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

Only show differences 26 capabilities shared · 18 differ
Feature Office 365 E3 ✕ Office 365 E5 ✕
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Business email Exchange Online mailbox & calendar ✓ ✓
Teams Chat, meetings and channels ✓ ✓
SharePoint & OneDrive Intranet, team sites, file storage ✓ ✓
Office apps Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook Desktop Desktop
Conditional access Entra ID Premium sign-in policies — —
Device management Intune for laptops and phones Basic Basic
Endpoint protection Microsoft Defender on devices — —
Email threat protection Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 Plan 2
Data loss prevention Stop sensitive data leaving — ✓
eDiscovery Legal hold and investigations — ✓
Insider risk Detect risky user activity — —
Teams Phone Cloud phone system — ✓
Power BI Pro Reports and dashboards — ✓
Windows Enterprise Enterprise edition licence — —
Email & collaboration
Bookings ✓ ✓
Email & calendar ✓ ✓
Forms ✓ ✓
Kaizala ✓ ✓
Planner & To-Do ✓ ✓
Skype for Business (legacy) ✓ ✓
Stream (video) ✓ ✓
Sway ✓ ✓
Teams (chat & meetings) ✓ ✓
Viva Engage (Yammer) ✓ ✓
Whiteboard ✓ ✓
Files & content
Microsoft Search ✓ ✓
Office for the web ✓ ✓
SharePoint & OneDrive ✓ ✓
Meetings & voice
Audio conferencing — ✓
Teams Phone (PBX) — ✓
Office apps
Excel advanced analytics — ✓
Office desktop apps ✓ ✓
Project ✓ ✓
Devices & management
Basic Mobile Device Management ✓ ✓
Microsoft 365 Lighthouse ✓ —
Threat protection
Cloud App Security for Office 365 — ✓
Defender for Office 365 (Plan 1) ✓ ✓
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 — ✓
Information protection & encryption ✓ ✓
Privileged access management — ✓
Records & information governance — ✓
Sensitivity labels & classification ✓ ✓
Analytics & automation
Copilot Studio / Virtual Agents ✓ ✓
Dataverse ✓ ✓
Power Apps (seeded) ✓ ✓
Power Automate (seeded) ✓ ✓
Power BI — ✓
Viva Insights ✓ ✓
Viva Learning ✓ ✓
AI
Copilot chat (data protection) ✓ —

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