Seat-priced phone system · United States

Microsoft Teams Phone Pricing (2026): $13–$34/User, Billed Annually + Microsoft Teams Essentials

On its cheapest plan that covers ten seats, Microsoft Teams Phone lists $13.00 per seat per month on annual billing. For ten seats that is $130 a month, or $13.00 per seat once three years of billing and any setup fee are counted.

That is the phone license only. It requires Microsoft Teams Essentials license ($4.00 per user per month, paid yearly) or another eligible Microsoft Teams license, billed separately. With that license the minimum usable stack is $17.00 per seat per month at ten seats; if you already pay for the license, $13.00 is your incremental cost.

The $10.00 Teams Phone Standard figure you may have seen is an add-on, not a phone system: it needs a separate license and a calling plan before it can place outside calls, so it is priced below but ranked nowhere on this site.

Microsoft Teams Phone states that the price includes communication taxes and fees, so unlike most rows here this figure is not waiting for a tax line on the invoice.

The published figure is the one we compute with; no separately labeled monthly-billing rate is published on the page we read.

What the provider publishes

Source: Microsoft Teams Phone pricing page. checked 2026-09-05
Plan	Published seat price	On	Monthly billing	Min seats	Effective / seat at 10 seats	As published
Teams Phone Standard add-on only, not a phone system on its own + Microsoft Teams Essentials license, $4.00 a seat, billed separately	$10.00	annual billing	—	—	$10.00	Add-on requiring 'a separate license for Microsoft Teams'. Contract shown as 'Annual subscription (auto-renews)'.
Teams Phone with Pay-as-you-go Calling (Zone 1 - US) + Microsoft Teams Essentials license, $4.00 a seat, billed separately included in price: taxes and fees	$13.00	annual billing	—	—	$13.00	Metered outbound calling on top of Teams Phone Standard. Page states 'Price includes communication taxes and fees'. Requires separate Teams license.
Teams Phone with Calling Plan (Zone 1 - US) + Microsoft Teams Essentials license, $4.00 a seat, billed separately included in price: taxes and fees	$17.00	annual billing	—	—	$17.00	Page states 'Price includes communication taxes and fees'. Requires separate Teams license.
Teams Phone with Domestic and International Calling + Microsoft Teams Essentials license, $4.00 a seat, billed separately included in price: taxes and fees	$34.00	annual billing	—	—	$34.00	Page states 'Price includes communication taxes and fees'. Requires separate Teams license.

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Free trial: not stated in the provider's published documentation (checked 2026-09-05).

Max seats: not stated in the provider's published documentation (checked 2026-09-05).

Minimum seats: not stated in the provider's published documentation (checked 2026-09-05).

Ownership: not stated in the provider's published documentation (checked 2026-09-05).

Monthly-billing price: not stated in the provider's published documentation (checked 2026-09-05).

Not confirmed: monthly-billing price for all tiers (only the annual-commitment price is shown; no month-to-month price given).

Setup fee: not stated in the provider's published documentation (checked 2026-09-05).

Not confirmed: whether Pay-as-you-go metered call charges include taxes.

What it costs as the business grows

Effective cost per seat per month over three years, by the number of seats you actually have. Where a plan has a minimum, the minimum is billed and the cost per seat you use rises. “n/a” means the plan is not available at that size. A plan marked add-on is priced here but not ranked anywhere on the site, because it needs another license and a calling plan before it is a phone system. checked 2026-09-05
Plan	1 seat	3 seats	5 seats	10 seats	25 seats	50 seats
Teams Phone Standard add-on only, not ranked	$10.00	$10.00	$10.00	$10.00	$10.00	$10.00
Teams Phone with Pay-as-you-go Calling (Zone 1 - US)	$13.00	$13.00	$13.00	$13.00	$13.00	$13.00
Teams Phone with Calling Plan (Zone 1 - US)	$17.00	$17.00	$17.00	$17.00	$17.00	$17.00
Teams Phone with Domestic and International Calling	$34.00	$34.00	$34.00	$34.00	$34.00	$34.00
Cheapest usable plan	$13.00 Teams Phone with Pay-as-you-go Calling (Zone 1 - US)	$13.00 Teams Phone with Pay-as-you-go Calling (Zone 1 - US)	$13.00 Teams Phone with Pay-as-you-go Calling (Zone 1 - US)	$13.00 Teams Phone with Pay-as-you-go Calling (Zone 1 - US)	$13.00 Teams Phone with Pay-as-you-go Calling (Zone 1 - US)	$13.00 Teams Phone with Pay-as-you-go Calling (Zone 1 - US)
Stack: plan + required license	$17.00	$17.00	$17.00	$17.00	$17.00	$17.00

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How that is worked out

seats billed = max(seats you have, minimum seats the plan requires) plan per month = published seat price x seats billed three-year cost = plan per month x 36 + setup fee effective per seat = three-year cost / (36 x seats you have) monthly-billing gap = monthly-billing price / annual-billing price flat package = flat monthly price + (seats billed - users included) x additional-user price add-on plans = shown on the provider's page, never ranked (they are not a phone system on their own) calls not included = shown on the provider's page, never ranked (calls are billed per minute, or sold as separate call packages, on top of the seat price) plan at each size = the cheapest plan that covers that seat count; a plan with a user cap hands over to the next one

