Google Workspace Individual launched in June 2021, with a few premium Meet meeting and Google Calendar appointment features. Since then new premium features have been added for Meet, Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Chat.
It also
comes with live (human) support.
And with this week’s announcement, Workspace Individual will also include 1 TB of storage to use across Drive, Gmail, Photos and the rest of your Google account.
And with this week’s announcement, Workspace Individual will also include 1 TB of storage to use across Drive, Gmail, Photos and the rest of your Google account.
You can also get some premium Google Meet meeting features with a Google One (2TB+) subscription in some countries. Which should you subscribe to? Read on for details.
Get a quick overview of this information in short video form.
Read on for more details about the features included with Google Workspace Individual and Google One premium subscriptions.
Read on for more details about the features included with Google Workspace Individual and Google One premium subscriptions.
How much does Google Workspace Individual cost?
There is a 14 day free trial period, so you can try out the features. But with this announcement, the price is going up.The new price of $9.99 US per month goes
into effect in November 2022. I switched to the $99.99 annual plan, which works out
to $8.33 per month. I find that reasonable for the available features.
If you try it and it doesn't seem worth it to you, you cancel your Workspace Individual subscription. If you do that, you just go back to your regular free personal Google account features.
If you try it and it doesn't seem worth it to you, you cancel your Workspace Individual subscription. If you do that, you just go back to your regular free personal Google account features.
This is currently the same price as Google One with 2 TB storage.
Google Workspace Individual subscribers should be getting an email with more information as it rolls out.
It isn’t clear if this will be shareable with a family group, like storage with a Google One subscription, or if this will add to an existing Google One subscription storage plan. (I did contact support, and they don’t know yet.)
More inclusive meetings
Storage with Google Workspace Individual
Google Workspace Individual accounts will include 1 TB storage that can be used for Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. This is in addition to the 15 GB of storage that comes with your Google account.Google Workspace Individual subscribers should be getting an email with more information as it rolls out.
It isn’t clear if this will be shareable with a family group, like storage with a Google One subscription, or if this will add to an existing Google One subscription storage plan. (I did contact support, and they don’t know yet.)
Google Meet Premium Features with Google Workspace Individual
Google Workspace Individual subscribers have access to a number of premium features for Google Meet meetings:More inclusive meetings
- Group meetings longer than 60 minutes (up to 24 hours)
- New! Meetings with up to 150 participants
- Participants can join without being signed into a Google account
- Phone numbers for participants to dial in to the meeting
- Dial out from the meeting to phone numbers in the US and Canada
- Add multiple co-hosts
- Control Google Slides presentations from inside the meeting
- Annotate presentations from inside the meeting
- Breakout rooms
- Polls
- Record your meeting (video file and in-meeting chat file)
- Live stream to YouTube
- New! Record meeting Transcripts
- Noise cancellation to filter out non-speaking sounds
- Cloud based effects processing to save battery and processor power
- Automatic video framing
- 1080p video
Google Calendar Features with Google Workspace Individual
Make it easy for people to set up appointments with you:- Create multiple online booking pages for online or offline appointments by setting up an appointment schedule (note: free accounts can create a single booking page)
- Add an appointment schedule button or embed the booking page on your website
- Automatic email reminders for people who book an appointment
- Require payments for appointments
- Require email verification to prevent spam booking
Gmail Features with Google Workspace Individual
Send professional-looking messages, marketing emails and newsletters:- Create branded emails with customized layouts
- Multi-send for marketing emails and newsletters, which lets you message up to 1500 recipients individual recipients at a time
- Mail merge to personalize your multi-send messages
Google Docs features with Google Workspace Individual
- Sign documents in Google Docs with eSignature. This is currently in beta, and pretty basic, with more features available in the future. (August 2023: still in beta, but now there is native integration with Google Docs).
Google Chat features with Google Workspace Individual
New starting in April 2024: Send voice messages in Google Chat, with transcripts. Learn more.
New starting in June 2024: You can create a link to a Google Chat Space. People who click the link can ask to join that Space. Learn more.
Should you choose Google Workspace Individual or Google One Premium for Google Workspace features?
In some countries you can get advanced Google Workspace features on your personal Google account by subscribing to Google One with at least 2 TB storage instead of Workspace Individual.Google Workspace Individual and Google One include different features, so one may suit your needs better than the other. Currently Google One Google Workspace benefits only includes Google Meet features.
As of this writing, both Workspace Individual and Google One with 2 TB storage are $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year in the United States.
Sources:
Google One Help Center: Use Google Workspace premium features on your Google Meet video calls
Google One Help Center: Use Google Workspace premium features on your Google Meet video calls
Note that the VPN through Google One was removed in 2024.
Google Meet Help Center: Premium Meet features for Google Workspace & Google One users
Availability of Google Workspace Individual and Google One Google Workspace benefits
Google Workspace Individual and Google One with Google Workspace benefits are now available in 24 countries.Update May 2023: Google Workspace Individual and Google One Premium with Workspace features is now available in 52 countries. The lists have been updated below.
North America
North America
- Canada
- Mexico
- United States
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Peru
- Austria
- Belgium
- Croatia
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Türkiye
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Hong Kong SAR China
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Malaysia
- New Zealand
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Vietnam
Middle East and North Africa
- Egypt
- Israel
- Morocco
- Saudi Arabia
- United Arab Emirates
Africa
- Nigeria
- South Africa
I expect more countries will be added in the future.
Learn more
- Google Workspace Individual Help Center: Learn about Google Workspace Individual
- Subcribe to Google Workspace Individual
Last update: October 7, 2024
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