{"id":7126,"date":"2025-11-26T15:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:01:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:52:22","slug":"agent-pre-purchase-plan","status":"publish","type":"lessons","link":"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licenseverse\/copilot-studio\/copilot-studio-standalone\/agent-pre-purchase-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent Pre-Purchase Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/blog\/azure-ai-foundry-blog\/introducing-microsoft-agent-factory\/4470732#:~:text=unique%20organizational%20needs.-,Microsoft%20Agent%20Pre%2DPurchase%20Plan,-Unlock%20predictable%20savings\">annou<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/blog\/azure-ai-foundry-blog\/introducing-microsoft-agent-factory\/4470732#:~:text=unique%20organizational%20needs.-,Microsoft%20Agent%20Pre%2DPurchase%20Plan,-Unlock%20predictable%20savings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/blog\/azure-ai-foundry-blog\/introducing-microsoft-agent-factory\/4470732#:~:text=unique%20organizational%20needs.-,Microsoft%20Agent%20Pre%2DPurchase%20Plan,-Unlock%20predictable%20savings\">ced<\/a> the availability of the Agent Pre-Purchase Plan in <strong>November 2025<\/strong>. This is a new type of Azure Reservation that enables customers to have a single pool of funds that can be used to pay for both Copilot Credits and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licenseverse\/azure-ai-foundry\/\">Microsoft Foundry<\/a> costs, as well as (from <strong>February 2026<\/strong>) <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/blog\/finopsblog\/microsoft-agent-pre-purchase-plan-one-unified-path-to-scale-ai-agents\/4476052#:~:text=What%20is%20covered%20by%20the%20Microsoft%20Agent%20Pre%2DPurchase%20Plan%3F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Fabric and GitHub Copilot<\/a>. You buy Agent Commit Units (ACUs) in one of three tiers, with discounted pricing, and then have a year to use the ACUs over this wide range of services. There\u2019s information about the tiers and the services covered <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/blog\/azure-ai-foundry-blog\/introducing-microsoft-agent-factory\/4470732#:~:text=unique%20organizational%20needs.-,Microsoft%20Agent%20Pre%2DPurchase%20Plan,-Unlock%20predictable%20savings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, and some useful licensing examples in the <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cost-management-billing\/reservations\/agent-pre-purchase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn<\/a> documentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/blog\/finopsblog\/microsoft-agent-pre-purchase-plan-one-unified-path-to-scale-ai-agents\/4476052#:~:text=What%20is%20covered%20by%20the%20Microsoft%20Agent%20Pre%2DPurchase%20Plan%3F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft\u2019s<\/a> rather nice diagram to show what services are included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licenseverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/1046.jpg\" width=650 \/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":3507,"menu_order":4,"template":"custom-single.php","lesson_category":[56],"class_list":["post-7126","lessons","type-lessons","status-publish","hentry","lesson_category-online-services","entry","no-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Agent Pre-Purchase Plan - LicenseVerse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licenseverse\/copilot-studio\/copilot-studio-standalone\/agent-pre-purchase-plan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Agent Pre-Purchase Plan - LicenseVerse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Microsoft announced the availability of the Agent Pre-Purchase Plan in November 2025. 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