Video Conferencing
Microsoft Teams
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The panel's verdict
Microsoft Teams is a video conferencing product from Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Washington. Pricing transparency leads at 6 to 8: per-user prices are public — Teams Essentials 3,50 €, Business Basic 6,07 €, the Teams Premium add-on 8,70 € per user per month — with billing period, auto-renewal and VAT treatment stated. Reach and accessibility scored 5 to 6 on a free dial-in add-on with published minutes, and integrations scored a flat 6 on a documented Microsoft Graph API and certified room hardware. The weak end is sharp: sovereignty scored a flat 1 after the privacy statement permitted storing and processing of personal data in the customer's region, the United States and any other jurisdiction where Microsoft, its affiliates or service providers operate facilities; recording governance ran 1 to 2, with no public information found on who may record or on retention. Meeting core ranged 2 to 4: the low score weighed the absence of public information on screen sharing, breakout rooms and behaviour on constrained connections, while the higher scores credited published capacity of 300 participants and 30-hour meetings.
Speaks for it
- Per-user prices are public for every tier shown, with billing period, auto-renewal and VAT treatment stated
- Dial-in comes as a free add-on with a global dial-in number and published minutes of 3,000 for the US, UK and Canada and 1,200 elsewhere
- Live captions cover over 30 languages on business plans, with translation into up to 41 languages under a Teams Premium license
- The Microsoft Graph REST API surface is documented, with SDKs, code samples, Teams bots and PowerShell provisioning
- Capacity is published rather than promised: 300 participants and a 30-hour meeting duration across the plans shown
Held against it
- The privacy statement permits storing and processing personal data in the customer's region, the United States and any other jurisdiction where Microsoft, its affiliates or service providers operate facilities
- We found no public information on who may record a meeting, participant notification, storage region or retention rules for recordings
- The privacy statement states that customer data may be used to develop and train Microsoft's AI models
- Encryption appears as one line — data encryption for meetings, chats, calls and files — with no public information on the mechanism or key handling behind it
- The captured pages describe subprocessors only as vendors acting on Microsoft's behalf and leave the contracting entity unconfirmed
Best for
- You run meetings where participants join by phone, since dial-in is a free add-on with a global dial-in number and published minutes
- Your teams work across languages, with live captions in over 30 languages and translation into up to 41 under a Teams Premium license
- Your administrators want a documented platform to build on, from Microsoft Graph REST APIs with SDKs to PowerShell provisioning and certified room hardware
- You need publicly priced per-user costs, with each tier's price, billing period and VAT treatment stated up front
Avoid if
- You need a commitment that personal data is processed only within the EU — the privacy statement permits storage and processing in the customer's region, the United States and any other jurisdiction where Microsoft or its service providers operate facilities
- Your works council must clear recording and AI use of meeting data first — the privacy statement reserves customer data for AI model training, and we found no public information on recording consent, storage or retention
- Your security review requires a documented encryption mechanism or meeting admission controls — the pages show a single data-encryption line, and we found no public information on lobbies or per-meeting passcodes
The scores
The meeting itself
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How this is scored
Whether the call works: participant capacity, video and audio quality under load, screen sharing, breakout rooms, moderation, and what happens on a bad connection.
0 — Small meetings only, no screen sharing worth the name, no moderation controls, and the call degrades without telling anyone.
3 — Standard meetings with screen sharing and mute-all, but low participant limits, no breakout rooms and no bandwidth adaptation stated.
5 — Meetings at the scale most teams need with screen sharing, breakout rooms, host moderation, and documented behaviour on constrained connections.
8 — Large meetings and webinars with published capacity limits, per-participant moderation and waiting rooms, layout control, simulcast or adaptive bitrate stated, and reliable behaviour on mobile networks.
10 — Scale and control are engineering claims the vendor stands behind: capacity published per plan and per region, selective forwarding with adaptive quality documented, live streaming, hardware-room support, and diagnostics an admin can read after a bad call.
