Google Workspace vs. ONLYOFFICE Docs

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Workspace
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Google Workspace enables teams of all sizes to connect, create and collaborate. It includes productivity and collaboration tools for work: Gmail for custom business email, Drive for cloud storage, Docs for word processing, Meet for video and voice conferencing, Chat for team messaging, Slides for presentation building, and shared Calendars.
$6
per user/per month
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 WorkspaceONLYOFFICE Docs
Editions & Modules
Business Starter
$6
per user/per month
Business Standard
$12
per user/per month
Business Plus
$18
per user/per month
Enterprise
Contact sales team
Community Edition
$0
Home Server
$149
per server
Enterprise Edition
$1,200
per server
Developer Edition
$1,500
per server
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google WorkspaceONLYOFFICE Docs
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$1,200 per server
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Community Pulse
Google WorkspaceONLYOFFICE Docs
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Google Workspace
Chose Google Workspace
I've used Microsoft Teams (and sometimes still do for client projects with Teams being the client's workspace), but I find it to be a difficult and cumbersome work environment to manage and navigate.
Chose Google Workspace
Google Workspace offers many more collaboration tools then the Microsoft products. Although the Microsoft products are familiar to so many people, picking up The Google suite of tools is easy. Google also allows us to truly be in the cloud and work from any device from …
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never looked at anyone else - we knew Google Workspace was right for us!
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We used before on my previous role Microsoft teams where you can only casually exchange messages, but Google Workspace allows me to access all the applications that I need in just once access without closing the window that I'm currently working on and it can be used to email …
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I find Workspace easier to use and manage, better security, and the gmail interface and features is way better. Plus 3rd party integrations. Support sucks though from my experience. Most other email solutions do not enforce authentication and domain alignment or have MFA, which …
Chose Google Workspace
It is like a one stop shop for all the software needed at work. Easy to create an account and easy to access.
Chose Google Workspace
Google Workspace huge advantage is the interface that everyone is familiar with (from using personal Google services). Also, the administration panel is straightforward and easy to use - does not require expert tech knowledge to move around. As a result, it is a perfect tool …
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Simpler onboarding and most used tool by SMEs
Chose Google Workspace
Google Workspace is your all in one go-to tool. No other product offers the versatility and a large selection of tools like Google workspace does. Gmail is incredibly faster than any other email client available out there, and some tools like Google Spreadsheets have replaced …
Chose Google Workspace
Though Microsoft offers some great ideas to help you better your work, I believe Google tops Microsoft in the area of office applications. Google mail, Google Sheets, Google forms, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and Google Video Meetings are easy to use to …
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Google Drive blows Dropbox out of the water by making its shared assets accessible without requiring app installs and paid subscriptions for outside users. The speed at which it handles all of your stored assets makes it advantageous for demanding projects in the music and film …
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Google Workspace's web-based word processing apps are much more robust than Microsoft's equivalent. For example, multiple users working on a single google docs document will very rarely run into issues with synching or continuity, whereas Microsoft's online Word is not as …
Chose Google Workspace
Slack has more IT functional integrations that Google Chat/Spaces at this time. It is being used in more of a "shadow IT" configuration currently with a limited set of paid licenses. Facebook for business was missing key integrations and with Google Spaces/Currents, it was …
Chose Google Workspace
Google Workspace is a formidable opponent to Microsoft 365. It provides all of the solutions that 365 does, but does it with more finesse. I find it easier to navigate Google Workspace than I do 365, especially when comparing Google Drive to Microsoft OneDrive. Google Drive is …
Chose Google Workspace
I've used Office 365 in the past, along with some of Zoho's tools, and none of them have delivered the experience that I get from Google Workspace. Office 365 was slow and cumbersome when I evaluated it, and the interoperability of Google apps far surpasses that which I can get …
Chose Google Workspace
There are lots of things that Microsoft 365 does better than Workspace. The problem is that I am stuck in the Google world. It would take way too much time and energy to change platforms. There are lots of other options to choose from but none of them are perfect. Workspace is …
Chose Google Workspace
The tools are similar, however, in Excel and Sheets specifically, Microsoft is much more useful in transforming and manipulating a lot of data.
