Comparison
Nextcloud Hub vs Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 for business bundles Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams and the Office apps at about $6 to $22 per user per month, with the data in regions Microsoft chooses. MassiveGRID's Nextcloud Hub covers the same ground on Nextcloud Enterprise at $5.90 to $19.90 per user, with the data in the region you choose and no desktop licence tied to the seat. This page compares the three business plans of each.
$5.90
Hub Starter / user
about $6
Business Basic / user
4
Hub regions you choose
Open
WebDAV, CalDAV, CardDAV, IMAP
The short verdict
MassiveGRID Nextcloud Hub against Microsoft 365
Verdict: Microsoft 365 wins if your company needs the desktop Office applications on every seat, runs on Excel in earnest, or wants Intune and Defender bundled with the suite; Business Standard and Premium are hard to beat for that. Nextcloud Hub wins on data location, on price per seat at every tier, on the absence of per-feature upsell, and on exit through open protocols. The hidden cost argument runs both ways: Microsoft's add-ons push the bill up, but so does under-estimating how much of your work lives in Excel. Test your worst spreadsheet during the $1 first month before deciding.
Side by side
What each one is, what it includes, where it runs
| Microsoft 365 for business | MassiveGRID Nextcloud Hub | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | Business Basic, about $6 per user per month; web and mobile apps, 1 TB OneDrive, Exchange mailbox | Starter, $5.90; 100 GB per user; Files, Office, Talk, Standard Email, Calendar, Contacts |
| Standard plan | Business Standard, about $12.50; adds desktop Office apps | Business, $12.90; 1 TB per user; adds Notes, Tables, Deck, Tasks and priority support |
| Advanced plan | Business Premium, about $22; adds Intune, Defender for Business, Entra ID P1 | Enterprise, $19.90; 1 TB per user; Enterprise Email and 24x7 support |
| Documents and spreadsheets | Word, Excel, PowerPoint: web on Basic, desktop from Standard | Nextcloud Office in the browser on every plan; Euro-Office desktop editors from Hub 26 Summer |
| Exchange Online, 50 GB mailbox | Nextcloud Mail with a mailbox per user included; Enterprise Email with delegation on Enterprise | |
| Chat and video | Teams (bundling varies by region since the EU unbundling) | Talk: chat, audio and video, screen sharing, guests in the browser |
| Files | OneDrive, SharePoint document libraries | Nextcloud Files with versioning, trash, share links, federated sharing |
| Where the data lives | Regions Microsoft chooses; EU Data Boundary for EU tenants | The region you choose at checkout: U.S., E.U., U.K. or Asia |
| Device management and security suite | Intune and Defender on Business Premium | Not a Nextcloud feature; two-factor, encryption and access logs are |
| Exit | Export tools, migration APIs | Open protocols, desktop sync, Nextcloud export and import |
| Team size | Up to 300 on business plans | 1 to 50 online; dedicated Nextcloud Enterprise instances beyond |
| Support | Microsoft support; partner support common | Ticket, priority or 24x7 by plan |
Where each one wins
An honest split
Choose Microsoft 365 if
- Your company runs on desktop Excel, Word and PowerPoint and will not work in a browser
- You want Intune, Defender and identity management bundled with the suite
- You have 50 to 300 users and no appetite for any migration
- Your integrations (Power Platform, Dynamics, line-of-business apps) assume Microsoft 365
Choose a Nextcloud Hub plan if
- Where the data lives is a question clients, regulators or your board ask
- Price matters at every tier, and you are tired of per-feature add-ons
- Most of your work is documents, files, calls and mail rather than Excel models
- You want to be able to leave: open protocols and a sync client that holds your files
What a team actually pays
Monthly, before taxes, at the time of writing
| Team | Microsoft 365 (list price) | Nextcloud Hub, monthly | Nextcloud Hub, annual (20% off) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 users, entry plans | Business Basic, about $60 | Starter, $59 | $47.20 |
| 20 users, standard plans | Business Standard, about $250 | Business, $258 | $206.40 |
| 50 users, advanced plans | Business Premium, about $1,100 | Enterprise, $995 | $796 |
| 50 users, mixed: 10 advanced, 40 entry | About $460 | $435 | $348 |
Microsoft 365 figures are the vendor's published list prices per user per month at the time of writing, annual commitment, and change by region; check its comparison page. MassiveGRID figures are the live prices below. The three-year TCO comparison and the licensing guide go deeper.