The IT Administrator
Capacity is published rather than promised — 300 participants and a 30-hour meeting limit on the plans shown — and room hardware is real through named partners Yealink, Crestron, Lenovo, Polycom and AudioCodes, managed from a Teams admin center. But I found no public information on screen sharing, breakout rooms, host moderation, waiting rooms, bandwidth adaptation, or diagnostics I could pull after a bad call. I judge a product by its worst meeting, and the captured pages never describe that meeting. 2 6 7 1
The Security Officer
The captured pages publish capacity of 300 participants and 30-hour meeting duration across all three plans, with meetings, events, phone and rooms named as solution areas and apps usable before, during and after a meeting. But we found no public information on screen sharing, breakout rooms, host moderation or how the call behaves on a constrained connection, so scale is documented while the meeting's everyday mechanics are not. 2 2 5 6
The Works Council Advocate
Published limits give 300 participants and a 30-hour maximum meeting, with certified room hardware from named partners including Yealink, Crestron and Polycom. I found no public information on breakout rooms, host moderation controls, or how the call behaves on a constrained connection — the last of which is exactly what a works council needs to know before an all-hands. 2 6 7
The Educator
Three hundred participants and thirty-hour meetings are published for every plan, and meetings can carry apps before, during and after — the scale is real for a whole school. But we found no public information on breakout rooms, screen sharing, host moderation or what happens on a weak connection, so it cannot reach the middle band for my classroom. 2 5 6
The Accessibility Advocate
Published capacity of 300 participants, 30-hour meetings, hardware-room support through certified Yealink, Crestron, Lenovo, Polycom and AudioCodes partners, and Teams admin center management give a real meeting platform. But we found no public information on screen sharing, breakout rooms, moderation controls, or what happens on a constrained connection, so the core mechanics of an ordinary call rest on inference. 1 2 6 7
The Skeptic
The hard numbers a buyer can hold onto are 300 participants and a 30-hour meeting duration, published per plan, plus apps for computer, tablet and phone, meeting apps and room hardware. Beyond that I found no public information on screen sharing, breakout rooms, host moderation, waiting rooms, or behaviour on constrained connections — the mechanics that decide whether a call survives a bad network. 2 6 1 5
Encryption & meeting access
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How this is scored
What is actually encrypted and against whom, plus who can get into a meeting. Judged on documented mechanism rather than on the word "encrypted".
0 — Transport encryption only, undocumented; meetings joinable by anyone with a link and no lobby.
3 — TLS in transit and encryption at rest, with the vendor holding all keys; access control is a passcode.
5 — The above plus a lobby or waiting room, host-controlled admission, per-meeting passcodes, and a clear statement that the vendor can technically access media.
8 — Optional end-to-end encryption for meetings with the trade-offs named (which features stop working), documented key handling, SSO-gated joining, and per-meeting access policies.
10 — End-to-end encryption available without surrendering the product — its cryptography documented or open source, key management explained, identity verification for participants, and the vendor stating plainly what it can and cannot see.
