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Document and Entity Information - USD ($)
$ in Millions
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2024
Feb. 04, 2025
Jun. 30, 2024
Document Information [Line Items]      
Document Type 10-K    
Amendment Flag false    
Document Period End Date Dec. 31, 2024    
Document Fiscal Year Focus 2024    
Document Fiscal Period Focus FY    
Entity Registrant Name MICROSTRATEGY INCORPORATED    
Entity Central Index Key 0001050446    
Entity Current Reporting Status Yes    
Entity Voluntary Filers No    
Entity Interactive Data Current Yes    
Current Fiscal Year End Date --12-31    
Entity Filer Category Large Accelerated Filer    
ICFR Auditor Attestation Flag true    
Entity Well Known Seasoned Issuer Yes    
Entity Public Float     $ 23,499
Entity Shell Company false    
Entity Small Business false    
Entity Emerging Growth Company false    
Entity File Number 001-42509    
Entity Incorporation, State or Country Code DE    
Entity Tax Identification Number 51-0323571    
Entity Address, Address Line One 1850 Towers Crescent Plaza    
Entity Address, City or Town Tysons Corner    
Entity Address, State or Province VA    
Entity Address, Postal Zip Code 22182    
City Area Code 703    
Local Phone Number 848-8600    
Document Annual Report true    
Document Transition Report false    
Document Financial Statement Error Correction [Flag] false    
Documents Incorporated by Reference Portions of the definitive proxy statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Registrant to be filed subsequently with the SEC are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K to the extent indicated herein.    
Auditor Firm ID 185    
Auditor Name KPMG LLP    
Auditor Location McLean, Virginia    
Auditor Opinion [Text Block]

Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

We have audited MicroStrategy Incorporated and subsidiaries' (the Company) internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. In our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive (loss) income, stockholders’ equity (deficit), and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes and the financial statement schedule, Schedule II, Valuation and Qualifying Accounts (collectively, the consolidated financial statements), and our report dated February 18, 2025 expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements.

    
Class A      
Document Information [Line Items]      
Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding   237,711,607  
Title of 12(b) Security Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share    
Trading Symbol MSTR    
Security Exchange Name NASDAQ    
Class B Convertible      
Document Information [Line Items]      
Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding   19,640,250  
8.00% Series A Perpetual Strike Preferred Stock      
Document Information [Line Items]      
Title of 12(b) Security 8.00% Series A Perpetual Strike Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share    
Trading Symbol STRK    
Security Exchange Name NASDAQ