Difference between G-Suite and Office 365

After setting up our business, be it small or big, the first step usually is to get a professional email address. G Suite and Office 365 are powerful business tools that provide reliable email applications, calendars, video conferencing tools etc.

G Suite is offered by Google, and it includes applications like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive, Calendars and other google apps that you probably already use.

Office 365 is offered by Microsoft, and it includes applications like Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Skype and other Microsoft Apps.

Pricing Comparison

When choosing between the two, pricing is an important factor to consider. You would want to choose a solution which best suits your budget.

G Suite comes with 3 pricing plans:

• Basic - 5 dollars per month per user offering 30GB storage.
• Business - 10 dollars per month per user offering unlimited cloud storage.
• Enterprise – 29 dollars per month per user with unlimited storage

Office 365 comes with 3 price plans for small and medium businesses:

• Business essentials – 6 dollars per month per user
• Business – 10 dollars per month per user
• Business Premium – 15 dollars per month per user

The pricing of both is competitive, which makes it difficult to decide amongst them. You should think about your storage needs before deciding between the two.

Features Comparison

Gmail vs Outlook

Gmail has a much cleaner and less clustered interface than outlook, offering the best balance between ease of use and powerful features. However, outlook is more straightforward to use and has more powerful features like focussed inbox, clean up feature etc.

Google Drive Storage vs OneDrive Cloud storage

G Suite provides 30GB cloud storage for each user with basic plan, unlimited storage with business and enterprise plans and 1TB storage for each user if you are having less than 5 users on business or enterprise plan. It uses Google drive to manage the files. Google Drive makes it easy to share files with each other. It has superior features to locate files and has a better interface.

Office, on the other hand provides 1TB of storage for each user with all their plans. It provides OneDrive Cloud Storage to manage files which comes a s desktop and mobile app also. OneDrive comes integrated with Windows 8 or Windows 10 PC.

Apps Comparison

G-Suite provides popular Google apps like Gmail, Google Drive, Google docs, sheets, Google Calendar etc. These applications come in desktop as well as mobile versions. The offline versions of some apps are available but very limited in functionality. Due to the web only features, G-Suite is more suitable for remote teams and organizations that store all of their data in cloud.

Office 365 offers all Microsoft apps like Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint etc. The main feature of these apps is that they are available offline and are good to use.

Collaboration Tools

G-Suits allows multiple users to work on the same files simultaneously. Their focus is on easy sharing and communication between teams. On the other hand, Office 365 makes collaboration a little harder as it depends mostly on desktop applications.

Conclusion

Both G-Suite and Office 365 are powerful tools offering competitive applications for businesses. G-suite is a better option for smaller businesses as it is much easier to use their apps and the basic pricing plan offers enough storage. However, Office 365 is better for enterprise businesses where all the employees work from the office and use a desktop for their everyday work. Their desktop applications are top notch.

At the end of the day, it totally depends upon your business model and requirements as to which suite you should choose.