How much does UCaaS cost for 50 employees?

UCaaS is sold per user per month, so the subscription is the rate times 50, and the year is that figure times twelve. Atlantech's UCaaS pricing shows a Business Line starting at $12 and a Premium Line starting at $18. Nextiva's pricing page shows its Core plan at $15 and its Engage plan at $25. Each row below puts all 50 users on one plan at the published rate.

Atlantech labels both of its prices "Starting At" and offers a consultation and pricing call to arrive at a quote. The $600 and $900 figures hold if your quote comes in at the starting rate.

Nextiva's rates carry conditions the page spells out. They're annual small-business pricing for new customers with 1 to 100 employees who sign a paid agreement of 12 months or longer. A 50-person company fits the size range. The term is the condition to weigh, because the rate comes with a minimum agreement of 12 months. That's the length of the commitment. How often you're billed during it is a separate detail for the order form.

The four prices don't buy the same thing. Atlantech's Business Line card lists calling features, such as call forwarding, transfer, hunt groups and call park, with a voice trunk for unlimited local calling and unlimited domestic long-distance. Its Premium Line card lists voicemail, conferencing, collaboration and a softphone.

Nextiva's Core card lists inbound and outbound voice, business SMS, video meetings, screen and file sharing, call routing, team chat and a mobile app. Engage adds customer-to-team SMS, a toll-free number with minutes and advanced reporting.

That changes which row you look at. A team that wants conferencing, collaboration and a softphone is pricing Atlantech's Premium Line at $900 a month. A team that mainly needs phones that ring, transfer and reach an outside line is pricing the Business Line at $600. Nextiva's $750 and $1,250 rows bundle a different mix, so check each plan against your own list before you compare totals. Start from the features a small business uses most, because they tell you which row is yours.

On plans priced per user, like these four, you pay for each person who has a line. Fifty employees cost 50 licenses only if every one of them needs a line. Suppose 44 of your 50 people need a line. At $18 per user, that's $792 a month in place of $900.

The count can also go up. A phone in a conference room or at a front desk isn't a person, but it can still need a line. How a provider charges for shared phones is a question for the quote. So is whether one account can put some users on a cheaper line and others on a fuller one. Settle both before you build a budget on them.

A company that already pays for Teams can add calling to it. That's a different purchase from a new UCaaS subscription. Microsoft lists Teams Phone with a domestic Calling Plan at $17 per user per month, paid yearly. Suppose none of the company's existing licenses already include the phone system. Fifty users at that rate come to $850 a month, or $10,200 for the year at Microsoft's paid-yearly price, on top of the Teams licenses it already has. Microsoft also sells Teams Phone Standard at $10 per user per month, paid yearly, for companies that buy their outside calling from a separate carrier. What Teams Phone costs depends on which of those routes you take.

Phones are the first one-time item to check, because you may not need to buy any. A softphone runs on a computer or a mobile phone the employee already has. Atlantech's business phone service lists three ways to take calls. You can use a headset on a computer or mobile device, handsets from Atlantech, or your own phones if they work with its voice switch. Fifty new desk handsets would be a separate purchase unless the quote includes them, so check whether your current phones will work before you price new ones.

Nextiva's comparison grid marks CRM integrations as an add-on on every plan, and its footnote says some features involve extra setup, licensing or usage fees. Have any add-on you need priced in the quote, along with taxes and regulatory fees.

Fifty people on calls and video share the office's internet connection, and the bandwidth that takes can mean a faster circuit or better switches.

So the first-year cost is the twelve-month subscription plus whatever add-ons, usage fees, one-time items and taxes the quote adds. Ask each provider for a twelve-month total for your user count, and for the list of services that total covers. Two totals can be compared once those lists match.