It comes bundled with the Microsoft 365 pricing plans, which we find to be a bit high, especially as we add more users.

We use a monthly-based license model. As long as you have a license, you get support. So, there are no additional costs to the standard licensing. 

It is pretty reasonable. It is $5 per month per user. We have 12 users now, so it is about $60 per month.  

There are no additional costs.

The platform has medium pricing.

SharePoint is included with our Microsoft license.

The pricing is competitive. That's why almost all the companies are using SharePoint. I rate the pricing a ten out of ten. When we buy the license, the person buying must be well-educated on how the pricing model works.

We get some bundles for free. We can get Power Apps, Microsoft Exchange, and E1 and E2 licenses for free. We must know what our organization needs. It will cost us more if we want to increase the space or customize solutions. The standard features are free.

The pricing is competitive.

It’s not cheap. Through version 2010, there was a "free" version called Foundation. All of the good features are in the Standard and Enterprise versions. Starting with 2013, the Foundation version was discontinued.
Licensing can be by server or by seat.

The licensing model for SharePoint Online is based on per user, and it is monthly. The price of the solution overall is good.

There can be additional costs depending on the features that we are going to use. If we are using any third-party integration or third-party connector, then in this scenario we need premium licensing.

The product is reasonably priced.

Use volume licensing to get the best pricing from Microsoft for a customer.

You have to pay for a license to use SharePoint, and any extended support from Microsoft is expensive. For example: if you have SharePoint 2013 and it reaches its end of life and goes out of support, you can migrate to SharePoint online, and that's a benefit, but you'll have to pay for extended support.

Do your due diligence first and conduct an in-depth discovery session with stakeholders prior to designing your solution that uses SharePoint as a platform

With regards to licensing, it depends a lot on what you need to do, there are many plans, and options to choose from, you need to plan and enjoy 100% of what the product offers, so you can decide if the value is right.

The license is a one-time cost when you purchase the solution, but there is an annual support fee.

I don't have experience in that area.

When choosing a platform, just be aware there are choices. The choice you make in the beginning can make or break your installation and your goals for your organization. Think clearly and meet with other departments. Don't let IT do it alone. You want the buy-in and input from all parts of your organization.

SharePoint is a suite of features and products within one product. Purchasing and implementing it needs optimal usage planning. I would recommend that you select the pricing or license type based on your usage. (In general, the internet license is the best).

It's Microsoft; empty your pockets. Seriously, if you obtain SharePoint under one of their blanket licensing agreements you really need to pay attention to the terms and conditions, especially if your acquisition is part of Office 365. It's typically not very easy to drop licenses for a particular subcomponent under such agreements if you find that you're not using that particular piece.

I am not involved with the purchasing decisions.

There are two options with SharePoint. They have an on-premises and a cloud solution as well.

For non-profits, seek out non-profit licensing.

• Look very well what your need is.
• Compare that with the budget.
• Do a full in-house inquiry to define:

  
  

  • What the real need is.
  • How to adjust internal procedures when needed, and if it is possible.
  • Whether the system can be adjusted to the company's needs.
• Make a clear time line.
• Make internal resources available.
• Do not make the error of fixing a time line and not allocating the resources accordingly.
• Make a clear plan of what you need.
• Do not plan for your current need; add some space for future expansion.
• Look into easy expansion; add licenses when needed.

Really take your time in planning the needs you are trying to meet. The licensing is very difficult to get right, and not as easy as many other alternative. Add in about a 15% cost to the initial cost estimates. You will find yourself needing to add something.

I don't know since I did not source the production and used existing licenses.

As with any Microsoft product, the licensing can be complex. There are two versions of SharePoint: Enterprise and Standard. Standard does not require an additional user CAL for the SharePoint part of things, but has less features; the most important being able to use Office apps directly in the browser. SharePoint is tightly integrated with Microsoft Office, so this is a critical point.

It really depends on the size of the organization. For small organizations, I would advise them on just purchasing Office 365 for what they need in the next year or two. They can always scale up. In larger organizations, I would love to have the enterprise version. However, not every organization can afford the cost.

The cost is expensive, but worthwhile.

There are multiple licensing options available. You should select the one that is suitable to your needs.

It’s now available as a part of Office 365, but a local, on-premises install has some advantages if keeping everything inside your Intranet is important.

We got this through the California Foundation for Community Colleges; a four-site license.

It is affordable for what you get.

I advise to really plan carefully before implementing a solution. You need to allocate the correct number of licenses of various types (standard versus enterprise), including the required SQL licenses. Be careful with SQL licensing as many companies get this wrong. Licenses for other systems, for example, AD CALs or terminal server CALs, also need to be considered.

One of the most common mistakes is that a project plan will not take into account the use of features that require an enterprise license to run. For example, if the planners allocate only 50 enterprise licenses and the rest are standard licenses, there may not be enough enterprise licenses for all the components that need them.

