What is Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams is a video conferencing, meetings, and calling platform that enables communication, collaboration, and engagement at work. It offers instant messaging, file sharing, online meetings, webinars, and integrated workflows.
Microsoft Teams pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
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What Microsoft Teams does
The capabilities that matter for collaboration software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Messaging
- ✓
- Video meetings
- ✓
- Whiteboard
- ✓
- Screen sharing
- ✓
- Recording / transcription
- Recording + AI notes
- End-to-end encryption
- -
- SSO / SCIM
- -
- Guest / external access
- -
- Compliance controls
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- Max participants
- -
- App marketplace
- ✓
- Public API / bot framework
- ✓
- Free tier
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- macOS
- Web
- Android
- Windows
- Cloud / SaaS
Microsoft Teams alternatives
Other collaboration software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Microsoft Teams, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 87 | 0.19 | 16.2 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 0.09 | 2.4 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.10 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 10 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"cloud","messaging":true,"api_access":true,"whiteboard":true,"screen_sharing":true,"video_meetings":true,"app_marketplace":true,"compliance_controls":true,"recording_transcription":"recording_ai_notes"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |