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Find the right Microsoft Teams for your needs

Stay connected and share content any time to learn, plan, and innovate—together. Get more with Teams Essentials or get Teams online as part of Microsoft 365.

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Microsoft Teams Essentials

Originally starting from $4.00 now starting from $4.00

$4.00 $4.00

user/month

(Annual subscription—auto renews)1

  • Unlimited group meetings for up to 30 hours and 300 participants:

  • 10 GB of cloud storage per user

  • Real-time collaboration with file sharing, tasks, and polling

  • Team meeting recordings with transcripts and live captions (English)3

  • Standard security with data encryption for meetings, chats, calls, and files

  • Microsoft 365 Copilot, available as an add-on.*

Microsoft 365 Business Basic

Originally starting from $6.00 now starting from $6.00

$6.00 $6.00

user/month

(Annual subscription—auto renews)1

  • Everything offered in Microsoft Teams Essentials, plus:

  • Identity, access, and user management for up to 300 employees

  • Custom business email (you@yourbusiness.com)

  • Web and mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

  • 1 TB of cloud storage per employee

  • 10+ additional apps for your business needs (Bookings, Planner, Microsoft Forms, and others)

  • Automatic spam and malware filtering

  • Anytime phone and web support

  • Microsoft 365 Copilot, available as an add-on.*

Microsoft 365 Business Standard

Originally starting from $12.50 now starting from $12.50

$12.50 $12.50

user/month

(Annual subscription—auto renews)1

Everything offered in Microsoft 365 Business Basic, plus: 

  • Desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

  • Webinars with attendee registration and reporting

  • New: Collaborative workspaces to co-create using Microsoft Loop

  • New: Video editing and design tools with Clipchamp

  • Microsoft 365 Copilot, available as an add-on.*

compare the right Microsoft Teams for your needs
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Most popular

Microsoft Teams Essentials

Originally starting from $4.00 now starting from $4.00

$4.00 $4.00

user/month

(Annual subscription—auto renews)1

Microsoft 365 Business Basic

Originally starting from $6.00 now starting from $6.00

$6.00 $6.00

user/month

(Annual subscription—auto renews)1

Microsoft 365 Business Standard

Originally starting from $12.50 now starting from $12.50

$12.50 $12.50

user/month

(Annual subscription—auto renews)1

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Meetings and calling
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This feature is partially included
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Online meetings (calling and video)4
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Participant capacity
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300 participants

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300 participants

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300 participants

Maximum meeting duration
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30 hours

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30 hours

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30 hours

Screen sharing
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Customized backgrounds
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Together mode
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Join an immersive space
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Join meeting as an avatar
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Scheduled meetings
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Meeting recordings and transcripts
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Live captions3

English only3

Over 30 languages3

Over 30 languages3

Breakout rooms
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Microsoft Whiteboard
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Noise suppression
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*included  with Microsoft Entra ID
Webinars that include attendee registration pages, email confirmations, and reporting 
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Default Outlook calendar view
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No account needed to join meetings 
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Collaborative annotations
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Chat and collaboration
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Maximum number of users
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300

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300

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300

Unlimited chat messages and search in Teams
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Guest access
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File attachments in chat
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2 GB per user

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1 TB per user5

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1 TB per user5

File storage
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10 GB

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1 TB per organization plus 10 GB per license 6

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1 TB per organization plus 10 GB per license 6

Real-time collaboration in the Microsoft 365 mobile app, which includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 
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Over 250 integrated apps and services for Teams
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Chat between work and personal accounts
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AI powered assistance 
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Use Microsoft Copilot, an everyday AI companion, with security, privacy, identity, and compliance inherited from your existing Microsoft 365 policies
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This feature is included
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Get intelligent writing assistance with advanced grammar and style suggestions using Microsoft Editor
This feature is included
Integrate your work content and context into AI-powered chat to boost creativity with Microsoft 365 Copilot in apps like in Word, PowerPoint, and Teams

Available as an add-on

Available as an add-on

Available as an add-on

Productivity apps and services
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This feature is partially included
This feature is partially included
Web versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
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This feature is included
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Exchange email hosting with custom email domain address
This feature is included
This feature is included
Personal file storage and sharing with OneDrive
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1 TB per user

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1 TB per user

Additional Microsoft 365 services, including SharePoint in Microsoft 365, Microsoft Viva Engage, Microsoft Planner, and Microsoft Stream 
This feature is included
This feature is included
Desktop versions of Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Publisher7
This feature is included
Greater customer ease scheduling and managing appointments with Microsoft Bookings 
This feature is included
This feature is included
Video editing and design tools with Clipchamp
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Collaborative workspaces to organize your projects, both large and small, with Microsoft Loop
This feature is included
Outlook and Skype contact import
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Security and compliance
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This feature is included
This feature is included
Microsoft Teams data encryption at rest and in transit
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This feature is included
This feature is included
Single sign-on to all Microsoft 365 apps and services
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This feature is included
This feature is included
Enforced multifactor authentication
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This feature is included
Advanced auditing and reporting
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Administration and support
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This feature is included
Administration tools for managing users and apps
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This feature is included
Usage reporting and analytics for Microsoft 365 services
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This feature is included
Configurable user settings and policies 
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This feature is included
Financially backed 99.9% uptime guarantee8
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This feature is included
Phone and web support
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Most popular

