$5 a seat against $10. One question settles it, and everything below is what the two plans share and where they part.
a seat, a month
A mailbox that gets cleared out, or does not fill up.
Anyone who keeps everything, or who has to be able to produce old mail on request.
The step up is $5 a seat, a month — $5 against $10.
Three capabilities separate them. Each row is what one plan does and the other does not, taken from the same comparison the hub publishes.
Two figures each, and neither means much on its own. The mailbox doubles between the plans; the archive is where the larger step happens.
The rows that read the same on both. Worth knowing before stepping up, and worth knowing before staying put.
Email at your own domain
Word, Excel and Outlook in a browser: view only
Extra apps included: Forms only
Word, Excel and Outlook installed
Microsoft Teams
File storage per person
Shared company files and intranet
Webinars and meeting recording
Windows 11 upgrade included
Control over company devices
Protection on the computers themselves
Attachment and link scanning
Rules about who can sign in, and from where
Neither plan carries these, so the step up does not change them. The comparison page shows which plans do.
Yes. Licenses are assigned per person, so Exchange Plan 1 for one group of people and Exchange Plan 2 for another sit in the same tenant.
One person, for one month, on an annual commitment, billed monthly. The figures above are $5 a seat for Exchange Plan 1 and $10 for Exchange Plan 2.
Microsoft publishes no limit for the Exchange plans. The business plans stop at 300.
Microsoft 365 Business Basic, at $9 a seat. Email, Teams and the browser versions of the Office apps.
Each of these is one question with two answers, the same shape as this page.
Does the company need to control the computers and phones themselves, or only the accounts?
Does anyone need Word, Excel and Outlook installed on the computer, rather than in a browser tab?
Does this person need a mailbox of their own?
Every plan side by side, with what a seat costs and which capabilities are already bundled in.