Nextcloud Hub Plans
Nextcloud Hub Pricing
Per-user plans on MassiveGRID's Nextcloud Enterprise platform: files, office, email, chat and video calls, calendar and contacts, in the U.S., E.U., U.K. or Asia. Pick the region and team size to see what your team would pay.
Billing cycle
Region
First month for $1 on monthly billing with coupon code NEXTCLOUD, applied by the Order buttons.
Starter
The full suite for small teams leaving Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
Compares with Google Workspace Business Starter and Microsoft 365 Business Basic
$5.90/user/mo
For 20 users: $118.00/mo
- Files, Photos, Calendar and Contacts
- Nextcloud Office: documents, spreadsheets and presentations
- Talk: chat, audio and video calls, screen sharing
- Standard Email
- 100 GB storage per user
- Desktop and mobile sync clients, public share links
- Nextcloud Enterprise platform with managed updates and daily backups
- Ticket support
Most Popular
Business
Team apps and ten times the storage for teams that run their work in Nextcloud.
Compares with Google Workspace Business Standard and Microsoft 365 Business Standard
$12.90/user/mo
For 20 users: $258.00/mo
- Files, Photos, Calendar and Contacts
- Nextcloud Office and Talk: documents, chat, audio and video calls
- Notes, Tables, Deck and Tasks
- Standard Email
- 1 TB storage per user, ten times Starter
- Desktop and mobile sync clients, public share links
- Nextcloud Enterprise platform with managed updates and daily backups
- Priority support: faster response and escalation
Enterprise
Enterprise email and 24x7 support for organisations standardising on Nextcloud.
Compares with Google Workspace Business Plus and Microsoft 365 Business Premium
$19.90/user/mo
For 20 users: $398.00/mo
- Files, Photos, Office, Talk, Calendar and Contacts
- Notes, Tables, Deck and Tasks
- Enterprise Email with delegation and other enterprise mail features
- 1 TB storage per user
- Desktop and mobile sync clients, public share links
- Nextcloud Enterprise platform with managed updates and daily backups
- 24x7 support
- Upgrade path to a dedicated instance with your own domain and branding
USD per user per month before taxes; the billing-cycle discount applies to every plan. Order 1 to 50 users online. Need your own domain, a compliance boundary of your own or more than 50 users? See the dedicated instances below or contact us.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
For files, documents, mail, calendar, contacts, chat and video calls, yes. The honest exceptions are companies that run on desktop Excel, that need Intune and Defender bundled, or whose line-of-business integrations assume Microsoft 365. Nextcloud Office opens and saves DOCX, XLSX and PPTX; test your most complex files first.
Yes. Every Hub plan includes a mailbox per user (Standard Email on Starter and Business), and the Enterprise plan includes Enterprise Email with delegation and other enterprise mail features. Nextcloud Mail also connects external IMAP accounts.
At list prices Starter ($5.90) is close to Business Basic (about $6), Business ($12.90) is close to Business Standard (about $12.50), and Enterprise ($19.90) undercuts Business Premium (about $22), before Nextcloud Hub's 20% annual and 40% 36-month discounts. The larger difference is data location and the absence of add-on creep.
Nextcloud Talk for chat, calls and screen sharing, with channels and announcements since Hub 26 Summer. Since Microsoft began unbundling Teams in some regions, the comparison depends on which Microsoft SKU you hold. The Talk comparison sets expectations honestly.
Files from OneDrive and SharePoint via the desktop client or WebDAV, mail over IMAP, calendars and contacts via CalDAV and CardDAV exports, MX records last. Our Microsoft 365 migration guide covers the sequence, and the migration service does it for you.
The suite without the tenant, from $5.90 per user
Order a Nextcloud Hub plan and the first month is $1 with coupon code NEXTCLOUD. Move one team's files and mail, run a month of real work, then decide.