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Compare the offerings Microsoft provides to partners of all sizes, business types, and stages of growth—and learn how you can deliver the solutions customers are searching for.
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Discover offerings purpose-built for your growth

Read the descriptions below to learn more about our offerings for partners. Then, explore the corresponding tabs to find the right offerings for your business.

Start with essential benefits packages

Whether you're just starting out or want to expand your resources, you can purchase partner benefits packages to unlock product, support, and advisory benefits designed to help you strengthen your business with Microsoft.

Build high-performing software solutions

Depending on your needs and goals, you can explore offerings available to help you build, sell, and extend your software solutions at any stage of business growth.

Stand out with differentiation opportunities

As a Microsoft partner, you can pursue opportunities to distinguish yourself from the competition by demonstrating your organization's breadth of capabilities on the Microsoft Cloud and in solution areas.

Explore partner benefits packages

Partner benefits packages provide you with the resources you need to build your cloud and AI practice, and they're available for purchase by all partners.

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With partner benefits packages, you can: 

  • Scale your business with cost-saving offerings.
  • Strengthen your solutions for customers while building your cloud and AI practice.
  • Increase productivity, enhance collaboration, and gain data insights with Copilot (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise).*
  • Deepen your partnership with Microsoft and drive long-term profitability.

Explore the options below to learn how partner benefits packages can provide the resources you need to foster long-term business growth.

Explore partner benefits packages

Partner benefits packages provide you with the resources you need to build your cloud and AI practice, and they're available for purchase by all partners.

With partner benefits packages, you can: 

  • Scale your business with cost-saving offerings.
  • Strengthen your solutions for customers while building your cloud and AI practice.
  • Increase productivity, enhance collaboration, and gain data insights with Copilot (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise).*
  • Deepen your partnership with Microsoft and drive long-term profitability.

Explore the options below to learn how partner benefits packages can provide the resources you need to foster long-term business growth.

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Partner Launch Benefits

Partner Launch Benefits are designed to help you build high-performing solutions and kick-start your business growth. Benefits include:

  • Up to 5 users across 9 software products
  • USD 700 of Azure credits

Retail value:** USD 13,792

USD 345

Your organization's Partner Admin can purchase your package in Partner Center today.
Partner Success Core Benefits

Partner Success Core Benefits are designed to help you create, build, and expand a strong AI and cloud practice. Benefits include:

  • Up to 25 users across​ 20 software products
  • USD 2,400 of Azure credits
  • Technical presales and deployment hours
  • 5 technical support and consultation hours
  • 2 cloud support incidents

Retail value:** USD 62,086+

USD 895

Your organization's Partner Admin can purchase your package in Partner Center today.
Partner Success Expanded Benefits

Partner Success Expanded Benefits are designed to help you scale your reach further and deepen your partnership with Microsoft. Benefits include:

  • Up to 35 users across​ 38 software products
  • USD 4,000 of Azure credits
  • Unlimited technical presales and deployment hours
  • 10 technical support and consultation hours
  • 5 cloud support incidents

Retail value:** USD 390,864+

USD 3,995

Your organization's Partner Admin can purchase your package in Partner Center today.

Tap into offerings purpose-built for delivering software solutions

Through our offerings, you can access limitless innovation opportunities on the Microsoft Cloud and deliver AI-powered software solutions to customers everywhere.

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Our offerings for software solutions can help you: 

  • Accelerate innovation and growth with access to tools, technical benefits, and essential business guidance.
  • Ideate, build, grow, and scale well-architected software solutions.
  • Harness the power of the Microsoft Cloud and our AI technology to speed up app development and exceed customer expectations with high-quality and secure software solutions.

Explore our offerings to determine which benefits best fit your business needs, size, and stage of growth.

Tap into offerings purpose-built for delivering software solutions

Through our offerings, you can access limitless innovation opportunities on the Microsoft Cloud and deliver AI-powered software solutions to customers everywhere.

