Microsoft is rolling out a new subscription tier called Microsoft 365 Premium, which bundles together the tools of Microsoft 365 with the AI capabilities of Copilot Pro. Until now, these services were separate, priced at $12.99/month for Microsoft 365 and $19.99/month for Copilot Pro.
With Microsoft 365 Premium, subscribers get both packages—and more—for $19.99 per month. The plan delivers the familiar Office suite alongside advanced Copilot features, higher usage limits, and early access to experimental AI tools.
Yusef Mehdi, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President, explained:
“Microsoft 365 Premium combines everything in our Microsoft 365 Family and Copilot Pro subscriptions—and then some—for just $19.99 per month, bringing together the productivity apps you know and trust with our most advanced AI features and our highest usage limits available today. This new subscription was built specifically for anyone tackling the most demanding productivity tasks, from deep research to high-stakes presentations.”
What’s Included in Microsoft 365 Premium
- Core Office apps with Copilot built in: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook.
- Researcher and Analyst agents: advanced reasoning tools already available in the Microsoft 365 Copilot desktop app, soon expanding to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Early access features: Office Agent and Agent Mode, which can transform a single prompt into a polished document, spreadsheet, or presentation.
- Highest usage limits: expanded access for AI-powered features like image generation (4o), Podcasts, Deep Research, Vision, Actions, and the upcoming Voice option.
- Photos Agent (coming soon): an AI assistant for organizing and working with images.
- 1TB of secure cloud storage per person.
- Microsoft Defender advanced security.
Alongside the new subscription, Microsoft is also rolling out updated icons for Word, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, and other Office apps. These refreshed designs adopt a rounder, modern look and will gradually appear for all Microsoft 365 users in the coming weeks.