Chose Google Workspace
From an ease of use standpoint, Google Workspace is far simpler and easier to use. It offers what we need where Office offers too much of each app/service adding complexity over convenience. Our prior use of Office and even some occasional use of 365 just as a backup is often …
Chose Google Workspace
I believe Google tops Microsoft in all areas EXCEPT the office applications. I prefer Gmail, Drive, and Google Video Meetings to Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams meetings, but that could just be me. In my experience, it has been easier to use these applications without much trouble …
Chose Google Workspace
We previously used Zoho Suite free tier. Deliverability was good and their spam protection was almost as good as Google's. The one drawback to Zoho was the inability to host more than one domain. Zoho's paid tier is cheaper than Google's, but [I feel] you don't get the same …
Chose Google Workspace
There are lots of competitors to various tools in Workspace, like Meet versus Zoom. However, Microsoft is the other big competitor I can think of for Google Workspace as a whole. To me, at least, the strength of Workspace is how easy it is to share and collaborate with others. …
Chose Google Workspace
Microsoft Office 365 - I like Google better because of the overall usability and simpler interface. This was made most apparent for me when I compared the calendars - Outlook calendar is not as user friendly as Google. Google makes navigation, events, reminders etc. easier to …
Chose Google Workspace
Google Workspace is far superior to any email client or storage system on the market. Google Workspace combines everything good about each of these other services and then adds some additional features to make it the best all around productivity system out there. The best part …
Chose Google Workspace
They are different. Over the years, one has had better support than the other. Google support is good, there have been times Microsoft support was awful, and times when it was significantly better. For me, Outlook is just a drain on resources. Word is that my primary word …
Chose Google Workspace
We decided to use Google Workspace [(formerly G Suite)] because of the breadth of services offered, no need to purchase or manage a large corporate infrastructure to run all the services, it is extremely easy to get up and running in a matter of minutes, and the cost of service …
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Small Businesses
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.8 out of 10
Google Workspace
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
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User Ratings
Google WorkspaceONLYOFFICE Docs
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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Usability
9.5
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Support Rating
2.2
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Implementation Rating
9.1
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User Testimonials
Google WorkspaceONLYOFFICE Docs
Likelihood to Recommend
Since our company is structured around Google Workspace at the moment, it is well suited for our entire workflow. I do have concerns though, for when it comes time for our company to have our own intranet built and how well the data migration will be from Google Workspace to that intranet that gets built.
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Pros
  • It's terrific to have a suite of products that is built to work together, rather than having to piece tools together.
  • The email and calendar are the tools I use most often together. I use Gmail through Apple Mail rather than in the browser, and it works great. Also really easy to access and use my calendar.
  • I use the other suite of features both for my own company internally and to share files with clients. Super easy to use and share.
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Cons
  • A single Google Workspace user should be able to have more than one Google Voice phone number (ideally)
  • At times, Google Meet seems a little clumsy (but I think they're about to address that with the new release...It may or may not be better. Who knows? :))
  • Some screen layouts are a tad clumsy, but they are sufficiently malleable that once one gets the hang of it, one can customize the environment quite a bit.
  • A viable (for small business), relatively-inexpensive, virtual desktop that would include/could include a Windows license or, at least close-to-perfect emulation.
  • It would be great if there was accommodation for those who send out a great deal of mail in a given day. Not everyone who does that is a spammer. Although, by Google standards, and relative to some others, Google allows for sending out a good bit of mail, for those who do mass volumes and would prefer not to have their own mail server, it would be good if Google could find a way to accommodate them.
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Likelihood to Renew
There is no better solution for cloud storage and real time collaboration. The amount of features included in G Suite is unmatched and out of other things we’ve tried over the years, nothing comes close to being as great of a tool.
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Usability
On the user end, it's great, probably some of the most user friendly products out there. On the admin side, it can get a little more arcane, but it's still better than a lot of other services. At worst I wrangle some CSVs to perform mass changes, but it's a far cry from the days of Powershell scripts or purely manual entry.
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Support Rating
I have not had to use much support for G Suite, but I imagine it would be a great service, as is everything else that Google provides. I've searched for questions through the help center, and that was easy to use and easy to find. I'm sure I would have no complaints.
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Implementation Rating
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Alternatives Considered
We selected Google Workspace for it's ease of use and clean UI. Microsoft Office granted does have a lot of features and may be more advanced in certain areas (Excel vs sheets), however for the range of functions we need, google workspace provided the necessary features for an affordable price. In particular Outlook compared to Gmail is more outdated and clunky, and I have found more issues with Outlook's deliverability in the past than I do with Gmail. Meet is also much more modern and clean, with useful features like record and Gemini that feel much cleaner than Teams. I have also found that inviting external users (ones that don't use the same workspace as you) is much easier through google meet than teams calls. Drive also has a much cleaner UI, and easier to adopt than OneDrive.
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Return on Investment
  • Google Workspace costs us a little more, but our inboxes are safer for it.
  • Our email deliverability has improved significantly. No more lost or bounced emails with our invoices attached. Workspace helps us get paid!
  • Our support requests for undelivered email has disappeared.
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