There are two different SharePoint Online plans, with creative names of “SharePoint Online Plan 1” and “SharePoint Online Plan 2”. These are useful if you don’t need the other Office 365 services such as Exchange and Skype for Business (previously Lync).
Microsoft have a page – SharePoint Online Service Descriptions – that lists out the features available across all plans. But sometimes you just want to know what the difference is between two plans.
Here is a list of the features that you get with SharePoint Online Plan 2 but not with SharePoint Online Plan 1. You can get more details about each of these features by clicking on their name in the SharePoint Online Descriptions page
| Developer features |
| BCS: Alerts for External Lists |
| BCS: App Scoped External Content Types (ECTs) |
| BCS: Business Data Webparts |
| BCS: External List |
| BCS: OData connector |
| BCS: Secure Store Service |
| BCS: Tenant-level external data log |
| InfoPath Forms Services |
| IT Professional features |
| Data loss prevention |
| Content features |
| eDiscovery Hold |
| eDiscovery Export |
| Preservation hold library |
| Video Search |
| WCM: Catalog |
| WCM: Category page and catalog item page |
| WCM: Search web parts |
| WCM: Cross-Site publishing |
| WCM: Faceted navigation |
| Insights features |
| Business Intelligence Center |
| Calculated Measures and Members |
| Data Connection Library |
| Decoupled PivotTables and PivotCharts |
| Excel Services |
| Field list and Field Support |
| Filter Enhancements |
| Filter Search |
| Power View for Excel in SharePoint |
| Power Pivot for Excel in SharePoint |
| Quick Explore |
| Timeline Slicer |
| Visio Services |
| Search features |
| Query rules—advanced actions |
| Search vertical: “Video” |
