Google Meet Guest Limits

adrianwi · 03-30-2025 10:07 AM

First post, so apologies if I've got anything wrong.

I've been tasked with trying to arrange a live stream for my Mum's Celebration Service which is being held in May after she sadly passed away a few weeks ago 😞

I have a Office 365 account so had thought I might use Teams, but the plan I have doesn't allow it to be recorded, so I needed to look elsewhere. Having used Zoom during the pandemic, I fell out with them after they automatically renewed a subscription I wanted to cancel, and when I tried to cancel it a few days after they point blank refused. So I'm looking at Google Meet.

I think this can do what I'm looking for and was going to set up meeting and send the link to the guests. My worry is that there might be more than 100 people wanting to join, and it looks like this might be the limit for the single user account? Can anyone confirm this, and/or suggest how I can increase this. My Mum was involved in various barbershop singing organisations and knew lots of people as a result, so I don't think 100 is joining to cut it. I really don't want to hand over my credit card details again to Zoom if I can avoid it!

Thanks, Adrian

loundy_mark

Google Workspace editions Number of participants

Business Starter, Frontline, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, G Suite Basic	100
Business Standard, Enterprise Essentials, Essentials, G Suite Business, Nonprofits, Workspace Individual	150
Teaching, Learning Upgrade, Essentials Starter, Enterprise Starter	250
Business Plus, Enterprise Standard	500
Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Essentials Plus, Education Plus	1,000 Tip: After 500, the next 500 join as View only.

icrew

Sorry for your loss.

Assuming it's mainly going to be people who want to attend, and view the service, not participate, you might consider streaming from Meet to YouTube, which would allow for as many viewers as you want. You can even do that with a Workspace Individual subscription on your regular Gmail account. See https://support.google.com/meet/answer/12383549?hl=en for the details.

Hope that helps,

Ian