New Microsoft 365 Premium Plan Gives Consumers More Copilot Features for $19.99/Month

Microsoft is launching today a new Microsoft 365 Premium subscription for consumers looking to get more Copilot features without having to pay for its standalone Copilot Pro subscription. The new $19.99/month plan includes all the perks from the existing Microsoft 365 Family subscription, plus access to Copilot Chat, exclusive Copilot features, and enterprise-grade protection for using the Office apps and Copilot with Microsoft 365 work files.

“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 any individual looking to tackle the most demanding productivity tasks, from conducting deep research into a new business idea to nailing an important presentation at work,” explained Yusuf Mehdi, Executive Vice President, Consumer Chief Marketing Officer.

With Microsoft 365 Premium available at $19.99/month, Microsoft is discontinuing its standalone Copilot Pro subscription, which used to cost the same. Microsoft recommends customers switch to Microsoft 365 Premium, which includes all Microsoft 365 and Copilot Pro benefits in one single subscription.

Here’s everything included with the new Microsoft 365 Premium plan:

Office apps: Access to the Microsoft 365 desktop apps with Copilot built in for up to 6 people.

Cloud storage: Up to 6 TB of OneDrive storage (1TB per person).

Copilot Chat: The productivity assistant is accessible from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook as a sidebar, where it’s also content-aware.

Highest usage limits for Copilot: This includes GPT-4o image generation, voice, podcasts, Deep Research, Copilot Vision, and more.

Exclusive Copilot features: The Researcher and Analyst reasoning agents and the new Photos Agent are accessible from the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. On the web, Copilot Actions can make the assistant automatically perform tasks (coming soon in the EEA).

Enterprise-grade protection: This will allow subscribers to use Microsoft 365 Copilot with their work documents saved in an organization’s OneDrive or SharePoint.

While Microsoft 365 Premium provides the best of Microsoft’s AI and productivity features in a single subscription, the company will continue to offer the best-in-class Copilot experience to commercial customers paying for a Microsoft 365 Copilot license at $30 per user per month. That subscription allows Copilot Chat to access all of an organization’s work data, including emails and documents. Organizations can also create Custom Copilots with the latest models from OpenAI and Anthropic and manage the use of the assistant with Copilot Control System and Copilot Analytics.

While Microsoft 365 Premium is now the company’s flagship subscription for consumers, Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers aren’t left behind: Microsoft is raising usage limits for Copilot features like Vision, image generation, podcasts, and more. Subscribers will also be able to try experimental Copilot features in Microsoft 365 via the company’s Frontier program.

Lastly, eligible university students worldwide can now receive one year of Microsoft 365 Personal for free through October 31, 2025. Microsoft will also give the icons for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook a fresh coat of paint in the coming weeks as the apps enter a new AI era.