Compared
Ruber vs Google Workspace
The default, and the one most teams are already inside. The comparison that matters here is rarely features — it is what the bill does as the team grows, and what happens to mail your software needs to touch.
| Capability | Ruber | Google Workspace |
|---|---|---|
| Access | ||
| Connect any IMAP client | Direct | Direct |
| Building on it | ||
| Create mailboxes from code | REST API and signed webhooks | Admin SDK Directory API |
| Run the mail plane in your own cloud | Postfix, Dovecot and Rspamd in your VPC | — |
| White-label the whole surface | On the your-cloud mail plane | — |
| Commercial | ||
| What you are billed for | One price for one person on Personal and Pro; per user on Business — extra addresses included | Per user |
| Privacy posture | ||
| Zero-access encryption | — | — |
| Published third-party audits | — | SOC 2, ISO 27001 |
— means not part of that product's published offering at the time of checking. It is not a statement about what either of us is capable of.
Where it goes against us
Google Workspace carries SOC 2 and ISO 27001 — the certifications a procurement team asks for by name. We carry none, and message bodies are stored in a form we could read. If compliance paperwork is the requirement, that is a real reason to stay.
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Thirty days on a domain of your own, with no card asked for. It is enough to see whether the parts above are true.
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