Enterprise-grade security. SMB-friendly pricing.

Find the right fit for your customers business. Our Microsoft SMB Security and Compliance Comparison Chart makes it easy to see what each plan offers.

Compare features side by side, understand the benefits, and choose the solution that keeps your customers business secure and compliant without the guesswork. Simple, clear, and built to help you make the right call for them.

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Category	Feature	Business Standard	Business Premium	M365 E3/5 (Union)	Defender Suite	Purview Suite	Defender + Purview Suite
Microsoft 365 apps	Desktop client apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote; Access/Publisher on PC)	✔	✔	✔
Microsoft 365 apps	Microsoft 365 for mobile (iOS/Android)	✔	✔	✔
Microsoft 365 apps	Install apps on up to 5 PCs/Mac + 5 tablets + 5 smartphones	✔	✔	✔
Microsoft 365 apps	Microsoft 365 for the web	✔	✔	✔
Microsoft 365 apps	Visio for the web
Microsoft 365 apps	Create and share Microsoft Loop components and pages	✔	✔	✔
Microsoft 365 apps	Create and share Loop workspaces	✔	✔	✔
Microsoft 365 apps	Contribute to Loop pages/workspaces	✔	✔	✔
Microsoft 365 apps	Clipchamp Standard	✔	✔	✔
Microsoft 365 apps	Microsoft Editor premium features	✔	✔	✔
Microsoft 365 apps	Multilingual UI for Microsoft 365 apps	✔	✔	✔
Email, calendar, and scheduling	Exchange Plan 1 (50 GB mailbox + archive)	✔	✔
Email, calendar, and scheduling	Exchange Plan 2 (100 GB mailbox + auto-expanding archive)			✔
Email, calendar, and scheduling	Calendar	✔	✔	✔
Email, calendar, and scheduling	Outlook desktop client	✔	✔	✔
Email, calendar, and scheduling	Auto-expanding email archive	✔	✔	✔		✔	✔
Email, calendar, and scheduling	Exchange Online Protection	✔	✔	✔
Email, calendar, and scheduling	Public folder mailboxes	✔	✔	✔
Email, calendar, and scheduling	Resource mailboxes	✔	✔	✔
Email, calendar, and scheduling	Inactive mailboxes			✔		✔	✔
Email, calendar, and scheduling	Microsoft Shifts	✔	✔	+
Email, calendar, and scheduling	Microsoft Bookings	✔	✔	+
Meetings, calling, and chat	Microsoft Teams	✔	✔	✔
Meetings, calling, and chat	Unlimited chat	✔	✔	✔
Meetings, calling, and chat	Online meetings	✔	✔	✔
Meetings, calling, and chat	Town hall			✔
Meetings, calling, and chat	Webinars	✔	✔	✔
Meetings, calling, and chat	Record meetings	✔	✔	✔
Meetings, calling, and chat	Avatars for Teams	✔	✔	✔
Meetings, calling, and chat	Priority notifications	✔	✔	✔
Meetings, calling, and chat	Audio Conferencing	+	+	+
Meetings, calling, and chat	Teams Phone Standard	+	+	✔ (E5-only)
Social, intranet, and storage	SharePoint Online Plan 1	✔	✔
Social, intranet, and storage	SharePoint Online Plan 2			✔
Social, intranet, and storage	Additional storage per license (10 GB)	✔	✔	✔
Social, intranet, and storage	OneDrive personal storage (1 TB)	✔	✔	✔
Social, intranet, and storage	Viva Connections	✔	✔	+
Social, intranet, and storage	Viva Engage	✔	✔	✔
Knowledge and content	Microsoft Graph API	✔	✔	✔
Knowledge and content	Microsoft Search	✔	✔	✔
Knowledge and content	Microsoft Lists	✔	✔	✔
Knowledge and content	Microsoft Forms (create/manage)	✔	✔	✔
Knowledge and content	Delve	✔	✔	✔
Project and task management	Microsoft Planner	✔	✔	✔
Project and task management	Microsoft To Do	✔	✔	✔
Automation, app building & chatbots	Power Apps for Microsoft 365	✔	✔	✔
Automation, app building & chatbots	Power Automate for Microsoft 365	✔	✔	✔
Automation, app building & chatbots	Copilot Studio for Teams	✔	✔	+
Automation, app building & chatbots	Dataverse for Teams	✔	✔	+
Analytics & Insights	Adoption Score			✔
Analytics & Insights	Productivity Score	✔	✔	✔
Analytics & Insights	Secure Score	✔	✔	✔
Analytics & Insights	Compliance Manager	✔	✔	✔
Analytics & Insights	Power BI Pro			✔ (E5-only)
Threat protection	Microsoft Defender Antimalware			✔
Threat protection	Microsoft Defender Firewall			✔
Threat protection	Microsoft Defender Exploit Guard		✔	✔
Threat protection	Microsoft Defender Credential Guard		✔	✔
Threat protection	Bitlocker and Bitlocker To Go		✔	✔
Threat protection	Windows Information Protection		✔
Threat protection	Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1	+	✔	✔ (E5-only)	✔		✔
Threat protection	Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2			✔ (E5-only)	✔		✔
Threat protection	Microsoft Defender for Business (SMB endpoints)	+	✔
Threat protection	Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 1			✔
Threat protection	Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2			✔ (E5-only)	✔		✔
Threat protection	Microsoft Defender for IoT – Enterprise IoT			✔ (E5-only)	✔		✔
Threat protection	Microsoft Defender XDR		✔	✔ (E5-only)	✔		✔
Threat protection	Microsoft Defender Application Guard for Edge			✔
Threat protection	Microsoft Defender Application Guard for Office			✔ (E5-only)	✔		✔
Threat protection	Microsoft Defender for Identity			✔ (E5-only)	✔		✔
Threat protection	Microsoft Security Exposure Management		✔	✔ (E5-only)	✔		✔
Threat protection	Safe Documents			✔ (E5-only)	✔		✔
Cloud access security broker	Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Discovery		✔	✔
Cloud access security broker	Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (CASB)			✔ (E5-only)	✔	✔	✔
