SharePoint License Prices and SA Grants

Several costly niche server-side licenses are eliminated and transitioned to the SharePoint Server 2013 license, roughly 40% more expensive than its 2010 counterpart, and SharePoint 2013 CALs purchased per-user cost 15% more than the corresponding SharePoint 2010 CAL. Pictured are the different types of available SharePoint-related licenses, pricing for the two latest versions, and license grants for Software Assurance (SA) customers. (SA is a subscription offering that provides rights to new product versions and other benefits for an annual fee.) Prices quoted (in U.S. dollars) are for licenses purchased without SA through the Open License program (No Level, or NL, pricing) and represent the highest price a U.S. customer would pay when purchasing through volume licensing.

A SharePoint Server 2010 server license covered by active SA as of Oct. 2012 transitions to a SharePoint Server 2013 license, which now costs 38% more if purchased new.

Four special-purpose SharePoint 2010-related licenses, all now discontinued, each transition to a SharePoint Server 2013 license if covered by active SA as of Oct. 2012. (The Dec. 2012 through June 2013 monthly Product Lists indicated a Dec. 2012 cutoff date for eligibility, an error that Microsoft says will be corrected in a subsequent Product List.)