has Teams Essentials, a model of geared toward small companies. It’s a standalone product that nestles between the free Teams plan and the options that include a Microsoft 365 subscription.

Teams Essentials prices $4 per consumer per 30 days. It contains limitless group conferences for as much as 30 hours and as many as 300 contributors, in contrast with a 60-minute time restrict and a most of 100 contributors on the free plan. Users additionally get 10GB of cloud storage — twice as a lot as these on the free tier — and integration with Outlook and (quickly) Google calendars.

Other options from the free tier are included, comparable to entry to Office net apps, chats with colleagues and clients, file sharing, polls and group tasks. Meetings, chats, calls and recordsdata are all encrypted. Users can ship assembly invitations to somebody who would not have a Teams account — they simply want that particular person’s e-mail handle. for calls, (which shows attendees in the identical digital area) and are additionally accessible.

It’s rather less costly than Microsoft 365 Business Basic, which prices $5/month per consumer (growing to $6 in March), however the financial savings can add up. That plan’s options embrace assembly transcripts, real-time translations, cellular variations of Office apps and 1TB of cloud storage per particular person. 

Teams Essentials is accessible from Microsoft’s cloud companions or .