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Put up to four subscriptions side by side and see what you gain or lose — in plain language.

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Feature Office 365 E3 ✕ Office 365 E5 ✕
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Email threat protection Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 Plan 2
Data loss prevention Stop sensitive data leaving — ✓
eDiscovery Legal hold and investigations — ✓
Teams Phone Cloud phone system — ✓
Power BI Pro Reports and dashboards — ✓
Meetings & voice
Audio conferencing — ✓
Teams Phone (PBX) — ✓
Office apps
Excel advanced analytics — ✓
Devices & management
Microsoft 365 Lighthouse ✓ —
Threat protection
Cloud App Security for Office 365 — ✓
Defender for Office 365 (Plan 2) — ✓
Microsoft 365 Defender (XDR) — ✓
Information protection & compliance
Advanced auditing — ✓
Communication compliance — ✓
Customer Key — ✓
Customer Lockbox — ✓
Data loss prevention (DLP) — ✓
eDiscovery & investigations — ✓
Information barriers — ✓
Privileged access management — ✓
Records & information governance — ✓
Analytics & automation
Power BI — ✓
AI
Copilot chat (data protection) ✓ —

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