The IT Administrator
One line states data encryption for meetings, chats, calls and files, and I found no public information on the mechanism, key handling, end-to-end encryption, or meeting admission controls such as a lobby or per-meeting passcodes — identity rides on the included Microsoft Entra ID. The privacy statement, meanwhile, says customer data may be used to develop and train AI models. I score documented mechanism, and here the mechanism is the word "encrypted". 2 3
The Security Officer
One comparison-table line — data encryption for meetings, chats, calls and files — with no mechanism, no key custody and no statement of which meetings could be end-to-end encrypted or what that costs in features; the word alone answers nothing. Meanwhile the privacy statement reserves the right to use my data to develop and train the vendor's AI models and lists Teams communication metadata (time, date, participants) among what it collects, and we found no public information on lobbies, passcodes, host-controlled admission or SSO-gated joining. 3 2
The Works Council Advocate
The only statement is that meetings, chats, calls and files are data-encrypted, with no mechanism, key custody or trade-offs named, and access governed by Microsoft Entra ID identity management. I found no public information on end-to-end encryption, waiting rooms, per-meeting passcodes, or a plain statement of what the vendor can technically see in a meeting. 2 2
The Educator
The comparison page states encryption for meetings, chats, calls and files and every plan includes Entra ID for identity, but that is a claim with no mechanism documented behind it. We found no public information on key handling, waiting rooms or per-meeting admission, and no end-to-end option appears in the captures. 2 2
The Accessibility Advocate
Encryption appears as a single feature line — data encryption for meetings, chats, calls and files — and we found no public information on the mechanism, key handling, or what the vendor can technically see. Microsoft Entra ID identity management comes with all plans, but we found no public information on lobbies, per-meeting passcodes, or host-controlled admission. 2 2
The Skeptic
One line — data encryption for meetings, chats, calls and files — with no mechanism named behind it, and a free Entra ID tier that is directory identity, not meeting admission. I found no public information on end-to-end encryption, key handling, lobbies, per-meeting passcodes, or a plain statement of what the vendor can technically see. 2 2
Reach & accessibility
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How this is scored
Whether everyone who needs to join can: browser without an install, dial-in, low bandwidth, guests without accounts, captions and keyboard operation.
0 — A desktop client is the only way in; guests must create an account.
3 — Browser joining exists but is degraded, guests can join by link, and there is no dial-in and no accessibility statement.
5 — Full-feature browser joining without an install, guest access by link, mobile apps, and a stated accessibility posture.
8 — Telephone dial-in with numbers listed, live captions, keyboard-navigable and screen-reader-tested interface, and documented low-bandwidth behaviour.
10 — Reach is designed for: browser parity with the client, dial-in across the regions the customer operates in, live captions and translation, a published accessibility conformance report, and a usable experience on a poor mobile connection.
The IT Administrator
Dial-in is genuinely there: a free audio-conferencing add-on with a global dial-in number, PSTN connectivity through calling plans, Teams Phone Mobile, Operator Connect and Direct Routing, number porting, and stated minutes of 3,000 for the US, UK and Canada and 1,200 for other countries. Live captions run to over 30 languages on business plans and translation to 41 with Teams Premium, and web and mobile apps are published. We found no public information on an accessibility statement, keyboard or screen-reader support, or documented behaviour on a poor connection. 2 2 7 6
The Security Officer
Dial-in is genuinely evidenced: a global dial-in number as a free add-on, 3,000 calling-plan minutes for the US, UK and Canada and 1,200 elsewhere, multiple PSTN connectivity options and certified phones and room systems from named partners, plus live captions in over 30 languages and translation into up to 41 with a Premium license. We found no public information on joining by browser without an install, guest access without an account, keyboard and screen-reader operation, or behaviour on a poor connection. 2 2 6 7
The Works Council Advocate
Dial-in exists as a free add-on with a global dial-in number, live captions cover over 30 languages on business plans (English only on Essentials), translation reaches up to 41 languages with Teams Premium, and the entry plan runs on web and mobile apps. I found no public information on an accessibility statement or conformance report, keyboard and screen-reader operation, guest joining without an account, or documented low-bandwidth behaviour. 2 2 7
The Educator
A global dial-in number as a free add-on, live captions in over thirty languages (English only on Essentials) and translation up to forty-one languages with Premium, plus web and mobile apps — that gets half a class of phones into the room. But we found no public information on joining as a guest without an account, browser parity, keyboard or screen-reader testing, or behaviour on a poor mobile connection. 2 2 6 7
The Accessibility Advocate
Live captions in over 30 languages (English only on Essentials), translation into up to 41 languages with a Teams Premium license, and a global dial-in number as a free audio-conferencing add-on mean my deaf colleague and the colleague with no usable data connection both have a way in. But we found no public information on a published accessibility conformance report, keyboard operation, or screen-reader testing — captions without a conformance report tell me the deaf colleague can attend, not that the screen-reader user can run the meeting. 2 2 7
The Skeptic
Dial-in comes as a free add-on with a global dial-in number, published minutes (3,000 for the US, UK and Canada, 1,200 elsewhere) and an optional 600-minute international plan; live captions cover over 30 languages on business plans — English only on Essentials — with translation up to 41 languages behind Teams Premium. Apps span computer, tablet and phone and web-plus-mobile-only is itself a plan tier, but I found no public information on guest joining by link, keyboard and screen-reader operation, an accessibility statement, or low-bandwidth behaviour. 2 2 7 6
Recordings, retention & admin control
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How this is scored
A recording is personal data about everyone in the room. Who may record, who is told, where it is stored, how long it lives, and what the works council can switch off.
