There is no free trial of the standalone Standard version of Visio or Visio Professional. Note that you must be a first time user of Visio to get access to the free trial and you must be using a work or school Microsoft 365 account. The Visio Plan 2 free trial also gives you access to the desktop version of Visio for 30 days.

You can however use Visio Plan 1 and Visio Plan 2 free for 30 days. Microsoft Visio is not free as you need to subscribe to either a Visio Plan, buy the standalone version or have a Microsoft 365 commercial subscription to access the lighter Visio for Web. The desktop version of Visio is also Windows only – there is no version of Visio for Mac but there are some excellent alternatives to Visio for Mac. The main difference between the Standard vs Professional version of Visio is that the Professional version has more templates and supports data visualization. Both plans comes with 2G of free OneDrive storage.Īccess to the Windows desktop version of Visio either requires a subscription to Visio Plan 2 or a one off purchase of Visio Standard or Visio Professional. The full version of Visio is available either via Visio Plan 1 for $5.00 per month or with both a web and desktop app via Visio Plan 2 for $15.00 per month. Non-commercial Microsoft 365 plans such as Microsoft Business Basic and Microsoft Business Standard do not include access to the Microsoft Visio web app. The full list of Microsoft 365 subscriptions which include Visio for Web are:

The web version of Visio is far more limited, and not a replacement for the a full Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2. It’s important to be aware that the version of Visio included in the commercial version of Microsoft 365 however is a lighter web app and not the full version. Like Microsoft Project, the full version of Microsoft Visio has always been a standalone product which has to be purchased separately to the rest of the Microsoft Office suite. Visio is not part of the standard version of Microsoft Office 365. Microsoft Visio is only to available Microsoft 365 commercial subscribers or those that subscribe to Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2. The most recent version of Visio also includes data visualization so that you can create diagrams from sources such as Excel and also embed Visio diagrams in Power BI dashboards. Visio is used for a wide range of diagramming and some of the most common are:

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