What's included in your Microsoft 365 plan?
Most companies pay for Microsoft 365 every month without a clear picture of what's inside. Here's the honest answer for the five most common plans — SharePoint, Teams, Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI — so you know what you already own before you buy anything new.
Five plans, side by side.
A tick means it's included in the subscription — no add-on required. This is the platform picture; storage quotas and security depth vary by plan.
| What you get | Business Basic |
Business Standard |
Business Premium |
Enterprise E3 |
Enterprise E5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SharePoint Online (intranet & document management) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OneDrive for Business | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Business email & calendar (Exchange) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Power Apps (Microsoft 365 use rights) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Power Automate (Microsoft 365 use rights) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Lists & Forms | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Office web & mobile apps | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Desktop Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Advanced device & identity security (Intune, Entra) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Advanced compliance, audit & analytics | — | — | partial | partial | ✓ |
| Power BI Pro (shared reports & dashboards) | add-on | add-on | add-on | add-on | ✓ |
Microsoft adjusts plan line-ups from time to time, so treat this as the reliable general picture — and confirm your exact plan in the Microsoft 365 admin center under Billing → Your products. One line-up change worth knowing: between 2024 and late 2025 Microsoft sold its Enterprise suites without Teams, then reintroduced Teams-included suites worldwide from November 2025. Cheaper "no Teams" versions of several suites still exist, so it's worth checking which variant your organization actually holds. Power Apps and Power Automate use rights cover standard connectors with data in SharePoint or Excel; Dataverse, premium connectors and RPA need premium licenses — we always flag those before building anything.
The takeaway: even the cheapest plan includes the entire platform we build on.
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SharePoint Online is in every plan above — the same platform behind Fortune 500 intranets. Most companies use it as a dumping ground or not at all. See what it can be →
Approvals, reminders, report generation and data syncing — Power Automate handles all of it on the license you already pay for. See what to automate first →
The forms, trackers and inspection apps you'd pay a dev shop to build — Power Apps builds them on your existing plan. See what teams build →
Licensing questions, answered honestly
How do I check which Microsoft 365 plan we have?
Is Power Apps really included in Microsoft 365?
Do we need E5 to use Power BI?
We only have Business Basic — can we still get an intranet and automation?
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