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Microsoft 365
Microsoft's productivity suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive.
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Spec sheet
All-in India price
₹130/user/mo
For a registered business, billed yearly
- Free plan
- Not available
- Free trial
- Available
- Status
- Source checked 12 Nov 2026
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Shortlist Microsoft 365 if your team lives in Excel and PowerPoint, trades files with clients who use Office, or needs Windows device management alongside email. The honest alternative is Google Workspace, which is lighter and browser first; Microsoft wins on desktop app depth and on security bundled into Business Premium.
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Before paying, decide whether you actually need Copilot, because the with Copilot bundles cost more than double plain Standard and close to half again on top of plain Premium. Also choose the commitment deliberately: monthly commitment costs about a fifth more but lets you cancel, while annual paid upfront has no refund after the first seven days. Add your GSTIN in the admin center before the first invoice if you want to claim input credit.
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In short
Microsoft 365 is listed under Productivity & Knowledge, reviewed for Indian buyers. It costs about ₹130/user/mo before GST, billed in rupees. It issues an India GST invoice, so you can claim input credit. FindThatSoftware rates it best for document heavy teams that exchange Word and Excel files with clients; a poor fit for seasonal or project teams on a tight budget, since dropping seats mid year needs the costlier monthly commitment.
What Microsoft 365 costs in India
The rupee price a business actually pays, after the card forex markup, with GST shown both ways.
True India price
Registered business, per user per month, billed yearly
₹130
Microsoft 365 is billed in rupees at ₹130/user/mo, so there is no forex markup. A registered business reclaims GST, so that is roughly the cost (₹1,560/yr). Without reclaim, add 18% for about ₹153 a month.
- Sticker price
- ₹130/user/mo
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per user per month
- ₹130
- Registered per user per year
- ₹1,560
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹153
- Try first
- Free trial before you commit budget.
- Watch for
- Business plans are billed per user in rupees with GST added on top, either on a monthly commitment or on an annual commitment that auto renews and costs about a fifth less.
More
Annual subscriptions paid upfront get a prorated refund only within seven days of starting, and the one month trial needs a credit card and converts to paid automatically. Some Copilot features carry usage based charges beyond the licence, and Microsoft changed its packaging and prices on 1 July 2026, so recheck older quotes.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
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Audit your spendWho Microsoft 365 fits
What it is, what you gain, what you give up, and who should look elsewhere.
What is Microsoft 365?
Microsoft 365 is Microsoft's subscription suite for work, sold to Indian businesses in rupees from Microsoft's India site. Business plans bundle Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook with custom domain email, Teams for chat and meetings, OneDrive and SharePoint storage, plus apps like Bookings, Planner, Forms and Clipchamp. Apps are delivered on the web, mobile and, from Apps for business upward, as desktop installs for up to five PCs or Macs per user. Business Premium adds Intune device management, Defender threat protection and Purview data protection, and newer bundles add Copilot inside the apps. Business plans are capped at 300 users per tenant; larger organisations move to the separately priced Enterprise plans.
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- All business plans are priced in rupees with GST shown separately, and the admin center accepts a GSTIN for tax invoices
- One business tenant covers up to 300 users, so most Indian SMBs never need an enterprise agreement
- Apps for business gives the desktop Office applications without paying for email and Teams, and Business Basic is a low cost entry for web apps plus email
The catch
- The cheaper annual commitment auto renews and annual plans paid upfront are refunded only within seven days of starting
- The monthly commitment option that lets you cancel costs about a fifth more per user than the annual rate
- Copilot is sold as separate higher priced bundles or an add on, and some advanced AI features are billed on usage beyond the licence
- Plan names and prices changed on 1 July 2026 and the ladder now has with Copilot, without Copilot and no Teams variants, which makes comparison and reseller quotes easy to get wrong
Best for
- Document heavy teams that exchange Word and Excel files with clients
- Excel and PowerPoint power users who need the desktop apps
- Businesses standardised on Teams and Windows devices
Who should avoid it
- Seasonal or project teams on a tight budget, since dropping seats mid year needs the costlier monthly commitment
- Organisations above 300 users, since business plans cap there and Enterprise plans are priced differently
- Teams that only need simple browser based docs and email, where a lighter suite costs less
India readiness
How well Microsoft 365 fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✓GST invoice
Issues a GST-compliant invoice, so a registered business can reclaim input tax.
- ✓Bills in INR
Priced in rupees, so there is no forex conversion or card markup on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
Compare Microsoft 365
How it stacks up on what we verified, the tools buyers weigh it against, and where it appears in our guides.
How Microsoft 365 compares
Against the 2 other office suite tools we list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 2 others, and for Microsoft 365.
