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What is the pricing of MS Teams for enterprises?
Rod Falanga It is hard to do a business case for Teams vs Skype for Business when you don't get the figures from them. Based on that (no facts at all) you can easy say to them that Teams will not be more expensive.
Hi,
First Skype for Business is not going away soon. Skype for Business Online will be replaced by Teams 2021, but Skype for Business Server will continue existing after that. But most of the new features will come to Teams and not to Skype for Business.
The pricing depends on were you buy your licenses and how many. Larger enterprises get more discount that smaller enterprises, also there is some differences between countries.
For Enterprises you will buy Enterprise licenses and then you will get Teams with E1, E3 and E5 licenses. With E5 Enterprise Telephony is included and the Audio Conferencing license (dial-in) is included. For E1 and E5 you can select if you want to add these as Add-Ons.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/compare-more-office-365-for-business-plans
So the prices are per user: E1 ($8/month), E3 ($20/month) and E5 ($35/month). But this will also include other products, so if you are using Office Pro Plus, Exchange, SharePoint, Yammer, etc. these are included.
So compared with the Skype for Business license the cost for Teams licenses shouldn't be higher for you. But since you will be changing from one product to another you will have to spend some money on user adoption to educate your users, since it is very expensive to spend money on licenses and not educate your users how to use the new product fully.