---
title: "Google Workspace MCP in 2026: 5 ways to connect, compared"
url: "https://conecto.chat/guides/google-workspace-mcp"
description: "Google runs its own MCP servers for Gmail, Drive and Calendar. Five ways to connect them to your agent, each one's tools, and our count of 214 servers."
author: "Amelia Cardona Hernandez"
author_url: "https://conecto.chat/guides/authors/amelia-cardona-hernandez"
publisher: "Conecto"
published: 2026-11-11
updated: 2026-11-11
sources_checked: 2026-11-11
standards: "https://conecto.chat/guides/standards"
---

# Google Workspace MCP: five ways to connect Gmail, Drive and Calendar

Google runs its own MCP servers for Gmail, Google Drive and Google Calendar. Claude's directory has listed them since March 2026, and developers can connect to them directly through a Developer Preview. On November 10, 2026, we counted 214 servers in the official MCP Registry that work with Google Workspace, and none of them is published by Google. Below are the five ways to connect, what each one can do and what each one needs from you.

Give this to your agent: `Set up Conecto from https://conecto.chat/SKILL.md, then show me what you can run for our business.`

## Five ways at a glance

| Way | Who makes it | What you set up | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Google's connectors in Claude | Google | Add Gmail, Google Calendar or Google Drive from Claude's directory and sign in | 29 for Gmail, 9 for Calendar, 11 for Drive[[3]](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/gmail)[[4]](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/google-calendar)[[5]](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/google-drive) |
| Google's servers, connected yourself | Google | Developer Preview membership, a Google Cloud project and an OAuth client | 10 for Gmail on Google's reference page[[1]](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/configure-mcp-servers)[[2]](https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/api/reference/mcp) |
| ChatGPT's connected apps | OpenAI | Connect the app in ChatGPT | OpenAI's help center names Google Drive and Gmail among them[[11]](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11487775-connected-apps-in-chatgpt) |
| A community server | A developer on GitHub | Run it yourself with your own Google Cloud OAuth client | Up to 120 in one server[[7]](https://github.com/taylorwilsdon/google_workspace_mcp) |
| Conecto (ours) | Conecto | A service account that your Workspace admin approves | 11 across mail, calendar and Drive[[12]](https://conecto.chat/tools/googleworkspace) |

The first way is the shortest. The other four exist because of what it leaves out: an agent that isn't Claude, a whole company's mailboxes behind one connection, or control over which permissions the agent gets.

## What Google itself ships

Google Workspace has remote MCP servers, one for each product: Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Calendar, Google Chat, the People API and Google Classroom. Google's guide says they let AI applications "like Google Antigravity and Claude" read data and take actions, with the same permissions the user has.[[1]](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/configure-mcp-servers)

They are a Developer Preview. To connect to them yourself, Google's guide asks for four things:

- Membership in the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program.
- A Google Cloud project, with each product's API and its MCP service switched on.
- An OAuth consent screen and an OAuth client that has "Use this client for an AI-powered agent" selected.
- An MCP client.[[1]](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/configure-mcp-servers)

The Gmail server's address is `https://gmailmcp.googleapis.com/mcp/v1`.[[2]](https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/api/reference/mcp) Claude's directory gives the same pattern for the other two, `calendarmcp.googleapis.com` and `drivemcp.googleapis.com`.[[4]](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/google-calendar)[[5]](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/google-drive) For Gmail, Google's guide asks for two permissions, one to read mail and one to compose it.[[1]](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/configure-mcp-servers)

## One Gmail server, two tool lists

This is the part we did not expect. Google's reference page for the Gmail server and Claude's directory page for the Gmail connector name the same address, and they list different tools.

| | Google's reference page | Claude's directory page |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tools listed | 10[[2]](https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/api/reference/mcp) | 29[[3]](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/gmail) |
| Read and search | get_message, get_thread, search_threads, list_drafts, list_labels | The same five, and list_filters |
| Write a draft | create_draft | create_draft |
| Send | None | send_message, reply, forward |
| Labels | Add or remove a label on a message or a thread | The same, and create_label, delete_label |
| Spam, trash and filters | None | Mark as spam, move to trash, create_filter |

On Google's page, the furthest an agent goes is a draft. Its own test prompt says the client "uses gmail.create_draft to create an email in your drafts folder, allowing you to review and send it from Gmail."[[1]](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/configure-mcp-servers) On Claude's page, the connector can send, reply and forward.[[3]](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/gmail)

Google's reference page was last updated on July 21, 2026, so it may be behind the server. We read both pages on November 11, 2026. We did not connect either one to a mailbox, so we can't say which list a given account gets. If sending matters to you, list the tools after you connect and before you rely on it.

