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Copilot Studio licensing

This article covers Copilot Studio licensing details.

Review the Microsoft Power Platform Licensing Guide for more information.

If you already have a Copilot Studio user license, see Assign licenses and manage access to Copilot Studio.

Copilot Studio is available in the US Government Community Cloud (GCC) plan.

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

Getting started in Copilot Studio

To use Copilot Studio, you need one of the following configurations:

Get access to Copilot Studio

The following sections describe the different ways you can use Copilot Studio.

Copilot Studio prepaid message subscription

The standalone Copilot Studio subscription lets you build agents on any supported channel and connect to any data using premium connectors.

Get a standalone Copilot Studio subscription from the Microsoft 365 admin center. For more information, see Assign licenses and manage access to Copilot Studio.

  • Message packs: $200 per tenant per month for 25,000 messages.
  • Copilot Studio capabilities are licensed by message packs. One message pack equals 25,000 messages a month. For extra capacity, sign up for pay-as-you-go to ensure business continuity. The pay-as-you-go meter starts counting after you use your message pack entitlements.

Copilot Studio pay-as-you-go

Create a billing policy associated with your Azure subscription in Power Platform Admin Center.

  • Pay-as-you-go: $0.01 per message.
  • With the pay-as-you-go meter, at the end of each month, your organization pays only for the actual number of messages its agents use during the month. No up-front license commitment is needed, so your organization can scale usage and ensure business continuity for mission-critical business processes. For more information about setting up the pay-as-you-go meter, see Set up pay-as-you-go.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

A Microsoft 365 Copilot license lets you use Copilot Studio to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot with agents.

  • Copilot Studio in Microsoft 365 Copilot: $30 per user per month

Note

With the Copilot Studio in Microsoft 365 Copilot license, agents you build in Copilot Studio for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365 Copilot are included at no extra charge.

Copilot Studio trial license

The trial license lets you sign up for Copilot Studio as an individual.

Admins can assign the trial licenses in the Microsoft Admin Center and block the ability to sign up.

Billed messages

Messages measure the time and effort your agent needs to retrieve information, respond to prompts, and use any actions or custom skills. The number of messages counted for each response or action depends on the complexity of the task the agent completes. For more information about messages, see Message scenarios.

Capacity enforcement

Copilot Studio enforces purchased capacity monthly, and unused messages don't carry over to the next month. If you exceed your purchased capacity, adjust your quantity per standard Microsoft terms to stay in compliance. Monitoring, reporting, and alerting help you manage Copilot Studio capacity. If your usage exceeds your purchased capacity, technical enforcement applies and can result in service denial. For more information, see Enforcement policy.

Copilot Studio in Microsoft 365 Copilot

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

A Microsoft 365 Copilot license includes these 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, or SharePoint
  • Copilot Analytics (Microsoft Copilot Dashboard, customizable prebuilt business impact reports, and advanced analytics from Viva Insights)
  • SharePoint Advanced Management

Copilot Studio use rights included with Microsoft 365 Copilot license

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

Feature Copilot Studio pay-as-you-go Copilot Studio message packs Copilot Studio use rights with Microsoft 365 Copilot
Included messages Pay as you go 25,000 messages Unlimited
Generative AI Included Included Limited
Create and publish your own agents anywhere Included Included Not included
Create and publish your own agents and plugins to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot Not included Not included Included
Power Automate for Copilot Studio cloud flows Not included for pay-as-you-go only tenants Included Not included
Agent flows Not included Not Included Not included
Standard Power Platform connectors Included Included Included
Premium and custom Power Platform connectors Included Included Included
On premises and cloud service data transfer for Power Platform connectors Included Included Included
Dataverse for Copilot Studio Included Included Included
Managed environments Included Included Included
Available channels to publish your copilot/plugins External and internal channels External and internal channels Microsoft 365 experience