Google Workspace Essentials vs. ONLYOFFICE Docs

Google Workspace Essentials

Google Workspace Essentials

40 Reviews and Ratings

ONLYOFFICE Docs

ONLYOFFICE Docs

1 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Google Workspace Essentials	Score 9.2 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…	N/A
ONLYOFFICE Docs	Score 9.0 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	ONLYOFFICE Docs is a collaborative suite for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations for cloud use and on-premises installation. ONLYOFFICE Docs is based on OOXML formats (DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX) and ensures maximum compatibility with them, also supporting ODF, PDF, HTML, and other popular formats. The suite allows creating and editing autoshapes, tables, charts, content controls and other complex objects, applying professional formatting to texts and paragraphs, using academic layout…	$0

Pricing

Google Workspace Essentials

ONLYOFFICE Docs

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Community Edition: $0
Home Server: $149
per server
Enterprise Edition: $1,200
per server
Developer Edition: $1,500
per server

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Google Workspace Essentials	ONLYOFFICE Docs
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

$1,200 per server

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Community Pulse
	Google Workspace Essentials	ONLYOFFICE Docs
Considered Both Products	Google Workspace Essentials Dan Clark Senior Network and Security Administrator Chose Google Workspace Essentials We use both in concert with each other, and they work well when setting up a device for hardened security. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace Essentials Microsoft 365 has a better calendar at times, but its interface is clunky and outdated. Google offered better cloud access, more security features, and a better user experience for employees. Incentivized Helpful? Tania Gallegos HR Generalist / Talent Recruiter Chose Google Workspace Essentials Google Workspace Essentials is easier to use in general, has faster access to attached files, and is easier to organize. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace Essentials We have started to use Smokeball Legal Software as opposed to Google for many of our chat and calendar services. It's more functional, secure, and has less downtime. We had hoped for Google integration, but it does not appear that is coming, so unfrankly, we have to move on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace Essentials - Gmail is better treated by spam filters, and it is more seldom when our messages go to the spam folder in the recipients' mailbox - ProtonMail did not have a dedicated meeting platform, and it was difficult to match the invites with the meeting room link - The layout of Gmail … Incentivized Helpful? NM Naor Melamed CTO Chose Google Workspace Essentials We started with Google and integrated with those services. Incentivized Helpful? EL Evelyn Lee Operations Manager Chose Google Workspace Essentials Basically, it was easier to deploy and we were having some issues with the older Microsoft version, and we thought Gsuite had a friendlier environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace Essentials Google Workspace is easier to use and access. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace Essentials It's the beast of all beasts and the only platform we really considered when building the organization. A lot of that was due to Google Workspace Essentials' price point: as a nonprofit, we're always looking at ways to cut costs, and Google is extremely affordable and prices … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace Essentials There is absolutely no comparison between Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace Essentials. As I mentioned before, almost everyone uses Google either personally or with their business. Therefore, it is so very easy to adjust to Google Workspace Essentials. Google also makes it way … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Workspace Essentials Google Workspace Essentials allows for more features to be used and seems to break/branch things into a more organized way. Dropbox Business is decent, but the user interface isn't as friendly. We primarily rely on Google Workspace Essentials, as it seems to be more popular … Incentivized Helpful? David Calvert Pastor for Creative Arts Chose Google Workspace Essentials 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 … Incentivized Helpful?	ONLYOFFICE Docs No answer on this topic

Best Alternatives
	Google Workspace Essentials	ONLYOFFICE Docs
Small Businesses	Google Workspace Score 9.1 out of 10	Google Workspace Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Google Workspace Score 9.1 out of 10	Google Workspace Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	Microsoft 365 Business Premium Score 8.8 out of 10	Microsoft 365 Business Premium Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Google Workspace Essentials	ONLYOFFICE Docs
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Google Workspace Essentials	ONLYOFFICE Docs
Likelihood to Recommend	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Google Workspace is very easy to use. Even the advanced features are also rendered with an intuitive user interface. Opting into new features is easy, with a clear indication of whether they cost extra or free. Communications about new features as well as security threats are easy to understand and follow up on. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized David Calvert Pastor for Creative Arts Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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