## What Claude's three Google connectors can do

All three are made by Google, verified by Anthropic and in the directory since March 2026.

| Connector | Tools | What they cover |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gmail | 29 | Search and read threads, draft, send, reply, forward, labels, filters, spam and trash[[3]](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/gmail) |
| Google Calendar | 9 | List calendars and events, search, suggest a time, create, update and delete events, answer an invitation[[4]](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/google-calendar) |
| Google Drive | 11 | Search, read and download files, create, copy and update them, share, read permissions, move to trash[[5]](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/google-drive) |

Each one connects one person's Google account to that person's Claude. [Claude connectors](https://conecto.chat/guides/claude-connectors) has the steps for adding one, and [the best Claude connectors](https://conecto.chat/guides/best-claude-connectors) lists the rest of the directory by job.

## How many Google Workspace MCP servers there are

We went through every server in the official MCP Registry on November 10, 2026. Of its 60,115 active servers, 214 name Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet or Google Workspace in their name, title or description.[[6]](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers)

| Servers that name | Count |
| --- | --- |
| Gmail | 100 |
| Google Docs or Sheets | 48 |
| Google Workspace as a whole | 27 |
| Google Drive | 25 |
| Google Calendar | 20 |

A server that names two products counts in both rows. Of the 214, 101 are remote servers at a web address and 123 are packages you install and run. Twelve are both.

Google publishes 15 servers of its own in the registry, for products such as Compute Engine, Firestore, Cloud Run and Maps. None of the 15 is for Gmail, Drive or Calendar.[[6]](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers) So every one of the 214 comes from someone other than Google, and the registry alone won't lead you to Google's own Workspace servers.

The full count of the registry is on our [statistics page](https://conecto.chat/statistics).

## The community servers people use most

These are the four most starred projects we found on GitHub for Google Workspace and Gmail, read on November 11, 2026.

| Project | Stars | License | Last change | Covers |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| google_workspace_mcp, by taylorwilsdon | 3,506 | MIT | November 11, 2026 | Twelve Workspace services and more than 120 tools, by its own description[[7]](https://github.com/taylorwilsdon/google_workspace_mcp) |
| Gmail-MCP-Server, by GongRzhe | 1,169 | MIT | August 6, 2025 | Gmail[[8]](https://github.com/GongRzhe/Gmail-MCP-Server) |
| google-docs-mcp, by a-bonus | 686 | MIT | October 26, 2026 | Docs, Sheets, Drive, Gmail and Calendar[[9]](https://github.com/a-bonus/google-docs-mcp) |
| google-workspace-mcp, by aaronsb | 195 | Apache 2.0 | November 10, 2026 | Gmail, Calendar and Drive[[10]](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp) |

The largest one says plainly what it needs: your own OAuth client from the Google Cloud Console, in a project with the Google APIs switched on. In return, it says your credentials never leave your environment and you control the permissions.[[7]](https://github.com/taylorwilsdon/google_workspace_mcp)

Stars show interest. They are not a review of the code. One of the four has not changed since August 2025.[[8]](https://github.com/GongRzhe/Gmail-MCP-Server) [What to check before you connect a server](https://conecto.chat/guides/what-is-an-mcp-server#what-to-check-before-you-connect-one) applies to all of them.

## Where Conecto fits

Conecto is our product, and it connects Google Workspace in a different way from the four above. The connection belongs to the company, not to one person. Your business makes a service account in Google Cloud, and your Workspace admin approves it for Gmail, Calendar and Drive. You then name the mailboxes your agent may act as, from 1 to 20, and it never acts as anyone else.[[13]](https://conecto.chat/tools/googleworkspace/google_connect)

It has 11 tools: search, read and send mail, read, add and cancel calendar events, search and read Drive files, and write a text file to Drive. Reading and searching are free. Each email sent, event added or cancelled, or file written costs $0.001.[[12]](https://conecto.chat/tools/googleworkspace)

Three limits to know:

- It needs a Workspace admin, so it does not work with a personal gmail.com account.[[13]](https://conecto.chat/tools/googleworkspace/google_connect)
- It reads Drive files up to 5 MB and writes text files only.[[12]](https://conecto.chat/tools/googleworkspace)
- Cancelling an event and replacing a file wait for the owner's approval by default.[[13]](https://conecto.chat/tools/googleworkspace/google_connect)

The same connection gives your agent Conecto's other tools, such as a CRM and invoices, next to your Google mail. If one person wants Claude to read their own inbox, Google's connector in Claude is the shorter way.

