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.
Teams
Teams Premium
Teams Phone
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 FAQ
Common questions about Microsoft Teams, answered from independent, dated evidence.
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. It is indexed under Collaboration Software.
Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software
Is Microsoft Teams free?
Microsoft Teams offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Teams, Teams Premium and Teams Phone. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software
What platforms does Microsoft Teams support?
Microsoft Teams supports the web, Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software
Can Microsoft Teams be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Microsoft Teams, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software
What security certifications does Microsoft Teams have?
We have independently confirmed GDPR for Microsoft Teams. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Microsoft Teams not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Microsoft Teams alternatives
Other collaboration software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- WherebyVideo conferencing platform with unlimited team members and built-in recordingmedium · 74%
- LoomFree desktop screen recording softwaremedium · 55%
- SlackUnified workplace communication and automation platformmedium · 54%
- RingCentralAn AI-powered voice platform for automating customer interactions across calls, messages, and videomedium · 72%
- LarkAn AI-powered workspace that gives teams unified context across conversations, knowledge, and tools for smarter automationmedium · 60%
- ZoomIntegrated communication platform providing video meetings, messaging, phone, and team collaborationmedium · 54%
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
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| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 87 | 0.04 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.08 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 10 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
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