Microsoft charges quite different prices for Office 365 Home, depending on the country.

We decided to see how cheap or expensive Office 365 Home plan can be, depending on where you live.  Maya surfed through many different Microsoft sites to compile this list of countries and regions.

Cheapest Office 365 Home

The lowest price for Office 365 Home is in Russia where Microsoft quotes RUB ₽3399

That’s about US$60.22 or 39% cheaper than USA.

Russia is easily the cheapest, with India coming next but US$12 more expensive.

Most Expensive Office 365 Home

Highest Price charged is in Israel where Office 365 Home costs ILS ₪449

That’s US$131.93 or 33% more expensive than USA.

Denmark is a close second ‘last’ by less than a dollar.  New Zealand is the third most expensive but about US$11 cheaper.

The overall difference between highest and lowest is US$71.71 which is a lot for a product sold in the USA for $99.99

Average and StdDev are skewed because of the many Euro zone countries and other territories.  For what it’s worth ….     

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• Average price US$107.47 of the surveyed countries/territories
• Standard Deviation: 17.33 for the surveyed countries/territories

A few thoughts

A few things occur to us from looking through the table:

In each region, Microsoft charges what they think the market will tolerate.

Exchange Rates are only part of Microsoft’s pricing equation.

All of Microsoft’s talk about pricing based on local support, needs of partners etc is just PR drivel.

• India‘s Office 365 price was cheaper at the start of 2017.  Since then Microsoft raised the price and started charging government tax, which also increased.
• The reason for the AUD$10 price increase in Australia in 2017 is clear from this table. The old prices made Aussie Office 365 cheaper than the USA.
• New Zealand gets slugged pretty hard compared their Aussie cousins. Kiwis pay about US$18 more for the same product.

We’d be interested to hear from readers who might have local knowledge to add.

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Always shop around and look for better prices elsewhere.  Office Watch has a guide to Office 365 money saving options.  Office 365: the real startup guide has an even more comprehensive chapter on paying less for Microsoft Office

Office 365 Home - Global Prices