Microsoft 365 E7 in 2026. What the $99 plan includes, and which users need it.

Microsoft 365 E7 has been on sale since May 1, 2026, bundling E5, Copilot, Entra Suite and Agent 365 at $99 per user per month. It beats buying the parts only for users who need Copilot plus another add on.

Is Microsoft 365 E7 a real plan in 2026?

Yes. Microsoft 365 E7, branded "The Frontier Suite", has been on sale since May 2026, in versions with and without Teams. Both are priced per user per month on an annual commitment.

Before that date there was no E7. The enterprise line up ran E3 and E5, with F1 and F3 for frontline staff, and the earlier version of this guide said exactly that. The line up now runs E3, E5 and E7, above the same two frontline plans.

• Announced. March 9, 2026.
• Generally available. May 1, 2026.
• List price. $99 with Teams, $90.45 without.

Confirm the current plans and prices on the Microsoft 365 enterprise plans and pricing page and in the Microsoft 365 overview documentation before any plan name goes into a budget.

Where the E7 name came from before it shipped

• Sequence logic. Buyers assumed E7 would follow E5 the way E5 followed E3.
• Seller shorthand. Some account teams and resellers used "E7" loosely to mean the fullest stack they could quote.
• Roadmap talk. Speculative naming circulated for years before Microsoft attached the name to a real SKU in 2026.

Why the definition still matters

Before May 2026, a budget built around E7 invited the vendor to define the plan for you. The SKU now has a fixed definition in Microsoft's licensing documents: E5, Microsoft 365 Copilot, the Microsoft Entra Suite and Agent 365. Any quote labeled E7 should contain exactly those four products and be priced against them.

What does Microsoft 365 E7 include beyond E5?

E7 is Microsoft 365 E5 plus three products that Microsoft otherwise sells as add ons: Microsoft 365 Copilot, the Entra Suite and Agent 365. It also extends Defender, Intune and Purview controls to AI agents. Microsoft licenses it per user, exactly as it licenses E5.

Microsoft sells E7 with and without Teams, in line with its commitments in the EU. The version without Teams is $8.55 cheaper per user per month, which matters if you license Teams separately.

Agent 365 is licensed per user, never per agent. Microsoft's licensing FAQ says a license is needed by each user who delegates access to an agent acting on their behalf, and by the owner, sponsor or manager of an agent that runs with its own access. Our Agent 365 licensing guide and Entra Suite licensing guide cover those two components.

What changed in E5 on July 1, 2026

Microsoft raised Microsoft 365 E5 from $57 to $60 and E3 from $36 to $39 on July 1, 2026. E5 also gained Security Copilot and further Intune capabilities. E7 stayed at $99, so the gap between E7 and its parts grew from $15 to $18 per user without any change to the E7 list price.

The price rise does not change which of your users need Copilot, Entra Suite or Agent 365. Our note on the 2026 Microsoft 365 price increase covers the E3 and E5 rise itself.

The Copilot question

Most interest in E7 is interest in Copilot. The current details sit on the Microsoft 365 Copilot page, and Copilot on its own lists at $30 per user per month on top of an eligible plan such as E3 or E5. Price it on measured adoption, user group by user group, using our Copilot pricing guide for the detail.

What did buyers mean when they asked for E7 before it existed?

They meant E5 plus something specific. Across roughly 20 to 30 Microsoft conversations I handled between 2024 and 2025 where a buyer asked for E7, every request resolved to real SKUs once we asked what the business needed. Three patterns recurred:

• E5 plus Copilot. In 60 to 70 percent of cases the real need was Copilot on top of E5.
• Features already owned. The rest wanted a security or compliance capability that E5 already included, such as a Defender or Purview feature.
• No higher tier. None of them needed a tier above E5, yet several had been quoted bundles they did not need.

That history is useful now that E7 is real. The product Microsoft launched packages the Copilot demand we saw, plus identity and agent controls that few of those buyers asked for.

If premium support is part of the request, handle it in its own negotiation. Our Unified Support pricing guide explains how that contract is priced.

Is E7 cheaper than buying E5 and the add ons separately?

