Applies ToMicrosoft Planner

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

Copy Plan

Yes

Yes

Export plan to Excel

Yes

Yes

See tasks in Assigned to me view

Yes

Yes1

See tasks in Microsoft To Do

Yes

Yes1 

Task limit in a plan

9000

1,0002

1,500 coming soon

Rich text notes

Yes

Yes

Task conversions 

Yes

Yes3

Viva Goals integration

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

Team’s activity notifications for tasks

Yes

Coming soon

Recurring tasks

Yes

Add plans to Loop

Yes

1Tasks 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.   

2 See Premium plan limits for Project for the web.

3Conversations require the premium plan to be added to a Teams channel.  

4 Viva Goals integration needs to be enabled. See Enable Integrations in Viva Goals for more information.

Application and Workflows 

Applications and workflows that have been built to interact with basic plans will require modification to work on premium plans. 

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