Nothing else is added. Taxes, regulatory recovery fees, USF and e911 charges are not added to any figure on this site. On taxes and regulatory fees, 2 of the 37 providers state that the price already carries them on at least one plan, 0 publish what they come to, 14 say they are extra without an amount, and 21 say nothing. Where a provider says the price is all-inclusive or includes them, the page says so beside the figure; everywhere else the invoice will be higher than the figure. Where a plan needs another subscription first (a Google Workspace or Microsoft Teams license), that subscription is not in the figure and the page says so. Handset purchases, number porting, international calling and overage are excluded. Every figure here is a floor. The full method is at Method.

What you must already have

Microsoft Teams Essentials license ($4.00 per user per month, paid yearly) or another eligible Microsoft Teams license, billed separately — required by every plan on this page. The Stack row in the table above adds $4.00 a seat a month for it, from the license's own published price. If you already pay for the license, the plain figures are your incremental phone cost.

Teams Phone Standard is an add-on: it adds phone features to the prerequisite license but does not include a way to make outside calls. We show its price and exclude it from every ranking, so that a phone-system add-on is never placed against a complete phone system.

Taxes and fees

Microsoft Teams Phone treats taxes and fees differently from plan to plan: Where it says so. checked 2026-09-05

Teams Phone Standard: says nothing about taxes or regulatory fees on its pricing page.
Teams Phone with Pay-as-you-go Calling (Zone 1 - US): states that the price includes communication taxes and fees.
Teams Phone with Calling Plan (Zone 1 - US): states that the price includes communication taxes and fees.
Teams Phone with Domestic and International Calling: states that the price includes communication taxes and fees.

No figure on this page includes taxes or regulatory fees. This provider does not say on its pricing page whether they are added, so we treat them as unknown rather than as zero. In the United States those charges are real and recurring, and they land on the invoice rather than the pricing page.

What changed on this page

Corrected 2026-09-05 — Teams Phone Standard: pricing_model per_seat → add_on. Teams Phone Standard is the phone-system add-on only: it needs a separate Teams license and a calling plan or carrier (Calling Plan, Operator Connect or Direct Routing) before it can place outside calls. It is now shown as a license-only floor and no longer ranked against complete phone systems.
Corrected 2026-09-05 — the three calling plans: fee_treatment not held → included. Page states "Price includes communication taxes and fees." for the $13, $17 and $34 calling plans; the page text previously said Microsoft was silent on fees.
Corrected 2026-09-05 — prerequisite_cost not held → 7.0. Microsoft's add-on licensing table names Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Standard or Premium (and Teams Essentials with Microsoft Entra ID) as base licenses for Teams Phone and the Calling Plan bundle. Business Basic is published at $7.00 per user per month paid yearly, so the minimum usable stack is now shown beside the phone price. Whether the $4.00 Teams Essentials offer is the eligible Entra ID edition could not be read, so it is not used.
Corrected 2026-09-05 — prerequisite_cost 7.0 → 4.0. Microsoft's add-on licensing table lists "Teams Essentials with Microsoft Entra ID" beside Microsoft 365 Business Basic/Standard/Premium as a base license for the Calling Plan bundle and for Teams Phone with separate PSTN connectivity; the Teams Essentials quick-start guide states that Teams Essentials uses Microsoft Entra identity and is the edition sold on Microsoft's website, and the Teams Phone FAQ says Calling Plan "can be added onto Microsoft Teams Essentials". Teams Essentials is published at $4.00 per user per month paid yearly, so the minimum usable stack falls by $3 a seat (Business Basic $7 was used until the eligibility of the $4 edition was confirmed). Teams Essentials is capped at 300 users.

Every provider's entries, by month, with an RSS feed: What changed.

Who owns it

Who owns this company is not stated on its own site, and we could not confirm it from a primary source. We have left it blank rather than repeat what other sites say.

Where this leaves you

If the three-year seat cost is what matters, Grasshopper works out at $5.50 on the same basis — compare the two.
Taxes and fees: Microsoft Teams Phone states that the price includes communication taxes and fees. That is unusual in this dataset — most providers add them on top and do not say how much.
Add the prerequisite. Every figure here is the phone license; Microsoft Teams Essentials license is billed on top.

Who this page is not for

This is not a review. We have not used Microsoft Teams Phone, we hold no opinion on its call quality or its support, and nothing here is a recommendation. It answers one question: what the published price turns into per seat over three years.

Sources

Microsoft Teams Phone pricing page — every figure on this page. checked 2026-09-05
Microsoft Teams Phone on taxes and fees. checked 2026-09-05
data.json — the row behind this page, with the source URL and check date on every figure.
The dataset — every column defined, the CC BY 4.0 licence, and how to cite it.

Side by side with the others

Microsoft Teams Phone against each provider we hold in the same market and category, on the same three-year cost per seat.

Written by Kaz (pen name). Figures are copied from providers' published pricing pages on the dates shown. We have not used these products. Corrections: contact form.