Evernote is hosting its third annual Evernote Conference—aptly dubbed “EC3”—in San Francisco this week. Evernote introduced a variety of partnerships and new features yesterday, many of which are very cool, but what you get with an Evernote Premium subscription doesn’t offer nearly as much bang for the buck as an Office 365 subscription.

At face value, those two things don’t go together. It seems like saying that a McDonald’s cheeseburger isn’t as good a value as a Schwinn bicycle. However, Office 365 includes Evernote’s biggest rival—OneNote—along with an array of other products and features that Evernote doesn’t offer.

An Office 365 Home Premium account costs about twice as much as Evernote Premium—$ 100 per year vs. $ 45 per year (or $ 5 per month)—but what you get for the money is far more than twice the value. Many of the additional features Evernote Premium gets you access to are available for free with OneNote, plus Office 365 buys you the complete Office 2013 Pro suite with licenses for up to five separate individuals or devices.

A business can subscribe to Office 365 Small Business Premium for $ 150 per year per user—roughly three times the cost of Evernote Premium. For that money, though, the user is licensed to install the entire Office 2013 Pro suite on up to five different devices, and the business also gets Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync delivered as managed services maintained by Microsoft. Both Office 365 subscriptions also include the ability to unlock and use Office Mobile for iOS or Android.

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