Host Hangouts Meet meetings with up to 250 participants

What’s changing

Google Workspace Enterprise domains can now host meetings with up to 250 participants. Google is also increasing the participant limits for all other Google Workspace editions.

New maximum participant limits:

• Enterprise: 250
• Business: 150
• Basic: 100

Who’s impacted

End users

Why you’d use it

Meeting with teammates, clients, or customers around the globe is critical to getting your job done. For those times when you need to meet with a larger group, Hangouts Meet now allows Google Workspace Enterprise users to organize meetings with up to 250 participants, Google Workspace Business users to host up to 150 participants, and Google Workspace Basic users to host up to 100 participants.

How to get started

• Admins: No action required.
• End users: No action required. These new participant limits will occur automatically for all Hangouts Meet meetings hosted by your domain.

Additional details

This new extended participant limit supports people joining from any mixture of video and dial-in entry points so you can can bring together even more people from all over the world.

If you need to host an even larger meeting, you can enable live streaming, allowing up to 100,000 viewers to watch at once.

Availability

Rollout details

• Rapid Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on October 24, 2019
• Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on October 24, 2019

Google Workspace editions

• 250-person meetings available to Google Workspace Enterprise and Google Workspace Enterprise for Education editions only
• 150-person meetings available to Google Workspace Business edition only
• 100-person meetings available to Google Workspace Basic and Google Workspace for Education editions only

On/off by default?

• This feature will be ON by default.