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 To see the pricing for Microsoft 365 Archive, see [Pay-as-you-go services and pricing for Microsoft Syntex](/microsoft-365/syntex/syntex-pay-as-you-go-services).
 
+## Pricing calculator
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+The Microsoft 365 Archive pricing calculator is a tool that helps you estimate the costs that you incur to archive your Microsoft 365 data.
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+> [!NOTE]
+> The tool is not intended to provide an exact prediction of your archive costs, but rather to give you an estimate based estimated usage data provided by you.
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+### Pricing calculator overview
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+The Microsoft 365 Archive pricing calculator, when calculating the potential costs and savings for using Microsoft 365 Archive, takes into consideration the following heuristics:
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+- The active tenant storage quota, measured in terabytes (TB)
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+- The active storage i.e. volume of standard storage currently in use, in terabytes (TB)
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+- The average archive storage expected to be consumed annually, in terabytes (TB)
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+- The percentage of archived content expected to be reactivated annually, in percentage (%)
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+- The annual frequency of reactivations for expected percentage reactivation, expressed as a count (number of times per year)
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+- The storage, archive and reactivation costs per gigabyte/per gigabyte per month, as applicable
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+### Using the pricing calculator
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+To use the Microsoft 365 Archive pricing calculator, you need to perform the following steps. Information about how to collect data from each of these steps is detailed later in this article.
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+1. Download the latest version of the [Microsoft 365 Archive pricing calculator tool](https://aka.ms/Microsoft365ArchiveCostCalculator).
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+2. Launch the tool and provide inputs in the cells indicated in the 'Input' column.
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+3. Observe the estimated results in the 'Results' column.
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+4. Modify the inputs in the 'Input' column if you wish to model a range of scenarios across input variables.
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+### Pricing calculator notes
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+When using the Microsoft 365 Archive pricing calculator, be aware of the following points:
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+- In the Microsoft 365 Archive pricing calculator, any Excel spreadsheet cell that is colored orange can have data entered.
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 ### Cost savings using Microsoft 365 Archive
 
 The following table helps visualize the savings you'll realize by archiving content based on the frequency and percent of all archived content you're restoring. The key takeaway is that if you are not reactivating more than 30% of your data more than twice a year, you'll achieve most of the savings offered by the product.