Update spendingPolicy

Important

APIs under the /beta version are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported.

Update a spendingPolicy object. Use this method to change updatable properties, including billingMethods; no separate action is needed to re-point funding.

Don't supply the server-managed properties status, createdBy, createdDateTime, lastModifiedBy, or lastModifiedDateTime in the request body.

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	CopilotCostManagement-Policy.ReadWrite.All	Not supported.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

HTTP request

PATCH /copilot/costManagement/spendingPolicies/{id}

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.
If-Match	The ETag of the spending policy. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply only the values for the properties to update. The following properties can be updated: displayName, periodLimit, perUserLimit, and billingMethods.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and the updated spendingPolicy object in the response body. The response includes an advanced ETag header.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/copilot/costManagement/spendingPolicies/3f9e2c1a-0000-0000-0000-00000000c21b
If-Match: W/"6"
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "billingMethods": "prepaidCredits,payAsYouGo"
}

Response

The following example shows the response. The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
ETag: W/"7"
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#copilot/costManagement/spendingPolicies/microsoft.graph.selectedGroupsSpendingPolicy/$entity",
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.selectedGroupsSpendingPolicy",
  "id": "3f9e2c1a-0000-0000-0000-00000000c21b",
  "displayName": "Pilot teams monthly cap",
  "status": "enabled",
  "periodLimit": { "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.limitedCostManagementQuantity", "value": 10000, "unit": "copilotCredit" },
  "perUserLimit": { "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.limitedCostManagementQuantity", "value": 500, "unit": "copilotCredit" },
  "billingMethods": "prepaidCredits,payAsYouGo",
  "createdDateTime": "2026-07-27T09:15:00Z",
  "createdBy": { "user": { "id": "aa110000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "displayName": "Alex Admin" } },
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2026-07-27T09:41:00Z",
  "lastModifiedBy": { "user": { "id": "aa110000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "displayName": "Alex Admin" } }
}