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Best Cloud Suite Software

See how the top 2 of 3 Cloud Suite Software stack up.

Explore what each does best — and why they rose to the top in 2026.

Alex Bass

Andra Vomir

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Google Workspace
Best
startups, small, and mid-size businesses
startups, small, and mid-size businesses
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Cloudflare
Recommended
Security, reliability and speed everywhere. More easily manage your website DNS.
Security, reliability and speed everywhere. More easily manage your website DNS.
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Microsoft 365
For large enterprises deep in the Microsoft ecosystem
For large enterprises deep in the Microsoft ecosystem

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Google Workspace

startups, small, and mid-size businesses

Google Workspace gets adopted fast by quick moving startups and modern businesses because almost every software integrates with it easily, especially compared to Microsoft 365 which is less friendly with outside tools. If you want to use modern apps and avoid getting boxed into one ecosystem, this is the suite to use.

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What is Google Workspace?

Google Workspace has built a brand perception around "quick moving and growing teams". And it's one that rings true in most cases.

Google Workspace is usually the #1 tool that every software integrates with (even just with the "sign in with Google" option)—and they make it easy with their super powerful API's built directly into their entire app suite.

We've actually made the conscious choice to only work with companies that use Google Workspace in-fact, because it's often more of a reflection of the type of company than anything.

If you're an older or enterprise company, you're often using that of Microsoft 365—which is fine, it's just that Microsoft ideally wants everyone to use all of their internal tools for everything (*cough* monopoly *cough*), and thus they don't play as nicely with outside tools (as Google Workspace on the other hand does).

If you're a quick moving startup or modern business that is interested in using modern an innovative software, you'd be best using Google Workspace at the core.

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Cloudflare

Security, reliability and speed everywhere. More easily manage your website DNS.

Cloudflare lets you manage DNS, buy domains, add website security, set up a CDN, and even run serverless functions, all mostly for free and with instant DNS changes. If you handle websites or domains and want fast, reliable, and cheap management with extra features like email routing, this is an easy pick, though navigating the many services can get a bit confusing at times.

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What is Cloudflare?

We use Cloudflare to manage our website DNS and domain names and also as a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to speed up our site. Some 60%+ of the internet relies on Cloudflare, and you get most of these great features for free.

Key Features

DNS Management

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You can essentially use Cloudflare for free, just to better manage your website DNS all in one place.

Domain Registrar

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They also allow you to purchase domain names and manage them all in one place.

Website Security

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Simply set up your Nameservers to go through Cloudflare, and they add a layer of protection and CDN (Content delivery network) to your website.

Serverless Functions

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Cloudflare provides serverless compute services via Cloudflare Workers, a platform for building and deploying JavaScript functions that run on the Cloudflare edge network.

Email Routing

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Want to set up complex email routing and even run emails through a Cloudflare Worker to format data before delivering it to the inbox you want it to go into? They do that too! Super powerful.

Okay, Cloudflare just does a lot, and most of it is totally free for quite high usage.

Pricing

We have gotten so much value from Cloudflare over the past decade, and we still have not paid Cloudflare for anything (aside for the domains we purchase through it, but they charge at cost, so you're paying less with them than any other domain registrar out there).

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Microsoft 365

For large enterprises deep in the Microsoft ecosystem

Microsoft 365 locks you into its own ecosystem and struggles to work smoothly with outside tools, making it feel outdated and clunky, especially if you're used to the flexibility of Google Workspace. If you're a modern startup or care about your team's perception and ease of use, skip Microsoft 365.

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What is Microsoft 365?

Microsoft 365 is more associated with older or large enterprise companies. Microsoft ideally wants everyone to use all of their internal tools for everything (*cough* monopoly *cough*).

Because of that, they don't play as nicely with outside tools (unlike that of Google Workspace on the other hand, which does).

It might sound a bit harsh, but if you're a modern and quick moving startup, your outside perception will be a bit tainted if you're using Microsoft 365 at the core instead of Google Workspace.

Everyone knows how to use Gmail, no one actually enjoys using Outlook (is the general perception).