MigrationWiz, ShareGate, Quest, and Accred Migrate compared

At a glance

How the pricing models differ

• MigrationWiz prices per user or per object. The Tenant Migration Bundle has no data limit except Teams and shared-document migration, which are each capped at 100 GB. Most licenses are valid for 12 months.
• ShareGate charges a yearly price by the number of activations, with as much data as you want. Essentials covers file shares, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams; mailboxes and Entra ID need Pro. Partners can get pricing through the ShareGate Partner Program.
• Quest’s user guide says it licenses by the number of unique source accounts a migration task processes, and that shared, resource, and group mailboxes do not consume a license.
• Microsoft requires a Cross Tenant User Data Migration license for each migrated user, bought once and assigned to the source or target user; migrations fail without it. Cross-tenant SharePoint licenses are sold per 100 GB to Enterprise Agreement customers.
• Accred Migrate charges per migrated object, once per object, with no seats: every member of the organization can open it. Teams chats are included with the user’s mailbox license. Scans, prechecks, and validation never use a license, and reruns, retries, and incremental passes reuse the same one. Buy licenses by card in Hub, up to 500 per purchase; above that, or to pay by invoice, request a quote in Hub.

What Microsoft’s native tools leave out

• Cross-tenant mailbox migration moves user-visible mailbox content and blocks mailboxes on hold; it does not move Microsoft 365 Groups or Teams chat folder content.
• Cross-tenant OneDrive and SharePoint moves cannot run incremental or delta passes.
• The migration orchestrator moves content, not identities, and does not move Teams channels or SharePoint sites.
• Microsoft Learn describes no partner console, wave planner, or multi-client workspace: each move is run by a tenant administrator.

Where Accred is stronger

• Every client, tenant, wave, and workload in one workspace; Microsoft’s tools run one tenant at a time from PowerShell.
• A public support matrix marks each item as tested live between Accred test tenants or tested with recorded data.
• Scans, prechecks, and validation never use a license; reruns, retries, and incremental passes reuse it.
• One price for every object type: $5, paid once.
• No seats: everyone in your Accred organization can open it, with a role from their Hub role.

Which to choose

• Choose MigrationWiz when you want SaaS with published per-user pricing and broad workload coverage.
• Choose ShareGate when one organization runs many SharePoint and Teams moves and a flat yearly price is cheaper than per-user licensing.
• Choose Quest when you want SaaS migration priced by quote for your project.
• Choose Microsoft’s native tools for straightforward mailbox and OneDrive moves when your team is comfortable with PowerShell.
• Consider Accred Migrate when you run migrations for many clients and want each one organized by client, tenant, wave, and workload, with per-object pricing. Items its support matrix does not mark as tested are not available for customer migrations, and Google Workspace, Box, and Dropbox are coming soon.

If you would rather hand the project off, Accred Consulting runs tenant-to-tenant migrations with whichever tool fits.

Questions

Sources

1. MigrationWiz pricing · BitTitan
2. ShareGate pricing · ShareGate
3. Tenant-to-tenant migration · ShareGate
4. On Demand Migration user guide (PDF) · Quest
5. Cross-tenant mailbox migration · Microsoft Learn
6. Cross-tenant OneDrive migration · Microsoft Learn
7. Cross-tenant SharePoint migration · Microsoft Learn
8. Migration orchestrator overview · Microsoft Learn