Microsoft Teams Premium is an add-on to the standard Teams license, offering advanced features for both admins and end users. Below is a comparison of key features between Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium.
Meetings Features Feature Teams Teams Premium Host and attend Teams Meetings ✔ ✔ Experience Teams’ standard look and feel ✔ ✔ Use standard and custom meeting backgrounds ✔ ✔ Read live captions during meetings and live events ✔ ✔ Read a live transcript during meetings ✔ ✔ Set up a green room for meeting presenters and organizers ✔ ✔ View attendance reports ✔ ✔ In-progress meeting real-time telemetry (24-hour retention) ✔ ✔ Customize meeting templates for your organization X ✔ Customize meeting backgrounds for your organization X ✔ Customize Together mode scenes for your organization X ✔ Use meeting themes to add branding to meeting invites, lobby, and pre-join screen X ✔ Read live translated captions during meetings X ✔ Read live translated transcripts during and after meetings X ✔ Manage what attendees see X ✔ Use RTMP-In for meetings X ✔ View engagement reports X ✔ Turn on eCDN for view-only meetings X ✔ Audio quality alerts X ✔ Video quality alerts X ✔ Screen sharing quality alerts X ✔ Automatic real-time telemetry (7-day retention) X ✔ Prevent users from sharing content in external Teams meetings X ✔
Webinars Features Feature Teams Teams Premium Require attendees to register ✔ ✔ Assign a co-organizer ✔ ✔ Limit the number of people who can register ✔ ✔ Allow registered users to bypass the lobby ✔ ✔ Turn on Q&A for webinars with up to 1,000 attendees ✔ ✔ Read live captions during webinars ✔ ✔ Read a live transcript during webinars ✔ ✔ View attendance reports ✔ ✔ Set up a green room for webinar presenters and organizers ✔ ✔ Manage what attendees see X ✔ Send custom and reminder emails to registrants X ✔ Create a webinar waitlist and manage beyond capacity X ✔ Webinar organizers can view engagement reports X ✔ Manually approve registrants X ✔ Limit the day and time when people can register X ✔ Use RTMP-In for webinars X ✔ View how many users attended webinars that used a Teams Premium feature X ✔ View the number of webinars used a Teams Premium feature X ✔ Read live translated captions during webinars X ✔ Read live translated transcripts during and after webinars X ✔ Webinar branding (invites, lobby, pre-join) X ✔
Town Halls Features Feature Teams Teams Premium Broadcast town halls to 10k attendees ✔ ✔ Host up to 15 town halls simultaneously ✔ ✔ View attendance reports ✔ ✔ Manage what attendees see ✔ ✔ Provide town hall video on demand ✔ ✔ Provide a unique join link for presenters ✔ ✔ Set up a green room for presenters and organizers ✔ ✔ Turn on third-party or Microsoft eCDN for town halls ✔ ✔ Use RTMP-In for town halls ✔ ✔ Town hall Q&A capacity of 10k attendees ✔ ✔ Broadcast town halls to 50k attendees X ✔ Host up to 50 town halls simultaneously X ✔ Town hall Q&A capacity of 50k attendees X ✔ Use Microsoft eCDN for Premium town halls X ✔ Choose an eCDN provider for town halls X ✔ View Microsoft Town Hall insights X ✔ Town hall organizers can view engagement reports X ✔ Edit town hall emails X ✔ Town hall attendee reactions X ✔ Pre-select 10 languages for live translated captions X ✔ Real-time monitoring of attendee experience X ✔ Read live translated captions during town halls ✔ ✔ Read live translated transcripts during and after town halls X ✔ Meeting chat for town hall attendees X ✔ Town hall branding (invites, lobby, pre-join) X ✔
Advanced Collaboration Tools Feature Teams Teams Premium Admin can view insights on inactive external domains X ✔ Admin can view insights on inactive teams X ✔ Admin can view insights on external collaboration by user X ✔ Admin can view insights on external collaboration by team X ✔ Admin can view insights on external collaboration by guest X ✔ Users can block incoming chats from people in your organization X ✔
Meeting Protection Features Feature Teams Teams Premium Manage meeting lobbies ✔ ✔ End-to-end encryption for one-to-one calls ✔ ✔ Moderate meeting chats ✔ ✔ Control who can present ✔ ✔ Add watermarks to meetings X ✔ End-to-end encryption for meetings X ✔ Organizer can control who can record and transcribe X ✔ Restrict participants from copying or forwarding meeting chat messages, live captions, and transcripts X ✔ Assign Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels for meetings X ✔ Custom user policy packages X ✔ Prevent users from sharing content in external Teams meetings X ✔ Require unverified participants to verify their info before joining X ✔ Detect sensitive content during screen sharing X ✔
Intelligent Meeting Recap Feature Teams Teams Premium View recordings of meetings ✔ ✔ View meeting transcripts ✔ ✔ View and use files added to meetings ✔ ✔ View and use apps added to meetings ✔ ✔ Navigate meeting recordings with autogenerated chapters X ✔ View when a screen was shared in the meeting transcript X ✔ View time markers in meeting recordings when you joined or left a meeting X ✔ Jump to different speakers with speaker timeline markers X ✔ View AI-generated notes and tasks from meetings X ✔ View when you were mentioned in a meeting X ✔ Multilingual meeting support X ✔
Intelligent Call Recap For PSTN Calls Feature Teams Teams Premium AI-generated notes and recommended tasks X ✔
For 1:1 Peer-to-Peer and Group VoIP Calls Feature Teams Teams Premium AI-generated notes and recommended tasks X ✔ View speaker timeline markers X ✔ Navigate recordings with autogenerated chapters X ✔ Users can see when they were mentioned X ✔
Bookings and Virtual Appointments Feature Teams Teams Premium Access Bookings for scheduling and appointment management ✔ ✔ Send email reminders and follow-ups ✔ ✔ Integrate virtual appointments using APIs ✔ ✔ Manage staff availability ✔ ✔ Join appointments from a browser ✔ ✔ Notify staff members when a booking is assigned to them ✔ ✔ Join appointments in Teams ✔ ✔ View and manage appointments in the queue X ✔
Meet App Feature Teams Teams Premium View and prepare upcoming meetings ✔ ✔ Join ongoing meetings ✔ ✔ View and recap meetings you attended ✔ ✔ Filter meetings by All, with Content, and Recorded ✔ ✔ View and recap meetings that you missed X ✔ View and recap meetings that mention you X ✔ View when you were mentioned in a meeting X ✔ View AI-generated tasks from meetings X ✔
Places Workplace Collaboration Feature Teams Teams Premium Hybrid RSVP ✔ ✔ Places card ✔ ✔ Work plans ✔ ✔ Workplace presence ✔ ✔ Individual desk booking X ✔ Intelligent suggestions X ✔ Places explorer X ✔ Places finder X ✔ Quick book X ✔ Room check-in and auto-release X ✔ Space analytics X ✔
Queues App Feature Teams Teams Premium Call queue and auto-attendant management X ✔ Real-time metrics for call queues and auto attendants X ✔ Historical reporting for call queues and auto attendants X ✔ Advanced call monitoring, whispering, and call takeover X ✔
Immersive Mesh Experiences Feature Teams Teams Premium Avatars in Teams ✔ ✔ 3D immersive meetings in Teams ✔ ✔ Custom immersive spaces in Microsoft Mesh X ✔ Larger capacity immersive meetings X ✔
