{"rid":"storage/google-workspace-for-education-fundamentals","card":{"rid":"storage/google-workspace-for-education-fundamentals","eid":"google","topic":"storage","slug":"google-workspace-for-education-fundamentals","provider":"Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals (pooled tenant)","url":"https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/workspace-for-education/editions/education-fundamentals/","domain":"google.com","category":"cloud-drive","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies","vorder":0,"grp":"usable","confidence":"reported","binding":"per-object-cap","identity_kind":"institution","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":1,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest,rclone","egress_metered":1,"per_object_bytes":5000000000000,"retention_days":14,"verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"inherited","checked_on":"2026-10-21","stale_on":"2026-11-04","n_evidence":5,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"100 TB of pooled cloud storage per institution, at 'No cost'. Pooled across Drive + Gmail + Photos and all shared drives. Confirmed twice on Google's own pag...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":5},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"google-workspace-for-education-fundamentals","provider":"Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals (pooled tenant)","url":"https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/workspace-for-education/editions/education-fundamentals/","category":"cloud-drive","free_tier":{"stated":"100 TB of pooled cloud storage per institution, at 'No cost'. Pooled across Drive + Gmail + Photos and all shared drives. Confirmed twice on Google's own pages: 'Schools and universities with Google Workspace for Education subscriptions have a baseline of 100 TB of pooled storage shared across all users' and 'Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals / Standard — 100 TB total for all End Users'.","unit":"TB","metered_on":"stored-bytes","source_url":"https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/getting-started/editions/overview-of-google-workspace-for-education-storage","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"5 TB per single upload","bytes":5000000000000,"source_url":"https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/getting-started/editions/overview-of-google-workspace-for-education-storage","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"Over-quota: at +25% or 14 days, uploads and Docs creation stop but download keeps working.","days":14,"source_url":"https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/getting-started/editions/overview-of-google-workspace-for-education-storage","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"Not metered for Drive reads. Google's own storage page says over-quota tenants 'can still sign in to ... view and download their files' — i.e. reads are never blocked by quota. Direct-download URLs are served from Google's edge; put behind Cloudflare if you want a cache.","metered":true},"interface":["rest","rclone"],"interface_detail":"rest","tooling":"rclone backend 'drive' (Tier 1, server-side copy, shared-drive support); Google Drive API v3; GAM (github.com/GAM-team/GAM) for admin-side bulk operations; gclone for service-account fan-out.","chaining":"One qualifying institution = one tenant = 100 TB. No user should be part of multiple tenants') and an institution with ineligible business 'must establish a separate domain for the school' — so the multiplier is *domains*, not users. Inside a tenant the multiplier is shared drives (unlimited count) and user count: up to 2,500 licenses per new domain, all drawing on the same 100 TB pool. Adding Teaching & Learning add-on licences adds 100 GB each 'with no cap' (paid).","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"5 TB per single upload","source":"https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/getting-started/editions/overview-of-google-workspace-for-education-storage"}],"limits_note":"per-object-cap 5 TB per single upload, and 750 GB per user per 24 h (upload+copy) — this is the real throttle, and it is refreshing not cumulative. request-rate: standard Drive API quota (per-project, raiseable). retention: none while the tenant is active; data survives account suspension but suspended users still consume the pool. Item cap 500 million items per user. Over-quota: at +25% or 14 days, uploads and Docs creation stop but download keeps working.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: 100 TB of pooled cloud storage per institution, at 'No cost'. Pooled across Drive + Gmail + Photos and all shared drives. Confirmed twice on Google's own pages: 'Scho","country":null},"reliability_note":"Stable for a decade, but Google already abolished the predecessor's unlimited tier (2021 archive: 'Existing customers ... will continue to have unlimited storage until early 2022'). Quota is now hard-capped and admin-auditable, so a tenant can be spotted by whoever administers it.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/getting-started/editions/overview-of-google-workspace-for-education-storage","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'baseline of 100 TB of pooled storage shared across all users'"},{"url":"https://support.google.com/a/answer/172541","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"table: 'Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals / Standard | 100 TB total for all End Users'; 'Each user can upload and copy 750 GB to Drive within 24 hours ... up to 5 TB in size'"},{"url":"https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/getting-started/editions/qualifications-for-google-workspace-for-education","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"K-12 and degree-granting institutions only; 'must establish a separate domain for the school to qualify'"},{"url":null,"date":"2026-10-21","proved":"probe: GET knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/getting-started/editions/overview-of-google-workspace-for-education-storage -> 200 (quota quoted live, 2026-10-21)"},{"url":null,"date":"2026-10-21","proved":"probe: GET www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/about?fields=storageQuota -> 401 (anonymous; confirms API is the read path, auth required)"}],"verdict":"qualifies","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"100 TB of pooled cloud storage per institution, at 'No cost'. Pooled across Drive + Gmail + Photos and all shared drives. Confirmed twice on Google's own pages: 'Schools and universities with Google Workspace for Education subscriptions have a baseline of 100 TB of pooled storage shared across all users' and 'Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals / Standard — 100 TB total for all End Users'.","extras":{},"binding":"per-object-cap","binding_note":"the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":100,"unit":"TB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-object-cap","num":5,"unit":"TB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.evidence[3].url","private-url"],["$.evidence[4].url","private-url"],["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}