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Microsoft licensing: prices, rules, calculators and the honest answers, in one place

Microsoft 365, Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, CSP and Open Value. Every price on this site is Microsoft’s list price with its source, or our price marked as ours; every rule is the one Microsoft publishes. Prices first, then nine entry points; if none fits, start from your situation.

Pricing

Microsoft’s list prices, with their source, updated every month

Every figure on this site is Microsoft’s list price for four regions — Europe, Canada, Australia and the Middle East — from the September 2026 price list, in nine currencies. Our price to you is lower and is confirmed on a pro-forma invoice, in euro or sterling, within one business day. Three places to look.

Subscriptions

Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, security, Copilot and Azure, month by month or by the year: every product Microsoft sells through its partner programme, searchable, with the commitment and billing options side by side.

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Perpetual software

Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Exchange and SharePoint Server: bought once and kept, with or without Software Assurance, through the Open Value programme.

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Calculators

The cost of a Windows Server or SQL Server estate by core and by host, which Visual Studio subscription a developer actually needs, what a migration costs, and what Microsoft 365 Copilot gives back in hours against what it costs.

Windows Server · SQL Server · Visual Studio · Migration · Copilot ROI

Microsoft 365 pricing

Business Basic, Standard, Premium, E3, E5, F-plans: every plan at Microsoft list price in nine currencies, compared side by side, and a finder that picks the plan from the problem.

Price list Compare plans Plan finder

Microsoft CSP partner

What a Cloud Solution Provider does, how CSP differs from buying direct or from an Enterprise Agreement, monthly against annual under New Commerce, and how to change partner without migrating anything.

CSP licensing CSP vs EA Change partner

Windows Server licensing

Core licences with the 8-per-CPU and 16-per-server minimums, Standard against Datacenter, CALs and RDS CALs, perpetual or subscription, with list prices in nine currencies.

Calculator Price table

SQL Server licensing

Per core against Server + CAL, Standard against Enterprise, whole host for unlimited VMs, passive replicas, with list prices.

Calculator Price table

Visual Studio subscriptions (MSDN)

Community, Professional, Enterprise, Test Professional, MSDN Platforms: which one, what it costs under Open Value with Software Assurance, and why CSP cannot sell it.

Which Visual Studio? Cost calculator

Open Value licensing

The volume-licensing agreement: licence with Software Assurance in three annual payments, perpetual after the third. The full catalogue at 5% below ERP in EUR and GBP, with part numbers.

Open Value catalogue Servers Applications Open Value vs CSP Licence types explained Renewal

Azure

Subscriptions through CSP, Azure Hybrid Benefit for licences you own, dev/test pricing and credits with a Visual Studio subscription, infrastructure migration at a fixed price.

Azure infrastructure Azure credit

Copilot ROI calculator

Roles, pay and tax, minutes per day in three scenarios: hours returned per year, value, net of licences, payback — and a printable business case for whoever decides.

Copilot hub Build the case

Which Copilot?

Six products share one name, from free to €2,080 a year: Chat, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Business, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot. The map, and which to buy for which job.

Copilot hub The comparison

Which channel?

Per product: sold through CSP, Open Value, both, or only by Microsoft directly. The most-asked licensing question, answered in one selector.

Channel finder

Licensing review, free

What you pay against what you use: unassigned licences, duplicates across tenants, expensive SKUs doing cheap jobs. Read-only, one to two weeks, typically 10–25% of spend.

Licensing review Open Value renewal Add licences

We sell through CSP (five regional authorisations) and Open Value (euro area and UK). Not Enterprise Agreements. Legal entities only. Every claim with its source →

Product pages

Microsoft 365 suites: one page per plan, with every purchasing option

Price in nine currencies, what is included and what is not, licensing rules, and every term Microsoft actually sells. More products are added weekly.

Microsoft 365 Business Basic

Business email, Teams, SharePoint and the web and mobile Office apps for organisations up to 300 users — no desktop Office.

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Microsoft 365 Business Standard

Everything in Business Basic plus Office installed on up to five PCs or Macs per user — still no device management or advanced security.

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Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Business Standard plus the security stack: Intune, Entra ID P1 with Conditional Access, Defender for Business, Defender for Office 365 P1 and archiving — for up to 300 users.

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Office 365 E1

The enterprise equivalent of Business Basic: email, Teams, SharePoint and web Office with no user cap and enterprise storage — no desktop apps.

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Office 365 E3

Desktop Office for the enterprise, 100 GB mailboxes with litigation hold, DLP — but no Intune, no Entra ID P1, no Windows. The productivity half of Microsoft 365 E3.

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Office 365 E5

Office 365 E3 plus Defender for Office 365 Plan 2, Purview eDiscovery Premium, Teams Phone, Audio Conferencing and Power BI Pro — still without Intune, Entra ID P1 or Windows.

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Microsoft 365 E3

Office 365 E3 plus Windows Enterprise, Intune, Entra ID P1 and Defender for Office 365 P1: the enterprise equivalent of Business Premium, with no user cap.

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Microsoft 365 E5

The full Microsoft stack in one licence: E3 plus the Defender suite, Entra ID P2, Purview premium compliance, Teams Phone, Audio Conferencing and Power BI Pro.

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Microsoft 365 F1

For workers without a desk who need Teams, SharePoint and shift tools but no email of their own: the cheapest Microsoft 365 licence.

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Microsoft 365 F3

Frontline plan with a 2 GB mailbox, web and mobile Office, Teams, Intune and Windows Enterprise for shared devices — a third of the price of E3.

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Add-ons and standalone plans

Every add-on we sell, one page each, priced for your region

What it is, who needs it, which plans already include it, and every buying option, with a proposal you can print or send. Grouped by the job the product does; prices are Microsoft’s list per user a month on an annual term, in EUR, for the region chosen at the top of the page.

Devices

Laptops and phones managed, encrypted, wipeable

Analytics and data

Reports published, shared and modelled