
How much value you get out of a subscription to Microsoft 365 really depends on how much of the software and services you actually commit to. If you’re just looking for a word processor, then paying a monthly fee – or for a yearly subscription, which Microsoft offers a discount on – probably doesn’t make sense.

However if you’re willing to shift your digital life to Microsoft’s cloud, then things like bundled OneDrive start to make more sense. Microsoft 365 Family, for example, is priced at $99.99 per year and includes software for up to 6 users, and up to 6TB of OneDrive cloud storage. Microsoft 365 Personal is $69.99 per year, but only includes software access for one person, and 1TB of storage. Normally, a OneDrive standalone plan costs $1.99 per month for 100GB.

That’s about $24 per year alone, and for a fraction of what you get on even the Microsoft 365 Personal plan.
