Microsoft 365 vs WPS Office
Microsoft 365 and WPS Office are both office suite software. Microsoft 365 is a commercial product from Microsoft. WPS Office is a commercial product from Kingsoft.
Which to pick
- Pick Microsoft 365 when
- A business of any size that relies on Excel and Office files, Windows PCs or Microsoft identity and security tooling.
- Pick WPS Office when
- You need a free, Office-compatible suite for personal use on Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile.
Side by side
Subscription bundle of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Exchange email, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive, with identity management through Entra ID.
A free office suite with a writer, spreadsheet, presentation and PDF tools that open and save Microsoft Office formats.
Licence tiers are confusing, admin is complex, and prices rise regularly with bundled AI.
The free version shows ads, it comes from a Chinese vendor which matters to some organisations, and complex Office files may not round-trip cleanly.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
Desktop app and mobile app
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Microsoft
Closed source, sold by Kingsoft
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
10k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
2.7k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.