# Messaging and team collaboration

Real-time or anytime – Chat helps Workspace users connect and collaborate to get things done.

## Gemini in Chat is your helpful teammate

With Gemini in Chat, you have a partner who’s always ready to provide answers, summarize conversations, find files in Drive, and brainstorm new creative ideas.

## Made for modern messaging, powered by AI

### Simple but powerful

Designed to help you manage the flow of business and personal communication.

### Express yourself

Let your personality shine through with custom emojis, reactions, inline GIFs, and rich text formatting.

### Supercharged with AI

Some listed features are coming soon or available only for Google Workspace

Stay connected with intelligent features like smart compose, autocorrect, and summarization.

### Built for teamwork

### Work better, together

Create a space in Chat to share team updates or collaborate on a project.

Some listed features are coming soon or available only for Google Workspace

### Right away or all-day

Huddle with teammates for real-time problem-solving or drop-in collaboration throughout the day.

Some listed features are coming soon or available only for Google Workspace

### Connect at scale

Keep everyone on the same page with announcement spaces supporting up to 500,000 members.

### Ready for business

### Better together

Chat is included with Workspace at no additional cost, and integrates in helpful ways with Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet, Groups, and more.

### Powerful apps to get more done

Enhance your workflow with apps like Zapier, PagerDuty, Workday and Trello. Or build your own no-code Chat apps with Gemini for Workspace and AppSheet.

### Plays well with others

Migrate your existing data from Slack or Teams using Chat APIs or Workspace partners like

## Safe and secure

Collaborate, connect, and share while keeping your data private and secure.

Some listed features are coming soon or available only for Google Workspace

### Collaborate with confidence

Keep communities healthy and inclusive with active content moderation.

### Built-in security

Benefit from the same phishing and malware detection that protects Gmail users from >99.9% of spam and malicious content.

Some listed features are coming soon or available only for Google Workspace

### Real-time protection

Prevent sharing of sensitive information with real-time data loss prevention.

### Curious about Chat?

Take a look at our FAQs to learn more.

If you’re a current Google Workspace customer, Chat is free.

Gemini is coming to Google Chat in 2024, with a side panel experience that is consistent with Gemini in Gmail, Drive, Docs and other Workspace apps.

Yes, the new AI Meetings and Messages add-on will provide some of the most helpful AI-powered features in Meet and Chat at a more affordable price.

Google Chat is protected by the same anti-spam, anti-phishing, anti-malware technology that protects more than 2 billion Gmail inboxes.

Yes. With Google Chat, you can send a direct message to anyone with a Gmail address or Google account. You can set up group chats with multiple participants or message one-to-one.

Yes, Chat is deeply integrated with the Google Workspace tools that more than 9 million businesses use to get work done. Chat is optimized for business chat, team collaboration, and instant messaging. Google Chat is part of the

Chat is the newer and preferred platform to use for Google Workspace customers. Admins can

Yes, Google Chat provides powerful apps for

Yes, many of your favorite apps and tools are