Microsoft raised the price of most Microsoft 365 plans on July 1. Business Premium wasn't one of them.
Business Basic went from $6 to $7 per user per month. Business Standard went from $12.50 to $14. Business Premium held at $22 — and picked up extra mailbox storage and new Copilot Chat capabilities on top.
That quietly changed the math. Stepping up from Standard to Premium used to feel like a real jump. Now it's $8 a user.
Here's what that $8 covers at a 15-person CPA firm: device management for every laptop and phone that touches client files, endpoint threat protection, and sign-in rules that stop a login from a country none of your staff is in. Most firms I look at are already buying some version of those three things separately, and paying more than $8 a head for the privilege.
What stings is the cost when they're missing. A week of lost billable hours in the middle of a filing crunch. The call to a client explaining why their return data sat in a mailbox someone else got into. An underwriter asking at renewal whether you run endpoint detection, and the honest answer being no.
Existing customers keep their current pricing until they renew. So the invoice sitting on your desk right now is worth ten minutes before that date lands.
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