Microsoft Teams Essentials

Originally starting from $4.00 now starting from $4.00

$4.00 $4.00

user/month

(Annual subscription—auto renews)1

Microsoft 365 Business Basic

Originally starting from $6.00 now starting from $6.00

$6.00 $6.00

user/month

(Annual subscription—auto renews)1

Microsoft 365 Business Standard

Originally starting from $12.50 now starting from $12.50

$12.50 $12.50

user/month

(Annual subscription—auto renews)1

Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Originally starting from $22.00 now starting from $22.00

$22.00 $22.00

user/month

(annual subscription—auto renews)1

  • Includes everything in Microsoft 365 Business Standard, plus:

  • Advanced security.

  • Access and data control.

  • Cyberthreat protection.

  • Microsoft 365 Copilot available as an add-on*

Add Copilot to your Microsoft plan*

Sign in to add Copilot to your existing Microsoft 365 business plan.

If you’re not an existing customer, buy a Microsoft 365 plan to get started.

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Frequently asked questions

  • Teams Essentials is designed for a small business in need of an affordable, professional, easy-to-use meeting solution with video and audio calling. Meet all day up to 30 hours, host up to 300 participants, and get 10 GB of cloud storage with Teams Essentials.

    To get the full Microsoft 365 experience, with access to apps like Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, as well as an email domain and Exchange calendar integration, try Microsoft 365 Business Standard.

    Learn more about choosing the right subscription based on the apps you need, knowledge required, and data handling considerations.

  • Access premium benefits for Teams with the purchase of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscriptions that have a Teams license, or with a standalone offering of Teams Essentials for small and medium-sized business customers or Teams Enterprise for enterprise customers.

  • Teams Essentials allows you to pay on behalf of up to 50 users. In the Microsoft 365 admin center, select Invite people to Microsoft 365. Add each person’s first name, last name, and email addresses and choose Send. The people you added will receive an invitation email to add their user account information to Microsoft 365.

  • Credit cards are accepted. We don’t accept PayPal, Venmo, and other similar services.

  • No, once you upgrade and convert from a free account to a paid account, you can’t revert to the free version using the same email address. The email address associated with your converted account can no longer be associated with a free account. To create a new free account, use a different email address (both for the admin and for each user).

  • No, all users in your organization must be upgraded and will have access to the full version of Teams and all Microsoft 365 services. Learn more about upgrading from Teams free to a paid subscription (for admins).

  • Yes, you can purchase Teams Essentials through any cloud solution provider. When purchased through a provider, Microsoft Teams Essentials with Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) includes additional features at the same price as Teams Essentials purchased from our website. This is because Teams Essentials uses Microsoft Entra for identity management instead of Microsoft Accounts. Additional features include Teams channels, Whiteboard, meeting recordings, real-time translation, breakout rooms, meeting notes, noise suppression, third-party app extensibility, and centralized management and configuration.

    Buy Teams Essentials from a cloud solution provider.

  • Yes. A child can’t purchase Teams Essentials on their own.

Get started with Microsoft Teams today

  • [1] Cancellation policies for paid subscriptions may vary based on factors such as your customer status, your product, and your domain selections on Microsoft. You may cancel your subscription at any time in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Certain subscriptions may incur a cancellation fee. Learn how to cancel your Microsoft 365 subscription. When a subscription is canceled, all associated data will be deleted. Learn more about data retention, deletion, and destruction in Microsoft 365.
  • [2] After your one-month free trial, you will be charged the applicable subscription fee. Credit card required. Cancel anytime to stop future charges.
  • [3] Live captions are available in the English language with Microsoft account identities and more than 30 additional languages with Microsoft Entra identities. For more information, see the live captions support article.
  • [4] For HD calling, compatible HD hardware and broadband connection with at least 4 Mbps are required.
  • [5] OneDrive storage is used for file sharing in chat, so OneDrive storage limits apply. Qualifying plans for subscriptions of five or more users include unlimited personal cloud storage; all other plans are limited to 1 TB per user. Microsoft will initially provide 1 TB of OneDrive storage per user, which admins can increase to 5 TB per user. Contact Microsoft support to request additional storage. Storage up to 25 TB per user is provisioned in OneDrive. Beyond 25 TB, storage is provisioned as 25 TB SharePoint team sites to individual users.
  • [6] Teams runs on a SharePoint in Microsoft 365 back end for file sharing, so SharePoint storage limits apply to the Files section within a team. Learn more about storage limits and specifications for Microsoft Teams.
  • [7] Access and Publisher are available for PC only.
  • [8] For more information, see the Microsoft Online Service Level Agreement.
  • [*] Microsoft 365 Copilot may not be available for all markets and languages. To purchase, customers must have a qualifying plan for enterprise or business

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