Compare Frontline editions

The Frontline editions offer collaboration and communication tools designed specifically for frontline workers. 

Frontline editions

Use these tables to see features for the Frontline editions:

Suite wide Service details

Service availability

Usage and support

User access options

Reports and monitoring

Security and data management

3rd-party app integration

Endpoint management

Gemini features

Gmail

Drive and Docs editors

Google Meet

Google Chat

Groups / Groups for Business

Calendar

Service availability

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Gmail and Calendar ✔ ✔ ✔
Groups for Business ✔ ✔ ✔
Chat and chat rooms ✔ ✔ ✔
Drive storage and Docs editors (includes Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Sites) ✔ ✔ ✔
Video conferencing with Meet ✔ ✔ ✔
Directory management ✔ ✔ ✔
Sites ✔ ✔ ✔
Additional Google services ✔ ✔ ✔
Colab to collaboratively develop data science and machine learning models (as an additional Google service, no user licenses required) ✔ ✔ ✔
Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ (add-on) ✔ ✔ ✔
Gemini app with enterprise-grade data protections ✔ ✔ ✔
AppSheet Core  ✔  ✔  ✔
NotebookLM  ✔  ✔  ✔
Google Vids Viewer Only Viewer Only Viewer Only
Google Vault for eDiscovery and information governance   ✔ ✔
Integrate third-party repositories in Cloud Search     ✔
Index third-party data using Cloud Search     ✔

* Compare Gemini app offerings

 

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Usage and support

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Number of users Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Email, document, photo storage per user 5 GB 5 GB 5 GB
99.9% uptime guarantee ✔ ✔ ✔
Standard Support ✔ ✔ ✔

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User access options

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Supported browsers ✔ ✔ ✔
Access across devices (computers, phones, tablets) ✔ ✔ ✔
Offline access ✔ ✔ ✔
Microsoft Outlook  ✔ ✔ ✔
IMAP and POP mail clients ✔ ✔ ✔

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Reports and monitoring

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Highlights reports summarizing metrics and trends  ✔ ✔ ✔
Apps-usage reports (organization wide) ✔ ✔ ✔
User- and admin-specific activity reports ✔ ✔ ✔
Carbon footprint report ✔ ✔ ✔
Audit and investigation tool
Log event reporting
(See log events below)		 ✔ ✔ ✔
Drive DLP data protection insights report ✔ ✔ ✔
VirusTotal reports   ✔ ✔
Log-event exports to Google Security Operations     ✔
Export reports to BigQuery     ✔
Work Insights reports for users     ✔
Google Meet attendance reports      

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Security and data management

Security policies and data protection

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
2-Step Verification ✔ ✔ ✔
Security keys for 2-Step Verification ✔ ✔ ✔
Set session length for Google Cloud services ✔ ✔ ✔
Collaboration with trusted domains ✔ ✔ ✔
Basic date export  ✔ ✔ ✔
Enforced SSL connections ✔ ✔ ✔
Password monitoring and strength control ✔ ✔ ✔
Generative AI security protections  ✔* ✔* ✔
Drive data protection insights report ✔ ✔ ✔
Set session length for Google services   ✔ ✔
Data loss prevention (DLP)   ✔ ✔
Control app access based on user and device context
(Context-Aware Access)		   ✔ ✔
Cloud Identity Premium security management
(no separate license required)		   ✔ ✔
Advanced data exports     ✔
Client-side encryption     ✔
Assured Controls for managing compliance & security requirements (add-on)     ✔

* Requires a Google Workspace with Gemini add-on

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Security dashboards & investigation tools

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Alert center: Notifications of potential security issues ✔ ✔ ✔
Audit and investigation tool
Log event reporting
(See log events below)		 ✔ ✔ ✔

Security investigation tool
Log event reporting with premium features:

See also below:

   ✔ ✔
Security dashboard reports
(See dashboard reports below)		   ✔ ✔
Security health page
(See settings analyses below)		   ✔ ✔

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Data regions

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Fundamental data regions  
Set a single data at rest region policy for everyone in your organization   ✔   ✔
Emterprise data regions*  
Set data at rest region policies for organizational units or groups      ✔

Basic data regions reports

(Includes data at rest, versions, and policy summaries)

     ✔

Set data region processing policies

(Including for organizational units and groups)

     ✔
Advanced settings for data regions     ✔
Assured Controls data regions (add-on)**  

Advanced data regions reports 

(Includes data processing by region and service, and data at rest by service)

     ✔
* Users who don't have a supported edition for Enterprise data regions aren't covered by data region policies—even if you apply a data region policy to their organizational unit.
** Requires purchasing the Assured Controls data regions add-on

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Security investigation tool: Common use cases

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Use the security investigation tool to end meetings   ✔ ✔
Investigate file sharing   ✔ ✔
Transfer a Drive file from an unknown owner   ✔ ✔
Investigate users across data sources   ✔ ✔
Search and investigate user log events   ✔ ✔
Investigate and take action on suspicious session cookies   ✔ ✔
Investigate Chat messages to moderate content and protect your data   ✔ ✔
Investigate reports of malicious emails     ✔
Use the investigation tool to view sensitive content     ✔

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Log events of user and admin activity

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Access Transparency log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Admin data action log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Admin log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Calendar log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Chat log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Chrome browsers events ✔ ✔ ✔
Chrome log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Chrome Sync log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Cloud Search log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Contacts log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Context Aware Access log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Device log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Directory Sync log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Drive log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Graduation log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Groups Enterprise log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Groups log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Jamboard log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Keep log events ✔ ✔ ✔
LDAP log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Looker Studio log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Meet log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Meet recordings in Drive log events ✔ ✔ ✔
OAuth log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Profile log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Rule log events ✔ ✔ ✔
SAML log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Takeout log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Tasks log events ✔ ✔ ✔
User log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Vault log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Voice log events ✔ ✔ ✔
Devices events   ✔ ✔
Users events   ✔ ✔
Gmail log events     ✔
Gmail messages     ✔

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Security Dashboard reports

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
DLP incidents report   ✔ ✔
Top policy incidents report   ✔ ✔
User login attempts report   ✔ ✔
Failed device password attempts report   ✔ ✔
Compromised device events report   ✔ ✔
Suspicious device activities report   ✔ ✔
OAuth grant activity report   ✔ ✔
OAuth grants to new apps report   ✔ ✔
Sensitive content transfer on Chrome report    ✔* ✔*
Users with most sensitive content transfer on Chrome report   ✔* ✔*
Domains with most sensitive content transfer on Chrome report   ✔* ✔*
Domain types with most sensitive content transfer on Chrome report   ✔* ✔*
Chrome threat protection summary report   ✔* ✔*
Chrome data protection summary report   ✔* ✔*
Chrome high risk users report   ✔* ✔*
Chrome high risk domains report   ✔* ✔*
Suspicious attachments report     ✔*
File exposure report     ✔*
Authentication report     ✔*
Custom settings report     ✔*
Encryption report     ✔*
Message delivery report     ✔*
Spam filter report     ✔*
User report     ✔*
Spoofing report     ✔*

* Requires Chrome Enterprise Premium

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Security health page reports

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus

Device management settings that can be monitored 

  • Blocking of compromised mobile devices
  • Mobile management
  • Mobile password requirements
  • Device encryption
  • Mobile inactivity reports
  • Auto account wipe
  • Application verification
  • Installation of mobile applications from unknown sources
  • External media storage
   ✔ ✔

Security settings that can be monitored

  • Two-step verification for users
  • Two-step verification for admins
  • Security key enforcement for admins
  • Security key enforcement for users*
   ✔ ✔

Gmail settings that can be monitored

  • Automatic email forwarding
  • Comprehensive mail storage
  • Bypassing spam filters for internal senders
  • POP and IMAP access for users
  • DKIM, SPF records, & DMARC
  • Approved senders without authentication
  • Approved domain senders
  • Email whitelist IPs
  • Add spam headers setting to all default routing rules
  • MX record configuration
  • MTA-STS configuration
  • Attachment safety
  • Links and external images safety
  • Spoofing and authentication safety
     ✔

Drive settings that can be monitored

  • Drive sharing settings
  • Warning for out-of-domain sharing
  • Access Checker
  • Drive add-ons
  • Access to offline docs
  • Desktop access to Drive
  • File publishing on the web 
  • Google sign-in requirement for external collaborators
     ✔

Hangouts settings that can be monitored

Hangouts out of domain warning

     ✔

Groups settings that can be monitored

Groups creation and membership

     ✔

Marketplace apps settings that can be monitored

Google Workspace Marketplace applications usage

     ✔

Calendar settings that can be monitored

Calendar sharing policy

     ✔

Sites settings that can be monitored

Access to Calendar when offline

     ✔

* Supported in Frontline Plus only

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3rd-party app integration

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Single-sign on (SSO) using Google as IdP ✔ ✔ ✔
Single-sign on (SSO) using a 3rd-party IdP  ✔ ✔ ✔
App catalog of 200+ preconfigured SAML apps ✔ ✔ ✔
Autoprovisioning of SAML apps  (maximum number) 3 100 100

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Endpoint management

Device security settings

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Fundamental endpoint management    
Basic passcode enforcement (mobile) ✔ ✔ ✔
Google Credential Provider for Windows (standalone) ✔ ✔ ✔
Network management
(ChromeOS, meeting room hardware)		 ✔ ✔ ✔
Advanced endpoint management*    
Strong password enforcement ✔ ✔ ✔
Network management (mobile) ✔ ✔ ✔
Mobile device security policies ✔ ✔ ✔
Android work profiles ✔ ✔ ✔
Enterprise endpoint management*  
iOS data protection   ✔ ✔
Mobile device certificates   ✔ ✔
Context-Aware Access   ✔ ✔

* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management

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Device management

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Fundamental endpoint management    
Basic mobile device management ✔ ✔ ✔
Fundamental management for computers ✔ ✔ ✔
Endpoint verification ✔ ✔ ✔
Company-owned device inventory (endpoints) ✔ ✔ ✔
Remote account sign-out ✔ ✔ ✔
Remote account wipe (mobile) ✔ ✔ ✔
Block devices ✔ ✔ ✔
Drive for desktop ✔ ✔ ✔
Advanced endpoint management*    
Advanced mobile management ✔ ✔ ✔
Zero-touch enrollment for Android devices ✔ ✔ ✔
Admin approval of devices ✔ ✔ ✔
Remote device wipe ✔ ✔ ✔
Windows device management ✔ ✔ ✔
Enterprise endpoint management*  
Company-owned device inventory (Android)   ✔ ✔
Company-owned device inventory (iOS)   ✔ ✔
Mobile device management rules   ✔ ✔
BeyondCorp Alliance partner integrations   ✔ ✔

* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management

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Mobile app management

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Fundamental endpoint management    
Public and private app management (Android) ✔ ✔ ✔
Advanced endpoint management*    
Public app management (iOS) ✔ ✔ ✔
Android app runtime permissions ✔ ✔ ✔
Selectively distribute mobile apps to users ✔ ✔ ✔
Publish private Android web apps ✔ ✔ ✔
Managed Android app settings configurations ✔ ✔ ✔
Enterprise endpoint management*  
Private app management (iOS)   ✔ ✔

* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management

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Device details

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Fundamental endpoint management    
Basic device details (mobile) ✔ ✔ ✔
Basic endpoint details
(computer & smart home devices)		 ✔ ✔ ✔
Basic device reports (Chrome & mobile) ✔ ✔ ✔
Advanced endpoint management*    
Advanced device reports (mobile)  ✔ ✔ ✔
Enterprise endpoint management*  
Device log events   ✔ ✔

* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management

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Gemini features

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Gemini app
Enterprise-grade security & privacy ✔ ✔ ✔
Google Workspace apps ✔ ✔ ✔
Gems ✔ ✔ ✔

Image generation with people 

 ✔ ✔ ✔
Canvas ✔ ✔ ✔
Audio Overviews ✔ ✔ ✔
Deep research ✔* ✔* ✔*
File upload and advanced data analysis ✔** ✔** ✔**
Gemini Advanced      
Edit and run code      
NotebookLM
Upload sources, create summaries and Audio Overviews, and Q&A ✔ ✔ ✔
NotebookLM Plus      
Gmail
Help me write     ✔
Side panel     ✔
Contextual smart replies     ✔
Google Chat
Side panel     ✔
Summarize conversations     ✔
Automatic translation     ✔
Google Meet
Take notes for me     ✔
Studio sound, studio look, and studio lighting     ✔
Watermarking     ✔
Adaptive audio     ✔
Translated captions     ✔
Generate a background     ✔
Security
AI classification in Drive     ✔
Google Docs
Side panel      
Help me write      
Help me create an image      
Summarize a document      
Google Sheets
Side panel      
Enhanced smart fill      
Google Slides
Side panel      
Help me create an image      
Remove image backgrounds      
Google Vids
Full access to AI features      
Google Drive
Side panel      
Analyze PDFs      

* Subject to limits on the number of requests per day and on the number of requests you can run at the same time
** Advanced data analysis is not supported. Additionally, some file types require Gemini Advanced. Learn more

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Gmail

Email addresses and mailing lists

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Your email address (you@yourcompany.com) ✔ ✔ ✔
Additional addresses per user (sales@yourcompany.com) ✔ ✔ ✔
Addresses at multiple domains (you@company2.com) ✔ ✔ ✔
Admin-controlled mailing lists ✔ ✔ ✔
User-controlled mailing lists ✔ ✔ ✔
Personalized email campaigns with mail merge     ✔

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Email usage and limits

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Email storage (shared with documents and photos) 5 GB 5 GB 5 GB
Attachment size limit (sending) 25 MB 25 MB 25 MB
Attachment size limit (receiving) 50 MB 50 MB 50 MB
Recipients per message (To, Cc, Bcc fields combined)  2,000 (500 external) 2,000 (500 external) 2,000 (500 external)
Unique recipients per day
(Each unique address counts once.)

3,000 (2,000 external, 500 external for trial accounts)

 3,000 (2,000 external, 500 external for trial accounts) 3,000 (2,000 external, 500 external for trial accounts)

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Email security & compliance

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Junk email filtering and virus blocking ✔ ✔ ✔
Gmail ads turned off ✔ ✔ ✔
Custom filtering and content policies ✔ ✔ ✔
Email and chat retention policies ✔ ✔ ✔
Allowed IP addresses ✔ ✔ ✔
User-managed denylists ✔ ✔ ✔
Enforced-compliance footers ✔ ✔ ✔
Option to disable IMAP & POP access ✔ ✔ ✔
Advanced phishing and malware protection ✔ ✔ ✔
Gmail data loss prevention (DLP)     ✔
Use optical character recognition to read images     ✔
Gmail log search in BigQuery     ✔
Gmail integration with a 3rd-party archiving solution     ✔
Advanced email attachment scanning (Security Sandbox)     ✔
S/MIME encryption for email     ✔
Client-side encryption for email     ✔

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Advanced email delivery options

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Catch-all address ✔ ✔ ✔
Email routing options for split and dual delivery  ✔ ✔ ✔
Inbound gateway ✔ ✔ ✔
Outbound gateway (for entire organization) ✔ ✔ ✔
Outbound relay server (for alternative From: addresses) ✔ ✔ ✔
Receiving from multiple POP addresses  ✔ ✔ ✔

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Drive and Docs editors

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Drive storage and Docs editors (includes Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Sites) ✔ ✔ ✔
Connected Sheets ✔ ✔ ✔
Drive sharing permissions ✔ ✔ ✔
Drive audit logs ✔ ✔ ✔
Sharing to non-Google accounts (visitor sharing)  ✔ ✔ ✔
Membership in shared drives Viewer only* Viewer only* Viewer only*
Drive file suggestions in Chrome Browser address bar   ✔ ✔
Insert smart chips in your Google Sheets   Limited data types Limited data types
Advanced Drive logs and reports (Drive log events)     ✔
Client-side encryption for Drive files     ✔
Drive inventory export     ✔
Trust rules for Drive sharing permissions     ✔
Limit external connections for Apps Script and Sheets     ✔

* They can comment on and edit files that are directly shared with them from shared drives.

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Google Meet

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Maximum meeting length 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours
Maximum number of participants per meeting 100 100 100
External participants ✔ ✔ ✔
Secure meetings ✔ ✔ ✔
Presentations and screen sharing ✔ ✔ ✔
App for Android and iOS ✔ ✔ ✔
Dial in (U.S. & international numbers) ✔ ✔ ✔
Hand raising ✔ ✔ ✔
Raise a room's hand using Meet hardware ✔ ✔ ✔
Noise cancellation ✔ ✔ ✔
Join breakout rooms ✔ ✔ ✔
Track attendance (requires 5 or more attendees) ✔ ✔ ✔
Digital whiteboard ✔ ✔ ✔
Add Meet video to Microsoft Outlook ✔ ✔ ✔
Reactions ✔ ✔ ✔
Meet eCDN ✔ ✔ ✔
Gemini AI in Meet     ✔
Client-side encryption for audio and video     ✔

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Google Chat

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Turn chat history on or off ✔ ✔ ✔
Automatically accept chat invitations ✔ ✔ ✔
Allow or restrict external chat ✔ ✔ ✔
Use discoverable spaces ✔ ✔ ✔
Chat Interoperability for interaction between Chat and non-Chat users (add-on) ✔ ✔ ✔
Chat data loss prevention (DLP)   ✔ ✔
Gemini AI in Chat     ✔
Set space history option for users     ✔
External chat for 1:1 and group direct messages     ✔
Allow or restrict Chat apps     ✔
Turn external spaces on or off     ✔
Automatically delete Chat messages for your organization     ✔
Control file sharing in Chat     ✔
Integrate Chat with a third-party archiving solution     ✔
Moderate Chat content     ✔

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Groups / Groups for Business

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Email list groups ✔ ✔ ✔
Groups for content sharing and calendar invitations ✔ ✔ ✔
Collaborative Inboxes and message moderation ✔ ✔ ✔
User-managed groups ✔ ✔ ✔
Configuration groups for use by admins ✔ ✔ ✔
Inspect group membership* ✔ ✔ ✔
View members of a nested group* ✔ ✔ ✔
Target audiences     ✔

* Requires Cloud Identity Premium

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Google Calendar

  Frontline Starter Frontline Standard Frontline Plus
Team calendars ✔ ✔ ✔
Resource booking (rooms, buildings, equipment) ✔ ✔ ✔
Events with video conferencing  ✔ ✔ ✔
Automatically add events to calendars ✔ ✔ ✔
Calendars synced with Microsoft Exchange ✔ ✔ ✔
Client-side encryption for event descriptions     ✔
Set up appointment schedules      
Allow users to share working location      

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