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
$0.00
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 |
| Source you can read | Not available | Included |
| Run it on your own server | Not available | Included |
| Data in the European Union | Limited | Included |
| Provider subject to EU law | Not available | Included |
| Managed service, nothing to host | Included | Not available |
| 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.
Read it before you believe any of this
Every row above is a claim about software you can download. The code is public, so the table can be checked rather than trusted.