Comparisons
Google Workspace alternative
Google covers mail, calendar, files and meetings very well. The rest is missing: real team chat, a wiki, boards and notes — which you end up buying separately.
What it costs per year
For 10 people, on each vendor's annual list price.
Google Workspace
$1,680.00
per year
Beskos
$1,440.00
per year
What each one covers
| Google Workspace | Beskos | |
|---|---|---|
| Mail on your own domain | Included | Included |
| Calendar and invites | Included | Included |
| Contacts with custom fields | Limited | Included |
| Team files | Included | Included |
| Chat with channels and threads | Included | Included |
| Video meetings with recording | Included | Included |
| Edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint | Included | Included |
| Wiki / knowledge base | Limited | Included |
| Kanban boards | Not available | Included |
| AI assistant included | Included | Included |
| Desktop folder sync | Included | Included |
| Own domain with DKIM and DMARC | Included | Included |
| Data in the European Union | Limited | Included |
| Provider subject to EU law | Not available | Included |
| Managed service, nothing to host | Included | Included |
| All in the same app | Limited | Included |
Where Google Workspace is better
- Docs, Sheets and Slides in live collaboration — the market benchmark.
- Compatibility and integrations with practically everything out there.
- The scale and availability of one of the largest infrastructures in the world.
Where Beskos wins
- Chat, wiki and boards included, without buying Slack, Notion and Trello on the side.
- Data on servers in the European Union, not subject to US access legislation.
- Word, Excel and PowerPoint edited in the browser, keeping the original format.
- Walk out with IMAP, .ics, vCard and ZIP the day you decide to.
In short
If your team lives inside Google Docs, Google is hard to beat on live co-editing. If what you need is the whole working suite — chat, wiki and tasks included — Google alone doesn't get there, and the full stack costs far more.
Run it with your own numbers
Tick what you pay for today and see the difference at the end of the year.