0 — Anyone can record, storage location unstated, no retention rule, no admin policy.
3 — Host-only recording with a notification, but storage region unstated, retention manual, and no organisation-wide policy control.
5 — Admin policy over who may record, participant notification and consent prompt, stated storage region, and manual deletion that works.
8 — Automatic retention and deletion per policy, recordings encrypted at rest with access logged, transcription handled with its own retention rule, and attendance or analytics features that can be switched off for co-determination.
10 — Built for a works agreement: every recording, transcript and analytics feature independently switchable and documented, retention executed and evidenced, an audit trail of who accessed which recording, and no participant-level behavioural scoring at all.
The IT Administrator
We found no public information on who may record a meeting, whether participants are told, where recordings are stored, or any retention policy an admin could enforce. The nearest facts are that all data is deleted when a subscription is cancelled, and that user data may be used to train AI models. A recording is personal data about everyone in the room, and the captured pages give a works council nothing to switch off. 2 3 6
The Security Officer
We found no public information on who may record a meeting, whether participants are told, where recordings are stored, how long they live, or what an administrator can switch off; the only adjacent evidence is deletion of all subscription data on cancellation and general administration of video calling from the Teams admin center. A recording is personal data about everyone in the room, and on these pages its governance is undocumented. 2 6
The Works Council Advocate
I found no public information on who may record, whether participants are told, where recordings sit, how long they live, who accessed them, or whether AI recap and attendance analytics can be switched off for co-determination — while AI meeting features ship in Teams Rooms Pro and the privacy statement reserves the use of customer data for AI model training. All that is documented is deletion on subscription cancellation and an admin center that manages video calling, with personal data possibly stored in the user's region, the United States or any jurisdiction where Microsoft or its service providers operate. As a recording is personal data about everyone in the room, this silence is the deciding fact. 1 3 2 6
The Educator
The only governance facts I can stand on are that all data is deleted when a subscription is cancelled and that video calling is managed from an admin center. We found no public information on who may record, whether participants are told, storage region or retention rules, and the privacy statement says data may be used to train AI models — exactly what a works council will ask about. 3 2 6
The Accessibility Advocate
The governance facts I can find are deletion of all data when the subscription is cancelled and admin-center management of video calling; we found no public information on who may record, participant notification, storage region, retention rules, or access logs. For a works council the sharper problem is the privacy statement: customer data may be used to develop and train Microsoft's AI models, with no documented switch for meeting recordings or transcripts. 3 2 6
The Skeptic
A recording is personal data about everyone in the room, and I found no public information on who may record, whether participants are notified, where recordings are stored, or any retention rule or organisation-wide policy. The only adjacent facts are that cancelling a subscription deletes associated data and that a privacy dashboard exists for exercising rights. 2 3
Integrations & deployment
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How this is scored
Calendar, identity and the wider stack — plus, in this category, whether the product can be run on the customer's own infrastructure at all.
0 — No calendar integration, no SSO, no API; cloud-only with no alternative.
3 — One calendar integration and basic SSO, no API worth building on, cloud-only.
5 — Calendar integration for the major suites, SAML or OIDC SSO, a documented API for scheduling, and room-system support.
8 — The above plus SCIM provisioning, embedding via SDK, webhooks for meeting events, and either a self-hosted option or a documented private-cloud deployment.
