Google Workspace Payment Plan Types

The Annual plan is no longer available to most newly created Google Workspace accounts.
If you don’t see the option to select it while setting up your payments information, then it’s not available for you.

Google Workspace used to cost slightly less on the Annual plan than it did on the Flexible plan. This is no longer the case nowadays as both plans cost the same.

The catch is that with the Annual plan, you commit to pay for a specific number of users for 1 full year. This takes away your flexibility as you can not decrease the number of users to reduce your monthly payments. If you cancel early, you must pay a close-out fee.

Even though you have to pay for an entire year, you’re charged each month automatically for the usage during the previous month, just like on the Flexible plan.

Google charges you per license instead of per user, so deleting users doesn’t mean you pay less. To stop getting charged, you need to remove licenses, which you can only do in two scenarios:

• With the help of the support team, but they can only do it as an exception in specific situations.
• By setting up your renewal options to decrease the number of licenses upon renewal once your current Annual plan expires.