We have an EA. It was easy to get pricing, but it is difficult to manage.

When trying to use it as an extranet, we found issues with how expensive it is per individual user. We have 15,000 contractors who serve as staff at various locations.

It's not the least expensive solution in the market but if your needs are great in terms of functionality, number of users and amount of data, it is worth purchasing it.

If possible, consider using what Microsoft offers in Office 365 as it includes all those features plus email. For a smaller organization, it makes a lot of sense and Microsoft will still manage the environment.

More than 75% of our interactions now are with clients that already have Office 365 (which includes SharePoint), so the pricing is normally bundled with that. We do discuss specifics when it comes to the amount of storage included. For on site deployments, clients need to license each server, as well as each client access license (CAL).

Use enterprise pricing as a part of Office 365.

This will vary greatly depending on your CAL agreement with Microsoft and what vendor you purchase options from.

It's not expensive.

For this type of solution, it is not wise to buy it without Software Assurance. It depends on the customer, but most are using an agreement that covers four to ten free incidents per year. You really need that, and it's well-invested money.

We have purchased add-ons to handle multiple site collections, form creation, and design. 

Pricing on the server itself is acceptable, but CAL licenses could be an issue if you are not an Enterprise Agreement subscriber, or you are opening SharePoint 2007 to external users. With the new license model on SharePoint online, the issue here is not applicable.

For us, in terms of the project development and support tools and for a collaborative repository of live documents, there is nothing like this solution.

SharePoint is embedded in our Office 365 license. The price is very competitive. (I believe it is one of the best.)

As a an education institution, we had a very favourable pricing policy.

Don’t really know what to say here. I’d rather not answer. In general, we didn’t have any issues with SharePoint licensing.

Pricing and licensing is not as complex as some of the other MS suite products.

Setup an initial trial account with a pilot group to ascertain what is best for your environment.

I’ll strongly recommend to adopt metadata solutions, but with a SharePoint expert. This is expensive, but you save a lot of time.

Pricing and licensing is a very subjective topic. Some companies have more resources than others, and some vendors are more flexible than others.

• Always find a solution that fits your needs the most; worry about the money later.
• Always make sure that this is a solution that your company can use and take care of; don't buy the latest and greatest tools because it's the hottest product in the market.

We are an academic institution, and so we have a EDU partnership for volume licensing and other enterprise purchasing agreements.

For this particular product (MS SharePoint), we are using the SharePoint Enterprise CAL license, for our on-premise solution. There are other departments that do the same thing with enterprise CAL, but our overarching relationship with Microsoft is through our central department.

Pricing seems fine. Licensing seems straightforward.

The pricing works for us.

I am unable to comment as I am not involved with the details of this.

The pricing is good. I have heard that MS gives very good deals on volume licensing.

You can always make a good deal with Microsoft, especially shortly before the end of their fiscal year (July).

Go for O365 plans that have different pricing as per business needs.

Cloud is the cheapest, but less flexible. The cost of the product is quite reasonable considering the feature set. The larger portion of the cost of the product is getting good professional help in shaping it to the organization's needs.

Pricing is in line with other enterprise products. For a small company, the cloud version might be more suitable from a licensing cost standpoint. Bigger companies should take a decision based on the size of the IT department and the number of users involved, which can make an on-premises solution more convenient.

Pricing is very high.

There are two options with SharePoint. They have an on premises and a cloud solution.

There are free versions that satisfy most needs.

Do your homework and work closely with the vendor during capacity planning. Think a few years ahead.

I cannot speak about this as our product comes in an MSDN package.

The pricing and licensing is one of the most crucial parts of using Microsoft SharePoint.

Pricing and licensing options are structured according to the size of the organization. Good business leaders make the best decisions and choose the best fit for their organizations based not only on its business needs, resources and budgets; but also based on what people at their organization need and will use. Make sure that all areas of the organization buy-into it. Don't invest in a solution that you have not properly investigated first. Weigh out all your options first.

In SharePoint Hybrid Mode, Office 365 User SLs can be used to access your licensed servers deployed on third party shared servers/datacenters via License Mobility using Software Assurance. Check this possibility for saving money.

License cost is slightly higher so it is suggestible to derive license cost based on relevant features.

I recommend using Office 365.

I was not involved in the pricing and licensing activities.

Get help. Pricing and licensing is tricky.

I cannot make any specific recommendations.

I don't have enough experience with SharePoint's pricing and licensing to give my opinion.

You can always start off with the free SharePoint Foundation version in order to evaluate the platform.

I’m not able to offer an informed opinion about pricing, but if you are looking for a robust document management system, the Enterprise edition might be the better choice.

The metadata features promise to improve the document search function. The built-in document management workflows seem very promising. These are the features motivating our desire to upgrade.

For simple solutions, I recommend this solution. But going large scale, you might consider going with an open-source solution.

It is very expensive.

The replacement costs for it are cheaper if you use only SharePoint.