Project Plan 5 has been renamed “Planner and Project Plan 5,” effective September 18, 2024.

Planner and Project Plan 5

Manage and optimize your project portfolios to prioritize initiatives and drive effective resource management. Includes the Project Online desktop client and Project Online.

Planner and Project Plan 5 includes all Planner and Project Plan 3 functionality, plus:

Demand management.
Enterprise resource management.
Portfolio analysis and optimization.

For details, see service descriptions for Project for the web, Project Online, and Project Online desktop client.

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$55.00 $55.00

user/month

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Annual subscription—auto renews¹

Overview Requirements

Flexible enterprise work management with next-generation AI capabilities

Get started quickly with Planner and Project Plan 5 and have powerful project management capabilities to plan, prioritize, and manage your organization’s project and portfolio investments from almost anywhere. Includes Microsoft 365 Copilot in Planner (preview).²

Features

Microsoft 365 Copilot in Planner (preview)²

With simple, natural language prompts, you can generate and add tasks, goals, and buckets or create a complete plan. Then, use Microsoft 365 Copilot to break the work down into actionable steps and analyze progress, risks, assignments, and more.

Effectively manage resources

Get a single view of all your resources to understand capacity and availability to execute your portfolio.

Choose your view

Work on the same project with others using your preferred view—including grid, board, or timeline.

Works with Microsoft 365 apps

Leverage rich connections and achieve more with familiar apps, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint.³

Visual, interactive roadmaps

Visualize progress across projects, programs, and portfolios by connecting different projects within a single view. Choose the initiatives you want to see and add phases, milestones, and key dates.

Create reports

Gain actionable insights and information that can be communicated to stakeholders and shareholders with powerful built-in reports.

Collaborate and communicate easily

Use Planner, Project, and Microsoft Teams to collaborate on projects with file sharing, chat, meetings, and more.³

More about Planner and Project Plan 5

Device screen displaying a list of tasks in the My Tasks view in the Planner app in Teams

Simple

Manage all your tasks, to-do lists, plans and projects across Microsoft 365 apps in a single familiar experience. Seamlessly share project plans, manage tasks, chat, and meet without switching between apps.

Device screen displaying the board view for a project in the Planner app in Teams

Flexible and scalable

Create project plans effortlessly with powerful scheduling and resourcing tools that reduce inefficiencies and improve resource assignment based on dependencies. Get big picture views across initiatives and leverage a flexible low-code/no-code platform that enables you to configure, automate and extend Planner and Project for the web.

Device screen displaying a list of tasks in the Planner app in Teams with the Copilot pane open to the right

Intelligent

Access next-generation AI with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Planner (preview) and, using natural language prompts, generate new plans, set goals, track status, and react to changes as projects evolve.²

[1] Subscription prices shown are per month. If you are a global or billing administrator, an annual commitment is required to purchase online. You can choose to pay monthly or annually. Within the Microsoft 365 admin center, global and billing administrators can choose either annual or monthly commitment plans. All other non-global and billing administrators may purchase a monthly subscription online.
[2] While final pricing for Microsoft 365 Copilot in Planner has not been announced, users with a Planner and Project Plan 3 or Planner and Project Plan 5 license will be able to preview Microsoft 365 Copilot in Planner capabilities once it is rolled out to their organization.
[3] Microsoft 365 apps, such as Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, are sold separately.

Requirements

Requirements	Device compatibility
Required Processor	1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster x86- or x64-bit processor with SSE2
Required Operating System	Same as Microsoft 365, see the Microsoft 365 resources page for more information
Required Memory	1 GB RAM (32-bit); 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
Required Hard Disk Space	3 GB available disk space
Required Display	1024 x 768 resolution
Graphics	Graphics hardware acceleration requires a DirectX 10 graphics card.
Multi-touch	A touch-enabled device is required to use any multitouch functionality. However, all features and functionality are always available by using a keyboard, mouse, or other standard- or accessible-input device. Note that new touch features are optimized for use with Windows 8 or later.
Additional system requirements	Internet functionality requires an internet connection. Microsoft account required.