Only for users who need Copilot plus at least one of the Entra Suite or Agent 365. At list, those users cost $102 or more bought separately, so E7 at $99 comes out ahead. A user who needs every component saves $18 a month against the $117 parts total, about 15 percent.

For a user who needs E5 and Copilot alone, E7 costs more than the two bought separately. The same holds for E5 with the Entra Suite and Agent 365 but no Copilot, which comes to $87.

A worked example for a 4,000 user tenant

Say you run 4,000 users on E5. The business wants Copilot for 1,200 of them, and 300 of those 1,200 build or sponsor agents and need the Entra Suite and Agent 365 controls. Here are three ways to license that population at list price.

The mixed option is cheapest because E7 goes only to the 300 users who need every part, and the 900 users on E5 plus Copilot stay off it. The $64,800 a year between the second and third rows is the E7 saving: $18 across 300 users for 12 months.

Moving the whole tenant to E7 costs $1,407,600 a year more than the mixed option at list. Microsoft would need to discount E7 by about 30 percent, with nothing off the parts, before the blanket move broke even. Our E7 cost and ROI analysis runs the same test on other user mixes.

How should you price E7 or the stack above E5?

Price each component as its own line, even when you buy E7. A bundle quoted as a single uplift hides which parts you are paying for and which you will never use. Tie each line to the published list and to the use rights in the Microsoft Product Terms.

Three pricing rules

• Separate the lines. E5, Copilot and support are three negotiations, and an E7 quote should still show an implied price for Copilot, Entra Suite and Agent 365.
• Stage the adoption. Ramp Copilot, or E7, to users with proven adoption before you extend it across the tenant.
• Start from published list. Use the official pricing page as the reference for every line, then benchmark the discount against it.

What to avoid

Avoid a vendor defined bundle, whether it carries the E7 name or a custom label. It converts a clear set of add on decisions into one opaque number that is hard to benchmark and harder to unwind.

Our Microsoft EA Renewal Playbook, written for the 2024 to 2026 EA cycle, shows where each of these lines sits in the renewal.

Why we advise against moving the whole tenant to E7

The usual advice, often from the seller, is to take the tier above E5 as one upgrade for everyone. Before May 2026 that tier did not exist, and treating it as real handed pricing control to the vendor. In roughly 20 of our conversations, the E7 framing produced a bundle quote with capabilities the customer already owned in E5.

The real SKU carries the same risk at tenant scale. Refuse the blanket upgrade, map each user group to real SKUs, and negotiate Copilot and support as separate lines. Put E7 only where a user needs Copilot and at least one of the other two add ons, which the worked example above shows is usually a minority.

E7 pays off only for users who would otherwise buy Copilot and at least one more add on.

What will the Microsoft account team say about E7, and how should you reply?

Expect the pitch to lead with the bundle saving and the roadmap. Each of the lines below comes with a reply you can use.

• "E7 is 15 percent cheaper than buying the parts." Show the saving on our user mix. The full saving holds only for users who would buy all four products, and for our E5 and Copilot users E7 costs more.
• "Copilot comes with E7, so your pilot can scale at no extra cost." The E7 uplift over E5 is $39 per user per month, more than Copilot's $30 list. We will pay for Copilot where adoption data supports it.
• "New agent and security features will land in E7 first." We license what the Product Terms grant today. If features move into E7 during the term, we want the right to step users up at the same discount.
• "The best E7 price depends on moving every user." Quote each SKU at the quantity we will actually buy. We will compare that with the tenant wide offer line by line.

For the wider negotiation, see our E7 pricing and negotiation strategy.

What contract terms should you ask for when E7 is on the table?

Ask for terms that let you add, move and price E7 users on your schedule. Settle each of these before signature, because Microsoft rarely reopens them mid term.