10 — Deployment is the customer's choice: a genuine on-premises or private-cloud option with the same features, open protocols or open source, embeddable SDKs, and identity integration that does not require the vendor's directory.
The IT Administrator
The Microsoft Graph API with SDKs, code samples, bots, change notifications and PowerShell provisioning is an integration surface I can actually build on and administer, and room systems are certified through five named hardware partners. Identity rides on the included Microsoft Entra ID. We found no public information on calendar integration, SCIM provisioning, an embeddable meeting SDK, or any self-hosted or private-cloud deployment option. 8 7 2
The Security Officer
The developer surface is broad and documented — Microsoft Graph REST APIs with SDKs, change notifications with Azure Event Hubs, Teams bots, PowerShell provisioning and Bicep templates — and room systems come from named certified partners. But we found no public information on calendar integration in the captured pages, on SCIM provisioning, or on any on-premises or private-cloud deployment; identity runs on the vendor's own Entra ID. 2 7 8
The Works Council Advocate
The developer story is real and documented — Microsoft Graph REST APIs with SDKs, Graph Explorer, code samples, PowerShell provisioning, Teams bots and change notifications through Azure Event Hubs — plus room systems and Entra ID identity. I found no public information on calendar integration or SCIM provisioning, and I found no public information on a self-hosted or private-cloud option: the API itself is described as a single endpoint in the Microsoft Cloud. 7 8
The Educator
The developer pages show a genuine platform: Graph REST APIs with SDKs, bots, change notifications, PowerShell automation and a browser playground, and certified room hardware from Yealink, Crestron, Lenovo, Polycom and AudioCodes is listed. Identity rides on Entra ID in every plan, but we found no public information on SCIM provisioning or a self-hosted and private-cloud option. 2 7 8
The Accessibility Advocate
A genuinely documented developer surface — Microsoft Graph REST APIs, SDKs, Teams bots, PowerShell provisioning, change notifications via Azure Event Hubs — plus certified room systems and PSTN options including Operator Connect and Direct Routing. We found no public information on calendar integration for other suites, SCIM provisioning, embedded meeting SDKs, or any self-hosted and on-premises deployment. 7 8
The Skeptic
The API surface is genuinely documented — Microsoft Graph REST with SDKs, code samples, Teams bots, change notifications and PowerShell provisioning — and room support is real through Teams Rooms and certified devices from Yealink, Crestron, Lenovo, Polycom and AudioCodes. Identity ships as a free Entra ID tier, but I found no public information on SCIM provisioning, an embeddable meeting SDK, calendar integration stated for scheduling, or any self-hosted or private-cloud deployment option. 8 1 7 2
European sovereignty
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How this is scored
Where media and metadata are processed, who the contracting entity is, which subprocessors carry the traffic. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; scored here as this buyer weighs it — which in this category is heavily.
0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, media routed through unstated regions, subprocessors unnamed.
3 — EU data residency for storage while media relays or metadata remain non-EU, or the contracting entity sits outside the EU.
5 — EU hosting and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain — relays, analytics, support tooling, transcription — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.
8 — Media and metadata processed in the EU on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, complete subprocessor list published, any non-EU processing named with its legal basis.
10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: media never leaves the EU, every subprocessor European, certification published, and an on-premises option that removes the question entirely.
