{"id":174609,"date":"2025-10-02T06:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T06:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174609\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T06:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T06:58:09","slug":"microsoft-365-premium-aims-to-deliver-more-ai-value-than-chatgpt-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174609\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft 365 Premium aims to deliver more AI value than ChatGPT Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Microsoft is adding another subscription plan to its already confusing list of offerings. The new Microsoft 365 Premium plan, which costs $20 a month, bundles the company&#8217;s standard Office productivity suite together with access to OpenAI&#8217;s latest models and extended AI usage limits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Microsoft positions it as a more valuable subscription than OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT Plus, which also costs $20 a month and doesn&#8217;t have the benefit of Office apps or the 1TB of OneDrive storage you get with all Microsoft 365 subscriptions. (That&#8217;s certainly an odd way to <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/microsoft-and-openai-announce-the-next-phase-of-their-partnership-035247037.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:treat a close partner;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">treat a close partner<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Thankfully, Microsoft isn&#8217;t touching the pricing of its $10-a-month MS 365 Personal plan, or the $13 monthly MS 365 Family subscription \u2014 for now, anyway. The company just announced today that it&#8217;s <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/microsoft-jacks-the-price-of-game-pass-ultimate-up-to-30-a-month-142441307.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:pushing its GamePass Ultimate subscription to $30-a-month;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pushing its GamePass Ultimate subscription to $30-a-month<\/a>, much to the chagrin of gamers everywhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">In a way, the Microsoft 365 Premium plan simplifies Microsoft&#8217;s offerings a bit. If you had one of the cheaper MS 365 plans, you&#8217;d still need to pay another $20 a month to get access to higher AI usage limits with the Copilot Pro subscription. A Microsoft representative tells us that Copilot Pro is no longer available to purchase, but existing subscribers can continue to use it without issue. Microsoft won&#8217;t be automatically moving those users over to MS 365 Premium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">According to the company, Microsoft 365 Premium will get you access to GPT-5 and 4o, as well as AI agents including &#8220;Actions, Researcher and Analyst.&#8221; That&#8217;s directly comparable to OpenAI&#8217;s plan, which uses ChatGPT Agent&#8217;s instead of Microsoft&#8217;s. MS 365 Premium users will also be able to test new AI features as they&#8217;re available, but they won&#8217;t have access to OpenAI&#8217;s custom GPTs or Sora video generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Update 10\/1\/25 3:33PM: Added details about Copilot Pro plan ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is adding another subscription plan to its already confusing list of offerings. 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