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The Rise of Direct Licensing Models

Name: The Rise of Direct Licensing Models
Uploaded: 2025-10-18T13:00:22+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Vendors are aligning licensing prices with Microsoft.com rates. Microsoft 365 E5 costs $57 per month on Microsoft.com and matches Level 8 pricing, though…

18 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Vendors are aligning licensing prices with Microsoft.com rates. Microsoft 365 E5 costs $57 per month on Microsoft.com and matches Level 8 pricing, though some products run 5-7% higher, creating budget variability for customers.

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Right. And so if we look at how this actually, what this means is this is how it's going to hit your budget. So what they're doing is they're normalizing to the Microsoft.com pricing. Right. So if we look at the the this chart here, Microsoft.com for an M365, I believe this is an E5 is $57 per month. A Microsoft Level 8 is $57 per month for that same product. Now, this product that I chose has the same price on Microsoft.com and the level A not all products. That is the case. There are some products where there's a 5 to 7% increase on the Microsoft dot com.