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The Differences Between Types of Creative Cloud Membership: CC for Teams vs. Individuals

What are the differences between the types of Creative Cloud membership? This is a question we get a lot, so here's a handy comparison guide on the major differences between Creative Cloud for Teams vs. CC for Individuals. In another article, we already covered the all the differences between Creative Cloud Student & Teacher vs. regular editions.

Creative Cloud for Teams is Adobe's volume licensing solution for businesses, studios, design shops, agencies, companies, offices, schools, and other organizations. It includes everything that CC for Individuals does, but gives you substantially more features and capabilities for managing and working with different users. It's meant for groups (such as small to midsize businesses and departments) with multiple seats using the products at the same time. For large businesses, Adobe recommends Creative Cloud for Enterprise.

Adobe continues to increase the benefits of the Teams bundle. Here are a few of the advantages the Teams plan has added since its initial launch in 2012:

All Teams plans now include Adobe Talent, powered by Behance. This means all Teams subscribers now get unlimited job postings on the world's largest creative network, a US$399/month value included at no extra cost.
Recently, all Teams plans received a storage upgrade from 100 GB previously to 1 TB included now per user, pooled across the group.
Importantly for video customers, the groundbreaking Team Projects capability comes with both an All Apps membership as well as a with Premiere Pro or After Effects single-app subscriptions.

A fast way to get a sense of all the differences is to check out Adobe's CC Plans-at-a-Glance comparison page for business – click to open for more details:

See the Creative Cloud Business Plans Comparison

Free ebook: Download the Creative Cloud for Teams Getting Started Guide.

So the Teams offering provides everything that Creative Cloud for Individuals does, which means open access to the world's best creative tools (all of the same desktop apps, services, and feature upgrades as soon as they are released) – plus unique workgroup capabilities for enhanced file sharing and collaboration (including the game-changing Team Projects shared workflow), flexible and efficient license management (for adding, removing, or reassigning users as needed), usage tracking and reporting, centralized billing, advanced 24/7 multilanguage support services (including two live one-on-one sessions with Adobe product experts per user, per year, via phone and web conference), and pooled licenses from a single shared Adobe Stock subscription.

CC for Teams: How to Easily Add or Move a New Seat

What makes Creative Cloud for Teams really different and unique: Administrators can manage it all from a simple but powerful web-based Admin Console to centrally purchase, deploy, and manage all seats within your organization. You can easily add, move, or reassign users to adapt to the way your organization does business, or even reclaim assets when people and projects change – so your Creative Cloud membership evolves as your company evolves, and your team members can even be entirely outside of your organization.

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The Admin Console is also a centralized IT deployment resource allowing you to control and customize how your users install and access both CC products and updates. You can use this exclusive portal to build your own distribution packages and provide as much platform stability as you like – and install ongoing upgrades on your own schedule, whenever you are ready. If desired, you can also block access to online Creative Cloud storage and services while users are on the corporate network.

Some other benefits of CC for Teams include: Achieving a lower cost of entry (compared to the prior perpetual model), taking advantage of predictable budgeting, volume discounts for 10 or more seats, simplifying compliance management and reporting, helping ensure usage rights with assigned seats, rigorous built-in security, and treating software purchases as an operating expense. Team users also get one extra month of offline grace period when running the CC desktop applications without an Internet connection, including when traveling remotely or internationally.

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Pricing for the Team product is $79.99/month (or €69,99/£59.00) per seat on an annual basis – either paid monthly throughout the year, or prepaid up front. That gives you everything described above. Education pricing (schools, students and teachers, classrooms, colleges and universities) is $34.99/month (or €34,99/£29.49). You can also upgrade from any number of current Creative Cloud Individual memberships to a consolidated Creative Cloud Team membership.

If you only need one application, then there's another option: CC for Teams Single App. You can choose from Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, or any one of the rest – and it includes all the same team features for admin, support, and collaboration, together with 20 GB of online storage instead of 100 GB. The regular pricing for the Teams single-tool plan is $33.99/month (or €29,99/£25.28) for the majority of CC products, except for Adobe XD which is a third less and Acrobat Pro DC at about half that price – and for education customers, the same individual tool package is $14.99/month (or €14,99/£12.64).

All these plans are available directly from Adobe, and there is no overall minimum or maximum on number of seats you can purchase for your team, group, or SMB. With CC for Teams, you can purchase from 1-250 licenses at a time, and add on more seats whenever you want. You can buy with a credit card, PayPal, or purchase order, either paid monthly or prepaid annually. As with the regular Creative Cloud, each user can choose to run their license on either the Windows or Mac operating systems, or on both platforms.

UPDATE – Sign up for Teams with at least 5 users and get the Creative Cloud Pro Edition at no extra cost! The new Pro Edition gives you everything in Teams plus unlimited downloads of over 200 million high-quality Adobe Stock assets. It's the very best plan available – learn more.

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Related: See the infographic on the advantages of subscription vs. perpetual.

So in a nutshell, Creative Cloud for Teams does everything that the standard CC edition does, but takes it to the next level for multiple people collaborating and working together smoothly, and makes it all easy to manage.

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