MicroSoft 365 Home is increasing by 30% in 2025?

Hi BKSlone,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

 
As you have learned in another thread. The reason for the subscription price increase is that the product team has added Copilot to all Office applications starting from January 16, 2025. As a cost for unlimited use of AI, Microsoft has raised the subscription price.

However, if you do not need this feature, you can downgrade your subscription to Microsoft 365 Classic subcription, which will reduce the subscription price by $30. Correspondingly, your monthly quota for using Copilot to assist in creating documents will be limited. For more information about the Microsoft 365 Classic subscription and how to cancel your subscription for a refund, please refer to: Switching to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family Classic Plans - Microsoft Support

 

I hope my explanation helps you understand the reason for your subscription price increase. Although the decision to raise prices was not made by me, I completely understand how you feel. Copilot can indeed be disabled, but this falls outside the scope of the discussion on the subscription price increase thread. I will address your other thread about disabling Copilot later.

 

If you have any further questions or want to share more context about the subscription price increase, please let me know in your reply!

 

Best Regards,

Thomas C - MSFT | Microsoft Community Support Specialist 

It just silly that we have to pay for copilot and don't even use it.

When I look at what COPILOT offers - it is ALL ABOUT increasing productivity AT WORK!!

Summarizing meetings, etc, etc.

I have a FAMILY license so myself and my kids can have Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneDrive.

We DON'T WANT OR NEED COPILOT FOR FAMILY

It's a WORK tool - not a FAMILY tool!!!!!!!

Huge price rise claiming to pay for Copilot when we don't want it is complete extortion!

My increase in Canada is from $75 CDN to $115 CDN; that is a 53% increase.

Greedy f'rs.

I have personal 365 and it jumped from 6.99 to 9.99. Can you explain why and what does copilot do? Do I need it for personal use?

As you say, it’s mainly corporate greed. There is nothing to substantiate it. We’ve already seen competitors producing AI tools for a fraction of the price. It’s amazing just how much you can do without when pushed to it. I can use my company computer for office apps and my daughter can use educational access so wondering if I should just bin Microsoft off my personal devices. How are those apples Microsoft.