Google Meet pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Google Meet (meet.google.com) is a video meeting tool. Free with any Google Account; paid per user per month through Google Workspace plans, which include Meet.. Free plan: Free with any Google Account: up to 100 participants, group meetings capped at 60 minutes; 1:1 and mobile calls have no time limit..
What Google Meet costs
- 1 host: $8.40/mo (Starter month-to-month at $8.40 per user per month. Google's pricing page shows Starter only on a 1-year commitment at $7.00 billed monthly, with no month-to-month figure; $8.40 is Geekflare's 'Monthly pricing' and equals $7.00 x 1.2. Starter meets the rules: 100 participants, meetings up to 24 hours, no meeting cap listed, no guest charge listed. Screen sharing is not itemized on the page, so it is assumed included. The free plan fails rule 2 (60-minute group meetings). The Oct 31 2026 to Jan 31 2027 promo ($5.60) is excluded.)
- 10 hosts: $84/mo (10 users x $8.40 = $84.00 per month, Starter month-to-month (within the 300-user plan cap). On the 1-year commitment it would be 10 x $7.00 = $70.00.)
Plan compared: Google Workspace Starter, month-to-month billing, one user. Monthly price on monthly billing of the cheapest plan (free plans count) that lets a host run unlimited group meetings of up to 25 participants lasting up to 90 minutes, with guests joining free; annual-only plans are divided by 12.
What Google Meet does
Core: Group video meetings, Join from browser, Calendar integration.
Important: Large meeting capacity, Free group meetings, Cloud recording, Live captions and transcripts, AI meeting assistant (partly), Live session polls and Q&A, Team chat and phone, Phone dial-in and room systems, Desktop and mobile apps (partly), Encryption and compliance (partly).
Also has: Built-in whiteboard (partly), Live webinar hosting (partly).
Google Meet price hikes
No price hikes on record for Google Meet.
Alternatives to Google Meet
Google Meet is the cheapest video meeting tool we track at 1 host. The others:
Google Meet alternatives: 2 video meeting tools compared, at every size.
Sources
Pricing page: workspace.google.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Google's pricing page (read 2026-10-17) shows Starter only on a 1-year commitment at $7.00, billed monthly; the $8.40 month-to-month price comes from Geekflare and fits the 1.2x monthly premium. Hike dates come from UC Today (20%, Feb 2023) and Geekflare (16.67%, Feb 28 2024), both third-party. Google Workspace price changes are listed on the Google Workspace page, not repeated here.