OneNote is not free. Because it syncs with OneDrive, MS restricts it to 5GB total. After that, it becomes a subscription cloud fee.

Evernote will be sustainable once the freeloaders get off. OneNote is free as long as your OneDrive account is under 5GB

Correction. OneNote is not entirely free! OneNote syncs with OneDrive. I just got a notice from Microsoft that they are downgrading the FREE 15G to just FREE 5G. My notes already exceed that. I wasted time converting my notes from Evernote to ON.I’ll just stick with the paid Evernote and disregard the gimmick payment…