Price increase for Microsoft 365 licenses in 2026

Microsoft 365 price increase

The prices for Microsoft 365 licenses have remained very stable for our customers over the past two years. There have been a few price increases on the part of Microsoft, for example for Teams Phone Standard and Power BI.

No price increases are expected for the following products in 2026:

• Microsoft Teams Essentials
  
• Microsoft 365 Business Premium
  
• Office 365 E1 EEA
  
• Office 365 E5 EEA
  
• Other Add-Ons such as Intune, Defender, Entra ID, etc.

The monthly prices for Microsoft 365 for Nonprofits have been increased in 2025 by approximately 20%. The previous monthly prices have been converted to annual prices. M365 Business Basic (up to 300 licenses) for Nonprofits remains free of charge. The 10 free M365 Business Premium for Nonprofit licenses have been discontinued.

The price of Microsoft 365 for Education remains unchanged.

Microsoft 365 pricing and new features

Microsoft justifies the price increase (see table) with more than 1,100 new features for Microsoft 365, including integrated AI, improved security, and extended device management.

New features in 2026:

• 100 GB email storage also for M365 Business Basic, Standard, and Premium
  
• Defender for Office 365 P1 will be included in Office 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 E3 (already included in O365 E5 & M365 E5 and M365 Business Premium)
  
• Intune P2, Remote Help, and Advanced Analytics will be included in M365 E3 & E5
  
• In M365 E5 will be included: Intune Endpoint Privilege Management, Intune Enterprise Application Management, Microsoft Cloud PKI, and Microsoft Security Copilot

Microsoft further writes:
With the release of Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, we delivered secure AI chat for work to all Microsoft 365 users. In September, we started rolling out Copilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote, bringing a unified chat experience right into the flow of work. At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we announced Copilot Chat will understand your inbox and calendar and include access to Agent Mode in chat and the Office apps, enabling you to work iteratively with Copilot to create high-quality documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.3 And IT administrators now have integrated, enterprise-grade controls to secure, manage, and measure Copilot Chat.

Further information

Delay the price increase for 1 year

There have been price increases in the past as well. We have protected our customers from these as much as possible. We can protect existing and new customers from future price increases as follows:

1. Order the desired product starting at 1 unit with an annual license, e.g., on 2026-01-10 till 2027-01-09
   
2. You can increase the amount at any time, e.g. on 2026-04-10. We will maintain the original price until the end of the term (2027-01-09). In this case, you will only pay the original annual price for 274 of 365 days.
   
3. In the event of an upcoming price increase, such as on 2026-07-01, you as a customer will be contacted in advance to order the desired product by 2026-06-30 at the latest, starting with a quantity of 1. When the licenses expire on 2027-01-10, these licenses could be added to the order of 2026-06-30. This means you will receive the lower price until 2027-06-29, even if you increase the quantity later (as in point 2).
   
4. You also have the option to upgrade your product at any time, e.g., from M365 Business Standard to Premium on 2026-04-10. You will then pay the annual price for M365 Business Premium from 2026-04-10 till 2027-01-09. M365 Business Standard will then be refunded for the remaining (same) period.
   
5. We offer quantity increases, new orders, quantity reductions, and upgrades as part of our customer service and do not charge any costs for this. We are available for this at any time, including weekends and holidays, depending on when your licenses expires.