Google Workspace Essentials vs. WPS Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Workspace Essentials
Score 9.4 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
WPS Cloud
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
Kingsoft offers WPS Cloud, a cloud storage platform including 1 GB of free storage, as well as collaboration and file sharing tools.N/A
Pricing
Google Workspace EssentialsWPS Cloud
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Workspace EssentialsWPS Cloud
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Google Workspace EssentialsWPS Cloud
Best Alternatives
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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 EssentialsWPS Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(17 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Workspace EssentialsWPS Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
Well-suited for: Fast-paced drafting ideas, docs, charts, sheets, etc. Love it for client calls as well. Google Meet runs in a web browser; you don't need to download any special software. Shared Drives are great for sharing information; the ability to add a Google Notebook to them is the icing on the cake. It is less appropriate when Wi-Fi or the internet is spotty, or when you need heavy-duty Excel macro data crunching.
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Kingsoft
Another [good feature] is the [ability] to turn photos into PDFs and file compression. Since the native integration with [the] third parties comes from WPS Office I [feel I] wouldn't recommend it if you [only] need one service.
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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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Kingsoft
  • Integrate with third party platforms via WPS office
  • Turn PDFs into DOCs
  • allow PDF signing on the fly
  • secure storage of information
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Cons
Google
  • Record option to be there in Google meet
  • ability to share documents outside google accounts need to be looked at
  • Improvement in conversion to MS office based documents and converting those documents to googles format needs a little work.
  • Will be good to have a pdf to word converter and vice versa
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Kingsoft
  • Document sharing with third parties without intermediaries
  • Cloud extra space for premium members
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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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Kingsoft
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Usability
Google
It is so easy to use, very intuitive and the site looks nice. There is no hint of the old DOS days in the look and functionality. Let's be real, Google Workspace Essentials is attractive and easy on the eyes and even offers a dark mode if you want to rest your eyes a bit or are in a mood for such
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Kingsoft
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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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Kingsoft
[I feel] it's a good contender but [it] lacks native third-party integration and internal cross-platform sharing which makes it fall behind. [ I believe It performs at its best] when it comes to file compression and PDF signing.
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Return on Investment
Google
  • Our fundraising and development efforts nearly doubled 2020-2022, largely in part to the organizational tools within Google Workspace Essentials.
  • We've opened up the capacity to work more closely with contractors in a more collaborative nature because of GWE's capabilities.
  • It was integral to our brand overhaul.
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Kingsoft
  • improve storage of non legal documents
  • improve signing of non legal documents
  • simplify the process of compression on the cloud
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