Pricing and billing
Google Workspace vs Microsoft 365 cost comparison
Both vendors’ list prices at the tier and seat count you pick, with the storage each seat actually gets for the same money.
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Entry is Workspace Starter against Microsoft Business Basic, mid is the two Standard plans, and top is Workspace Plus against Business Premium. The two vendors line up tier for tier at the same list price.
Result
10 seats over one month: $140.00 at list price from either vendor
Google Workspace Business Standard and Microsoft 365 Business Standard both list at $14.00 per user per month, so the totals match and the difference is in what each seat includes.
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Both list at $14.00 per user per month
Google Workspace Business Standard and Microsoft 365 Business Standard are published at the same figure, so 10 seats over one month comes to $140.00 either way. At this tier the decision is about what the money buys, not what it costs.
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The storage each one gives is not the same
Google Workspace Business Standard gives 2 TB per user. Microsoft 365 Business Standard gives 1 TB of OneDrive per user, plus a 100 GB mailbox and a 50 GB archive. Same price, two different allowances, and the one that matters is whichever your customer's staff actually fill up.
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The two figures are not billed on the same terms
Google publishes $14.00 billed monthly. Microsoft publishes $14.00 per user per month paid yearly, on an annual commitment, so a subscription a reseller can cancel month to month costs more than the figure in this table. There is no sourced month-to-month figure to put here, so this page does not guess one.
Google Workspace
- Plan
- Google Workspace Business Standard
- Price per seat, one month
- $14.00
- Seats
- 10
- Total, one month
- $140.00
Microsoft 365
- Plan
- Microsoft 365 Business Standard
- Price per seat, one month
- $14.00
- Seats
- 10
- Total, one month
- $140.00
List prices, read 13 October 2026
| Plan | Per seat / month | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Google Workspace Business Starter | $7.00 | workspace.google.com |
| Microsoft 365 Business Basic | $7.00 | www.microsoft.com |
| Google Workspace Business Standard | $14.00 | workspace.google.com |
| Microsoft 365 Business Standard | $14.00 | www.microsoft.com |
| Google Workspace Business Plus | $22.00 | workspace.google.com |
| Microsoft 365 Business Premium | $22.00 | www.microsoft.com |
Every figure here was read on 13 October 2026. Google's prices are billed monthly; Microsoft's are the annual-commitment price paid yearly, so the two columns are not quoted on the same terms. Each row links to the page its own price came from - scroll the table sideways on a narrow screen to reach that column - and both pages are listed in full under Sources.
What the money buys at this tier
At $14.00 a user Workspace Standard carries 2 TB per user as one pool of Drive and Gmail space, while Business Standard carries 1 TB of OneDrive per user with the 100 GB mailbox and its 50 GB archive counted separately. Workspace is the larger single number; Microsoft keeps mail out of the file allowance, so which one goes further depends on whether a staff member hoards files or mail.
ResellerHQ resells both, so this is not a question a reseller has to answer once and live with: the same dashboard provisions a Workspace seat and a Microsoft 365 seat, and a customer who wants one of each is still one customer to bill.
- List prices change, and these were read from each vendor's own page on 13 October 2026 - the date is on the table and in Sources so a figure that has moved since can be told apart from one that was always wrong.
- These are published list prices only. A reseller buys at a wholesale rate under their own agreement, and any volume, non-profit or education discount is outside what this page can see.
- Cost is the only thing being compared. Nothing here says which product a customer’s staff can actually work in, how long a migration between the two would take, or what that migration would cost.
What this is
A Google Workspace vs Microsoft 365 cost comparison runs out of numbers quickly, because at every business tier the two vendors publish the same per-user figure: $7, $14 and $22 a month. This tool does the seat arithmetic anyway, and then spends its space on the part that actually differs - what a seat includes at that price, and which of the two figures is quoted on an annual commitment.
Three tiers line up almost exactly. Workspace Business Starter sits against Microsoft 365 Business Basic at $7 a user a month, Business Standard against Business Standard at $14, and Business Plus against Business Premium at $22. Multiplying by a seat count tells you the bill; it does not tell you which one to sell.
The entry tier is where the same $7 buys the most different things. Workspace Starter allows 30 GB pooled per person across Gmail and Drive, one allowance for mail and files together. Business Basic allows a 100 GB mailbox and 1 TB of OneDrive, counted apart from each other, so a person who hoards attachments does not run out of room for documents.
Pricing what you resell: cost, markup and margin (/blog/pricing-what-you-resell-cost-markup-and-margin) reads the same list prices on the day it was written, dated separately from the guide itself, because the gap between these two vendors is read on the day you check it, not fixed for good.
How to read the result
The two fact blocks are the bill: the plan, the per-seat figure over the term chosen, the seat count and the total. They match, every time, because the list prices match - that is the finding, not a rounding coincidence.
The table underneath is the whole price list with the date each figure was read and the host it was read from, so a number can be checked against its own source rather than taken on trust. The text block is the part the totals cannot show: the storage and feature difference at the tier you picked.
Common mistakes
What goes wrong most often, and how to tell.
- Comparing a monthly price against an annual-commitment priceGoogle publishes its per-user figure billed monthly; Microsoft’s published figure is the annual-commitment rate paid yearly. Quoting the two as if they were the same deal understates what a Microsoft subscription a customer can cancel next month actually costs, which is a margin surprise rather than a pricing one.
- Reading pooled storage as if it were per-user storageA pooled allowance is shared: one person filling it leaves less for everyone covered by the pool, and a per-user allowance does not behave that way at all. Two storage numbers of the same size are not the same promise to a customer whose team has one heavy user.
- Treating the list price as the reseller priceWhat a customer pays and what a reseller pays are two different numbers under two different agreements. This page compares published list prices because those are the figures with a public source; the wholesale rate that decides your margin is in your own contract.
- Deciding on storage when the tier is really about securityAt the top tier the gap stops being about gigabytes: Business Premium is where Microsoft puts its device management and security tooling, and Business Plus is where Google puts its vault and endpoint controls. A comparison that only counts terabytes picks the wrong plan at $22.
Questions
What people ask about this tool.
- At the business tiers, no: both are published at $7, $14 and $22 per user per month for their entry, mid and top plans. The real difference is that Microsoft’s figure is the annual-commitment price paid yearly, so a month-to-month Microsoft subscription costs more than the published number while Google’s is already a monthly price.
- Workspace gives 30 GB pooled per person on Starter, 2 TB per user on Standard and 5 TB per user on Business Plus. Microsoft gives 1 TB of OneDrive per user on all three business plans, plus a 100 GB mailbox with a 50 GB archive on Basic and Standard and an archive that grows to 1.5 TB on Premium.
- Because the list prices are the same figure at each tier, and the only arithmetic in a seat bill is the rate times the seats times the months. When two vendors publish an identical rate, a cost comparison has to turn into a comparison of what the rate includes, which is what the rest of this page does.
- Yes, and through ResellerHQ it is the same dashboard for both: a customer who wants Workspace for the office and a Microsoft 365 seat for one finance user is still one customer with one invoice, so the choice does not have to be made once for the whole book.
Sources
Every fixed value here comes from the provider’s own documentation. These pages change, so each says the day it was last read.
- Google, “Google Workspace pricing” read 13 October 2026
- Microsoft, “Microsoft 365 pricing and packaging updates” read 13 October 2026
- Microsoft, “OneDrive service description” read 13 October 2026
- Microsoft, “Exchange Online limits” read 13 October 2026
Use it from the API
The same check, as one request.