Find the best Microsoft 365 plan for your business

All major credit cards are accepted. When paying with a credit card, your subscription amount will appear on your credit card statement. Existing customers may be eligible to pay by invoice and can contact support to check their eligibility for this payment method. For Microsoft 365 plans, depending on your choice of service, you’ll be billed monthly or annually.

To provide you with the greatest amount of flexibility, different commitment terms and payment options are available.

Monthly commitment with monthly payment: Sign up for a monthly subscription and pay month-to-month and cancel at any time.

Annual commitment with monthly payment: Sign up for a one-year subscription and pay monthly.

Annual commitment with annual payment: Sign up for a one-year subscription and pay for the entire year upfront.

Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Business Standard, and Business Premium offer advanced tools and features specifically designed for businesses, including:

Professional business email: Create and use a branded email address with your business domain (e.g., [email protected]).

Admin and IT management controls: Manage access, permissions, and devices through the Microsoft 365 admin center, which is designed for businesses.

Scalability: Easily add users or upgrade plans as your business grows, with flexible licensing options that adapt to your changing needs.

Enhanced security features: Protect your business against email phishing, spam, and malware with Exchange Online Protection. Business Premium also includes Microsoft Defender for Business, offering ransomware protection with automatic threat disruption, advanced antivirus capabilities, and tools for managing vulnerabilities.

Advanced collaboration tools: For plans with Microsoft Teams, access enhanced features such as meeting recordings, transcription, and team workspaces optimized for business collaboration.

Business apps: Run your business with tools such as Microsoft Bookings for appointment scheduling.

AI features: Brainstorm, create, or check off your to‑do list with secure, enterprise‑ready AI chat. Copilot Chat is included with eligible Microsoft 365 subscriptions, while Microsoft 365 Copilot — an AI built for work, powered by Work IQ, with access to agents and AI chat in apps — is available as an add‑on or in Microsoft 365 plans with Copilot.

Microsoft has a variety of productivity and security management offerings for small to medium-sized businesses, each bringing increasingly powerful features and functionality. Microsoft 365 Business Basic provides access to lightweight web and mobile versions of apps such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as business email and cloud storage. You can also choose between plans with and without Microsoft Teams or plans with and without Copilot.

Microsoft 365 Business Standard combines powerful desktop, web, and mobile versions of apps such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and additional apps such as Clipchamp, along with the same services as those in Business Basic.

Microsoft 365 Business Premium includes all the same apps and services plus advanced cyberthreat protection and device management capabilities.

Enterprise plan options offer increased levels of compliance and security management over business plans and provide additional business intelligence and analytics functionality. These plans are designed for enterprise customers and those with more than 300 users.

Many customers purchase a Microsoft 365 base subscription and then, depending on their needs, choose to buy any number of add-on services to round out their implementation. Additionally, customers may choose to purchase apps from one of the thousands of vendors available in the Microsoft 365 store.

Get AI features, including grammar and style suggestions with Microsoft Editor, focused inbox and suggested replies in Outlook, and live captions and meeting transcription in plans with Teams. For eligible business users signed in with a Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat offers limited AI-powered chat with enterprise data protection. While Copilot Chat uses public web data for tasks such as research and analysis, it doesn’t integrate with Microsoft 365 apps or organizational content such as files, emails, or chats. For deeper integration and extensibility, businesses should purchase a Microsoft 365 plan with Copilot, which connects directly to productivity apps and organizational data. For existing customers, Microsoft 365 Copilot is available as an add-on.

New customers can choose to purchase a Microsoft 365 plan with Copilot, while existing customers with a qualifying Microsoft 365 plan can add Copilot as an add‑on and manage it through the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Discounts are available for enterprise agreement customers (typically 250+ licenses) who want to purchase through volume licensing. A Microsoft expert can help you explore the purchasing options for large organizations and help you determine which is best for you.

Yes, you can transition your account to a different plan as the needs of your organization change.

Yes, within the 300-seat tenant limit that covers the whole family of business plans. See how the 300-seat limit works for the arithmetic and what to do once you pass it.

You can cancel your subscription at any time. However, depending on the product and your subscription, there may be a penalty for canceling before the end of your contract. For subscriptions with a monthly commitment payment, there is no penalty for canceling your contract at any time. Annual commitment subscriptions paid month to month may incur some penalties if canceled early. Annual commitment subscriptions that are paid upfront do not receive a refund if canceled prior to the full contract period.

Your data is yours. If you decide to cancel your Microsoft 365 subscription, you can download your data—for example, email and documents on team sites—and save it to another location. You should save your data before you cancel. After you cancel your subscription, data associated with your Microsoft 365 account will be available to your administrator(s) in a limited function account for 90 days.

No. Business Basic covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote for web and mobile only. The desktop apps start at Business Standard: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Microsoft Access (PC only). That is also the first plan with installs on up to 5 PC or Mac, 5 tablets and 5 mobile devices per user.

It raised list prices on most suites and added capability to them on the same date. Business Basic went from $6.00 to $7.00, Business Standard from $12.50 to $14.00, Business Premium held at $22.00. All three gained +50GB email plus Copilot Chat enhancements and Copilot Chat Analytics, with URL time-of-click protection going to Basic and Standard. Full breakdown here, and the enterprise figures are on Microsoft 365 enterprise plans. Prices on this page are current as of August 2026. Ask us for a quote if you are up for renewal.