Proofpoint Essentials Plan Comparison
Choose the protection your team needs: incoming and outgoing filtering, attachment sandboxing and encryption, or a searchable email archive.
Compare the features below. Plus plans add response controls, with some features requiring a supported Microsoft 365 integration.
Choosing between Advanced+ and Professional? Advanced+ adds warning tags and response controls. Professional adds archiving to Advanced. Professional+ combines both. Choose the features your team needs rather than relying on the plan name.
Capability by Plan
A check mark means the capability is included in the plan. Some features need setup or a supported integration before use. Scroll sideways on a narrow screen.
| Capability | Business | Business+ | Advanced | Advanced+ | Professional | Professional+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core filtering | ||||||
| Inbound and outbound filtering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data loss prevention filters | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| URL Defense (links checked at click time) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Attachment Defense reputation scanning | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| End-user quarantine portal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| If your mail platform goes down | ||||||
| Emergency Inbox (browser access while the platform is down) | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days |
| Instant Replay (resend recent messages on demand) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Deeper inspection | ||||||
| Attachment sandboxing (supported files tested in isolation) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Outbound email encryption | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Social media account protection | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Plus-plan controls — these do not carry into the non-plus plans | ||||||
| Predictive URL Defense (links checked before delivery) | — | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| One-Click Message Pull (retract a delivered message) | — | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Email warning tags (banner on suspicious mail) | — | — | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Advanced business email compromise defence | — | — | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Long-term retention | ||||||
| Email archiving | — | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Training and automatic response | ||||||
| Security awareness training | Separate service; ask about availability | |||||
| Automatic post-delivery remediation (supported M365 integration required) | — | — | — | Included | — | Included |
Choosing Between Them
- Business covers the baseline: filtering both ways, DLP, click-time link checking, and a 30-day emergency inbox.
- Business+ adds manual message removal through a supported Microsoft 365 integration, helping administrators respond when a threat is found after delivery.
- Advanced adds sandboxing and outbound encryption. This is the level for anyone sending sensitive material.
- Advanced+ adds warning tags and business email compromise defence on top of that. Choose it if wire fraud or executive impersonation is a live risk for you.
- Professional adds archiving to the Advanced feature set. Note it does not carry the plus controls.
- Professional+ combines Advanced+ protection and response controls with archiving.
Not sure? Request a quote for your team with your user count and your main concern. We will help you choose a plan and provide a written price.
For MSPs and resellers: We can create a reseller account for your business, so you can manage customer organizations and their protection packages from one console. Request reseller access. Branding options depend on the account; we confirm what is supported before setup.
Microsoft 365 response features
One-Click Message Pull requires the supported Microsoft 365 integration. Automatic post-delivery remediation is available with Advanced+ and Professional+ when the required Microsoft 365 integration and configuration are enabled. These response features are not promised for Google Workspace or a standalone mail server.
Archiving is available with Professional and Professional+ and must be configured. Attachment reputation checks on Business are not full attachment sandboxing.
Email access during an outage
The Emergency Inbox above is a feature of the Proofpoint filtering layer. It is not the same as our own StrataMail Email Continuity, which provides a separately configured mailbox with IMAP/SMTP and webmail access, or our StrataMX Backup, which queues and redelivers accepted inbound mail without a user inbox. We develop and operate these services separately; their ordering and integration are independent of the Proofpoint package.
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