How to read this page

The finder at the top asks what your users need and lists the plans that cover it, with any add-ons, cheapest first at Microsoft’s US list price per user a month (commercial, annual commitment, with or without Teams). Use the link under its answer to price the whole organization in the Microsoft 365 License Cost Calculator.

The chart has one column per plan and one row per feature, grouped by area. Each cell says whether the plan includes the feature, includes a limited version (the note says which tier or limit), doesn’t include it but can take an add-on Microsoft sells (the note names it), or doesn’t include it. The price under each plan name is the list price per user a month with Teams on an annual commitment; the Microsoft 365 Pricing Guide has every billing term and the nonprofit prices.

  • Business Basic, Standard and Premium are sold for up to 300 users, and Microsoft’s comparison allows at most 300 seats in total across all the business plans (the Copilot plans included). The plans with Copilot (Business Standard and Business Premium with Copilot) include the same features as their base plan plus Microsoft 365 Copilot, so they aren’t separate columns.
  • Enterprise and Office 365 plans are sold to new customers without Teams; Teams comes from a separate Microsoft Teams Enterprise license, which the chart marks on the Teams row. Prices with Teams are the two licenses together, so Office 365 E1 shows $15.34 ($6.79 + $8.55): the $10.00 Microsoft still lists for E1 with Teams isn’t available to new customers.
  • F1 and F3 are for frontline workers as Microsoft defines them (see the FAQ).
  • The chart covers the features buyers ask about most, not every service plan in each suite. Under each feature name are the Microsoft documents it comes from; where those documents disagree, a numbered note under the chart says which one the row follows.

Where the figures come from

Every cell comes from Microsoft: the Modern Work Plan Comparison documents for enterprise and for small and midsize business (both with a publish date of October 1, 2026), Microsoft’s plan pages (mailbox and storage limits, Windows edition, user limits), the Microsoft 365 Pricing and Packaging Updates announcement for features added from June 2026, and Microsoft Learn for Teams licensing and the Defender service description. The list under the chart links each document with its date. Microsoft updates these documents often (the enterprise comparison’s change log has entries for every month from April to October 2026), so check the current documents, or ask us, before you buy.

Reading E3, E5 and E7 side by side

Most of what separates E3 from E5 is security and compliance. E3 users can get much of E5’s security from the Microsoft Defender Suite and much of its compliance from the Microsoft Purview Suite, each $12.00 a user a month; at list price, E3 with both suites costs more than E5, and the finder and the cost calculator show that comparison for your numbers. E7 adds Microsoft 365 Copilot, the Entra Suite and Agent 365 to E5.