Microsoft hasn’t mentioned for a way lengthy this “restricted time” supply will final, however presumably it can solely final for a 12 months or two to assist ease the transition between the outdated pricing and the brand new pricing. New subscribers will not be provided the choice to pay for the Traditional plans.
Subscribers on the Private and Household plans cannot use Copilot indiscriminately; they get 60 AI credit per thirty days to make use of throughout all of the Workplace apps, credit that will also be used to generate pictures or textual content in Home windows apps like Designer, Paint, and Notepad. It isn’t clear how these will stack with the 15 credit that Microsoft gives totally free for apps like Designer, or the 50 credit per thirty days Microsoft is handing out for Picture Cocreator in Paint.
Those that need limitless utilization and entry to the latest AI fashions are nonetheless requested to pay $20 per thirty days for a Copilot Professional subscription.
As Microsoft notes, that is the primary value improve it has ever carried out for the private Microsoft 365 subscriptions within the US, which have stayed on the identical ranges since being launched as Workplace 365 over a decade in the past. Pricing for the enterprise plans and pricing in different nations has elevated earlier than. Pricing for Workplace Residence 2024 ($150) and Workplace Residence & Enterprise 2024 ($250), which might’t entry Copilot or different Microsoft 365 options, can be the identical because it was earlier than.
