Google <\/a> today announced that it is raising the price of its G Suite subscriptions for the first time. In the U.S., the prices of G Suite Basic and G Suite Business editions<\/a> will increase by $1 and $2 per user\/month, respectively, while increases in other regions will be adjusted according to the local currency and market. G Suite Enterprise pricing will remain the same.<\/p>\n The new pricing will go into effect on April 2; those on annual plans will pay the new price when their contract renews after that date.<\/p>\n Usually, a $1 or $2 price increase wouldn\u2019t be a big deal, but this is the first time Google has raised the price of its G Suite subscriptions. The company argues that it has added plenty of new services \u2014 like video conferencing with Hangouts Meet, team messaging with Hangouts Chat, increased storage quotas and other security and productivity tools and services \u2014 to the platform since it first launched its paid service with its core productivity tools back in 2006.<\/p>\n That seems like a fair argument to me, though a 20 percent price increase may be hard to swallow for some small businesses. It\u2019s also worth remembering that G Suite is now big business for Google. There are now more than 4 million businesses on G Suite, after all, and while some of them are surely on enterprise plans with a price point their teams negotiated privately, the vast majority of them are surely on the standard monthly or annual plans.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Google today announced that it is raising the price of its G Suite subscriptions for the first time. In the U.S., the prices of G Suite Basic and G Suite Business editions will increase by $1 and $2 per user\/month, respectively, while increases in other regions will be adjusted according to the local currency and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2073,533,136,535,5377,5378,160,2560],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n