The IT Administrator
The privacy statement says personal data may be stored and processed in the customer's region, the United States and any other jurisdiction where Microsoft or its affiliates, subsidiaries or service providers operate, with international transfers relying on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The captured pages name Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited only as a contact, do not confirm the contracting entity, and describe subprocessors as vendors acting on Microsoft's behalf without naming them. We found no public information on where meeting media or metadata are processed. 3
The Security Officer
The privacy statement says personal data may be stored and processed in your region, in the United States and in any other jurisdiction where Microsoft, its affiliates, subsidiaries or service providers operate facilities — a global-processing reservation, not a residency commitment, from a US contracting entity. Subprocessors are unnamed beyond controlled affiliates and vendors acting on the vendor's behalf, the claimed safeguard is the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, and the only European element we found is Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited as a contact address; this buyer weighs that heavily. 3
The Works Council Advocate
The privacy statement permits storing and processing personal data in the user's region, the United States and any other jurisdiction where Microsoft or its affiliates and service providers operate, and subcontractors are described only as vendors acting on Microsoft's behalf rather than as a published list. The vendor is Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, the captured pages give no residency commitment for meeting media and leave the contracting entity's jurisdiction unconfirmed, and the only safeguards named are EU-US, UK and Swiss Data Privacy Framework adherence plus a Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited contact address. 3
The Educator
I weigh this heavily and it is thin: the privacy statement says personal data may be stored and processed in your region, in the United States and in any jurisdiction where Microsoft or its affiliates and service providers operate facilities, with data shared with Microsoft-controlled affiliates and vendors. The contracting entity is not confirmed on the vendor's own captured pages, we found no public information on subprocessors, and Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited appears only as a contact; the EU-US Data Privacy Framework commitments are the one safeguard stated. 3
The Accessibility Advocate
Microsoft is a US vendor headquartered in Redmond, and the privacy statement says personal data may be stored and processed in your region, in the United States, and in any other jurisdiction where Microsoft, its affiliates or its service providers operate — so media and metadata routing is left open, and subprocessors appear only as unnamed classes. The EU-US Data Privacy Framework certification and a Microsoft Ireland contact entity are the only European touchpoints in the captured pages. 3
The Skeptic
The vendor is US-based and its privacy statement reserves storage and processing of personal data in the customer's region, in the United States and in any other jurisdiction where Microsoft, its affiliates or its service providers operate facilities, with the EU-US Data Privacy Framework as the safeguard. Subprocessors appear only as unnamed vendors acting on Microsoft's behalf, and Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited is named as a contact, not as the contracting entity — I found no public information confirming an EU contracting party, EU-only processing, or a published subprocessor list. 3
Pricing transparency
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How this is scored
Whether a buyer can compute the annual invoice for their host count — including the capacity, dial-in and recording storage they actually need — from public pages alone.
0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.
3 — A per-host headline exists, but participant caps, dial-in minutes or recording storage are unpriced or unmentioned.
5 — Per-host prices public with billing period stated and capacity limits given, but at least one commonly needed piece (webinar capacity, dial-in, storage) sits in an unpriced add-on.
8 — Every tier and add-on priced publicly with per-host maths, capacity limits, dial-in rates, storage allowances, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.
10 — Complete price computability: a calculator producing the annual invoice for a given host count, meeting size and recording volume, including overage and per-region dial-in.
The IT Administrator
Per-user prices are public with the billing period and VAT treatment stated as exclusive — Teams Essentials at 3,50 € and Business Basic at 6,07 € per user per month billed annually, the Teams Premium add-on at 8,70 € — alongside published capacity of 300 participants, 30-hour meetings and per-user storage allowances, a free dial-in add-on with stated regional minutes, and an international calling plan add-on of 600 minutes per person per month. The gaps: the captured comparison page shows Business Standard only bundled with Copilot at 20,36 €, we found no public information on webinar capacity, and toll-free or pay-per-minute dial-in charges sit in a prepaid Communications Credits wallet. 2 2 7
The Security Officer
