Microsoft 365 add-ons in Australia range from $3.00/user/month ex-GST for Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 up to $44.90/user/month ex-GST for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Most sit between $4.50 and $22.40. This page lists every major add-on SKU an Australian business can buy, in AUD, with the base licence each one needs.
Prices checked July 2026, after the 1 July 2026 price rise, from Microsoft's Australian pricing pages. All figures are AUD ex-GST list prices on an annual commitment; monthly billing typically costs around 20 per cent more, and Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners such as Frontrow can sometimes do better than list.
What AI add-ons can I buy?
There are two per-user Copilot SKUs plus a consumption-billed agent platform. Which Copilot you buy depends on your base plan.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot — $44.90/user/month ex-GST — puts Copilot inside Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Teams for enterprise tenants — requires a qualifying Microsoft 365 or Office 365 enterprise plan such as E3 or E5
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Business — $31.40/user/month ex-GST (promotional $26.91 until 30 September 2026) — the same in-app Copilot for small and mid-sized tenants — requires Business Basic, Business Standard or Business Premium
- Copilot Studio — $299.30/tenant/month ex-GST for a prepaid pack of 25,000 Copilot Credits, or pay-as-you-go per credit with no commitment — builds and runs custom agents — requires an Azure subscription for billing
Copilot Chat, the web-grounded chat with enterprise data protection, is included at no extra cost with Microsoft 365 business plans. Many organisations run it for everyone and buy the paid seat only for people who live in Excel, Outlook and Teams all day.
What security add-ons exist?
Security add-ons are where double-paying happens most, because the big bundles already include several of them. Check the inclusions section below before buying.
- Microsoft Entra ID P1 — $10.50/user/month ex-GST — conditional access, group-based access management and self-service password reset — adds to any Microsoft 365 plan (already inside Business Premium and E3)
- Microsoft Entra ID P2 — $15.00/user/month ex-GST — adds risk-based identity protection and privileged identity management — adds to any Microsoft 365 plan (already inside E5)
- Microsoft Entra Suite — $18.00/user/month ex-GST — bundles internet access, private access, ID governance and verified ID on top of P1 — requires Entra ID P1 as the base
- Microsoft Intune Plan 2 — $6.00/user/month ex-GST — specialised device management including Microsoft Tunnel for mobile app management and firmware-over-the-air updates — requires Intune Plan 1
- Microsoft Intune Suite — priced via CSP — ask for a current quote (US list is $10.00/user/month; the individual components sell in Australia for $3.00 to $7.50 each) — requires Intune Plan 1
- Microsoft Defender for Business (standalone) — $4.50/user/month ex-GST — endpoint detection and response for businesses up to 300 staff — adds to Business Basic or Business Standard (already inside Business Premium)
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 — $3.00/user/month ex-GST — Safe Links, Safe Attachments and anti-phishing for email and Teams — adds to Exchange Online or any Microsoft 365 plan (included in Business Premium, and added to E3 in the July 2026 repackaging)
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 — $7.50/user/month ex-GST — adds automated investigation and response, attack simulation training and threat hunting — adds to any plan with Exchange Online (already inside E5)
What does Teams Phone cost as an add-on?
Telephony is the add-on Australian businesses most often assume they already own. They usually do not: Teams Phone Standard turns Teams into a phone system, and the calling minutes are a second decision on top of it.
- Teams Phone Standard — $15.00/user/month ex-GST — cloud PBX with call queues, auto attendants and voicemail, minutes not included — requires a Microsoft 365 plan that includes Teams
- Teams Phone with pay-as-you-go calling — $19.50/user/month ex-GST — the PBX plus per-minute calls billed through Communications Credits — requires a Teams-enabled Microsoft 365 plan
- Teams Phone with domestic calling — $32.90/user/month ex-GST — the PBX plus a bundle of Australian domestic minutes — requires a Teams-enabled Microsoft 365 plan
- Teams Phone with domestic and international calling — $50.90/user/month ex-GST — the PBX plus domestic and international minutes — requires a Teams-enabled Microsoft 365 plan
- Teams Premium — $15.00/user/month ex-GST — intelligent meeting recap, advanced webinars, watermarking and meeting protection — requires a Microsoft 365 plan that includes Teams
- Audio Conferencing — included at no charge on most Microsoft 365 plans (toll dial-in numbers plus free dial-out to US and Canadian numbers); dial-out to Australian and other numbers is billed per minute via Communications Credits — requires a Teams-enabled plan
What do the data and productivity add-ons cost?
- Exchange Online Archiving — $4.50/user/month ex-GST — unlimited archive mailbox plus retention and litigation hold for smaller mailbox plans — adds to Exchange Online Plan 1, Business Basic or Business Standard (already inside Business Premium and E3)
- Microsoft 365 Backup — consumption-billed at a US list price of $0.15/GB/month for protected content, charged in AUD through your Azure billing meter — restores Exchange, OneDrive and SharePoint data at speed — requires a Microsoft 365 plan and an Azure subscription
- Power BI Pro — $21.00/user/month ex-GST — publish and share reports and dashboards — adds to any plan (already inside E5)
- Power BI Premium Per User — $35.90/user/month ex-GST — adds paginated reports, larger models and more frequent refreshes — adds to any plan
- Visio Plan 1 — $7.50/user/month ex-GST — web-based diagramming with two gigabytes of OneDrive storage — no base licence strictly required, though basic Visio web viewing is already in commercial Microsoft 365 plans
- Visio Plan 2 — $22.40/user/month ex-GST — desktop Visio app plus the full stencil library and offline use — no base licence required
- Planner Plan 1 (formerly Project Plan 1) — $15.00/user/month ex-GST — premium work plans, timelines and reporting inside Planner — adds to a Microsoft 365 plan
- Planner and Project Plan 3 (formerly Project Plan 3) — $44.90/user/month ex-GST — full project scheduling, resourcing and roadmaps — adds to a Microsoft 365 plan (Plan 5 reached end of sale on 1 May 2026, and Project Online retires on 30 September 2026)
Which of these am I already paying for?
Before buying anything above, map it against your base plan. Business Premium already includes Entra ID P1, Intune Plan 1, Defender for Business, Defender for Office 365 Plan 1, Exchange Online Archiving and sensitivity labelling. E3 includes Entra ID P1, Intune Plan 1, archiving and, since the July 2026 repackaging, Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 with doubled 100 GB mailboxes. E5 includes Entra ID P2, Defender for Office 365 Plan 2, Power BI Pro, Audio Conferencing and Teams Phone Standard.
This is why a licence audit usually pays for itself. Frontrow regularly finds tenants paying for standalone Entra ID P1 or archiving on top of plans that already contain them, and the fix is a five-minute cancellation.
What changed on 1 July 2026, and what should I do about it?
The 1 July 2026 round lifted base plan prices by roughly 5 to 17 per cent depending on the SKU, while repackaging added real value: Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 folded into E3, Security Copilot folded into E5, and mailbox storage doubled on enterprise plans. The practical moves are simple: confirm which add-ons your new base plan now includes, cancel the duplicates, and re-quote anything bought monthly onto an annual commitment.
Frontrow Technology is an Australian Microsoft partner. If you want this list turned into an exact per-user cost model for your tenant, including CSP pricing rather than list, get in touch for a licensing review.