YOU ARE USING A KNEE-CAPPED VERSION OF MICROSOFT 365 AND PAYING MORE FOR IT.

GODADDY OFFERINGS

UNMASKING THE TRUE COST OF GODADDY: BEYOND THE FIRST YEAR DISCOUNTS

While they offer attractive first-year discounts to lure customers, our analysis reveals how their long-term costs stack up against the competition. Ultimately, GoDaddy is more expensive for less features after the first year.

MICROSOFT 365 SECURE ONLINE ESSENTIALS

$10.99/User/Month

Renews for $14.99 a month
  • Microsoft 365 Online: Web versions of Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, plus mobile apps
  • 1 TB secure OneDrive Storage
  • Meet, chat, and collaborate with your team, customer, or suppliers with Microsoft Teams
  • Professional Email with 50 GB email storage
  • World-class data security and spam filtering
  • 99% uptime guarantee

MICROSOFT 365 SECURE BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL

$11.99/User/Month

Renews for $19.99 a month
  • Microsoft 365 Desktop Apps: Download apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to 5 devices, plus get web and mobile apps
  • 1 TB secure OneDrive storage
  • Meet, chat, and collaborate with your team, customers, or suppliers with Microsoft Teams
  • Professional Email with 50 GB email storage
  • World-class data security and spam filtering
  • 99% uptime guaranteeHIPAA compliant email

MICROSOFT 365 SECURE PREMIUM BUNDLE

$16.99/User/Month

Renews for $29.97 a month
  • Microsoft 365 Desktop Apps: Download apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to 5 devices, plus get web and mobile apps
  • 1 TB secure OneDrive Storage
  • Meet, chat, and collaborate with your team, customer, or suppliers with Microsoft Teams
  • Professional Email with 50 GB email storage
  • World-class data security and spam filtering
  • 99% uptime guarantee
  • HIPAA compliant email
  • Email Archiving

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Regarding pricing updates, as of July 2025, Microsoft adjusted its pricing structure for Microsoft 365. The prices quoted on this page represent the equivalent of the pricing for GoDaddy. Both are cancel any time month to month contracts.

For customers that commit to annual subscriptions, we can save them 15% if they pay monthly or 20% if they pay for Microsoft licenses up front.

MICROSOFT 365 BUSINESS BASIC

$7.20/User/Month

Start with web and mobile apps
  • Web and mobile versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook
  • Chat, calling, and meeting with teams from laptop, tablet, or phone
  • Appointment booking and management with Microsoft Bookings
  • Project management tools including Microsoft Forms, Microsoft Lists, and Microsoft Planner
  • 1 TB of cloud storage per user
  • Business-classemail(name@yourbusiness.com)Standard security
  • Anytime phone and web support

MICROSOFT 365 BUSINESS STANDARD

$15.00/User/Month

Everything in Business Basic, plus:
  • Installable desktop apps including, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook
  • Ability to work offline and upload changes to cloud when you reconnect
  • Tools for creating marketing materials with Microsoft Publisher
  • Hosting Capabilities for webinars and large meetings
  • Attendee registration and reporting tools for webinar
  • Database and date visualization with Microsoft Access
  • Anytime phone and web support

MICROSOFT 365 BUSINESS PREMIUM

$26.40/User/Month

Everything in Business Standard, plus:
  • Device management
  • Ability to remotely wipe lost or stolen devices
  • Advanced security tools and features
  • Controlled access to company data
  • Cyberthreat protection

Despite the promotional jargon, Microsoft's plans ultimately offer more value than GoDaddy's offerings, especially when considering the costs from the second year onward. The pricing difference is significant.

GoDaddy
Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 Business Basic
vs
GoDaddy Secure Online Essentials

$14.99 per month

$7.20 per month

Microsoft 365 Business Standard
vs
GoDaddy Secure Business Professional

$19.99 per month

$15.00 per month

Microsoft 365 Business Premium
vs
GoDaddy Secure Premium Bundle

$29.97 per month

$26.40 per month

Microsoft 365 Business Basic
vs
GoDaddy Secure Online Essentials

GoDaddy

$14.99 per month

Microsoft 365

$7.20 per month

Microsoft 365 Business Standard
vs
GoDaddy Secure Business Professional

GoDaddy

$19.99 per month

Microsoft 365

$15.00 per month

Microsoft 365 Business Premium
vs
GoDaddy Secure Premium Bundle

GoDaddy

$29.97 per month

Microsoft 365

$26.40 per month

*All Microsoft 365 plans are HIPAA, HITECH and many other regulations (GDPR) compliant.**Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is $2 (Plan 1) or $4 (Plan 2)/month/user and provides advanced AI based spam filtering.

GODADDY LIMITATIONS

WE CAN HELP NAVIGATE BEYOND INEFFICIENT SYSTEMS & STREAMLINE YOUR WORKFLOW

We frequently encounter customers who use GoDaddy.com, mainly for email, often unaware of tools like Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, One Drive or Bookings. They might try to integrate a Customer Relationship Manager that promises One Drive compatibility but fails because GoDaddy.com restricts full access to their subscription. This not only hampers functionality but also costs them more. To compensate, these customers might subscribe to Dropbox, incurring additional fees. When they need scheduling features, they find GoDaddy.com doesn’t offer Bookings, leading them to pay extra for GoDaddy’s marketing solutions or external services like Calendly.com. Ultimately, circumventing GoDaddy.com’s restrictions leads to substantially increased costs per user each month.

Navigating through this assortment of services creates clunky workflows and inefficiencies. Switching to Microsoft 365 consolidates all these needs into one streamlined, cost-effective suite that just makes sense for modern business operations.

Many of our clients started off with a disparate landscape of IT services.  They pay for Zoom for meetings, GSuite or GoDaddy for email, Slack to communicate via desktop chat, Dropbox to store their files and Calendly to allow their customers to schedule appointments.  Some even turn around and pay Microsoft for Excel, Word and PowerPoint.  All this amounts to a large monthly per-user charge that EPI can significantly reduce by migrating the organization to Microsoft 365.

GODADDY, ZOOM, SLACK, DROPBOX, CALENDLY AND NO BACKUP

GoDaddy $240
Zoom $192
Slack $150
DropBox $216
Calendly$240
*Prices per user per year

$1,038/user/year

  • Not everything is backed up
  • Users have accounts in each service
  • Very difficult to manage centrally
  • Prices as of 3/31/2024
  • Not all services quoted at HIPAA Compliant price levels.

MICROSOFT 365 FROM EPI
MICROSOFT 365 + EPI BACKUP
$75 PER YEAR

Email
Chat
Video Conferencing
Shared and Personal Cloud Storage
Bookings
Desktop Office Applications

$225/user/year

  • Email, Files, chats and Video Transcripts are backed up and secure
  • One account for all services
  • Can be managed centrally
  • HIPAA Compliant

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