Google Workspace vs Microsoft OneDrive comparison

Google and Microsoft are both solutions in the Content Collaboration Platforms category. Google is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.1, while Microsoft is ranked #3 with an average rating of 10.0. Google holds a 7.3% mindshare in CCP, compared to Microsoft’s 10.2% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

Google Workspace

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95% willing to recommend

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

Google Workspace and Microsoft OneDrive are both prominent in the realm of cloud-based collaboration and storage solutions. Google Workspace appears to have the upper hand due to its advanced collaboration tools and seamless Android integration, whereas Microsoft OneDrive stands out for its strong integration with Microsoft Office applications.

Features: Google Workspace offers a comprehensive suite including Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Meet, known for real-time collaboration and ease of use. Its scalability and flexible integration with mobile platforms make it suitable for various organization sizes. Microsoft OneDrive provides excellent synchronization with applications like Word, Excel, and SharePoint, and offers robust enterprise-level control options in addition to seamless integration with Microsoft tools.

Room for Improvement: Google Workspace faces challenges with login issues, limited offline capabilities, and some incompatibility with traditional office tools. Enhancements in these areas would improve the user experience. Microsoft OneDrive could improve document syncing capabilities, enhance UI intuitiveness, and provide better customer support for resolving synchronization issues and file management challenges.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both Google Workspace and Microsoft OneDrive offer public and private cloud deployment options. Google Workspace is generally praised for its ease of deployment but receives mixed feedback regarding customer service. Microsoft OneDrive also offers a flexible deployment option and benefits from Microsoft's strong support ecosystem, although customer service reviews are varied.

Pricing and ROI: Google Workspace is noted for reasonable pricing across various plans catering to different business needs, though some find the costs high. Microsoft OneDrive is generally bundled with Microsoft 365, offering value through its comprehensive suite of tools. Both solutions deliver significant ROI through improved efficiency, with Google Workspace's real-time collaboration tools notably enhancing productivity.

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Categories and Ranking

Google Workspace

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

2nd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

101

Ranking in other categories

Email Applications (1st), Wireless Email (2nd), Cloud Storage (6th)

Microsoft OneDrive

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Google Workspace is 7.3%, up from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft OneDrive is 10.2%, down from 13.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Sunil-Nair

IT Manager at Universal Carpets & Rugs

Email collaboration and accessibility have improved team productivity

The valuable features include the email service, email updates, and Google Drive. People are given email access to Google Drive. The team can share manual files and work accordingly. They can access different teams from anywhere, collectively putting files, sharing them, and managing them. Additionally, the manufacturing product does not require any downgrades. It works fine and continuously for the last three or four years. Users can access their emails from anywhere in their browser without a laptop or can directly access from Gmail. This is helpful for salespeople.

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Victor Bayouwa

Owner at VBTECH-IT

I love the backup capabilities and the offline sync

We use OneDrive to share documents throughout the organization and collaborate. It is also used for backups. The backup capability is one feature I love about OneDrive. I also like how it syncs when you're working offline. Everything is updated once you connect again. It takes too long for…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Google Apps for Business and Skype for Business are the perfect solutions for every business thriving online. It is very easy and inexpensive to get work done with these applications online."

"The most valuable features are the speed at which G Suite Enterprise works."

"Good performance, even on relatively slow connections; no local apps required."

"The features of Google Workspace that significantly improve our work include real-time collaboration on documents, dynamic email for easy suggestions and approvals, integration with BigQuery for data analysis, seamless document sharing and storage in Google Drive, and advanced calendaring capabilities."

"The implementation was very easy."

"The solution offers a workflow where we can collaborate and share documents. Its most valuable features are Gmail and Google Drive. Google Drive is great for file collaboration. It improves productivity. The product is on the cloud; we don't have to connect to the office through a VPN."

"I have found the solution to be pretty stable."

"It is quite a useful tool. It allows many people to work on a document. You can actually provide review comments and tag anybody to make the comment changes. You can also attach a document in Google Chat."

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"It's pretty easy to learn. Once someone taught me, I was able to navigate it quite easily."

"We use Microsoft OneDrive for file sharing without the need for additional hardware (such as flash drives or external hard drives)."

"It is simple to use and it allows me to give me the opportunity to access anything I want from any device."

"Being able to use OneDrive as a mapped drive in Windows Explorer is the most valuable feature. Rather than using OneDrive on a browser, you can also open up the Windows Explorer and I can see the file structure in the normal format."

"With this solution, the sharing of documents if very easy to do. There's a lot of collaboration you can do with your colleagues."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the amount of space allotted to each user that is issued a subscription."

"It is free if you use Microsoft Office 365."

"It helps you keep organized."

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Cons

"Our users have faced an issue with increasing their email quotas over the last three months."

"If you use a name with a special character like a slash in the folder, it will crash the migration, with no warning. There is no pre-warning or anything to tell you that if you use characters in a file name that it will crash the migration."