- Appointment booking
- Cloud storage
- Data loss prevention
- Identity and access management
- Multi factor authentication
- Task management
- Video meetings
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything, roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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What we verified about Microsoft 365
Read from Microsoft 365’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
What Microsoft 365 does
Features we confirmed38
- Webinar hosting
- Webinar hosting with attendee registration on Standard and above
- Video meetings
- Teams provides chat, audio, video and recording
- Video editing
- Microsoft Clipchamp gives web-based video editing
- Task management
- Microsoft To Do, Lists and Planner included
- Spreadsheets
- Excel included across desktop, web and mobile
- Single sign on
- Single sign-on for apps and services on all plans
- Presentations
- PowerPoint included across desktop, web and mobile
- Multi factor authentication
- Multifactor authentication for work accounts on all plans
- Identity and access management
- Core identity management for up to 300 users
- Diagramming
- Visio for the web included on business plans
- Device management
- Intune Plan 1 endpoint management on Business Premium
- Data loss prevention
- Purview DLP for emails and files on Business Premium
- Cloud storage
- 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage per user
- Audit logging
- Purview Audit Standard on business plans
- Appointment booking
- Microsoft Bookings and Shifts included with Teams versions
- AI chat assistant
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat with web grounding and writing help
- AI agents
- Access to create and use agents on Copilot bundles
- Audio conferencing dial in
- Global dial-in available as a no-cost Teams add-on
- Business email
- Custom business email on your domain via Exchange Plan 1
- Chatbot building
- Copilot Studio for Teams builds custom chatbots
- Collaborative workspaces
- Microsoft Loop creates shareable project workspaces
- Database desktop app
- Microsoft Access included on PC-only desktop plans
- Employee communities
- Viva Engage communities and conversations included
- Employee learning hub
- Viva Learning select courses included on business plans
- Enterprise search
- Microsoft Search helps users find people and content
- Forms and surveys
- Microsoft Forms creates surveys, quizzes and polls
- Graph API
- Unified API for accessing and augmenting Microsoft 365 data
- Information protection
- Purview Information Protection Plan 1 on Business Premium
- Large mailbox storage
- 100 GB primary mailbox plus archive storage per user
- Low code app building
- Power Apps for Microsoft 365 included on business plans
- Offline desktop apps
- Desktop Office apps install on up to 5 PCs or Macs
- Real time coauthoring
- OneDrive gives real-time coauthoring across devices
- Spam and malware filtering
- Automatic spam and malware filtering on business plans
- Team sites
- SharePoint Plan 1 team sites to share content and files
- Threat protection
- Defender for Office 365 and Defender for Business on Premium
- Windows 11 pro upgrade
- Business Premium includes a Windows 11 Pro upgrade
- Word processing
- Word included in desktop, web and mobile versions
- Workflow automation
- Power Automate cloud flows included on business plans
What people use it for2
- Pass a security audit
- Purview, Defender and Entra cover compliance needs
- Give staff a branded email domain
- Custom business email on your own domain is a headline
Works with9
- Sharepoint
- SharePoint Plan 1 included on business plans
- Power BI
- Power BI Pro is included in Microsoft 365 E5
- Power automate
- Power Automate cloud flows included on business plans
- Power apps
- Power Apps for Microsoft 365 included on business plans
- Onedrive
- OneDrive provides the 1 TB per user storage
- Microsoft teams
- Teams bundled as the collaboration and meeting layer
- Microsoft intune
- Intune Plan 1 bundled into Business Premium
- Microsoft entra id
- Entra ID free version provides identity management
- Dataverse
- Dataverse for Teams included in Teams versions
Terms, compliance and how you buy18
- Seven day refund window
- Prorated refund window closes seven days after start
- No mid term seat reduction
- Annual commitment holds licences until the term ends
- GST extra
- India pricing states GST extra as applicable
- 300 user cap on business plans
- Every business SKU is capped at 1-300 employees
- 5 device install limit
- Up to 5 PCs, 5 tablets and 5 mobile devices per user
- Annual contract auto renew
- Business plans are annual subscriptions that auto renew
- Anytime phone and web support
- All business plans include anytime phone and web support
- Complex licensing tiers
- Business, Enterprise, Apps and Copilot SKUs overlap confusingly
- Copilot sold as separate sku
- Copilot ships as separate bundle SKUs at added cost
- Desktop apps need higher tier
- Desktop Word and Excel require Standard or Apps for business
- Enterprise heavy
- Remains the standard for document-heavy enterprise environments
- INR billed
- India page quotes ₹170, ₹1,955 and ₹2,660 per user
- Monthly billing costs more
- Paying monthly without annual commitment costs more per user
- One month free trial
- Business Basic offers a Try for free trial
- Per seat pricing
- All business plans priced per user per month
- Price increase july 2026
- Business Basic moved from $6 to $7 on 1 July 2026
- Teams and no teams variants
- Pricing page toggles With Teams and Without Teams SKUs
- Web and mobile only entry plan
- Business Basic gives web and mobile apps only
Source trail
Pricing and free-plan claims can change. FindThatSoftware keeps source URLs visible so users can verify before buying.
- Apps for business (India)https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/business/microsoft-365-apps-for-business
- Business Basic (India)https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/business/microsoft-365-business-basic
- Business Premium (India)https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/business/microsoft-365-business-premium
- Business Premium with Copilot (India)https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/business/microsoft-365-business-premium-with-copilot
- Business Standard (India)https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/business/microsoft-365-business-standard
- Business Standard with Copilot (India)https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/business/microsoft-365-business-standard-with-copilot
- Compare Microsoft 365 business plans (India)https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/business/compare-all-microsoft-365-business-products
- Microsoft 365 pricinghttps://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/buy/compare-all-microsoft-365-products
- Trial terms on business compare pagehttps://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/business/compare-all-microsoft-365-business-products
- Microsoft 365https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365
- Microsoft 365 tax information (GSTIN)https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/commerce/billing-and-payments/tax-information
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Microsoft 365 questions
Does Microsoft 365 give a GST invoice in India?
- Microsoft 365 issues an India GST invoice, so a GST-registered business can claim input tax credit on it directly.
Is Microsoft 365 good for Indian small businesses?
- It suits document heavy teams that exchange Word and Excel files with clients. It bills in rupees and issues a GST invoice, so a registered business claims the GST back. It is not the right pick for seasonal or project teams on a tight budget, since dropping seats mid year needs the costlier monthly commitment.
Does Microsoft 365 have a free plan?
- Microsoft 365 does not list a permanent free plan in FindThatSoftware data. Check the official pricing page for trial terms and current offers.
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