Microsoft prices new Copilots for individuals and small biz vastly higher than M365 alone

Microsoft 365 costs USD $70 a year. If you want to add Copilot to that, you’ll be paying USD $20 — a month. So that’s four times as much for Copilot as for Microsoft 365, per The Register:

The service will also provide “A single AI experience that runs across your devices, understanding your context on the web, on your PC, across your apps and soon on your phone to bring the right skills to you when you need them.”

Subscribers to M365 Personal or Family can access the Pro service – for $20/month/user.

M365 Personal costs $69.99 a year or $6.99 a month, and M365 costs $99.99 a year or $9.99 a month for six users. Copilot Pro is therefore priced at a considerable premium.

Is Copilot worth the premium? That depends on whether purchasers can get any productivity benefits – and that’s something few users are across…

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