Microsoft 365 Business Basic
- SKU
- MS-M365-BB-A1
- Licence
- CSP
- Term
- 1 year
₹5,040Indicative, excl. GST (18%) · per seat · Buy now
Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365, sized to what your teams actually use
The plan difference matters more than the per-seat price. Most organisations are better served by a mixed estate than by putting everyone on the same tier.
Microsoft 365 splits into two families that behave quite differently. The Business plans are capped at 300 seats and are priced for small and mid-sized organisations. The Enterprise plans have no cap and add the compliance tooling that regulated organisations need.
The most common mistake is uniformity: putting an entire workforce on one plan because it is simpler to administer. A mixed estate — Premium for staff handling sensitive data, Standard for the rest, Basic for frontline roles — is almost always cheaper and no harder to manage.
The 300-seat cap, and when to plan around it
The Business plans are hard-capped at 300 seats across Basic, Standard and Premium combined. There is no override and no grace allowance.
Organisations that hit the cap unexpectedly end up migrating to enterprise plans under time pressure, usually at a renewal deadline. We recommend planning the transition at around 250 seats, when it can happen on your schedule and the commercial comparison can be made properly.
What Business Premium replaces
Premium is frequently mispriced by buyers because it is compared against Standard on the per-seat difference alone. That comparison ignores what it removes from the rest of the budget.
- A separate endpoint protection product, for most Windows estates
- A separate mobile device management platform
- A separate email attachment and link security product
- A separate multi-factor authentication and conditional access tool
Plans compared
All prices are per user per month equivalent, exclusive of GST, on annual commitment.
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Microsoft 365 Business Standard
- SKU
- MS-M365-BS-A1
- Licence
- CSP
- Term
- 1 year
₹11,800Indicative, excl. GST (18%) · per seat · Buy now
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Microsoft 365 Business Premium
- SKU
- MS-M365-BP-A1
- Licence
- CSP
- Term
- 1 year
₹20,400Indicative, excl. GST (18%) · per seat · Buy now
Microsoft 365 E3
- SKU
- MS-M365-E3-A1
- Licence
- CSP
- Term
- 1 year
₹33,600Indicative, excl. GST (18%) · per seat · Buy now
Microsoft 365 E5
- SKU
- MS-M365-E5-A1
- Licence
- CSP
- Term
- 1 year
₹55,200Indicative, excl. GST (18%) · per seat · Buy now
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Moving the billing relationship to a Cloud Solution Provider is an administrative change. Your tenant, data, configuration and users are unaffected, and there is no downtime.
Yes. Subscriptions through CSP, and perpetual licences such as Windows Server, SQL Server and Office LTSC through volume licensing. We will price both where both are viable for your scenario.
Additions can be made at any time. Reductions take effect at the subscription anniversary, which is why the renewal date is the point at which a genuine review is worth doing.
Get Microsoft 365 pricing for your seat mix
Tell us your headcount and how the roles split. We will price a mixed estate rather than putting everyone on the same tier.