Summary

  • 3 minutes

In this module, you learned that:

  • The Copilot commercial model pairs a fixed per-user license for everyday AI, like an in-house team, with usage-based billing for advanced AI, such as Copilot Cowork and agents. Like an outside firm, usage-based AI bills for the work it performs.
  • Copilot Credits are one shared consumption currency, pooled at the organization level, and you pay only when work runs.
  • Consumption depends on four inputs: the model, the context, the tools, and the runtime. Costs can vary substantially between light, medium, and heavy tasks.
  • You can fund credits with pay-as-you-go, a prepurchase plan or prepaid capacity packs, and credits are drawn down in a fixed order.
  • The Copilot Credit Estimator gives you a planning range for a pilot, which you refine with actual usage.
  • The FinOps for AI maturity model has three stages: control spend, measure value and optimize impact. Every role, from finance to end users, has a part to play.

Caldova now has an estimate for its pilot, a funding approach, and named owners. In the next module, Control usage-based AI consumption and spending, you help Caldova decide who can use Copilot Cowork and set the limits and alerts that keep the pilot within budget.

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