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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Meet

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Meet, formerly Hangouts Meet, replaces the former Google Hangouts as the company's G Suite integrated web conferencing tool, allowing users to join meetings directly from a Calendar event or email invite from a computer, phone, or conference room. G Suite's Enterprise edition also creates a dial-in phone number for each meeting, as an additional convenience.

    $6

    per month

    Google Workspace for Education

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Workspace for Education includes Google products like Classroom, Meet, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides, to create an online ecosystem for learning. The Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals edition is available at no per student cost to available institutions.

    $3

    per month

    Pricing
    Google MeetGoogle Workspace for Education
    Editions & Modules
    Google Workspace - Business Starter
    $6
    per month
    Google Workspace - Business Standard
    $12
    per month
    Google Workspace - Business Plus
    $18
    per month
    Google Workspace for Education Standard
    $3.00
    per student, per year
    Teaching and Learning Upgrade
    $4
    per month per license
    Google Workspace for Education Plus
    $5.00
    per student, per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google MeetGoogle Workspace for Education
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
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    Community Pulse
    Google MeetGoogle Workspace for Education
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    64 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    60 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    55 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    41 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    55 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Google MeetGoogle Workspace for Education
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Google Meet and Google Workspace for Education
    Feature
    Google Meet
    8.8
    60 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Google Workspace for Education
    -
    Ratings
    High quality audio8.760 Ratings00 Ratings
    High quality video8.460 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low bandwidth requirements8.943 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile support9.354 Ratings00 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Google Meet and Google Workspace for Education
    Feature
    Google Meet
    8.9
    60 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Google Workspace for Education
    -
    Ratings
    Desktop sharing8.660 Ratings00 Ratings
    Whiteboards9.240 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Google Meet and Google Workspace for Education
    Feature
    Google Meet
    8.5
    58 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Google Workspace for Education
    -
    Ratings
    Calendar integration9.557 Ratings00 Ratings
    Meeting initiation8.857 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with social media6.325 Ratings00 Ratings
    Record meetings / events8.946 Ratings00 Ratings
    Slideshows8.847 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Google Meet and Google Workspace for Education
    Feature
    Google Meet
    8.4
    57 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Google Workspace for Education
    -
    Ratings
    Live chat8.855 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience polling8.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    Q&A8.439 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Google Meet and Google Workspace for Education
    Feature
    Google Meet
    9.2
    50 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Google Workspace for Education
    -
    Ratings
    User authentication9.547 Ratings00 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions9.145 Ratings00 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list8.936 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Google MeetGoogle Workspace for Education
    Small Businesses
    ClickMeeting
    Score9.5 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    JioMeet
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Class for Web
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Webex Meetings
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Class for Web
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google MeetGoogle Workspace for Education
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (65 ratings)
    9.5
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (18 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google MeetGoogle Workspace for Education
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Well suited for both our workplace and virtual meetings, especially when people are not in one place. It is also more appropriate with audio, visual, and captions. It is also more appropriate to send a recording to your drive for reference on parts that a host may not have captured.
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    Google
    Google [Workspace for Education (formerly G Suite for Education)] is pretty darn good [at] meeting the needs for educators and students. It is not designed to run your business office, transportation group, or lunch services. It doesn't need to be good at those. Focus on teachers and students. They do that really, really well. The Google folks continue to add features that help serve teacher and students. For example, they have really done a good job of adding Google Meet features such as polling and breakout rooms. Those features required a paid subscription to Workspace, but it makes sense since those features compete with Zoom, which requires a subscription for those services.
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    Pros
    Google
    • It allows multiple people to join in a meeting.
    • The admin can change the role and make anyone as admin of the current session.
    • Even if the meeting gets disconnected due to network in the admin's side error still it remains running on the user's side.
    • Multiple people can share screen together at the same time.
    • The admin can make the meeting open to all so that every time someone joins the admin does not have to allow them one by one. Once it's open, all can join without permission of the admin.
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    Google
    • Email: The best email experience, period. It's fast, has the best mobile apps and tons of addons that extend it.
    • Office suite: The Google editors might not have all the features of their MS Office counterparts, but they have most of them and the apps are surprisingly performant.
    • Domain management: The Google Admin Console, coupled with the GAM command line tool, is very powerful, easy to use and simplifies any admin's work.
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    Cons
    Google
    • One major one — I always say that we cannot send attachments during the meeting. Teams has that, so I believe Google should add that as well. Because you can have the conversation in the messages, but you can’t provide a file. So let’s say I have a technical conversation with someone, and I want to share a document, like an architecture diagram — I cannot send it. We have to use Gmail or Drive for that. It can be integrated for sure, so that’s an improvement that definitely can be done.
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    Google
    • The admin console regularly feel sluggish
    • Require third party tools to make changes to bulk devices
    • Support could be a little better
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    This app is still having a lot of redundant features as compared to other industry apps such as Zoom and Webex which offers much more on the functionality side along with the option to have greater user access control to the admin/host of the meetings. A sense of interaction is always found to be missing in Google meet which can be easily adopted in the Zoom
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Google
    Google Meet is very easy and simple to use. I can schedule a meeting right on my calendar - it literally takes a few seconds. There is no additional app I have to open to schedule anything. Guests can click on the link easily to join any meetings. 10/10!
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    Google
    Always up, never down. Compatible with so many different platforms, OSes, and tools. For instance, someone can be on a phone, tablet, laptop, and all of those tools are compatible with Google apps like Meet, Docs, Slides, and anything else Google based. It's flexiblity is fantastic and meets our changing hardware and software requirements
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Google
    Google does a great job of providing tech support for this product, as it does many others. Similarly, Google has FAQs that cover a large amount of issues faced by users. Problems have not persisted in our use of this product. Problems are resolved quickly and easily, with or without personal Google support.
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    I use Microsoft Teams, but obviously Google Meet is much better than that because there are some challenges which I see as part of this. One of the main pros that I see here is that in Google Meet, whenever you have all those recordings as part of the Google Suite, you have those recordings stored in Google types. So that's the same Google product and everything stays in the same thing.
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    Google
    Google has a simpler approach to its apps. With all applications being online, things like auto-save being a default have been helpful for many staff in our organisation. Compare this to Microsoft where much of the admin has to be managed by the ICT Team, Google allows for a portion of control to the user to manage permissions of areas. This type of user empowerment helps people see how important ICT is to a business.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Google
    I wasn't involved in the unit pricing factor. So far I used Google meet in the office where I got access to all these Google applications including the Google Meet feature. So I wasn't involved much in this pricing factor of Google Meet and also regarding the contact terms of the product.
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Google
    This is very good in the professional services as I started using this first for the professional service only. While using this Google Meet itself gives a professional feel as the UI works in a professional way. The video background modification, multi-screen feature, and some other features help in professional service.
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Google
    • It's definitely the way that we engage with our customers and each other. So I think it's really good that it can help you bring remote people together and feel like you've met with them online. And then when you meet them in person you're like, this tracks, this definitely coincides with who I saw online. So it definitely is a really good platform to just bring people together, but remotely.
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    Google
    • There has been a steady evolution of new features coming out that reduced the need for third party tools
    • We have been able to sign agreements to lock in annual renewal costs for up to 5 years
    • It's a ubiquitous platform, finding support is generally pretty easy
    Incentivized
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