Per-user prices are public with billing period, auto-renewal and VAT treatment stated — Teams Essentials at 3,50 € per user per month, Business Basic at 6,07 €, Teams Premium as an 8,70 € add-on — alongside capacity limits, per-plan storage allowances, dial-in minutes by region and a 7-day proportional refund. What stops me computing the annual invoice from these pages alone: toll-free and pay-per-minute charges sit in a prepaid Communications Credits wallet with no published rates, and there is no calculator for the total. 2 2 7
The Works Council Advocate
Every tier and add-on carries a public per-user price with billing period and VAT treatment stated — Teams Essentials at 3,50 €, Business Basic at 6,07 €, Business Standard with Copilot at 20,36 €, Teams Premium at 8,70 €, Copilot Business at 18,20 € — alongside 300-participant capacity, 30-hour meetings and storage allowances of 10 GB or 1 TB per user, with dial-in as a free add-on and calling-plan minutes published. Pay-per-minute and toll-free charges run through a prepaid Communications Credits wallet for which I found no public rates, and I found no public information on webinar capacity pricing or a recording-storage price beyond the general cloud allowance. 2 2 7
The Educator
A school office could almost compute the year: Teams Essentials at 3,50 € per user per month on annual billing with prices excluding VAT stated, a 300-participant capacity, thirty-hour meetings, 10 GB or 1 TB of storage per plan, a free dial-in add-on with dial-out to USA/CAN stated as free, and calling minutes itemised per country. It stops short of the top because a prepaid Communications Credits wallet covers pay-per-minute charges without published rates, and we found no public information on webinar capacity or recording storage pricing. 2 2 7
The Accessibility Advocate
Per-user prices are public with billing period, auto-renewal and VAT treatment stated — Teams Essentials at 3,50 €, Business Basic at 6,07 €, Teams Premium as an add-on at 8,70 € per user per month — alongside capacity of 300, storage limits, included dial-in minutes and a 7-day refund window. The gaps: pay-per-minute dial-out runs through a Communications Credits prepaid wallet and an international calling add-on with no published rates, and webinar capacity is not stated. 2 2 7
The Skeptic
Per-user prices are public and specific — Teams Essentials at 3,50 € Benutzer/Monat, Business Basic at 6,07 €, Business Standard with Copilot at 20,36 €, the Teams Premium add-on at 8,70 € — each with annual billing, auto-renewal and VAT excluded stated, alongside a 300-participant capacity, a 30-hour cap, per-plan cloud storage, dial-in as a free add-on with published minutes, a Communications Credits prepaid wallet for pay-per-minute charges, a one-month trial with auto-conversion and a 7-day proportional refund. What keeps it short of full computability: I found no public information on an invoice calculator, per-region dial-in rates beyond free dial-out to USA/Canada, or recording storage priced as its own line. 2 2 7
European sovereignty — proven facts
0 of 4 dimensions provenBuilt only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.
| Legal entity | Not determined ⚠ unverified | — | uncited Report an error |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership | Not determined ⚠ unverified | — | uncited Report an error |
| Data residency | Not determined ⚠ unverified | — | uncited Report an error |
| Subprocessors | Not determined ⚠ unverified | — | uncited Report an error |
Where this could be wrong
- Evidence ages. The oldest capture behind this page is from 31 Aug 2026. Vendors change pricing and policies without notice; every fact reflects its source as of the capture date shown in the registry.
- Weak sourcing — Ownership, Legal entity, Data residency, Subprocessors. Not confirmed on the vendor’s own pages as captured.
- AI can misread a source. Extraction and judgement are automated; a citation guarantees traceability, not infallibility. If something here is wrong, say so — no account needed, every report is decided within 5 business days, and accepted corrections are published.
What we left out
A claim that does not survive our checks costs us the claim, not the page. This is what was taken off this one.
- 95 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
- 37 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
- 7 data facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
- 6 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
- 3 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
- 3 support facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
- 1 hosting fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
- 1 integrations fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
- 4 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown. Know more? Tell us
Sources (8)
The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.
- 1 Product page www.microsoft.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 +2 earlier captures: 28 Sep 2026, 31 Aug 2026 Details →
- 2 Pricing www.microsoft.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 +3 earlier captures: 16 Sep 2026, 11 Sep 2026, 31 Aug 2026 Details →
- 3 Privacy statement privacy.microsoft.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 +1 earlier capture: 31 Aug 2026 Details →
- 4 Security / trust page www.microsoft.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
- 5 The meeting itself — found from sitemap www.microsoft.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
- 6 The meeting itself — found from sitemap www.microsoft.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
- 7 Reach & accessibility — found from sitemap www.microsoft.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
- 8 Integrations & deployment — found from sitemap developer.microsoft.com Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →