Google Workspace Business Plus: Vault, endpoint control and 5 TB per user

Google Vault is the reason most buyers choose Plus

Vault is not a backup product and it is not a folder anyone browses day to day. It is an archive and search layer over Gmail, Drive, Chat and Meet recordings that an administrator or a nominated Vault user can act on. Three parts of it change how an organisation behaves.

Retention

You set rules for how long messages and files are kept, and the rule outranks the user. Without Vault, a deleted user's data is retained for 20 days for restore and is unrecoverable after that, and anything a person permanently deletes from their own mailbox is gone. With a retention rule in place, the record survives the person's housekeeping.

Legal holds

When a dispute is on the horizon, a hold preserves the relevant accounts' data so that ordinary deletion does not remove it. This is the difference between telling an auditor "we hold everything from that period" and hoping the counsellor who ran that project never emptied their bin.

eDiscovery and export

Search across the organisation by user, date range, keyword or file type, and export what you find in a defensible format. In practice this is what handles a donor's request for all correspondence with a supplier, or a lawyer's request for a project's paper trail.

Device control and Secure LDAP

Every Business edition includes basic endpoint management, which is enough to see enrolled devices and wipe a lost phone's account access. Advanced endpoint management, in Plus only, gives an administrator far more: device policy enforcement, tighter mobile management and a real answer to the question of what happens when a field officer's phone disappears at a checkpoint with three years of mail on it.

Secure LDAP, also Plus only, lets older systems and applications authenticate against your Workspace directory rather than keeping a second list of users and passwords. If you run a network appliance, a VPN or an on-premise application that speaks LDAP, this is the feature that stops staff having two identities. Our Workspace security guide puts these controls in order of what to configure first.

Meet at 500, with attendance tracking

Plus raises the participant limit to 500 and keeps the 24-hour meeting length, on top of the recording, noise cancellation and breakout rooms that arrive with Standard. Attendance tracking is exclusive to Plus, and it is the practical reason training providers and larger organisations pick it: a record of who joined and for how long, without anyone taking a manual roll call.

Live streaming is not in any Business edition. Google reserves it for Enterprise and Education Plus, so an organisation that needs to broadcast beyond 500 participants has to look outside the Business range.

5 TB per user, pooled

Plus pools 5 TB per licence across the whole organisation. Twenty licences make a 100 TB pool shared across Gmail, Drive and Photos, and one heavy user can draw on far more than their nominal share. Individual files can be up to 5 TB. If the pool is exceeded by 25%, or stays over for 14 days, users can no longer add files to Drive or create new Docs, Sheets and Slides, so an archive-heavy organisation should still watch the number rather than assume it is infinite.

What Business Plus still does not include

Gemini is the same on Plus as on Standard: Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, the Drive side panel and Meet, the Gemini app at Pro access where chats and uploads are not reviewed by humans, and Gemini Notebook with higher limits. Paying for Plus does not buy more AI, it buys retention and control.

Who in Nepal actually buys this edition

Business Plus price in Nepal

Google's list price for Business Plus is $22 per user per month on the annual or fixed-term plan and $26.40 on the flexible monthly plan, billed in US dollars by card, since rupees are not a supported Google billing currency. All three editions are set out together on the Workspace price page.