Google Voice is an add-on to Google Workspace: $10 per user a month for up to 10 users, $20 for auto attendants and ring groups. Freesbe's phone system is an add-on to its own plans, with menus, ring groups, queues, voicemail you can read, recordings with notes, E911 and click-to-call from your CRM, inside the chat your team already uses.
For Small businesses on Gmail who want a real phone system without paying for Workspace and Voice on top of chat.
Each person gets a number and a dialpad in the app they chat in. A call rings the computer and the phone, can be transferred to a colleague, an extension or a queue, merged into a three-way call, and recorded. Voicemail is written out in the app, and the call's transcript and notes are a click away.
In the Admin Center an admin buys numbers, records a phone menu, draws a call flow, sets business hours and holidays, picks the hold music, and decides who a number rings: one person, a ring group of up to 20, or a call queue with a live board for the supervisor. Callers who hide their number can be turned away.
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Texts to a Freesbe number land in the customer inbox as threads in a channel, where the team answers them. Voicemail is written out so you can read it before you call back. A number can receive faxes as PDFs by email.
If everyone already has a Workspace seat and the phone just needs to ring in Gmail and the Google Voice app, Voice is the simplest add-on, with unlimited domestic calls and texts and the Google admin console. Freesbe is for a team that wants the phone, the chat and the meetings in one app.
Freesbe's prices come from its pricing catalog; Google's from the Google Voice and Google Workspace pricing pages on the date below. The add-on isn't on sale yet; talk to us to be first.
| Feature | Freesbe | Google Voice |
|---|---|---|
| Price per person a month | $4 per person a month (Business), billed yearly, plus the Phone system add-on, $8 per person a month, billed yearly ($10 month to month), on any paid plan | $10 (Starter), $20 (Standard), $30 (Premier), on top of a Workspace plan from $7 |
| Team size | Up to 500 people on Business | Starter is for up to 10 users; Standard and Premier have no limit |
| Minutes and texts | 1,000 minutes and 200 texts per person a month, pooled across the workspace | Unlimited domestic calls and US texts |
| Phone menus and ring groups | Included with the add-on | Auto attendants and ring groups on Standard and up |
| Call recording | Included, with transcripts and notes | Call recording on Starter; automatic recording, transcription and AI notes on Premier |
| Desk phones | SIP credentials from the Admin Center | Desk phone and ATA support |
| Chat and meetings | Included: channels, huddles, meetings with guest links, workflows, an inbox | Through Google Chat and Google Meet on the Workspace plan |
| Emergency calling | E911 included, with each person's address | Varies |
As of November 2, 2026. Sources: Google Voice for Google Workspace, Google Workspace pricing. Google Voice and the other names on this page belong to their owners; Freesbe isn't affiliated with or endorsed by them.
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