Microsoft Teams Pricing
- Productivity pricing
- $4/mo at the smallest
- Free plan
Microsoft Teams pricing starts at $4 a month, which is $48 over twelve months. There is a free plan, and a trial on the paid tiers: 1 month on Microsoft 365 Business plans.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
Microsoft Teams pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Free tier available; Teams Essentials from $4.00 per user/month |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $4 a month, or $48 a year |
| How that is reached | Teams Essentials at $4 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | 1 month on Microsoft 365 Business plans |
| How it charges | freemium |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 9 August 2026 |
Every Microsoft Teams plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 9 August 2026. Charged as freemium. Free trial: 1 month on Microsoft 365 Business plans.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Teams (free) | $0 | per month | Chat and meetings with time and participant limits |
| Teams Essentials | $4.00 | per month | per user, paid yearly - Standalone Teams without Microsoft 365 apps or business email |
| Microsoft 365 Business Basic | $7.00 | per month | per user, paid yearly - Teams plus business email and web apps |
| Microsoft 365 Business Standard with Copilot | $23.50 | per month | per user, paid yearly |
| Teams Phone Standard Add-on | $10.00 | per month | per user - Add-on providing a phone number and PBX features |
| Teams Phone with Calling Plan | $17.00 | per month | per user - Teams Phone plus domestic minutes, US zone |
What Microsoft Teams costs beyond the advertised price
Each of these is a figure you can check on the vendor's own page. The arithmetic is shown so you can redo it rather than take our word for it.
- Charged on top of a plan$120 a year
Teams Phone Standard is charged on top of a plan rather than instead of one: $10 a month, which is $120 a year on top of whichever tier you hold.
Working$10 a month x 12 = $120 a year, added to a tier price rather than replacing it.
Computed from the plan table on Microsoft Teams plan comparison , read 9 August 2026
What Microsoft Teams actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teams Essentialsper user, paid yearly | per month | $4 | $48 |
| Microsoft 365 Business Basicper user, paid yearly | per month | $7 | $84 |
| Microsoft 365 Business Standard with Copilotper user, paid yearly | per month | $23.50 | $282 |
| Teams Phone Standard add-onper user | per month | $10 | $120 |
| Teams Phone with Calling Planper user | per month | $17 | $204 |
Cancelling Microsoft Teams, and getting money back
Read from the published Microsoft Teams terms on 18 September 2026. These are the terms, not legal advice: consumer law where you live may give you rights the terms do not mention.
| Refund window | 30 days |
|---|---|
| When you cancel | Cancelling within 30 days of the initial purchase, or before the first recurring charge if that comes sooner, earns a refund. Microsoft also refunds the most recent recurring charge if you cancel within 30 days of it. |
| Changing mid-term | That second right is used once per Microsoft account per product, and covers direct purchases rather than prepaid retail codes. Prorated refunds after billing vary by country: any time in Canada, France, Israel and Korea among others, within 14 days in some regions, and not at all in the rest. |
Microsoft subscription refund policy ↗ · read 18 September 2026
Microsoft Teams pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against Microsoft Teams |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Teams | $4 a month | Yes | This product |
| Slack | $8.75 a month | Yes | +$4.75 a month (+119%) |
| Zoom | $14.16 a month | Yes | +$10.16 a month (+254%) |
Which Microsoft Teams plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You need chat and meetings at no cost | Microsoft Teams free | Works, with time and participant limits on meetings. |
| You want Teams without the Office apps | Teams Essentials | $4 per user paid yearly. Standalone Teams, no business email included. |
| You need Teams plus business email | Microsoft 365 Business Basic | $7 per user, and usually the better purchase than Essentials. |
| You want to replace your phone system | Teams Phone | $10 per user for PBX features, or $17 with domestic calling in the US zone. This is where Teams genuinely saves money. |
| You have no other Microsoft footprint | Consider Slack instead | Slack is a better chat product. Teams wins on being already paid for, which does not apply to you. |
Specific Microsoft Teams pricing questions
Each of these is a question with a different answer from the one above, so each has its own page rather than a paragraph on this one.
- Microsoft Teams Cost in the UK Prices in pounds for UK buyers, excluding VAT.
Microsoft licensing costs
Every other Microsoft product priced on this site, with the smallest invoice each will accept and the specific questions answered for it.
- Microsoft 365 pricing - from $7 a month on Business Basic
- Microsoft Copilot pricing - from $21 a month on Microsoft 365 Copilot Business
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 pricing - from $65 a month on Sales Professional
- Microsoft Power BI pricing - from $14 a month on Power BI Pro
The bundling argument
Almost nobody evaluates Teams and buys it. They buy Microsoft 365 and find Teams included, at which point paying separately for another chat tool needs justifying to finance. That is the whole competitive story, and it explains why Teams’ user numbers and its satisfaction scores point in different directions.
Teams Phone is the underrated part
The feature that most often justifies Teams on its own merits is telephony. Teams Phone Standard at $10 per user per month provides a cloud PBX; adding a calling plan takes it to $17 in the US zone. For an organisation still paying for desk phones and a separate voice contract, that consolidation is frequently the largest single line-item saving available.
Where it genuinely frustrates people
Three complaints recur and none are unfair:
- Structure. The distinction between a team, a channel and a group chat is never obvious, and organisations routinely end up with hundreds of abandoned channels.
- Weight. It uses noticeably more memory and starts more slowly than a dedicated chat client.
- External collaboration. Working with people outside your tenant involves guest access, cross-tenant settings and occasional dead ends that Slack solved years ago.
What to check before standardising
Confirm which Microsoft 365 tier your users hold, because meeting size, recording and webinar features differ by licence. If you operate in the EU, note that Microsoft also sells Business Basic, Standard and Premium without Teams at a lower price, which is worth knowing if you intend to standardise on something else.
Microsoft Teams questions, answered
- Does Microsoft Teams have a free plan or free trial?
- Microsoft Teams has a free plan. A free trial is available: 1 month on Microsoft 365 Business plans.
- Can I self-host Microsoft Teams?
- No. Microsoft Teams is a hosted service only, so your data lives on the vendor's infrastructure.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Nobody here has used Microsoft Teams. This profile is desk research: prices read from the pages cited below, on the dates shown , from one primary source , with 2 captures taken by us . How we research a profile.
Where Microsoft Teams appears on this site
- Pricing question Microsoft Teams Cost in the UK answers "microsoft teams cost uk"
- Another profile Discord names it as a competitor
- Another profile Slack names it as a competitor
- Another profile Zoom names it as a competitor
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Provenance and freshness
What has changed
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August 2026
- Per-user pricing verified, including Teams Phone add-on rates
- Added plan picker and verdicts
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Microsoft Teams plan comparison - checked 9 August 2026
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