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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

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Post by esalman »

metadat wrote: post #13

$20/mo still isn't bad for unlimited storage. Do any other providers come close to this price point? I wish I could prepay for the next 10 years to lock in at this price. How much does a petabyte of redundant hard drive storage cost? Yeah.. will probably still be more than $2,500 USD in 10 years.

I don't think there's an option to even pay for one year right now. It at least was the case last year when they pulled the plug on free tier and I had reluctantly give them credit card information for essentially a one person company.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by CydeWeys »

aimkey wrote: post #8
wslh wrote: post #2

Inflation? Monopoly?

Lock in

There's no lock in here. People are free to switch to one of the many competing services. It's not a monopoly under any reasonable definition of the term. Of course switching is going to have inertia, but that's not lock in. Lock in is when you are contractually obligated not to change, or if the monopoly is shutting down all competing services (perhaps by acquisition) so that there are no alternatives. For a good example of this type of lock in, just look at Ticketmaster.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by CSMastermind »

JamesAdir wrote: post #17
sarangab wrote: post #9

We switched from Google to Zoho Workspace last year once they threatened to stop support to the "legacy" users. Comparable service and much less expensive.

+1 for Zoho. They offer a all the services needed at a very convenient pricing.

And because of this HN thread I will now be looking into Zoho to see if it's viable for me to migrate to.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by acdha »

wcfields wrote: post #7
candiddevmike wrote: post #6

What 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.

Email is by far the easiest of those things. Docs & workflows aren’t as standard so it’s not just an import but also changing how you work.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by gowld »

metadat wrote: post #13

$20/mo still isn't bad for unlimited storage. Do any other providers come close to this price point? I wish I could prepay for the next 10 years to lock in at this price. How much does a petabyte of redundant hard drive storage cost? Yeah.. will probably still be more than $2,500 USD in 10 years.

Do you need a petabyte of storage?

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by benatkin »

CydeWeys wrote: post #23
aimkey wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lock in

There's no lock in here. People are free to switch to one of the many competing services. It's not a monopoly under any reasonable definition of the term. Of course switching is going to have inertia, but that's not lock in. Lock in is when you are contractually obligated not to change, or if the monopoly is shutting down all competing services (perhaps by acquisition) so that there are no alternatives. For a good ex…

No refunds. So it's literally lock-in for a year.

https://support.google.com/google-workspace-individual/answe... (for individual) https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2736362?hl=en (for Drive) - I don't see it for Admin but it's probably the same.

Here's one for Google Workspace Admin: "The Annual Plan charges you for the exact number of licenses you signed up for through a yearly commitment." The "commitment" makes it sound non-refundable. https://support.google.com/a/answer/1230658?hl=en

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by [deleted] »

gowld wrote: post #26
metadat wrote: post #13

$20/mo still isn't bad for unlimited storage. Do any other providers come close to this price point? I wish I could prepay for the next 10 years to lock in at this price. How much does a petabyte of redundant hard drive storage cost? Yeah.. will probably still be more than $2,500 USD in 10 years.

Do you need a petabyte of storage?

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Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by kweingar »

alberth wrote: post #15
jefftk wrote: post #5

Up 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).

Let's not forget that just 3.5 years ago, prices were increase by 20% then as well. Starter: $5 -> $6 Standard: $10 -> $12 https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/new-pricing-f... This nets to ~45% price increase in just 3.5 years.

Interestingly the new prices match inflation since April 2019 pretty closely ($6 then is $7.02 now, and the price is changing to $7.20).
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