Microsoft 365 Business Premium Price UK (ex VAT)

Microsoft raises Business Basic and Business Standard prices on 1 July 2026, the first suite increase since 2022. Business Premium is the exception. Its RRP stays at £16.90.

Our Premium price stays at £15.55 through the rise as well. While Standard buyers absorb a Microsoft increase from 1 July, Premium pricing holds flat on both sides. If you buy annual now, you also fix your rate for the full 12 months regardless of any later list change.

For the wider picture, see our Microsoft price rise breakdown, which lists every plan before and after 1 July.

Business Premium is everything in Business Standard plus a full small-business security stack. Standard gives you the desktop Office apps and business email. Premium adds the protection that stops a stolen password from becoming a stolen company.

What you get on top of Standard:

• Microsoft Defender for Business for endpoint protection across laptops and servers.
• Microsoft Intune to manage and secure company and BYOD laptops and phones.
• Conditional access plus Entra ID Plan 1, so sign-ins can require MFA or a managed device.
• Azure Information Protection to label and protect sensitive files.

If your staff store or handle client data on laptops and phones, this is the plan. For a side by side breakdown, read Business Standard vs Business Premium.

Business Premium is the security licence that no UK incumbent sells through online checkout. GoDaddy, IONOS and 123 Reg do not offer it online at all, and the smaller CSP resellers route you through a sales call.

With Dead Simple 365 you choose Premium, set your seat count, and provision it yourself in a couple of minutes. No quote, no contract, no MSP management bundle attached.

The licences land in a Microsoft tenant you own, not a provider-managed one. Your mail, files and Teams stay where they are, only the billing changes, and you can leave any time and keep everything.

Microsoft is steering buyers toward Premium by holding its price flat while Standard goes up. At Microsoft's own RRP, the gap between Standard and Premium shrinks from £7.30 to £6.10 per seat from 1 July 2026 (Standard moves from £9.60 to £10.80, Premium stays £16.90).

In plain terms, from July a Premium seat costs less than £5 per user more than Microsoft will charge for Standard alone. For that difference you add Defender, Intune and conditional access. For a business handling client data, the security is worth far more than the gap.

Want the AI assistant too? Copilot Business adds to any plan at £13.80 per user per month ex VAT (Microsoft promo to 31 December 2026, list £16.10), on only the seats that need it.

We sell Business Premium on two terms, and nothing in between.

• Annual, paid upfront. £15.55 per user per month ex VAT, billed once for 12 months. The lowest price, and your rate is fixed for the term.
• Monthly flexible. About 20% more than annual. Resize or cancel at each monthly renewal, card on file.

We do not offer annual billed monthly. It carries a Microsoft premium and fine print we would rather not pass on.

The rules that apply at every Microsoft reseller, printed plainly:

• 7 day cancellation. Cancel within 7 calendar days of purchase for a prorated refund. After that the term runs to the end.
• Seat changes. Add seats or upgrade any time. Reduce seats only inside the first 7 days or at renewal.
• B2B only. We verify your company at checkout. Prices are ex VAT, with VAT itemised on every invoice.
• Your tenant. Licences provision into your own Microsoft tenant. You keep control and your data.