A finished intranet you buy once, inside the SharePoint you already pay for
Most organisations already own SharePoint. Turning it into an intranet people actually use usually means a subscription that grows with every new starter, or a build project that never quite ends. Atrium is a third way.
The problem: SharePoint is the right place, but not a finished intranet
Out of the box you get a few page layouts and basic web parts. Making it look like your organisation takes design skills most teams don’t have.
Request forms and approvals, an IT and HR helpdesk, mandatory training: each usually means another product, another login and another bill.
Intranet products are mostly priced per user, per year. The bill rises with headcount and never stops.
A custom build means months of agency time and a codebase only the agency understands.
Three ways to fix it
1. Commission a custom build
You get exactly what you specify, at project prices. Industry guides put a custom SharePoint Framework build at £50,000 to £150,000 or more before the first change request, and every later change is billed again.
2. Subscribe to an intranet product
Fast and polished, but you rent it. Prices are usually per user or by headcount band, renewed every year, often only available by quote. Some run as a platform outside your Microsoft 365 tenant, which adds a security review.
3. Buy Atrium once
Ready-made templates, web parts and business apps that install into your own SharePoint as an ordinary app package. One payment per tenant, as many sites and people as you like.
- Price
- Templates from £1,200, web parts from £95, everything for £12,230. Plus VAT, once.
- Licence
- Perpetual, one Microsoft 365 tenant, unlimited sites and users
- Where it runs
- Inside your tenant, as the signed-in person. Content lives in SharePoint lists on your site
- Permissions
- No Azure, no app registration, no API permissions (one optional Mail.Send for emails in the business apps)
- Set-up
- Upload, add to a site, press Set it up. An afternoon, not a project
Atrium compared with the alternatives
Published list prices only, each with its source, checked on 9 November 2026. Where a vendor publishes no price, we say so rather than guess. Prices change, so check with each vendor before you buy.
| Atrium | ShortPoint | Origami Connect | Fresh (Advania) | intranet.ai | Custom build | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Once | Every year | Once, optional yearly renewal for updates | Every year, plus implementation | Every year | Per project, then per change |
| Published starting price | £1,200 for a template | $1,998 a year (one site) | $17,500 | £10,000+ a year licence, £2,000+ a year support, £20,000 implementation | €3,950 a year (under 300 users) | £50,000 to £150,000+ |
| Priced by | Tenant | Site and designer | Tenant | Number of users | Company size | Effort |
| Source | Our terms | Pricing page | Capterra listing | G-Cloud 15 | Pricing page | Collab365 |
Powell Intranet publishes no prices: it quotes in tiers that start above 1,000 users. Prices are as published, without VAT, in the vendor’s own currency.
What three years costs
Intranets usually live for three years or more, so compare over three. Using only the published prices above:
| Option | Three years at published prices |
|---|---|
| Atrium, one template | £1,200 + VAT |
| Atrium, all eight templates and all four business apps | £12,230 + VAT |
| ShortPoint Lite / Pro | $5,994 / $11,994 |
| intranet.ai Business (under 300 users) | From €11,850 |
| Origami Connect | From $17,500, plus any renewals for updates |
| Fresh | From £56,000 (licence, support and implementation) |
| Custom build | £50,000 to £150,000+, plus changes |
These are starting prices; your quote will depend on users, sites and options. Atrium includes 12 months of updates and email support; after that it keeps working, and you choose whether to buy newer versions.
What you get with Atrium
- Eight finished intranet templates, from a company home page to an onboarding hub, set up with starter content in about a minute
- 31 web parts that sit alongside Microsoft’s own on any modern page
- Form Builder & Approvals, Helpdesk, Learn and Zip & Unzip: the everyday business apps, inside SharePoint
- Your content in your SharePoint lists, under your permissions, retention and backups. Atrium sends none of it to us
- Nothing to host and no new platform to learn: it’s SharePoint, made finished
When Atrium isn’t the right choice
We would rather you buy the right thing. Look elsewhere if you need:
- A fully managed service where the vendor runs your intranet for you
- A branded mobile app of your own (Atrium works in the SharePoint and Teams apps)
- Round-the-clock support with contractual response times
- A drag-and-drop designer for building pages from scratch rather than starting from finished templates
Sources
- ShortPoint pricing
Lite $1,998 a year (one site), Pro $3,998 a year (unlimited sites), one designer included, viewers free. Pages stay visible after the licence ends; renewing is needed to keep editing. Checked 9 November 2026.
- Origami Connect on Capterra
Starting price $17,500, flat rate, one time. Checked 9 November 2026.
- Origami Connect on Software Advice
One-time perpetual licence, unlimited users per tenant, optional annual renewal for updates and support. Checked 9 November 2026.
- Fresh (Advania) G-Cloud 15 pricing document
Licence £10,000+ a year depending on users; support £2,000+ a year; implementation £20,000 one-off. Checked 9 November 2026.
- intranet.ai pricing
Business plan (under 300 users) from €3,950 a year; larger plans by quote; billed annually. Checked 9 November 2026.
- Powell Intranet pricing
Quote only, in tiers that start above 1,000 users. Checked 9 November 2026.
- Collab365: SharePoint intranet templates in 2026
Custom SPFx build: £50,000 to £150,000+ up front. Checked 9 November 2026.
- ClearBox: choosing intranet software on a budget
Uses three years as a realistic intranet lifecycle when comparing subscription and one-off prices. Checked 9 November 2026.
ShortPoint, Origami, Fresh, Advania, intranet.ai, Powell, SharePoint and Microsoft 365 are trademarks of their owners. Figures are taken from the public sources listed and may have changed. If anything here is out of date, email info@cloudlymove.com and we will correct it.
Want it set up for you?
Our Microsoft 365 consultants can brand, install and launch Atrium on your tenant in days. Or buy the packages and do it yourself in an afternoon: templates from £1,200, web parts from £95, plus VAT.