Microsoft 365 Premium Bundles Office And Ai For The Same Price As Chatgpt Plus

When Microsoft first launched its Copilot Pro plan past twelvemonth and wanted an other $20 a period connected apical of a Microsoft 365 Family aliases Personal subscription to get AI-powered Office features, it seemed for illustration a gangly ask. After bundling Office AI features into Microsoft 365 subscriptions earlier this year, Microsoft is now taking nan adjacent measurement of merging Copilot Pro and Microsoft 365 into a caller Microsoft 365 Premium subscription.

“It’s really going to beryllium our astir powerful AI and productivity subscription for immoderate individual,” says Gareth Oystryk, elder head of trading for Copilot Pro and Microsoft 365, successful an question and reply with The Verge. “It brings together our trusted postulation of productivity apps pinch Copilot built-in, on pinch our highest Copilot usage limits and exclusive features.”

Microsoft 365 Premium will beryllium priced astatine $19.99 per month, nan aforesaid value arsenic OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus subscription, and will see Microsoft’s highest usage limits successful features for illustration GPT-4o image procreation and voice, arsenic good arsenic Copilot Podcasts, Deep Research, Vision, and Actions. It will besides see each of nan Microsoft 365 Family benefits, pinch entree to Office desktop apps for six people, 1TB of retention per person, and more.

“We created this subscription really for immoderate solopreneur, professional, aliases precocious achiever looking to tackle nan astir demanding productivity tasks pinch AI astatine their side,” Oystryk says. “When you look astatine nan worth you get pinch this scheme astatine this value point, and you stack that against nan competition, you’re going to find that nan worth is beautiful undeniable.”

That title is intelligibly ChatGPT Plus. OpenAI markets ChatGPT Plus arsenic a productivity subscription, pinch extended entree to GPT-5 and higher limits connected messaging, record uploads, information analysis, and image generation. Microsoft 365 Premium has nan added use of entree to Office desktop apps pinch Copilot features built consecutive into them, arsenic good arsenic 1TB of unreality retention per person.

As Sumit Chauhan, firm vice president of Microsoft’s Office Product Group, told maine earlier this week: “Productivity is our DNA, we’re Office. While others will effort to replicate us, location is nary substitute for nan existent thing.”

Microsoft is besides opening up entree to its Researcher and Analyst reasoning agents to Microsoft 365 Premium, and they’ll some beryllium disposable successful Word, PowerPoint, and Excel apps soon.

Perhaps nan astir intriguing portion of Microsoft’s 365 Premium motorboat is really it and Microsoft’s existing Family and Personal subscriptions will now let consumers to alteration Microsoft’s AI features successful their Office apps astatine work. “We person seen a batch of employees, each complete nan place, bringing their ain AI to work,” Oystryk says. “With Microsoft 365 Premium, on pinch Personal and Family, you tin really bring Copilot to activity pinch you.”

Microsoft will now ray up nan Microsoft 365 Copilot features your workplace would usually person to salary a subscription for if you person your ain Microsoft 365 Premium, Family, aliases Personal account. All you person to do is motion into your activity type of Office pinch your individual Microsoft account, and it will alteration nan AI features wrong your activity Office apps.

It fundamentally enables nan Microsoft 365 Copilot license, while maintaining each nan accustomed security, compliance, and endeavor information protection features to guarantee firm information isn’t shared pinch your individual Microsoft account. “This capacity useful pinch Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook connected Windows PCs, Mac, iPad, and more,” Oystryk says. “It doesn’t activity connected nan web… but successful nan apps that astir group usage you tin motion successful and use that capability.” IT admins will beryllium capable to alteration aliases disable nan sign-in functionality, too.

Unfortunately, Microsoft is still limiting nan expertise to unlock AI features successful Office astatine activity aliases astatine location to nan main relationship holder for Microsoft 365 Family aliases Premium subscriptions. “We decidedly person feedback from our customers to connection immoderate benignant of sharing, truthful we are evaluating immoderate options there,” Oystryk says.

Existing Personal and Family subscribers will besides get GPT-4o image procreation and sound access, pinch higher usage limits than nan free Copilot tier. Copilot Chat, which was antecedently only disposable for Microsoft 365 commercialized customers, is besides coming to each user subscriptions.

All of these changes efficaciously mean nan extremity of Copilot Pro, which remained successful spot for powerfulness users to get privilege entree to nan latest AI models and higher usage limits aft Microsoft bundled Office AI features pinch Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions earlier this year.

“Copilot Pro is not wholly going away, but we will extremity trading it,” Oystryk admits. “We’re not automatically opting-in Copilot Pro subscribers to Microsoft 365 Premium. We person nary timing yet of if and erstwhile we’ll discontinue it.”