Google Workspace Pricing: Gemini Included, USD/CAD/AUD

Google Workspace costs $7, $14 or $22 per user per month (USD) on an annual plan for Business Starter, Standard and Plus, and Gemini AI is included in all three. There is no longer a separate Gemini add-on to buy for most teams: Google retired the old Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons and folded the features into the plans. What changes from tier to tier is which apps get Gemini and how much of it you can use.

This guide covers prices in US, Canadian and Australian dollars, annual versus flexible billing, the Gemini features at each tier, and how Canadian GST/HST and Australian GST are added. All figures come from Google’s own pricing and help pages, checked 31 Oct 2026. Prices change, so confirm at checkout.

Google Workspace prices at a glance (checked 31 Oct 2026)

Google publishes official prices in local currencies, so no conversion is needed for Canada or Australia.

Source: Google Workspace Help, Compare Flexible and Annual/Fixed-Term payment plans, and the Workspace pricing page. All prices exclude tax.

A few rules from the same pages that affect the bill:

• Starter, Standard and Plus can be bought for up to 300 users. Enterprise has no minimum or maximum.
• Storage is pooled: 30 GB per user on Starter, 2 TB on Standard and 5 TB on Plus.
• Enterprise prices are not published. Google says they are available through its sales team and resellers.

Annual vs Flexible Plan: what you are trading

The pricing page advertises the annual plan as “Save 16%”. In yearly terms the gap is clear: Business Standard is $201.60 per user per year on the Flexible Plan against $168 on the annual plan, according to Google’s billing help page.

Source: Google Workspace Help.

The practical rule: if your team could shrink in the next 12 months (a contractor-heavy startup, a seasonal business, a founder still testing the idea), the Flexible Plan’s 20% premium buys you an exit. If headcount is stable, take the annual plan.

Is Gemini a paid add-on? No, not anymore

Google’s help center states that starting in January 2025 it began adding AI features to Business and Enterprise editions that were previously sold as Gemini add-ons. As part of that change, these add-ons are no longer available for purchase:

• Gemini Business (now “Legacy”)
• Gemini Enterprise (now “Legacy”)
• AI Meetings and Messaging
• AI Security

Source: Gemini AI features now included in Google Workspace subscriptions (Google Workspace Help, last updated 26 Oct 2026).

So if you searched “Google Workspace Gemini add-on pricing”, the answer is that the old add-on price no longer applies. The one AI add-on still listed on the pricing page is AI Expanded Access, which Google describes as “higher access to advanced AI capabilities”, such as more Workspace Studio automations, image and video generations and real-time speech translation. Google did not publish a price for it on the pages we checked, so we have left it out.

What Gemini you get on each plan

This is where the tiers really differ. The table summarizes Google’s Compare Business editions page (updated 30 Oct 2026).

Limits are Google’s published caps and Google notes some “may change frequently”. The pricing page summarizes the same split: Starter has Gemini in Gmail only, while Standard gets “Gemini AI assistant in Gmail, Docs, Meet, and more”.

Business Plus adds almost no extra AI over Standard (Meet watermarking is one of the few Gemini differences). You pay the extra $8 per user mainly for 5 TB of storage, Vault for retention and eDiscovery, Meet attendance tracking, Secure LDAP and advanced endpoint management.

Enterprise plans add security features on the pricing page such as data loss prevention, context-aware access and AI classification for Google Drive. Pricing is by quote.

Canada: GST/HST on Google Workspace

Google’s tax help page says that for Workspace you contract with Google LLC, and if you have a Canadian billing address Google “calculates and charges taxes based on your billing address” unless you claim an exemption by providing your tax ID. Google LLC is registered under the simplified GST/HST regime (section 211.11 of the Excise Tax Act) and the simplified QST regime. Source: Taxes in your region.

The rate depends on the province of your billing address. Current CRA rates:

Source: CRA GST/HST rates by province. Google’s page lists PST for British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan and QST for Quebec among the taxes it may charge.

Australia: 10% GST

Google’s tax page says invoices issued by Google Australia Pty Limited include GST of 10% on the value of taxable services, and that this affects any Google account with an Australian business address. If you are GST-registered, the ATO’s GST guidance covers how to claim GST credits on business purchases through your BAS.

US billing addresses (including US LLCs)

If your company bills from a US address, which is common for Canadian and Australian founders running a US LLC or a US company, Google says the account “may be subject to state and local sales taxes” based on the billing address. Google charges any applicable state sales tax directly when you buy online; through a reseller, ask the reseller.

Worked example: a five-person team on Business Standard

Assume five users on Business Standard, before any promotion.

US team, annual plan: $14 x 5 users = $70 per month, or $70 x 12 = $840 a year before sales tax. On the Flexible Plan: $16.80 x 5 = $84 per month, $1,008 a year. The annual plan saves $168 a year, in exchange for not being able to drop seats until renewal.

Ontario team, annual plan: C$18.40 x 5 = C$92.00 per month. Add 13% HST: C$92.00 x 0.13 = C$11.96. Total C$103.96 per month, or C$1,247.52 a year, unless you give Google your GST/HST number and qualify for the exemption.

Australian team, annual plan: A$19.80 x 5 = A$99.00 per month. Add 10% GST: A$9.90. Total A$108.90 per month, or A$1,306.80 a year. A GST-registered business can generally claim the A$9.90 back as a GST credit.

Same team on Business Starter instead: $7 x 5 = $35 a month, half the cost. But nobody gets Gemini in Docs, Sheets or Meet notes, and Gemini app access drops to basic limits and a 32,000-token context window. If you would otherwise pay for a separate AI assistant, the extra $7 per user for Standard is usually the cheaper route.

The 50% promotion (13 Nov 2026 to 13 Feb 2027)

When we checked on 31 Oct 2026, Google’s pricing pages for Canada and Australia showed “Get up to 50% off your first 3 months of Google Workspace”, with price details running 13 Nov 2026 to 13 Feb 2027:

Google’s footnotes say the offer is for new Google Workspace customers only, applies to the first 20 users added, the discount is applied at checkout and the final price is shown before you finish sign-up. The US pricing page we fetched on the same day did not show the banner, so availability may depend on your country. Treat it as a bonus, not a reason to pick a plan.

For the five-user Standard example, the promo would cut the first three months from $70 to $35 a month, a saving of $35 x 3 = $105.

Who should pick which plan

If you are comparing Workspace’s built-in AI with standalone coding or agent tools, see our Claude Code vs Codex vs Cursor pricing and Cursor pricing guides, or browse the AI tools hub.

Bottom line

For most small teams in the US, Canada or Australia, Business Standard on the annual plan is the sweet spot: $14, C$18.40 or A$19.80 per user per month before tax, with Gemini in every core app. Choose the Flexible Plan if your headcount might drop, and skip Business Plus unless you need Vault or the extra storage.