Office 365 Enterprise or Microsoft 365 Enterprise: Which Plan is Right for You?
Microsoft 365
Office 365
E3
E5
E5 Security
(Requires M365 E3 (or O365 E3 and Enterprise Mobility + Security E3))
E1
E3
E5
US$36 per user monthly
US$57 per user monthly
US$12 per user monthly
US$10 per user monthly
US$23 per user monthly
US$38 per user monthly
Microsoft 365 Apps
Desktop client apps
✓
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Office Mobile apps
✓
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Install apps on up to 5 PCs/Mac + 5 tablets + 5 smartphones
✓
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Office for the web
✓
✓
✓
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Visio for the web
✓
✓
✓
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Microsoft Editor premium features
✓
✓
✓
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Multilingual user interface for Office apps
✓
✓
✓
✓
Email, calendar, and scheduling
Exchange Kiosk (2GB mailbox)
Exchange Plan 1 (50GB mailbox)
✓
Exchange Plan 2 (100GB mailbox)
✓
✓
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Calendar
✓
✓
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Outlook desktop client
✓
✓
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Auto-expanding email archive
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Exchange Online Protection
✓
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Public folder mailboxes
✓
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Resource mailboxes
✓
✓
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Inactive mailboxes
✓
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Microsoft Shifts
✓
✓
✓
✓
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Microsoft Bookings
✓
✓
✓
✓
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Meetings, calling, and chat
Microsoft Teams
✓
✓
✓
✓
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Unlimited chat
✓
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Online meetings
✓
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Live Events
✓
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Webinars
✓
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Screen sharing and custom backgrounds
✓
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Record meetings
✓
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Priority notifications
✓
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Teams Phone
✓
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Audio Conferencing
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Social, intranet, and storage
SharePoint Kiosk (2GB OneDrive storage)
SharePoint Plan 1 (1 TB OneDrive storage)
✓
SharePoint Plan 2 (unlimited OneDrive storage)
✓
✓
✓
✓
Yammer Enterprise
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Microsoft Viva Connections
✓
✓
✓
✓
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Content services
Microsoft Graph API
✓
✓
✓
✓
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Microsoft Search
✓
✓
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Microsoft Stream
✓
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Microsoft Forms
✓
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Microsoft Lists
✓
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Delve
✓
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Expertise identification
✓
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Create document understanding or form processing models
✓
✓
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Access content centers
✓
✓
✓
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View metadata extracted by document understanding or form processing models
✓
✓
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Insights and analytics
Productivity Score
✓
✓
✓
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Secure Score
✓
✓
✓
✓
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Compliance Management
✓
✓
✓
✓
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Viva Insights – Personal insights
✓
✓
✓
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Power BI Pro
✓
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Project and task management
Microsoft Planner
✓
✓
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Microsoft To-Do
✓
✓
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Briefing Email
✓
✓
✓
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Automation, app building, and chatbots
Power Apps
✓
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Power Automate
✓
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Power Virtual Agent
✓
✓
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Dataverse for Teams
✓
✓
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Viva Learning
Viva Learning in Teams
✓
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Create learning tabs in Teams channels
✓
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Search, share and chat about learning content
✓
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Microsoft Learn and Microsoft 365 Training libraries + 125 top LinkedIn Learning courses
✓
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Organization-generated content with SharePoint and Viva Learning
✓
✓
✓
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Information governance
Manual retention labels
✓
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Basic org-wide or location-wide retention policies
✓
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Rules-based automatic retention policies
✓
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Machine Learning-based retention
✓
Teams message retention policies
✓
✓
✓
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Records Management
✓
✓
Information protection
Azure Information Protection Plan 1
✓
Azure Information Protection Plan 2
✓
Manual, default, and mandatory sensitivity labelling in Office 365
✓
✓
✓
✓
Automatic sensitivity labelling in Office 365 apps
✓
✓
Manual labelling with the AIP app and plugin
✓
✓
Automatic labelling in the AIP plugin
✓
Automatic sensitivity labels in Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive
✓
✓
Sensitivity labels based on Machine Learning/Trainable classifiers
✓
Sensitivity labelling for containers in Office 365
✓
✓
✓
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O365 Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for emails & files
✓
✓
✓
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DLP for Teams chat
✓
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Endpoint DLP
✓
Basic Office Message Encryption
✓
✓
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Advanced Office Message Encryption
✓
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Customer Key
✓
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Threat Protection
Microsoft Defender Antimalware
✓
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Microsoft Defender Firewall
✓
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Microsoft Defender Exploit Guard
✓
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Microsoft Defender Credential Guard
✓
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BitLocker and BitLocker To Go
✓
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Windows Information Protection
✓
✓
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 1
✓
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2
✓
✓
Microsoft Defender for Identity
✓
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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2
✓
✓
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Application Guard for Office 365
✓
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Safe Documents
✓
✓
Cloud access security broker
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
✓
✓
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Discovery
✓
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Office 365 Cloud App Security
✓
Identity and access management
Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 1
✓
Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 2
✓
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User Provisioning
✓
✓
✓
✓
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Self Service Password Reset
✓
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Advanced Security Reports
✓
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Multi-Factor Authentication
✓
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Conditional Access
✓
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Risk-Based Conditional Access/ Identity Protection
✓
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Privileged Identity Management
✓
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Access Reviews
✓
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Entitlement Management
✓
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Microsoft 365 Groups
✓
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On-premises Active Directory sync for SSO
✓
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DirectAccess supported
✓
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Windows Hello for Business
✓
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Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics
✓
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Windows Store Access Management
✓
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Endpoint and app management
Microsoft Intune
✓
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Mobile Device Management
✓
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Microsoft Endpoint Manager
✓
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Mobile application management
✓
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Windows AutoPilot
✓
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Group Policy Support
✓
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Office cloud policy support
✓
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Shared computer activation for M365 Apps
✓
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Endpoint Analytics
✓
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Cortana management
✓
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eDiscovery and auditing
Content Search
✓
✓
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Core eDiscovery (including Hold and Export)
✓
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Litigation Hold
✓
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Advanced eDiscovery
✓
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Basic Audit
✓
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Advanced Audit
✓
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Insider risk management
Insider Risk Management
✓
Communication Compliance
✓
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Information Barriers
✓
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Customer Lockbox
✓
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Privileged Access Management
✓
✓
Windows
Windows 11 Edition
Enterprise
Enterprise
Azure Virtual Desktop
✓
✓
Universal Print
✓
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