Google Workspace includes pooled storage per person and sells the extra terabyte separately, at a published price. The GoFeed drive ships on every plan of every audience, with folders, permissions, versions, a bin and comments, and storage is a quota of the whole workspace. It is not email, it is not documents and it has no public link.
Two things called a drive that are not the same thing
It is worth starting with what this comparison is not. Nobody replaces Google Workspace with a content tool, because Google Workspace is also email on your own domain, documents, spreadsheets and video calls, and none of that is here. What can be compared, and it is the question an agency actually asks, is where a brand's working files live and what it costs to keep them living there once they get heavy.
| Google Workspace | GoFeed | |
|---|---|---|
| Folders, permissions and versions | Yes | Yes |
| Bin and comments on a file | Yes | Yes, a 30 day bin |
| Public link for somebody with no account | Yes | No |
| Folder shared with the client | Yes, by link or invitation | Yes, through the portal |
| Email on your own domain | Yes | No |
| Documents and spreadsheets | Yes | No |
| Video calls | Yes | Google Meet from the calendar |
| Files sitting next to the brand and the post | No | Yes |
| The unit of storage | Per person, pooled | The workspace |
The first seven rows mostly belong to Google and there is nothing to argue about. The last two are where this article comes from.
Not one cell is an opinion: the left column comes from Google's own pricing page and help centre, and the right one from this product's module catalogue. What the table does not explain is how much each difference weighs on the day you decide, and that is what the rest of this piece is for.
What the extra terabyte costs
Google publishes two things separately and it is the cleanest data point in the whole comparison: how much pooled storage each plan carries, and what buying more is worth.
| Plan | Per user, per month | Pooled storage per person |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | 6.80 € | 30 GB |
| Standard | 13.60 € | 2 TB |
| Plus | 21.10 € | 5 TB |
| Enterprise | Contact us | 5 TB, extendable |
And when that pool fills up, the additional package has a price of its own.
| Additional package | Per month | Published currency |
|---|---|---|
| 100 GB | $15 | Dollars |
| 1 TB | $40 | Dollars |
| 10 TB | $300 | Dollars |
Prices checked on 8 September 2026: Google Workspace, pricing, Google Workspace, additional storage.
The two tables are not in the same currency and that is not an oversight. Google publishes its plan tiers in euros and the additional storage add-on only in dollars, in its own help centre. If you need to add them inside one budget, set the exchange rate yourself and say what it is rather than mixing two currencies inside a single total.
There is an important detail in the small print: the storage is pooled. The 2 TB on the middle plan are not each person's own allowance but the amount every licence contributes to a shared organisational pool. That usually works in your favour, because the person who stores almost nothing subsidises the video editor, and it also means one audiovisual team can drain the pool for everybody. Google publishes no free plan for Workspace, only a 14 day trial, so every seat is a paid seat from the first month onward.
The two rates, counted across the whole team
Because storage arrives with the licence, Google's rate is not read per person: it is read multiplied by everyone who contributes to the pool. Put together, the two columns stop being an argument about gigabytes and become one about what grows when the team grows.
What Google Workspace costs
- Starter, per user, 30 GB per person
- 6.80 € a month
- Standard, per user, 2 TB per person
- 13.60 € a month
- Plus, per user, 5 TB per person
- 21.10 € a month
What it costs here
- Agency Base
- 79 €
- Agency Pro
- 199 €
- Agency Max
- 399 €
Our figures are read from the live catalogue, which is why they are not written into the article: the pricing page.
The two columns do not measure the same thing, and the arithmetic comes before the conclusion. The left one is an amount in euros per person per month: a team of six on Standard is 81.60 € a month, a team of ten is 136 €, and every new licence adds 13.60 € and another 2 TB to the shared pool. The additional package can sit on top of that, and Google publishes it only in dollars in its help centre, with the terabyte at $40 a month: that is a different currency from the tiers above and it does not belong in the same total without a stated exchange rate. The right one is what the whole workspace costs, in euros and including VAT, the Spanish value added tax, with no charge per seat and none per post, and with storage as a quota of the workspace rather than of the person.
