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Microsoft Excel pricing
Microsoft Excel publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- $6.99/month
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Not on record
Microsoft Excel plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Excel | $6.99/month | 4 | Entry tier |
| Microsoft 365 Personal | $6.99/month | 4 | +$0/month, 4 more features |
| Microsoft 365 Family | $9.99/month | 4 | +$3/month, 4 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Excel
$6.99/monthThe entry tier. It covers excel desktop app, excel web app, 5gb onedrive storage, basic support.
Microsoft 365 Personal
$6.99/monthOver Excel, this tier adds:
- Excel + full Office suite
- 1TB OneDrive storage
- Premium templates
- Advanced features
Microsoft 365 Family
$9.99/monthOver Microsoft 365 Personal, this tier adds:
- Up to 6 users
- 6TB total OneDrive storage
- Premium features
- Family sharing
What the product covers
The full Microsoft Excel feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Advanced formulas
- Pivot tables
- Data visualization
- Charts and graphs
- Conditional formatting
- Data analysis tools
- Macro automation
- Collaboration features
Integrations
- Microsoft 365
- Power BI
- SharePoint
- OneDrive
- Teams
- Outlook
- Access
- Power Query
Security
- Data encryption
- Access controls
- Audit trails
Deployment
- Desktop deployment
- Cloud deployment
- Mobile deployment
Platform
- Windows support
- Macos support
- Web support
- Ios support
- Android support
Localization
- 40+ languages language support
People bring Microsoft Excel in for financial modeling, data analysis, budget planning, reporting, business intelligence, statistical analysis. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Microsoft Excel are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Microsoft Excel
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between $6.99/month and $9.99/month, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Microsoft Excel against the tools that do have one before committing.
Microsoft Excel runs on windows, macos, web, ios, android, and is published by Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, WA. The full record is on the Microsoft Excel review.
Microsoft Excel pricing questions
- How much does Microsoft Excel cost?
- Microsoft Excel publishes 3 tiers, from $6.99/month for Excel up to $9.99/month for Microsoft 365 Family. The cheapest paid tier is $6.99/month.
- Does Microsoft Excel have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Microsoft Excel is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Excel and Microsoft 365 Personal on Microsoft Excel?
- Microsoft 365 Personal costs $6.99/month against $6.99/month, and adds excel + full office suite, 1tb onedrive storage, premium templates, advanced features.
- Is the Microsoft 365 Family plan on Microsoft Excel worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is up to 6 users, 6tb total onedrive storage, premium features, family sharing. It costs $9.99/month against $6.99/month for Excel. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with Microsoft Excel?
- The record lists 28 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for financial modeling, data analysis, budget planning.
- Does Microsoft Excel charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Microsoft Excel prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Microsoft Excel against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Microsoft Excel to make a useful price comparison.