Google Workspace pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Google Workspace (workspace.google.com) is a business email & office suite. Per user per month; the Flexible (monthly) plan costs about 20% more than the annual commitment.. No free plan.
What Google Workspace costs
- 1 user: $8.40/mo (Business Starter Flexible $8.40/user/mo (annual commitment $7). The pricing page shows annual prices only.)
- 10 users: $84/mo (Business Starter Flexible $8.40/user x 10)
- 10 users + office: $84/mo (Business Starter includes Docs, Sheets and Slides: $8.40/user x 10)
Plan compared: Business Starter (Flexible plan). Prices are USD per month on month-to-month billing for one person with email on their own domain (the headline), a 10-person team with their own mailboxes, and 10 people editing docs, sheets and slides. Regular prices without first-year promos; a product that does not do a job shows no price for it.
Google Workspace price hikes
- Google Workspace raised Business prices up to 22% with bundled Gemini · Jan 16, 2025
Business Starter went from $7.20 to $8.40 per user on Flexible and from $6 to $7 on annual; Standard to $16.80/$14 and Plus to $26.40/$22, with Gemini AI now included. - Google Workspace raised monthly Flexible prices by 20% · Mar 14, 2023
Flexible (month-to-month) prices rose from $6/$12/$18 to $7.20/$14.40/$21.60 per user for Business Starter/Standard/Plus. Annual-commitment prices stayed at $6/$12/$18.
Cheaper alternatives to Google Workspace
At 1 user, Google Workspace costs $8.40/mo. 1 business email & office suite costs less:
- Tuta: $4.21/mo (Revolutionary (monthly billing))
Google Workspace alternatives: 2 business email & office suites compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Jan 16, 2025 · Price increase: Business Starter went from $7.20 to $8.40 per user on Flexible and from $6 to $7 on annual; Standard to $16.80/$14 and Plus to $26.40/$22, with Gemini AI now included.
- Mar 14, 2023 · Price increase: Flexible (month-to-month) prices rose from $6/$12/$18 to $7.20/$14.40/$21.60 per user for Business Starter/Standard/Plus. Annual-commitment prices stayed at $6/$12/$18.
Sources
Pricing page: workspace.google.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. The official pricing page (checked 2026-10-17) shows the annual prices $7/$14/$22, unchanged since 2025. Flexible prices of $8.40/$16.80/$26.40 come from Google's 2025 announcement as reported by 9to5Google and from 2026 third-party reviews; the page does not show them directly. PricingSaaS logs only changes to the intro promotions in 2026.