Productivity & collaboration suites
Google Workspace Marketplace vs Microsoft Teams Marketplace
Google Workspace Marketplace and Microsoft Teams Marketplace both compete in productivity & collaboration suites. Here is how they compare on the factors that decide where a developer should build — authentication, complexity, review, monetization, and merchant of record.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Google LLC | Microsoft Corporation |
| Ecosystem | Productivity & collaboration suites | Productivity & collaboration suites |
| Category | Workspace | Workspace |
| Primary auth | OAuth 2.0 | OAuth 2.0 |
| Also supports | API key | API key, PAT |
| Complexity | Advanced (L3) | Advanced (L3) |
| Security review | Required | Required |
| Integration types | Embedded app, Connector, Widget, Bot | Bot, Embedded app, Connector, Widget |
| Monetization | Free, Paid app, Usage-based | Free, Paid app, Usage-based |
| Onboarding fee | $0 | $0 |
| Commission | 0% direct; billing handled by developer | 20% marketplace service fee on transactable offers |
| Merchant of Record | Developer is MoR | Microsoft acts as MoR for transactable offers |
| AI agents / bots | Supported | Supported |
| Example apps | DocuSign for Google Workspace, Lucidchart, Zoom for Google Workspace | Polly, Trello for Teams, Adobe Acrobat |
| API rate limits | Per-project and per-user quotas across Workspace APIs, managed via Google Cloud Console. | Microsoft Graph throttling limits apply per tenant/app. |
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Which should you choose?
- Lower complexity: both at level 3/4.
- Security review: both require a formal review.
- AI agents: both explicitly support AI agents.