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Licensing for document processing for Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 offers flexible, scalable document processing services through a pay-as-you-go licensing model. This model is ideal for organizations seeking agility without upfront commitments.

Note

For Government Community Cloud (GCC) organizations, pay-as-you-go licensing—and the services that require pay-as-you-go licensing—aren't yet available. GCC organizations can continue to purchase and use per-user licenses until pay-as-you-go becomes available.

Benefits of pay-as-you-go licensing

  • No upfront license purchase: Use services as needed—only pay when services are used. Learn more about pay-as-you-go pricing.

  • Organization-wide access: Any user in your tenant can use the services, provided they have a Microsoft 365 license.

  • Azure-based billing: Use your active Azure subscription for billing. Learn more about setting up billing and the terms of service.

Document processing services

The following pay-as-you-go services are currently available for document processing:

Included features

The following content management features are available (at no cost) once you set up a pay-as-you-go service:

If you still have active per-user licenses

Per-user licenses for these services are no longer available for purchase. However:

  • Existing licenses can still be assigned to new users.

  • Once expired, you must switch to pay-as-you-go to continue using services.

If you still have an active per-user license, you can continue to:

  • Apply unstructured models to libraries.
  • Create prebuilt, structured, and freeform models.
  • Upload content to libraries with applied models.
  • Run models on demand.
  • Use content assembly and taxonomy services.
  • Use content query and annotations.
  • Use document library rules for automation.

For structured or freeform models in a custom Power Platform environment, see Set up a custom Power Platform environment.