Google Workspace vs Stellar Migrator for Exchange

Google Workspace brings email, meetings, chat, calendars, file storage, and productivity apps into a paid suite. Its apps include Gmail, Meet, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Vids, Forms, Sites, Gemini, Keep, Apps Script, and Tasks. Multiple people can edit documents simultaneously, follow changes as they appear, and communicate through comments and built-in chat. Drive stores updates automatically and supports sharing for viewing, downloading, and collaboration. Gemini availability varies by plan: Business Starter includes it in Gmail, while Standard includes it in Gmail, Docs, Meet, and more. Security options include 2-Step Verification, Single Sign-On, endpoint management, and archiving controls. Google also lists pre-integrated single sign-on for over 200 cloud apps and automated provisioning for those apps. Business Starter, Standard, and Plus have a 300-user maximum; Enterprise has no minimum or maximum. Workspace runs on Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows. There is no free plan, and a 14-day trial is available. Business plans start at $7/user/mo annually.

Stellar Migrator for Exchange moves mailboxes among Exchange Server and Microsoft 365 environments, including transfers between Microsoft 365 tenants. It supports primary, shared, and archive mailboxes as well as public folders, and can run cutover, staged, or hybrid migrations all at once or in batches. Delta migration transfers new or changed data after an initial move. Up to 10 mailboxes and their items can be migrated simultaneously. Users can match mailboxes automatically or map them manually, including with a CSV file, select folders such as email, contacts, calendars, tasks, notes, and journals, and filter mail by date range. Failed or incomplete migrations can be rerun, with automatic retries set from 1 to 5 attempts. It runs on Windows and requires at least 8 GB of memory. The free trial covers 2 mailboxes and includes all migration capabilities; Mailbox Pricing is $250, paid once, billed $10 Per Mailbox, with quantity selected on the page and one license per source mailbox.