## Which one fits

- **You use Claude and want your own Gmail, Calendar and Drive in it:** Google's three connectors in Claude's directory.[[3]](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/gmail)[[4]](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/google-calendar)[[5]](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/google-drive)
- **You use ChatGPT:** its connected apps. [ChatGPT connectors](https://conecto.chat/guides/chatgpt-connectors) explains where they are and what a custom MCP server adds.[[11]](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11487775-connected-apps-in-chatgpt)
- **You are a developer building your own agent:** Google's servers through the Developer Preview, or a community server if you want to run and change the code yourself.[[1]](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/configure-mcp-servers)[[7]](https://github.com/taylorwilsdon/google_workspace_mcp)
- **Your agent should work as support@ or sales@ for the whole company:** a connection the company owns, such as Conecto's.[[13]](https://conecto.chat/tools/googleworkspace/google_connect)

Microsoft's side of the same question is in [Microsoft 365 MCP](https://conecto.chat/guides/microsoft-365-mcp).

## How we counted

For the registry count, we read every entry of the official MCP Registry through its public API on November 10, 2026, counted each server name once at its latest active version, and searched each name, title and description for the eight product names above.[[6]](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers) A server that mentions Gmail only in passing still counts, so 214 is the widest fair number. The narrow one is 73: the servers that carry a Google Workspace product in their name.

For the tool lists, we read Google's reference page and Claude's three directory pages on November 11, 2026, and copied the tool names as printed. For the community table, we took stars, licenses and the date of the last change from GitHub on the same day.

We did not connect any of these to a real mailbox, and we did not test what each tool does. This guide compares what each maker publishes.

## Questions

### Does Google have an official MCP server for Gmail?

Yes. Google runs a Gmail MCP server at gmailmcp.googleapis.com, with one each for Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Chat, the People API and Classroom. They are a Developer Preview.[[1]](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/configure-mcp-servers)[[2]](https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/api/reference/mcp)

### Can Claude send email from my Gmail?

Claude's directory page for the Gmail connector lists send_message, reply and forward among its 29 tools.[[3]](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/gmail) Google's own reference page for the same server lists 10 tools and none that sends.[[2]](https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/api/reference/mcp) [Can ChatGPT and Claude send emails](https://conecto.chat/guides/can-chatgpt-and-claude-send-emails) covers the other ways.

### How many Google Workspace MCP servers are there?

We counted 214 in the official MCP Registry on November 10, 2026, out of 60,115 active servers. Gmail is named most often, by 100 of them.[[6]](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers)

### Does a Google Workspace MCP server work with a free Gmail account?

It depends on the route. Conecto's needs a Workspace admin, so it doesn't.[[13]](https://conecto.chat/tools/googleworkspace/google_connect) Google's developer route needs membership in its Developer Preview Program.[[1]](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/configure-mcp-servers) We did not test Claude's connectors with a personal account.

### Which Google Workspace MCP server has the most tools?

Of the ones here, the community project google_workspace_mcp, which describes more than 120 tools across twelve services.[[7]](https://github.com/taylorwilsdon/google_workspace_mcp) Claude's Gmail connector lists 29.[[3]](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/gmail)

### Is Google's Workspace MCP server in the official MCP Registry?

No. Google lists 15 of its own servers there, all for cloud and developer products, and none for Gmail, Drive or Calendar.[[6]](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers)

## Sources

We read these pages on November 11, 2026. Each number in the guide links to the page behind that sentence.

1. [Configure the Google Workspace MCP servers, Google for Developers](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/configure-mcp-servers)
2. [MCP Reference for gmailmcp.googleapis.com, Google for Developers](https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/api/reference/mcp)
3. [Gmail, Claude Marketplace](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/gmail)
4. [Google Calendar, Claude Marketplace](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/google-calendar)
5. [Google Drive, Claude Marketplace](https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/google-drive)
6. [MCP Registry API, list of servers, counted November 10, 2026](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers)
7. [google_workspace_mcp, taylorwilsdon on GitHub](https://github.com/taylorwilsdon/google_workspace_mcp)
8. [Gmail-MCP-Server, GongRzhe on GitHub](https://github.com/GongRzhe/Gmail-MCP-Server)
9. [google-docs-mcp, a-bonus on GitHub](https://github.com/a-bonus/google-docs-mcp)
10. [google-workspace-mcp, aaronsb on GitHub](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp)
11. [Connected apps in ChatGPT, OpenAI Help Center](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11487775-connected-apps-in-chatgpt)
12. [Google Workspace tools, Conecto](https://conecto.chat/tools/googleworkspace)
13. [Connect Google Workspace (google_connect), Conecto](https://conecto.chat/tools/googleworkspace/google_connect)

Conecto publishes this guide and sells business tools for AI agents. [How we write our guides](https://conecto.chat/guides/standards.md). To report a mistake, write to hello@conecto.chat.

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