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Microsoft 365, Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, CSP and Open Value. Every price on this site is Microsoft’s list price with its source, or our price marked as ours; every rule is the one Microsoft publishes. Nine entry points below; if none fits, start from your situation.
Business Basic, Standard, Premium, E3, E5, F-plans: every plan at Microsoft list price in six currencies, compared side by side, and a finder that picks the plan from the problem.
Price list → · Compare plans · Plan finderWhat a Cloud Solution Provider does, how CSP differs from buying direct or from an Enterprise Agreement, monthly against annual under New Commerce, and how to change partner without migrating anything.
CSP licensing → · CSP vs EA · Change partnerCore licences with the 8-per-CPU and 16-per-server minimums, Standard against Datacenter, CALs and RDS CALs, perpetual or subscription, with list prices in six currencies.
Calculator → · Price tablePer core against Server + CAL, Standard against Enterprise, whole host for unlimited VMs, passive replicas, with list prices.
Calculator → · Price tableCommunity, Professional, Enterprise, Test Professional, MSDN Platforms: which one, what it costs under Open Value with Software Assurance, and why CSP cannot sell it.
Which Visual Studio? → · Cost calculatorThe volume-licensing agreement: licence with Software Assurance in three annual payments, perpetual after the third. The full catalogue at 5% below ERP in EUR and GBP, with part numbers.
Open Value catalogue → · Servers · Applications · Open Value vs CSP · RenewalSubscriptions through CSP, Azure Hybrid Benefit for licences you own, dev/test pricing and credits with a Visual Studio subscription, infrastructure migration at a fixed price.
Azure infrastructure → · Azure creditPer product: sold through CSP, Open Value, both, or only by Microsoft directly. The most-asked licensing question, answered in one selector.
Channel finder →What you pay against what you use: unassigned licences, duplicates across tenants, expensive SKUs doing cheap jobs. Read-only, one to two weeks, typically 10–25% of spend.
Licensing review → · Open Value renewal · Add licencesWe sell through CSP (five regional authorisations) and Open Value (euro area and UK). Not Enterprise Agreements. Legal entities only. Every claim with its source →