Pricing for SharePoint-Related Licenses

This chart lists licenses associated with running SharePoint 2010 on-premises, along with the highest price (in U.S. dollars) a U.S. business customer would pay through the Open No Level (formerly called Open Business) volume purchasing program. Unless otherwise noted, prices are unchanged from the previous versions.

Client Access Licenses (CALs) used to license internal users (e.g., employees and onsite contractors) can be assigned per user or per device (typically a PC).

The annual cost of a Software Assurance (SA) subscription, which provides the right to upgrade to any versions released during the term of coverage and other benefits, is generally 25% of the original license purchase price. (The exceptions are the Enterprise CAL Suite and SharePoint Workspace 2010 licenses, for which SA costs 40% and 29%, respectively.) Both the Core CAL Suite and the Enterprise CAL Suite require a customer to commit to an SA subscription at the time the license is initially purchased. Customers who added SA to earlier SharePoint licenses and maintained those subscriptions as of Apr. 30, 2010, can upgrade to the corresponding SharePoint 2010 licenses at no charge.