Google Workspace (Drive & Shared Drives)

Subscription Coordinate & Collaborate

Cloud productivity and file storage suite centered on Google Drive -- personal My Drive and team Shared Drives provide cloud-native file storage, sharing, and real-time collaboration on Docs, Sheets, and Slides, used by many AEC firms as a lightweight document repository and collaboration layer alongside CAD/BIM authoring tools.

4.6 /5 composite score
C1 5/5 reflects published pricing from USD 7 to USD 22 per user per month plus a free tier and trial, and C2 5/5 reflects the Drive API, Apps Script, webhooks, and MCP support. C4 4/5 reflects PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and view-only DWG and RVT handling, and C5 4/5 reflects Google Meet, Google Chat, Slack, Salesforce, DocuSign, Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and Power Automate integrations.
Worth it

Rubric Scorecard

How we grade →

Criterion Score Evidence
Value for the price 5/5 Subscription, from $7, free tier Source →
Agent Friendliness 5/5 MCP, API: https://developers.google.com/drive (Google Drive API, Drive Activity API, Drive Labels API, Google Picker API)
Ease of adoption 5/5 --
Portability & lock-in 4/5 5 file formats
Interoperability 4/5 9 integrations

Pricing

ModelSubscription
Entry price$7
Free tieryes
Free vieweryes
Trialyes
Billing unitper-seat
Free tier scopecrippled
TiersStarter ($7), Standard ($14), Plus ($22), Enterprise
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How we verified this: we checked Google Workspace (Drive & Shared Drives) against its live site and an independent source — en.wikipedia.org. Nothing on this page is listed from memory. See how we grade. Verified 2026-07-18.

Evidence

File formats

FormatDirectionSupport
PDF unknown unknown
DWG unknown view-only
RVT unknown view-only
DOCX unknown full
XLSX unknown full

Integrations

Gemini AI Google Meet Google Chat Slack Salesforce DocuSign Procore Autodesk Construction Cloud Power Automate

Sources

Pricing

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