$4 a seat against $13. One question settles it, and everything below is what the two plans share and where they part.
a seat, a month
Staff who need the schedule, the company intranet and Teams, and who have never had a work email address.
Staff who are emailed directly, or who fill in and return documents rather than only reading them.
The step up is $9 a seat, a month — $4 against $13.
Five capabilities separate them. Each row is what one plan does and the other does not, taken from the same comparison the hub publishes.
The plans differ in several places, and one of them decides it. A person who is emailed directly needs the plan that carries a mailbox.
The rows that read the same on both. Worth knowing before stepping up, and worth knowing before staying put.
Microsoft Teams
File storage per person: 2 GB
Shared company files and intranet: SharePoint Kiosk
Maximum number of people: no limit
Control over company devices
Rules about who can sign in, and from where
Archive storage
Word, Excel and Outlook installed
Webinars and meeting recording
Protection on the computers themselves
Attachment and link scanning
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 F1 for one group of people and F3 for another sit in the same tenant.
One person, for one month, on an annual commitment, billed monthly. The figures above are $4 a seat for F1 and $13 for F3.
They sit beside the business plans rather than below them. A different set of people, not a smaller version of the same plan.
They carry no cap. The business plans stop at 300, and the frontline pair is the range that does not.
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?
How much mail has to be kept, and for how long?
Every plan side by side, with what a seat costs and which capabilities are already bundled in.