What fits in neither column is nearly everything each one is for. On Google's side, mail on your own domain, documents, spreadsheets, video calls, the public link and the admin console, which are the reason this article has a closing section. On ours, the file sitting next to the brand, the piece and the post that uses it, with the client's approval attached to that same piece.
Per person or per workspace
Here sits the structural difference, and it is easy to verify on an invoice. On Google, storage arrives with the licence: growing in files means growing in seats, or buying an additional package that lands as a new line.
For a video agency that shows up fast. A month of raw footage for four brands fits comfortably in the pool of a mid tier plan with several licences, but two years of archive does not, and at that point the choice is to move the whole team up a tier, buy a package, or start deleting. None of the three is free and all three get decided under pressure, which is the worst way to decide anything.
In GoFeed, storage is one of the workspace's five quotas rather than the person's. Adding a freelance video editor for three weeks does not change the pool, just as removing them does not shrink it. Prices include VAT, the value added tax charged in Spain, there is no minimum term and nothing is charged per post; the current figures live on the pricing page, which reads the live catalogue, which is why they are not printed here.
Two numbers can be stated because they are not plan quotas: a single file can weigh up to 25 GB, which is finished video rather than an attachment, and anything deleted spends 30 days in the bin before it really disappears. Permissions are set on the root folder, which is created either for the whole workspace or just for you, and everything beneath it inherits from there. The rest is on the tasks, chat and Drive page.
What this drive does not do, said before you find out
Three limits, and they are worth reading before you move anything.
The first, and the one that annoys people coming from Google most: there is no public link. There is no URL you can hand to somebody without an account so they can open a file. The client reaches their folders by signing into the portal with their own access, which is why it is always known who opened what and when. It is a deliberate decision rather than a gap, but if the way you work is pasting a link into an email for anyone to open, that cannot be done here.
The second: it is not an office suite. There is no word processor, no spreadsheet, no slides and no email on your domain. Files are stored, versioned and commented on, but they are edited with the tools you already use, and a proposal written in Docs stays written in Docs. Nothing here is trying to replace that half of the day.
The third: the portal, which is the door the client comes through to reach their folders, is an agency workspace feature. A creator or in house workspace has the full Drive for its team but has no clients to open a shared folder for, because in those models there are no third parties.
Everything in this article happens in one place in GoFeed.
Try it freeImporting from Google Drive, and living alongside it
None of the above forces a choice, and in practice almost nobody chooses. The sensible arrangement in most agencies is that Google Workspace keeps carrying the email, the documents and the video calls, while each brand's working files live where the piece that uses them lives.
There is an import from Google Drive for exactly that: connect the account, pick what needs to come across, and the files land in the workspace folders. It is a way in, and it is worth saying plainly that it only works in that direction: importing a file is not the same as sharing one outward. How data is brought across, this and everything else, is in import your data.
The calendar leans on Google too. It syncs in both directions and meetings go out with a Google Meet link, so the part of Google an agency uses every single day keeps working exactly as it did and nobody has to change a habit to join a call.
What Google Workspace does better
There is no comparison to be had and it would be ridiculous to pretend there is.
Google Workspace is a complete office suite with two decades behind it. Email on your own domain, real time collaborative editing on the same document, spreadsheets that hold up half the world's accounting, slides, video calls for hundreds of participants, electronic signature on its upper plans and a link anybody can open without an account. None of those things are here and none of them are planned.
To that you have to add three concrete virtues in the way it sells itself. It publishes the exact volume of pooled storage each person contributes at each tier, the kind of figure most providers leave as an adjective. It sells additional storage in three sizes at a published fixed price, so growing is a budget decision rather than a sales call. And it distributes its artificial intelligence across tiers while saying which applications it reaches in each one.
There is a fourth thing that weighs more than it looks: administration. One domain, one set of security policies, one console where access is granted and revoked, and a compliance posture any legal department recognises. For a company of a certain size, that alone ends the conversation, and no amount of feature comparison reopens it.
The honest conclusion is that these two do not compete, they overlap at one point. If what you want is email, documents and video calls, the answer is Google and there is nothing to think about. If what hurts is that a brand's files are scattered across a shared folder, a chat thread and the tool you publish with, then the question is a different one: what it is worth to have the file sitting next to the piece it is used in.