DocumentServer vs Google Workspace
DocumentServer and Google Workspace are both office suite software. DocumentServer is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 7.1k GitHub stars. Google Workspace is a commercial product from Google.
Which to pick
- Pick DocumentServer when
- You want browser-based Office-compatible editing on your own servers.
- Pick Google Workspace when
- A small or mid-size business that works mostly in the browser and values real-time co-editing over desktop Office features.
Side by side
ONLYOFFICE Docs, an online office suite for editing Word, Excel, PowerPoint, forms and PDF files collaboratively in the browser, integrated with Nextcloud and other platforms.
Gmail on your domain, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar and Meet, managed from one admin console.
The free edition caps simultaneous connections, so larger teams need a paid edition.
Sheets and Docs fall short of Excel and Word for heavy files, and moving off it later takes real effort.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Cloud service and mobile app
JavaScript, C++ and Node.js
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Google
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
7.1k GitHub stars
4.6k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 12 years ago, latest release v10.0.0.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.