Our offerings for software solutions can help you: 

  • Accelerate innovation and growth with access to tools, technical benefits, and essential business guidance.
  • Ideate, build, grow, and scale well-architected software solutions.
  • Harness the power of the Microsoft Cloud and our AI technology to speed up app development and exceed customer expectations with high-quality and secure software solutions.

Explore our offerings to determine which benefits best fit your business needs, size, and stage of growth.

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Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub

Get the tools, network, and essential business guidance you can use to ideate, develop, grow, and scale the software solutions customers are searching for. Joining Founders Hub gives you access to:

  • Cutting-edge AI tools, including free access to leading AI models through Azure, such as OpenAI GPT-4, Llama 2 from Meta, and more
  • Up to USD 150,000 in Azure credits
  • Up to USD 2,500 in OpenAI credits
  • Unlimited 1:1 meetings with experts for technical guidance
  • 30+ additional free and discounted tools, tech, and services from Microsoft and our partners

Founders Hub is free to join for eligible applicants.

Free
ISV Success Core Package

Access powerful developer tools and cloud credits to help facilitate your business growth. With the ISV Success Core Package, you can access:

  • USD 5,000 in Azure benefits
  • 3 technical consultation hours
  • Microsoft Azure (Retail value:** USD 5,000)
  • GitHub Enterprise Cloud subscription (Retail value:** USD 5,040)
  • Visual Studio Enterprise subscription (Retail value:** USD 75,000)
  • Azure Standard Support plan (Retail value:** USD 1,200)
  • Dynamics 365 Sales, Field Service and Customer Service Partner Sandbox (Retail value:** USD 40,500)
  • Microsoft 365 E5 developer subscription

ISV Success is free for 12 months with no commitment to renew.

Total retail value:** USD 126,000 (USD 121,000 after the first year)

Year one: Free
Year two onward: USD 1,500
ISV Success Expanded Package

If your business would benefit from expanded benefits, multi-year investments, AI, and a simplified journey, the ISV Success Expanded Package is available to help you access:

  • USD 25,000 in Azure benefits
  • Up to 50 technical consultation hours
  • Microsoft Azure (Retail value:** USD 5,000)
  • GitHub Enterprise Cloud subscription (Retail value:** USD 5,040)
  • Visual Studio Enterprise subscription (Retail value:** USD 75,000)
  • Azure Standard Support plan (Retail value:** USD 1,200)
  • Dynamics 365 Sales, Field Service and Customer Service Partner Sandbox (Retail value:** USD 40,500)
  • Microsoft 365 E5 developer subscription

ISV Success is free for 12 months with no commitment to renew.

Total retail value:** USD 146,000 (USD 141,000 after the first year)

Year one: Free
Year two onward: USD 4,000

Stand out from the competition

Whether you're differentiating your organization or a software solution, as a Microsoft partner, you can tap into opportunities to showcase your capabilities.

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Becoming a Solutions Partner unlocks benefits that help customers confidently choose your organization or solution to meet their specific needs. As a Solutions Partner, you can:

  • Distinguish yourself from the competition with exclusive badging.
  • Demonstrate your organization's or solution's proven capabilities to customers.
  • Unlock benefits that support business development, increase customer reach, and expand your technical skilling, enablement, and support.

Check your partner capability score in Partner Center to track your progress toward attaining a Solutions Partner designation. After you've become a Solutions Partner, you may seek opportunities to further differentiate your capabilities with specializations or as an Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP).

Stand out from the competition

Whether you're differentiating your organization or a software solution, as a Microsoft partner, you can tap into opportunities to showcase your capabilities.

Becoming a Solutions Partner unlocks benefits that help customers confidently choose your organization or solution to meet their specific needs. As a Solutions Partner, you can:

  • Distinguish yourself from the competition with exclusive badging.
  • Demonstrate your organization's or solution's proven capabilities to customers.
  • Unlock benefits that support business development, increase customer reach, and expand your technical skilling, enablement, and support.

