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Google Chat
Google Chat is a business messaging and collaboration platform with direct messages, Spaces, huddles, file sharing, Workspace integrations, Gemini AI and extensible Chat apps.
About Google Chat
Google Chat is a business communication and team messaging platform included with Google Workspace. It supports direct messages, group conversations and persistent Spaces where teams can organize discussions, share files, assign tasks and collaborate around ongoing work.
Chat integrates directly with Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Meet, Groups and other Workspace services. Teams can move from asynchronous messaging into real time huddles, collaborate on shared content and access Chat from within Gmail. Google also supports third party applications and integrations for bringing business information and workflows into conversations.
Gemini adds AI capabilities to Google Chat. Available functionality includes catching up on conversations, identifying action items, translating messages, summarizing shared files, helping users create or refine messages and answering questions about conversations from the Gemini side panel.
Key Features
- Spaces: Create persistent collaboration areas for teams, projects and communities, with support for large memberships and organized workplace discussions.
- Direct Messaging: Communicate privately with individuals or participate in group conversations for everyday workplace coordination.
- Gemini in Chat: Use AI to summarize conversations and files, identify action items, translate messages, generate content and answer questions about discussion context.
- Huddles: Start real time collaboration sessions from Chat using Google Meet based huddles.
- Workspace Integration: Work with Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet, Groups and other Google Workspace services from the broader collaboration environment.
- Chat Apps and API: Build interactive, event driven or webhook based applications that can retrieve information, perform workflows and interact with users inside Chat.
Pricing
Google Chat is included with Google Workspace rather than sold as a separate paid business messaging subscription.
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Business Starter: $7/user/month with a one year commitment. Includes Google Workspace services with 30 GB pooled storage per user, business email, Gemini capabilities and security and management controls.
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Business Standard: $14/user/month with a one year commitment. Includes the Starter capabilities plus 2 TB pooled storage per user and expanded Gemini capabilities across Workspace applications.
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Business Plus: $22/user/month with a one year commitment. Includes the Standard capabilities plus 5 TB pooled storage per user, additional email capabilities and expanded meeting functionality.
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Enterprise: Contact sales. Designed for organizations requiring broader enterprise capabilities, security controls and large scale Workspace deployment.
Use Cases
- Internal team messaging through direct conversations and persistent Spaces
- Project and department collaboration with files, tasks and threaded discussions
- AI assisted conversation summaries, action item extraction and workplace information retrieval
- Connecting business applications, alerts and custom workflows to team conversations
Pros & Cons
Pros:
- Integrates closely with Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet and other Google Workspace services
- Includes Gemini capabilities for conversation summaries, action items, translation and contextual assistance
- Provides APIs, webhooks and interactive Chat apps for custom workflows and integrations
Cons:
- Business pricing is tied to Google Workspace subscriptions rather than a standalone Google Chat business plan
- Some advanced collaboration and AI capabilities are limited to particular Google Workspace editions
Integrations
Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Meet, Google Groups, Asana, GitHub, HubSpot, Jira, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Trello, Workday, Zapier
FAQ
Last edited
October 1, 2026 at 9:15 AM by Venkatraman Chandrasekaran
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