"I don't recommend Google Workspace to others. It's expensive. Also, Google doesn't have enough oversight on their partners, so you will face some difficulties dealing with them instead of directly with Google."

"What needs improvement in Google Workspace is the Google Drive app, in particular, making the process of finding the shared and most used files and folders easier. The first time you get an invite to view a file or folder in Google Drive and you view that folder or file, it's pretty easy, but the next time you try to access it again, sometimes, it's a bit difficult to find what was shared with you. An additional feature I'd like to see in Google Workspace is the option to un-send messages in Gmail. Microsoft has a message recall feature, and this isn't available in Gmail, so it's the feature I'd like to be added to Gmail."

"When I compare with Office 365, G Suite has fewer features."

"There's a bit of a learning curve."

"It would be nice to have additional software, such as Microsoft Teams, since our basic edition, Google Meet, cannot record video."

"I have had issues with my Google Address Book. I have an address book and it is available to everyone, but I cannot add additional users. In Microsoft Outlook, I could easily share certain contacts with other members of my team, but I cannot do so on G Suite."

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"The scalability has room for improvement."

"It takes too long for OneDrive to synchronize various applications, especially when you are saving office data. It also requires too much bandwidth."

"No one gets an alert when files are deleted."

"The user interface sometimes fails and when it cannot connect, it does not give the reason why."

"OneDrive is a bit behind competing products like Dropbox and Box."

"Recent functionality changes have actually made the product more confusing to use."

"I would advice not storage sensitive information since it could be prone to hacking."

"Performance is an issue when sharing a large number of files in a single folder."

More Microsoft OneDrive cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive."

"It's low in cost as compared to Office 365. There is an annual licensing cost."

"You pay for Google Workspace based on your usage and the apps you use, but in my case, it's free, but if I used it a lot more, I'd probably need to pay. 15GB is enough for me, but I see myself upgrading and paying the additional charges for more storage regularly."

"The pricing is very high, although I cannot tell if this is the result of the Indian vendors artificially inflating it."

"I give the pricing an eight out of ten, with ten being the most affordable."

"Pricing is something concerning. We find the solution very expensive."

"I rate Google Workspace's pricing five to six out of ten. We do not pay any extra costs."

"The price of G Suite Enterprise is reasonable compared to HotSpot. I'm not going to say G Suite Enterprise is affordable. It's valuable, you find value in paying your gas bill or your electricity bill, because of what it allows you to do."

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"It is free if you are using Office 365, and you get a terabyte of storage with your account."

"The licensing is expensive and on a yearly basis."

"This is a pricy solution, given that we are only using it at 50% capacity."

"The price of Microsoft OneDrive is reasonable and compatible with competitors."

"Costwise, it is a great option. In most cases, it is a free space, which will be more than enough for most customers."

"We pay a lot for the Enterprise version, but it is a premium service."

"Using this software, it has had an amazing impact moneywise on our business. It allows us to share documents without the need of extra hardware."

"OneDrive comes with Microsoft 365 so it is just an added part of that package."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Google Workspace?

Easy-to-build forms are allowing me to get feedback and information from my internal teams as well as from the customers very efficiently with the result data in structured manner.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Workspace?

I'm not satisfied with the cost because I feel these services should be free as they use our data.

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What needs improvement with Google Workspace?

As far as Google Workspace is concerned, it is working fine for us. Our needs are fulfilled, so that's fine. However, integration with Microsoft Outlook could be improved. The new integration was i...

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What do you like most about Microsoft OneDrive?

The backup capability is one feature I love about OneDrive. I also like how it syncs when you're working offline. Everything is updated once you connect again.

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What needs improvement with Microsoft OneDrive?

It takes too long for OneDrive to synchronize various applications, especially when you are saving office data. It also requires too much bandwidth.

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What is your primary use case for Microsoft OneDrive?

We use OneDrive to share documents throughout the organization and collaborate. It is also used for backups.

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Also Known As

G-Suite Enterprise, G-Suite, Google Apps for Business, G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G-Suite Basic, G-Suite Business, Google Vault

MS OneDrive

Overview

Similar to G Suite, all Google Workspace plans provide a custom email for your business and include collaboration tools like Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Chat, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, and more.

As we’ve evolved G Suite into a more integrated experience across our communication and collaboration tools, we’ve rebranded to Google Workspace to more accurately represent the product vision.

Google

Microsoft OneDrive for Business gives you online storage that works seamlessly with the tools you use every day to create, communicate, and collaborate from your PC/Mac or your iOS, Android, or Windows device.

Microsoft

Sample Customers

There are over five million businesses that use Google Apps for Business worldwide. Some key customers include The Roche Group, National Geographic, American Red Cross, City of Los Angeles, Flight Centre, and Konica Minolta.

Chevron, Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, DBS, Nestle, Lowe's, MGM Resorts, Textron, MGM Resorts

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