Available only in India
If you have a small business that needs essential business tools at an affordable price, sign up for Google Workspace Business Base edition. With Business Base, you get a custom business email address, cloud storage, video meetings, and more to help your business operate smoothly and professionally.
Review features
Business Base supports up to 20 users and 20 GB of pooled cloud storage per user. If your Organization needs more users or advanced features, consider upgrading to a different Business edition.
Use these tables to review features for the Business Base edition.
| Suite wide | Service specific |
|---|---|
Service availability
| Business Base | |
|---|---|
| Chat & chat spaces | ✔ |
| Drive storage & Docs editors | ✔ |
| Video conferencing with Meet | ✔ |
| Directory management | ✔ |
| Sites | ✔ |
| Tasks | ✔ |
| Notetaking with Keep | ✔ |
| Colab to collaboratively develop data science & machine learning models (as an additional Google service, no user licenses required) | ✔ |
| Gemini app | ✔ |
| Gmail & Calendar | ✔ |
| Groups for Business | ✔ |
| AppSheet Core | ✔ |
| Additional Google services | ✔ |
| Colab Pro & Colab Pro+ (add-on) | ✔ |
| Google Cloud Search for internal search & assist (across Google services, only) |
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| Google Vault for eDiscovery & information governance | |
| Google Vids | |
| Google Workspace Studio |
Usage & support
| Business Base | |
|---|---|
| Number of users | 1–20 |
| Email, document, photo storage per user | 20 GB pooled |
| Purchase additional pooled storage | ✔ |
| 99.9% uptime guarantee | ✔ |
| Standard support | ✔ |
User access options
| Business Base | |
|---|---|
| Supported browsers | ✔ |
| Access across devices (computers, mobile phones, tablets) | ✔ |
| Offline access | ✔ |
| Microsoft Outlook | ✔ |
| IMAP & POP mail clients | ✔ |
Migration products
Reports & monitoring
| Business Base | |
|---|---|
| Reports summarizing highlights on metrics & trends | ✔ |
| Apps-usage reports (organization wide) | ✔ |
User & admin-specific activity reports: |
✔ |
| Carbon footprint report | ✔ |
| Audit & investigation tool Log event reporting (See log events below) |
✔ |
| Drive DLP data protection insights report | |
| Google Meet attendance reports | |
| Log-event exports to Google Security Operations | |
| Export reports to BigQuery | |
| VirusTotal reports | |
| Work Insights reports for users |
Security & data management
Security policies & data protection
Security dashboards & investigation tools
| Business Base | |
|---|---|
| Alert center: Notifications of potential security issues | ✔ |
| Audit & investigation tool Log event reporting (See specific log events below) |
✔ |
|
Security investigation tool |
|
| Security dashboard reports | |
| Security health page |
Log events of user & admin activity
Endpoint management
Device security settings
| Business Base | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management | |||
| Basic password enforcement (mobile) | ✔ | ||
| Google Credential Provider for Windows (standalone) | ✔ | ||
| Network management (ChromeOS, meeting room hardware) |
✔ | ||
| Advanced endpoint management | |||
| Strong passcode enforcement | |||
| Network management (mobile) | |||
| Mobile device security policies | |||
| Android work profiles | |||
| Enterprise endpoint management | |||
| iOS data protection | |||
| Mobile device certificates | |||
| Context-Aware Access | |||
Device management
| Business Base | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management | |||
| Basic mobile device management | ✔ | ||
| Fundamental management for computers | ✔ | ||
| Endpoint verification | ✔ | ||
| Company-owned device inventory (endpoints) | ✔ | ||
| Remote account sign-out | ✔ | ||
| Remote account wipe (mobile) | ✔ | ||
| Block devices | ✔ | ||
| Drive for desktop | ✔ | ||
| Advanced endpoint management | |||
| Advanced mobile management | |||
| Zero-touch enrollment for Android devices | |||
| Admin approval of devices | |||
| Remote device wipe | |||
| Windows device management | |||
| Enterprise endpoint management | |||
| Company-owned device inventory (Android) | |||
| Company-owned device inventory (iOS) | |||
| Mobile device management rules | |||
| BeyondCorp Alliance partner integrations | |||
Mobile app management
