G Suite, which competes directly with Microsoft's Office 365, is raising its prices for the first time. G Suite Basic will raise prices from $5 per user per month to $6.

As of early April, prices for Google's productivity and collaboration software suite are set to rise. The increase brings G Suite pricing closer to that of rival Office 365.

ZDNet's Larry Dignan outlines G Suite's price increases, how it'll compare to Microsoft Office 365 and what it means for cloud and technology inflation.

Google is preparing to implement its first price hike for G Suite since the groundbreaking office productivity suite was introduced as Google Apps more than 12 years ago. The cloud provider recently ...

Google publicly informed customers Thursday that the price of G Suite subscriptions would go up in April, explaining the first-ever price hike in the context of upgraded functionality for its ...

G Suite Business Edition will rise by $2 per month, to $12 per user, per month. Users paying in their local currency will see an equivalent increase to this 20-percent rise, Google says.