SimploMail Inbox vs Google Workspace
Google Workspace is probably one of the first things you will find when you search for a professional email address with your own domain. It gives you Gmail with your own domain, along with Google Drive, Google Meet, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, and other Google services. That is great if you need all of those tools. But what if you just want an email address likehello@yourcompany.com? That is where the difference between Google Workspace and SimploMail Inbox becomes interesting.
Google Workspace gives you much more than email
With Google Workspace, you are not just paying for an email address.
You are buying access to a larger collection of Google services. The Business Starter plan includes custom business email through Gmail, 30 GB of pooled storage per user, Google Meet, and other Workspace features. Google also currently includes Gemini features in the plan.
For a company that needs these tools, having everything in one subscription can make a lot of sense.
But not everyone needs another productivity suite.
Maybe you already have the tools you use every day.
Maybe you use another cloud storage provider.
Or maybe you are building a small SaaS and all you need is a professional email address for your domain.
In that case, paying for a complete productivity platform just to get email can feel like a lot.
How much does Google Workspace email cost?
Google Workspace Business Starter currently costs $7 per user per month in the US when you choose the annual commitment. That is$84 per year for one user.
SimploMail Inbox takes a different approach.
An email address with your own domain costs $12 per year when you choose the annual plan. That is equivalent to $1 per month. You can also choose the monthly plan for $2 per month.
So if you only compare the cost of one professional mailbox:
| SimploMail Inbox | Google Workspace | |
|---|---|---|
| Annual plan | $12/year | $84/year |
| Monthly equivalent | $1/month | $7/month |
| Custom domain | Yes | Yes |
That is a difference of $72 per year for every mailbox.
The cost becomes more interesting when you have several projects
This is something I think is easy to overlook.
A person running one company might need one or two email addresses.
A developer or founder building several products can have a very different situation.
Imagine that you have five SaaS projects.
You have five domains, and you want a professional email address for each one:
hello@projectone.comhello@projecttwo.comhello@projectthree.comhello@projectfour.comhello@projectfive.com
With Google Workspace, five users at $7 per month would cost$35 per month, or $420 per year.
With SimploMail Inbox, five mailboxes on the annual plan would cost$60 per year.
That leaves a $360 difference every year.
And you might not stop at five projects.
| Number of mailboxes | SimploMail Inbox | Google Workspace |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $12/year | $84/year |
| 5 | $60/year | $420/year |
| 10 | $120/year | $840/year |
| 20 | $240/year | $1,680/year |
For someone running multiple small products, those recurring costs are worth thinking about.
An email address for a small side project might not generate any revenue for months. Spending $84 every year just to keep the mailbox can add up when you have several domains.
You can still use Gmail
There is another important point.
Choosing SimploMail Inbox does not mean you have to stop using the Gmail app.
SimploMail Inbox supports standard email protocols, so you can connect your email address to email clients that support them.
That includes applications such as Gmail, Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, and others.
So you could have:
and read those messages using the Gmail app you already know.
The difference is that the mailbox is provided by SimploMail Inbox instead of Google Workspace.
What are you actually paying for?
This is probably the simplest way to look at the two services.
With Google Workspace, your subscription gives you an entire collection of Google's business productivity tools, with Gmail being one part of that package.
With SimploMail Inbox, the focus is much narrower.
You are paying for a professional email address using your own domain.
If that is all you need, you do not have to pay for services you are not going to use.
A good fit for small SaaS projects
For developers and founders, email is often one of those small expenses that gets multiplied.
You launch one product.
Then another one.
Then you buy another domain for an idea you are testing.
Soon you have several domains and several email addresses.
You might not need Google Drive, Google Meet, Docs, Sheets, and the rest of the Google Workspace platform for every one of those projects.
Sometimes you just want an email address that looks professional.
That is the use case SimploMail Inbox is designed for.
SimploMail Inbox keeps the decision simple
You can use your own domain and create addresses such as:
Then connect them to the email application you prefer.
There is no need to move your entire workflow to another productivity platform just because you need a professional email address.
And with the annual plan, the price is $12 per mailbox per year.
Google Workspace or SimploMail Inbox?
Google Workspace makes sense when you want Google's complete business productivity environment and want your custom-domain email to be part of it.
SimploMail Inbox is a different proposition.
If your main requirement is a professional email address for your domain, you can get one for $12 per year on the annual plan.
For a single company, the difference may be relatively small.
For someone with multiple domains, side projects, or SaaS products, the recurring savings can become much more noticeable.
Get a professional email address with your own domain for $12 per year. Get started with SimploMail Inbox