Microsoft Planner supports two different types of plans, Basic and Premium. While there are features that both plans support, others are only available to a specific plan. Updates are continuously being made to help close on the most critical gaps in the premium plan.
The table below shows which features are included in each plan type.
Note
Access to some features depends on the user’s subscription. Visit Plans & Pricing to learn more about the different Planner subscriptions.
| Key Feature | Basic Plan | Premium Plan |
|---|---|---|
| See tasks in Grid view | Yes | Yes |
| See tasks in Board view | Yes | Yes |
| See tasks in Charts view | Yes | Yes |
| Filter and group tasks | Yes | Yes |
| Team’s activity notifications for tasks | Yes | Yes1 |
| Copy Plan | Yes | Yes |
| Export plan to Excel | Yes | Yes |
| See tasks in Assigned to me view | Yes | Yes2 |
| See tasks in Microsoft To Do | Yes | Yes2 |
| Task limit in a plan | 9000 | 3,0003 |
| Rich text notes | Yes | Yes |
| Task conversations | Yes | Yes4 |
| Premium only | ||
| Microsoft 365 Copilot in Planner (preview) | No | Yes |
| View tasks in Timeline (Gantt chart) | No | Yes |
| People view – see where team members may be over- or under-allocated and find potential opportunities for workload balancing | No | Yes |
| Add dependencies between tasks | No | Yes |
| Add milestones, task custom fields, conditional coloring | No | Yes |
| See critical path in the plan | No | Yes |
| Colored Buckets | No | Yes |
| Agile PM with backlogs and sprints | No | Yes |
| Goals | No | Yes |
| Custom calendars | No | Yes |
| Task history | No | Yes |
| Basic only | ||
| See tasks in Schedule view | Yes | |
| See tasks in Outlook calendar | Yes | |
| SharePoint integration (Planner web part and full page app) | Yes | |
| Tasks app in Teams Mobile | Yes | |
| Recurring tasks | Yes | |
| Add plans to Loop | Yes |
1See Stay updated with notifications in Planner
2Tasks assigned in premium plans will only appear for users who are members of the group associated with the plan. Limited edit capabilities for premium tasks in the assigned to me view. Users will need to open the premium plan to edit all the relevant fields.
3 See Premium plan limits for Project for the web.
4Conversations require the premium plan to be added to a Teams channel.
Application and Workflows
Applications and workflows that have been built to interact with basic plans will require modification to work on premium plans.