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Orbiz vs Microsoft Teams

Zohaib KhalidPrices checked 9 October 2026

Microsoft Teams Essentials is $4 per user a month paid yearly for chat, channels and meetings with up to 300 people, and it is bundled into every Microsoft 365 Business plan. Orbiz Huddl is chat with channels, threads, guests and files, included for every member in the Orbiz flat price, beside hiring, time, projects and payroll. Choose Teams if your company already pays for Microsoft 365 or lives in meetings. Choose Huddl if chat should cost nothing per person and sit with the rest of the business.

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Head to head

Orbiz Huddl against Microsoft Teams, row by row

Read from Microsoft Teams's own product and pricing pages. One row is one Orbiz loses; it is left in.

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Capability comparison of Orbiz Huddl and Microsoft Teams
	Orbiz Huddl	Microsoft Teams
How it is priced	One flat price per organisation, unlimited members, all ten tools	Teams Essentials: $4.00 per user a month, paid yearly.
No per-user charge	Yes	No
Channels, threads and direct messages	Yes	Yes
Guest access to chosen channels¹	Yes	Yes
Several workspaces per organisation, each with its own channels²	Yes	Partly
Search across every conversation you belong to	Yes	Yes
Files shared in a conversation with previews	Yes	Yes
Per-channel notification level and do-not-disturb	Yes	Yes
Chat next to hiring, time, projects, files and payroll on one login	Yes	No
Online meetings for up to 300 people	No	Yes
Outlook, Word, Excel and SharePoint in the same subscription³	No	Partly
Cloud storage per user included with chat⁴	Partly	Yes
Connector for Claude and ChatGPT⁵	Yes	Partly

¹Teams Essentials lists unlimited chat including guest access.
²Teams has teams within one tenant rather than separate workspaces.
³In the Microsoft 365 Business plans, not in Teams Essentials alone.
⁴Teams Essentials includes 10 GB per user. Orbiz Filespace storage is set by per-member quotas an admin chooses.
⁵Microsoft’s assistant in Teams is Copilot, and ChatGPT can be added inside Teams; a connector that reads Teams from Claude or ChatGPT was not found on the vendors’ pages read 2026-10-09.

Vendor prices are US list prices in USD as published on each vendor's own pricing page on 9 October 2026, annual billing where the vendor offers it, without first-year promotions. Each product name links to that page. Vendors change prices; if a figure here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it. Orbiz prices are on the pricing page, one flat figure per organisation by headcount band.

In their own words

What each one is good at

Orbiz Huddl

Public and private channels, group and one-to-one direct messages
Threads, reactions, pins, saved messages and mentions that notify
External guests invited by email, limited to the huddls and channels you choose
Drag-and-drop files with previews, and search across every conversation

Everything Huddl does

Microsoft Teams

Unlimited chat with channels, threads and guest access
Online meetings with up to 300 participants for up to 30 hours
10 GB of cloud storage per user on Essentials
A Bookings app for scheduling meetings
Phone and video calling, with Microsoft 365 apps in the bundled plans
Apps and connectors from the Teams app store

From Microsoft Teams's own pages. Best for: Organisations already on Microsoft 365, or that want meetings and chat from one vendor.

FAQ

Orbiz vs Microsoft Teams: what people ask

Is Orbiz cheaper than Microsoft Teams?

Teams Essentials is $4 per user a month paid yearly — $960 a year for 20 people, for chat and meetings only. Orbiz is one flat price per organisation: $2,388 a year for up to 25 people on annual billing, with Huddl and the other nine tools included for every member.

Can Huddl run meetings like Teams?

No. Huddl is chat, threads, files and search in this release; there are no audio or video meetings yet. A company that lives in scheduled meetings should keep Teams or another meeting tool beside it.

We already have Microsoft 365. Why would we add Huddl?

For the chat that belongs with the work: a channel per client or project next to the board, the timesheet and the files, with guests who see only that channel. Many teams keep Teams for meetings and move the day-to-day conversation to where the work is.

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