Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023
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Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023
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Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023
#2Inflation? Monopoly?
Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023
#3Inflation? Monopoly?
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Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023
#4It looks like you need to pay for a full year upfront to keep the legacy pricing. The month to month payment plans are seeing a price increase.
Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023
#5Up 20%:
Starter: $6 -> $7.20
Standard: $12 -> $14.40
Plus: $18 -> $21.60
They are also introducing an annual payment option where you can pay the old per-month prices ($6, $12, $18).
Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023
#6What are you going to do, move to a different service? Switching out your cloud hosted office suite is probably a non starter for most companies.
Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023
#7What are you going to do, move to a different service? Switching out your cloud hosted office suite is probably a non starter for most companies.
It's a straight up nightmare to move email providers. Especially if you have an office environment built around GDocs, Gmail and trying to get people to move to Office365.
Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023
#8Inflation? Monopoly?
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Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023
#9We switched from Google to Zoho Workspace last year once they threatened to stop support to the "legacy" users. Comparable service and much less expensive.
Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023
#10What are you going to do, move to a different service? Switching out your cloud hosted office suite is probably a non starter for most companies.
>What are you going to do, move to a different service?
Probably yes for a few of my clients. They're only using the email and calendars, and only via applications (Mac/iOS Mail/Calendar, Outlook, or TB). Two of them started on the free one. Primarily staying with GSuite has been a matter of inertia and ensuring delivery, all the other stuff is worthless. This will probably be motivation to make the move this time. Other companies might have kept and "basics only tier", but I just don't think Google is serious about anything but ads when it comes to money. Even their subscription stuff seems frequently poorly supported, though perhaps it's better for the biggest players.
I'm very thankful I always pushed hard against webmail, had registrar/DNS independent and so on. It's added friction in some cases but means switching is pretty transparent. Lots don't have that luxury of course, but it's been nice here.