1. Every SKU on the price sheet. Put E5, E7, Copilot, Entra Suite and Agent 365 on your EA price sheet with prices fixed for the term. A SKU added later can come in at whatever list applies on that day.
2. Step up at the agreed discount. Users moved from E5 to E7 mid term should carry the same percentage discount you agreed at signature.
3. A step down at anniversary. Ask for the right to move E7 users back to E5 plus Copilot if the agent and identity features go unused. Microsoft resists reductions, so this needs to be written in.
4. Credit for standalone seats. When Copilot users move to E7, their standalone Copilot seats should be cancelled or credited so you do not pay twice until the anniversary.
5. Implied component values. Ask the quote to state what part of the E7 price is attributed to Copilot, Entra Suite and Agent 365, so you can benchmark each one.
6. A ramp. Schedule Copilot or E7 quantities by year, tied to adoption checkpoints, instead of paying for full volume from the first month.

How does the E7 decision change with your starting point?

It depends on what you license today and which security tools you already run.

Moving up from Microsoft 365 E3

E3 lists at $39 and E7 at $99, so each upgraded user costs $60 more per month. Decide first whether the user needs E5 at all. If not, E3 plus Copilot at $69 is the cheaper route, and our E3 or E5 decision guide covers that choice.

Already on E5 with Copilot deployed

You pay $90 per Copilot user today. E7 adds Entra Suite and Agent 365 for $9 more, against $27 for those two standalone. For users who own agents or need the Entra Suite controls, this is the clearest case for E7.

Running a third party identity or network security stack

If you already run a third party secure access service or identity governance tool, the Entra Suite inside E7 duplicates it. You pay for Private Access, Internet Access and ID Governance within the $99 whether you switch them on or not.

Mid size tenant or large tenant

In a tenant of about 1,000 users, E7 is usually a decision about a handful of user groups. At 20,000 users, every 1,000 people put on E7 who need only E5 add $468,000 a year at list.

How do you check which users would actually use E7?

Use the data Microsoft already gives you before you accept any user count in a quote:

• Microsoft 365 Copilot usage report. In the Microsoft 365 admin center under Reports, then Usage, it shows active Copilot users by app.
• Copilot Dashboard in Viva Insights. Adoption by team and role, which defines the groups that justify Copilot or E7.
• License assignment. Billing, then Licenses, in the admin center, or Get-MgSubscribedSku in Microsoft Graph PowerShell, shows purchased against assigned units for each SKU.
• Entra admin center. Conditional Access policies and access reviews show whether you already enforce the controls the Entra Suite adds.
• Agent inventory. The agents listed in your tenant, with their owners, sponsors and the users who delegate access to them, tell you how many people would need Agent 365.

Check E5 usage in the same pass, since unused Defender and Purview features carry straight into E7. Our E5 shelfware guide shows how to find them.

What mistakes do buyers make when they evaluate E7?

Most E7 overspend comes from comparing the wrong numbers:

• Comparing against the full parts total. The headline saving assumes every user needs all four products. Compare each user group with what it would actually buy.
• Using full list for the Entra Suite. Microsoft offers special Entra Suite pricing to existing E5 customers. Ask for that price before you compare, because it shrinks the gap between E7 and the parts.
• Buying E7 for Security Copilot. E5 has included Security Copilot since the July 2026 update, so it is no reason to move. Our Security Copilot pricing guide explains what E5 covers.
• Ignoring the version without Teams. If Teams is licensed separately, compare against $90.45.
• Licensing agents that do not exist yet. Buying E7 for everyone because agents are coming pays for Agent 365 long before anyone owns an agent.

What to do next

1. Confirm the line up. Check the current Microsoft 365 plans, including E7, on the official pricing page.
2. Write down the need. Record the specific capability the business asked for, whatever plan name came with the request.
3. Map it to real SKUs. Usually that means E5, E5 plus Copilot, or E7 for users who need Copilot with the Entra Suite or Agent 365.
4. Check E5 first. Confirm whether the capability is already included in E5 before you buy an add on or E7.
5. Separate the lines. Negotiate Copilot, E7 and premium support as separate lines, each with its own discount.
6. Stage adoption. Give Copilot or E7 to users with proven adoption first, and widen the rollout at agreed checkpoints.
7. Refuse what you cannot benchmark. Reject any bundle you cannot break down line by line against published list.

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