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Orbiz vs Google Chat

Zohaib KhalidPrices checked 6 October 2026

Google Chat is the chat inside Google Workspace: spaces, direct messages and Meet, paid for with the rest of the suite from $7 per user a month. Orbiz Huddl is the chat inside Orbiz: channels, threads, guests and files, included for every member in the flat price, beside the projects, people and payroll the conversation is about. Choose Google Chat if the company already runs on Gmail and Drive and wants nothing new to sign in to. Choose Huddl if chat should sit with the work rather than with the mail, and guests should cost nothing.

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Head to head

Orbiz Huddl against Google Chat, row by row

Read from Google Chat's own product and pricing pages. 3 rows are ones Orbiz loses; they are left in.

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Capability comparison of Orbiz Huddl and Google Chat
	Orbiz Huddl	Google Chat
How it is priced	One flat price per organisation, unlimited members, all ten tools	Business Starter: $7 per user a month on an annual plan ($6.30 for the first 12 months on the first 20 users). Business Standard: $14.
No per-user charge¹	Yes	No
Channels or spaces, direct messages and threads	Yes	Yes
Guests from outside the organisation in chosen conversations²	Yes	Partly
Several workspaces per organisation, each with its own channels³	Yes	No
Search across every conversation you belong to	Yes	Yes
Message history kept by default⁴	Yes	Partly
Files shared in a conversation with previews	Yes	Yes
Chat next to projects, time, files and payroll on one login	Yes	No
Video meetings from any conversation⁵	No	Yes
Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets and Calendar in the same subscription	No	Yes
Built-in AI to summarise and find conversations⁶	No	Yes
Connector for Claude and ChatGPT (MCP)⁷	Yes	Not published

¹Chat is part of every Workspace plan, priced per user.
²Google Chat admits external users to spaces where the admin allows it; Huddl guests are invited per channel and reach no other tool.
³Google Chat has spaces within one Workspace domain.
⁴Google Chat history is on or off by default as the admin sets it.
⁵Google Meet, 100 participants on Business Starter. Not in this Huddl release.
⁶Gemini in Chat. Orbiz instead lets the assistant you already use read and post in Huddl as you, through Orbiz MCP.
⁷Orbiz MCP lets an assistant read and post in Huddl as you. Google’s own assistant is Gemini; a third-party connector for Chat was not read on the check date.

Vendor prices are US list prices in USD as published on each vendor's own pricing page on 6 October 2026, annual billing where the vendor offers it, without first-year promotions. Each product name links to that page. Vendors change prices; if a figure here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it. Orbiz prices are on the pricing page, one flat figure per organisation by headcount band.

In their own words

What each one is good at

Orbiz Huddl

Public and private channels, group and one-to-one direct messages
Threads, reactions, pins, saved messages and mentions that notify
External guests invited by email, limited to the huddls and channels you choose
Drag-and-drop files with previews, and search across every conversation

Everything Huddl does

Google Chat

Spaces for teams and topics, with threads, and direct messages
Google Meet video meetings — 100 participants on Business Starter
Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets and Calendar in the same plan
Gemini in Chat to find, summarise and translate conversations
Chat history on or off by default, set by the admin
Apps and bots from the Workspace Marketplace

From Google Chat's own pages. Best for: Companies that already run on Google Workspace and want chat in the same place as mail and files.

FAQ

Orbiz vs Google Chat: what people ask

Is Orbiz cheaper than Google Chat?

Google Chat has no price of its own; it comes with Google Workspace, from $7 per user a month on an annual Business Starter plan, which is $1,680 a year for 20 people and includes Gmail, Drive and Meet. Orbiz is one flat price per organisation: $2,388 a year for up to 25 people on annual billing, with Huddl and the other nine tools for every member. A company that needs Workspace for mail keeps paying for it either way; the comparison is about where the chat lives.

Does Huddl have video calls like Google Meet?

No. Huddl is channels, direct messages, threads, files and search in this release. Voice and video are planned for a later release; a company that meets from chat every day should keep Meet or another meeting tool beside it.

How do guests work in Google Chat and in Huddl?

In Google Chat an admin decides whether people outside the domain can be added to spaces, and they join with their own Google account. In Huddl an admin invites a guest by email to chosen huddls and channels; the guest costs nothing, sees only those channels, cannot create channels or invite anyone, and cannot reach any other Orbiz tool.

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