Copilot Studio licensing

Messages are the common currency across Copilot Studio capabilities and are available via pay-as-you-go meters and message pack subscriptions.

Summary of Copilot Studio licenses

There are three different Copilot Studio license plans:

• Pay-as-you-go: $0.01 per message
• Message packs: $200 per tenant, per month for 25,000 messages
• Copilot Studio in Microsoft 365 Copilot: $30 per user, per month

Copilot Studio pay-as-you-go meter

With the pay-as-you-go meter, at the end of each month, an organization only pays for the actual number of messages its agents consumed during the month. No up-front license commitment is required, giving your organization the flexibility to scale usage and ensure business continuity for mission-critical business processes. For more information about configuring the pay-as-you-go meter, see Set up pay-as-you-go.

Copilot Studio message pack subscriptions

Copilot Studio capabilities are licensed via message packs, where one message pack equals 25,000 messages a month. For extra capacity, we recommend signing up for pay-as-you-go to ensure business continuity. The pay-as-you-go meter starts counting after you exhausted your message pack entitlements.

Copilot Studio authors

Copilot Studio is accessible by one of the following accounts:

1. Copilot Studio user license (free of charge)

2. Copilot Studio author in Power Platform Admin Center

   • The security group must be created in Azure portal/Entra and the users assigned to the security group
   • In Power Platform Admin Center, assign the security group to the Copilot Studio author setting

3. Microsoft 365 Copilot license

Billed messages

Messages are a measure of the time and effort required for your agent to retrieve information and respond to prompts and any actions or custom skills the agent uses. The number of messages taken into account for each response or action depends on the complexity of the task completed by the agent. For more information about messages, see Message scenarios.

Capacity enforcement

All Copilot Studio purchased capacity is enforced monthly and unused messages don't carry over month to month. If you exceed the purchased capacity, you should adjust your purchased quantity per standard Microsoft terms to remain in compliance. Comprehensive monitoring, reporting, and alerting mechanisms are instituted to assist you with managing Copilot Studio capacity. When usage exceeds the purchased capacity, technical enforcement applies and might result in service denial. For more information, see Enforcement policy.

Copilot Studio in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Usage of agents by users licensed for Microsoft 365 Copilot, on Microsoft 365 products such as Copilot Chat, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint, don't count classic answers, generative answers, or tenant Microsoft Graph grounding against Copilot Studio message pack or meter. For example, the usage of agents by Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users in Microsoft 365 services or apps have zero-rated usage of classic answers, generative answers, or tenant Microsoft Graph grounding.

A Microsoft 365 Copilot license includes the following features and capabilities:

• Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, including Pages
• Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps, including Teams
• SharePoint agents
• Agent capabilities in Copilot Studio, when used in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, SharePoint
• Copilot Analytics (Microsoft Copilot Dashboard, prebuilt business impact reports that are customizable, and advanced analytics from Viva Insights)
• SharePoint Advanced Management

Copilot Studio use rights included with Microsoft 365 licenses

Select licenses include limited Copilot Studio use rights and session capacity.