Cloud access security broker	Office 365 Cloud App Security			✔ (E5-only)	✔	✔	✔
Endpoint & app management	Microsoft Intune Plan 1	+	✔	✔
Endpoint & app management	Mobile Device Management	✔	✔	✔
Endpoint & app management	Mobile Application Management		✔	✔
Endpoint & app management	Windows Autopilot		✔	✔
Endpoint & app management	Group Policy Support for Windows	✔	✔	✔
Endpoint & app management	Group Policy support for Microsoft 365 apps	✔	✔	✔
Endpoint & app management	Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365	✔	✔	✔
Endpoint & app management	Shared computer activation for Microsoft 365 apps		✔	✔
Endpoint & app management	Endpoint Analytics		✔	✔
Identity & access	Microsoft Entra ID Free	✔
Identity & access	Microsoft Entra ID Plan 1	+	✔	✔
Identity & access	Microsoft Entra ID Plan 2			✔ (E5-only)	✔		✔
Identity & access	Microsoft Entra ID Protection			✔ (E5-only)	✔		✔
Identity & access	Microsoft Entra Internet Access for Microsoft Services		✔	✔	✔		✔
Identity & access	User Provisioning		✔	✔
Identity & access	Cloud user self-service password change	✔	✔	✔	✔		✔
Identity & access	Cloud user self-service password reset	✔	✔	✔	✔		✔
Identity & access	Hybrid user self-service password change/reset with on-premises write-back		✔	✔	✔		✔
Identity & access	Advanced Security Reports			✔	✔		✔
Identity & access	Multi Factor Authentication		✔	✔	✔		✔
Identity & access	Conditional Access		✔	✔	✔		✔
Identity & access	Risk-based Conditional Access			✔ (E5-only)	✔		✔
Identity & access	Privileged Identity Management			✔ (E5-only)	✔		✔
Identity & access	Access Reviews			✔ (E5-only)	✔		✔
Identity & access	Entitlement Management			✔ (E5-only)	✔		✔
Identity & access	Microsoft 365 Groups			✔
Identity & access	Single sign-on (SSO)		✔	✔
Identity & access	DirectAccess supported			✔
Identity & access	Windows Hello for Business		✔	✔
Identity & access	Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics			✔
Information protection	Azure Information Protection Plan 1		✔	✔
Information protection	Azure Information Protection Plan 2			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Information protection	Manual, default, and mandatory sensitivity labeling in Microsoft 365 apps		✔	✔
Information protection	Automatic sensitivity labeling in Microsoft 365 apps			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Information protection	Manual sensitivity labeling for Teams meetings			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Information protection	Default sensitivity labels for SharePoint document libraries			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Information protection	Automatic sensitivity labels in Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Information protection	Sensitivity labels based on advanced classifiers (e.g., Trainable Classifiers, EDM, Named Entities, Contextual)			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Information protection	Sensitivity labeling for containers in Microsoft 365			✔
Information protection	Basic Message Encryption		✔	✔
Information protection	Advanced Message Encryption			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Information protection	Customer Key			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Information protection	Personal Data Encryption			✔
Information protection	Windows Information Protection		✔	✔
Data Loss Prevention	DLP for emails and files		✔	✔		✔	✔
Data Loss Prevention	DLP for Teams chat			+		✔	✔
Data Loss Prevention	Endpoint DLP			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Data lifecycle & eDiscovery	Manual retention labels		✔	✔
Data lifecycle & eDiscovery	Basic org-wide or location-wide retention policies		✔	✔
Data lifecycle & eDiscovery	Rules- based automatic retention policies			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Data lifecycle & eDiscovery	Machine Learning-based retention			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Data lifecycle & eDiscovery	Teams message retention policies	✔	✔	+		✔	✔
Data lifecycle & eDiscovery	Records Management			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Data lifecycle & eDiscovery	Audit (Standard)	✔	✔	✔		✔	✔
Data lifecycle & eDiscovery	Audit (Premium)			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Data lifecycle & eDiscovery	eDiscovery (Standard)		✔	✔		✔	✔
Data lifecycle & eDiscovery	eDiscovery (Premium)			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Data lifecycle & eDiscovery	Litigation Hold		✔	✔
Insider risk	Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Insider risk	Adaptive Protection			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Insider risk	Communication Compliance			✔ (E5-only)
Insider risk	Default sensitivity labels for SharePoint document libraries					✔	✔
Insider risk	Information barriers			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Insider risk	Customer Lockbox			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Insider risk	Privileged Access Management			✔ (E5-only)		✔	✔
Windows	Windows 11 Edition		Business	Enterprise
Windows	Azure Virtual Desktop		✔	✔
Windows	Windows 365 Enterprise Access			✔
Windows	Virtual Desktop Access			✔
Windows	Universal Print		✔	✔
Windows	Windows Autopatch		✔	✔