feature list mentions only shared addresses such as support@mybiz.com, not a domain of your own. Custom business addresses with a domain first appear on Standard, at $6 monthly or $5 yearly, which is $60 per user for twelve months. Professional is $10 monthly or $9 yearly with 150 GB per user and retention built for compliance.

Hostinger goes lower on long prepay terms. Its email Starter plan is advertised at $0.39 per mailbox per month on a 48-month term, so you pay $18.72 upfront per mailbox, and it renews at $1.59 per mailbox per month for the same term. Each Starter mailbox carries 5 GB of storage, which is the real constraint at that price.

Hostinger's headline also hides a step-up at renewal: $0.39 per mailbox per month becomes $1.59 for the next 48-month term. At $19.08 per mailbox per year it is still the cheapest option here, but it is not the number on the banner.

Put the three next to each other at ten mailboxes. Google Starter is $735 in year one with the promotion and $840 after it. Fastmail Standard is $600 a year at the yearly rate. Hostinger works out to $46.80 a year across a 48-month term, paid entirely upfront. The cheap mailbox only makes sense if the team already has somewhere else to put files and does not need Docs, Meet or Vault; for a company using Gmail as its document store, it is a downgrade disguised as a saving.

Which plan fits which team

Storage decides more upgrades than features do. Ten users on Starter pool 300 GB between them. The same ten users on Standard pool about 20 TB, because the per-user allowance jumps from 30 GB to 2 TB. At ten seats that jump costs $70 more per month, or $840 a year, and it also buys meeting recording, mail merge and eSignature. If your team stores video, design files or client archives in Drive, Starter's pool is the plan that breaks first.

Starter still suits teams that mostly send email, join meetings and share links, and that can live inside 30 GB per person. Standard earns its extra $7 per user when you need recording, mail merge for outreach, eSignature or shared storage above 30 GB per person. Plus is a compliance purchase more than a productivity one: eDiscovery, Vault and Secure LDAP are the reasons to pay $22 instead of $14, and they matter to regulated teams that must retain mail for legal reasons.

All three plans bundle Google's own apps, not Microsoft Office. If your documents and macros live in Office, this is a migration decision before it is a mailbox decision, and the per-user price is the smaller part of the bill.

At a glance

Plan	Annual commitment	Nov 10, 2026 to Feb 10, 2027	Pooled storage per user
Business Starter	$7.00	$3.50	30 GB
Business Standard	$14.00	$7.00	2 TB
Business Plus	$22.00	$11.00	5 TB

Google Workspace prices per user per month, USD, excluding tax. Verified on the official pricing page, October 28, 2026.

FAQ

Is Google Workspace free?

No. Google offers a 14-day trial on all three business plans, then Business Starter costs $7.00 per user per month on the annual commitment. There is no free tier for custom-domain email.

How much does Google Workspace cost for 10 users?

At list prices, ten users cost $70 per month on Business Starter, $140 on Standard and $220 on Plus, which is $840, $1,680 and $2,640 for a year. Three months at 50% off cuts the first year to $735, $1,470 and $2,310.

Does Google Workspace pricing include tax?

No. Google states that the per-user price does not include tax and that all prices are in USD. Sales tax or VAT is added at checkout based on your billing country.