Google Workspace Essentials vs. ONLYOFFICE Workspace

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Workspace Essentials
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Google now offers Google Workspace Essentials (formerly G Suite Essentials), providing a solution for users of Outlook or Office whose teams want to use Google Meet and Google Apps without needing to involve a personal gmail account. Google Workspace Essentails includes Google Slides, Sheets, and Docs, as well as Google Meet, Google Drive, Forms, Sites, and Keep, in a bundle minus a gmail account. Basic Essentials supports (via Meet) meetings with up to 150 participants, and Google Drive with…
$8
per month per user
ONLYOFFICE Workspace
Score 6.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
ONLYOFFICE is a cloud business service that enables you to manage projects, customer relations and documents in one place.
$0
per user/month
Pricing
Google Workspace EssentialsONLYOFFICE Workspace
Editions & Modules
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Statrup
$0
per user/month
Business
$4
per user/month
VIP
$6
per user/month
Enterprise Plus
$300
Per server, lifetime license
Enterprise
$1,900
Per server, lifetime license
Enterprise Premium
$4,150
Per server, lifetime license
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Workspace EssentialsONLYOFFICE Workspace
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsFor self-hosted solutions, pricing is based on a number of users, with minimum prices for each edition mentioned here. For SaaS, pricing is based on a number of users and the subscription period (1 month, 1 year, 3 years). This page shows minimum prices per user.
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Community Pulse
Google Workspace EssentialsONLYOFFICE Workspace
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Best Alternatives
Google Workspace EssentialsONLYOFFICE Workspace
Small Businesses
Google Workspace
Google Workspace
Score 9.1 out of 10
Google Workspace
Google Workspace
Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Google Workspace
Google Workspace
Score 9.1 out of 10
Google Workspace
Google Workspace
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Score 8.9 out of 10
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google Workspace EssentialsONLYOFFICE Workspace
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(15 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Workspace EssentialsONLYOFFICE Workspace
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
I will state this with 2 basic examples, When I require documentation to be edited by many editors then Google workspace is the way to go. It provides the best synching capabilities and also sharing capabilities. In case of meeting conduction through google meet a notes section would be awesome for personal notes and the capability to record the meetings would also help a ton to improve the productivity of all users
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Ascensio System SIA
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Pros
Google
  • Google Docs & Google Slides are essential to our company as we are remote. Multiple people can work on the documents at one time.
  • Easy to share and store files in Google Drive.
  • Google Calendar is amazing, it integrates seamlessly with other Google products and it's our company's primary calendar tool.
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Ascensio System SIA
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Cons
Google
  • I'd love to see a formal integration of an Airtable-like program that expands on something like Sheets to really make project management extremely efficient and robust.
  • I think it would be useful if public-facing pieces like Google Forms were more customizable to our org's brand.
  • Creating some sort of easy-to-manage/integrated CRM, donor management, and marketing software would really change the game.
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Ascensio System SIA
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Likelihood to Renew
Google
Now that our department has used G Suite Essentials for close to 2 years, I can't imagine not using it. It has proven to be a very practical tool for sharing files / folders on a shared drive. It also makes it easy to modify and update content. It is user friendly and the interface is simple.
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Ascensio System SIA
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Alternatives Considered
Google
Google Workspace Essentials is more robust than Dropbox with the other features that are available. Google Workspace Essentials is very comparable to Microsoft 365, and we ultimately went with Google because at the time, it was free/priced better than MS, and now we have lots of legacy files already stored on Google servers, so a switch would be too time-consuming. We went with Google Workspace Essentials over OpenOffice because of the email features of using Google.
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Ascensio System SIA
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Return on Investment
Google
  • Not being able to record some meeting had an impact on context loss which hampers ROI
  • Seamless integration has increased ROI in some cases
  • Ability to not convert the office work files to MS office format properly has reduced ROI in some cases.
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Ascensio System SIA
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