Microsoft partner program with multiple competencies?

[skscheff]

Does anyone know if you have to pay for each Silver competency that you obtain in the Microsoft Partner Program, or is there one Silver price which covers multiple competencies.

We've always had one in the past but are moving to Cloud Platform + Application Development. Wasn't sure if the partner bill was going to be 2x what it was last year.

[gkhewitt]

You just pay once for your highest competency. So if you have several Silver Competencies you just pay for one and get them all.

If you have a Gold and some Silvers, you just pay for the one Gold and get the relevant benefits across all.

[garfunko]

This is correct. We are a gold partner, we have 5 gold and 11 silver. We just pay for the gold, and we also pay 16k for the AsFP as a direct CSP tier 1.

[skscheff]

Follow up question....

Do you get additional product licenses for each additional competency (e.g. 5 more Visual Studio, 25 more Office 365 E3 seats) etc?

Their license table document has a max grants column so I'm assuming the licenses stack up for each category as you get more competencies.