Check your partner capability score in Partner Center to track your progress toward attaining a Solutions Partner designation. After you've become a Solutions Partner, you may seek opportunities to further differentiate your capabilities with specializations or as an Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP).

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Solutions Partner with certified software and Price varies

Becoming a Solutions Partner† with certified software‡ signifies that your solution meets technical criteria for interoperability with the Microsoft Cloud and demonstrates a proven track record of customer success. Unlock go-to-market, sales, and marketing benefits designed to help propel your growth and fuel greater demand for your solutions, including:

  • Dedicated engagement manager
  • Customer-facing badging
  • Microsoft solution play cards
  • Nurture assets, emails, and call scripts
  • Customer-facing solution briefs

Price varies§
Solutions Partner designations

Stand out from the competition by attaining a Solutions Partner designation. Solutions Partner designations are aligned to solution areas with high market demand and offer exclusive badging to help customers identify your organization's capabilities. With a Solutions Partner designation, you can unlock benefits such as:

  • Partner go-to-market toolbox
  • How to Market with Microsoft consultation
  • Profile optimization and referral management
  • Digital Marketing Content OnDemand
  • Ready-to-go marketing assets (Partner Marketing Center)
  • Geo Expansion Readiness Assessment
  • Technical presales and deployment services, including 50 advisory hours and unlimited assistance with technical prep and deal enablement
  • Unlimited cloud support incidents
  • 20 Microsoft Product Support (on-premises) incidents

 

For more details about Solutions Partner designations, please refer to the partner benefits guide. And to check your progress toward attaining a Solutions Partner designation, you can review your partner capability score in Partner Center.

USD 4,730

Earn a specialization

Distinguish your deep technical expertise and further validate your capability to deliver specialized services aligned to a solution area by meeting the requirements to earn a specialization.
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Become an Azure Expert MSP

By earning multiple designations and becoming an Azure Expert MSP, you can demonstrate your organization's deep knowledge in providing managed services across the end-to-end lifecycle for Azure.
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Discover the benefits of being a partner

Explore the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program benefits guide to learn more about the benefits we offer partners, how they can help you prepare for success, and how you can qualify.
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*Copilot (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise) is available at no additional cost for most Microsoft 365 and Office 365 work and school licenses.

**Retail value is based on Microsoft list pricing and reflects the potential fees for access to Microsoft software and services.

+Represents areas with additional value potential where Microsoft pricing cannot be reliably measured (e.g., unlimited presales support services).

†"Solutions Partner" refers to a company that is a member of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program and may offer software, services, and/or solutions to customers. Reference to "Solutions Partner" in any content, materials, resources, web properties, etc. and any associated designation should be not interpreted as an offer, endorsement, guarantee, proof of effectiveness or functionality, a commitment or any other type of representation or warranty on the part of Microsoft. All decisions pertaining and related to your business needs including but not limited to strategies, solutions, partner selection, implementation, etc., rests solely with your business.

‡A certification is (1) specific to the solution's interoperability with Microsoft products and (2) based on self-attestation by the solution owner. Solutions are only certified as of the date the solution is reviewed. Solution functionality and capability are controlled by the solution owner and may be subject to change. The inclusion of a solution in marketplace and any such designations should not be interpreted as an offer, endorsement, guarantee, proof of effectiveness or functionality, a commitment or any other type of representation or warranty on the part of Microsoft. All decisions pertaining and related to your business needs including but not limited to strategies, solutions, partner selection, implementation, etc., rests solely with your business.

§Fees may apply in order to process technical validations and customer evidence reviews, assessed by a third party auditor. These fees will vary according to various factors such as the type or number of designations applied for and depth of review required.

Benefits Comparison

Partner Benefits Comparison Tool

Whether you're considering purchasing a single benefit offering or stacking your benefits across offerings, use this tool to compare which cloud, marketing, on prem and technical benefits would be included based on your selections. Benefits are stackable and additive except where otherwise indicated. Using Options 1 and 2 below, select different sets of benefit kits to compare which benefits you'd receive on enrollment in your selected offerings.

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