| Business Base | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management | |||
| Public & private app management (Android) | ✔ | ||
| Advanced endpoint management | |||
| Public app management (iOS) | |||
| Android app runtime permissions | |||
| Selectively distribute mobile apps to users | |||
| Publish private Android web apps | |||
| Managed Android app settings configurations | |||
| Enterprise endpoint management | |||
| Private iOS app management | |||
Device details
| Business Base | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management | |||
| Basic device details (mobile) | ✔ | ||
| Basic endpoint details (computer & smart home devices) |
✔ | ||
| Basic device reports (Chrome & mobile) | ✔ | ||
| Advanced endpoint management | |||
| Advanced device reports (mobile) | |||
| Enterprise endpoint management | |||
| Device log events | |||
3rd-party app integration
Gemini features
| Business Base | |
|---|---|
| Gemini app | Basic access to features & models |
| Audio Overviews | Up to 3 audio overviews per day |
| Gemini Notebook | Basic access |
Gmail
Email addresses & mailing lists
| Business Base | |
|---|---|
| Your email address (you@yourcompany.com) | ✔ |
| Additional addresses per user (sales@yourcompany.com) | ✔ |
| Addresses at multiple domains (you@company2.com) | ✔ |
| Admin-controlled mailing lists | ✔ |
| User-controlled mailing lists | ✔ |
| Personalized email campaigns with mail merge |
Email usage & limits
| Business Base | |
|---|---|
| Email storage (shared with documents & photos) | 20 GB |
| Attachment size limit (sending) | 25 MB |
| Attachment size limit (receiving) | 50 MB |
| Recipients per message (To, Cc, Bcc fields combined) | 2,000 (500 external) |
| Unique recipients per day (Each unique address counts once.) |
3,000 (2,000 external, 500 external for trial accounts) |
Email security & compliance
| Business Starter | |
|---|---|
| Junk email filtering & virus blocking | ✔ |
| No Gmail ads | ✔ |
| Custom filtering & content policies | ✔ |
| Email & chat retention policies | ✔ |
| Allow other IP addresses | ✔ |
| User-managed denylists | ✔ |
| Enforced-footers for compliance | ✔ |
| Option to disable IMAP & POP access | ✔ |
| Advanced phishing & malware protection | ✔ |
| Advanced email attachment scanning (Security Sandbox) | |
| Vault for email/IM eDiscovery & archiving |
Advanced email delivery options
| Business Base | |
|---|---|
| Catch-all address | ✔ |
| Email routing options for split & dual delivery | ✔ |
| Inbound mail gateway | ✔ |
| Outbound gateway (for entire organization) | ✔ |
| Per-user outbound gateway (for alternative From: addresses) | ✔ |
| Receive mail from multiple POP addresses | ✔ |
Drive & Docs editors
* Users can comment on and edit files that are directly shared with them from shared drives.
Google Meet
| Business Base | |
|---|---|
| Maximum meeting length | 24 hours |
| Maximum number of participants per meeting | 100 |
| External participants | ✔ |
| Secure meetings | ✔ |
| Presentations & screen sharing | ✔ |
| Meet app for iOS & Android | ✔ |
| Dial in (U.S. & international numbers)* | ✔ |
| Hand raising | ✔ |
| Reactions | ✔ |
| Meet eCDN | ✔ |
| Add Meet video to Microsoft Outlook | ✔ |
| Raise a room's hand using Meet hardware | ✔ |
| Meet Media API | ✔ |
| Noise cancellation | |
| Breakout rooms | |
| Record meetings & save them to Drive | |
| Polls | |
| Q&A | |
| Add co-hosts to meetings | |
| Control Slides presentations | |
| Transcribe meetings & save them to Drive | |
| Set recording quality for screen shares | |
| Waiting rooms in Meet | |
| Gemini AI features in Meet | |
| Track attendance (requires 2 or more attendees) | |
| Automatic meeting recording, transcripts, & notes |
* This feature is powered by Google Voice.
Google Chat
Groups & Groups for Business
| Business Base | |
|---|---|
| Email list groups | ✔ |
| Groups for content sharing & calendar invitations | ✔ |
| Collaborative inboxes & message moderation | ✔ |
| User managed groups | ✔ |
| Configuration groups that don't affect organizational structure | ✔ |
| View members of a nested group* | ✔ |
| Inspect group membership* | ✔ |
| Target audience groups (preset sharing options) |
* This feature requires Cloud Identity Premium.
Google Calendar
* Only basic functionality and no premium features are supported. Only one booking page.
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