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Business Central price and capacity November changes

The expected changes for Dynamics 365 Business Central are live as of November 1, 2025. The ERP software aimed at small businesses now has increased pricing and accrued database storage capacity, in line with Microsoft’s announcement back in May. Essentials licences are now $80/month with 3 GB storage (up from $70/month and 2 GB), Premium licences are $110/month with 5 GB storage (up from $100/month and 3 GB), and Device licences are $45/month with 1.5 GB storage (up from $40/month and 1 GB). There are no changes to the 80 GB default capacity or the Team Members licence.

The original announcement is here: https://bit.ly/4nCglZy and you can see the new prices here: https://bit.ly/4oWE7Ax. Details are also listed in our new Product price adjustments page in LicenseVerse, providing subscribers a really useful reference and record of price changes across all products.

AI Builder credits transition to Copilot Credits

Microsoft announce a progressive end to AI Builder credits which are consumed by AI Builder features in Power Apps and Power Automate. In Copilot Studio, AI Builder features consume Copilot Credits and this will be the case for Power Apps and Power Automate from 1 November, 2025. If you’ve previously purchased AI Builder credit packs those credits will still work, and as an existing customer you can buy more credit packs and renew the licences until 1 November, 2026. If you’ve got licences that include AI Builder credits then those credits will still be available until 1 November, 2026. Mixed environments are supported too; AI Builder features in Power Apps and Power Automate will consume AI Builder credits first, and then Copilot Credits if there are no AI Builder credits available.

Find a summary page with a useful timeline and FAQ here: https://bit.ly/47vLeZu.

Microsoft 365 suites with Teams included return

The Microsoft 365 suites with Teams have returned as expected, which means customers once again have the option of Teams included from November 1, 2025. It reflects the promised price changes, with reductions on the (no Teams) suites and an increase for the Teams Enterprise license, creating the agreed delta between the offerings with and without Teams. LicenseVerse is updated with all the details of the somewhat complicated relationship history between Microsoft 365 and Teams.

The original announcement article from Microsoft can be found here: https://bit.ly/3WccCXc, the updated availability shows here: https://bit.ly/4oqmvNE, and if you’re a subscriber, launch LicenseVerse for the lowdown!

Microsoft Agent Usage Estimator tool

Microsoft’s Agent Usage Estimator tool was launched in preview in June 2025. It’s now out of preview and works in largely the same way – you answer some questions about your use of internal or external Agents and you’re given a breakdown of your likely Copilot Credit consumption. Now, however, as well as seeing the results in the tool, you can download a PDF of the estimate too.

Find the estimator here: https://bit.ly/4jMS2pM.

Dev Box capabilities coming to Windows 365

Microsoft Dev Box, launched in July 2023, is a Cloud PC optimised for developers. It’s built on Windows 365 and Microsoft now announce that the developer capabilities of Dev Box will move to Windows 365 and be enabled with Windows 365 Frontline. No new Dev Box customers will be accepted from 1 November, 2025, but existing customers can use and scale their Dev Box deployments as usual. Organisations that have previously evaluated or tested Dev Box and now need to onboard after November 1, 2025 can request an exception.

Find out more details and the link to the exception form here: https://bit.ly/4nDR7dc.

Copilot has a new face, and 12 new features!

The ever-evolving Copilot receives its Fall Release, which aims to make this assistant more personal, useful, and human-centred. The new features include better collaboration, adaptation to the user, deeper memory, and more complex understanding of context. Its capability in health and education has also advanced, and more functionality has been added to Copilot Mode in Edge, which reasons over your tabs to become your browser-based buddy. Perhaps the “highlight”, Copilot has a new face – an expressive, customisable, and warm character called Mico.

Certain features are region restricted, and you can read the full details here: https://bit.ly/47HmeyS.

Updated Copilot Studio Licensing Guide

The October 2025 Copilot Studio Licensing Guide has been reissued with a few interesting and useful changes. Version two adds details of the newly announced Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan. Supplementing this are explanations of Copilot Credit Commit Units (CCCUs), and how they compare with the other options to purchase Copilot Credits. Normally residing in the Power Platform Licensing Guide, you can now find handy tables outlining Dataverse capacity Add-ons and meters in this guide too. As well as the additions, a couple of notable sections have been removed. The text about Dynamics 365 Agents in Paid Public Preview no longer appears and the information about Agent Flow Actions has gone too.

Find it along with our other Licensing Guides here: https://bit.ly/3X2vWGT, and our blog post about the Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan here: https://bit.ly/3Jp1mUS.

Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux VMs

The Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux allows you to bring your existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) subscriptions to Azure, so that you only pay for the infrastructure costs of the VM on Azure.

If you don’t know much about how this benefit gets activated for Linux VMs then we’d recommend this splendid interactive demo from Microsoft: https://bit.ly/3JBNUwU.

Copilot Pre-Purchase Plan

Copilot Credits are the currency of Agent consumption for many Agents in the Microsoft world. Previously you’ve been able to purchase a Capacity Pack which gives you 25,000 Copilot Credits for $200 a month, or purchase on a Pay-As-You-Go basis at $0.01 per Copilot Credit. Now there’s a third option – a Pre-Purchase Plan – where you can buy large amounts of Copilot Credits (300,000 upwards) that you can use at any time during the next year, jolly handy, of course, for seasonal spikes. As you might expect, there are discounts available the more Copilot Credits you purchase, and in fact there are 9 different tiers with discounts ranging from 5% to 20% compared to the PAYG pricing.

Find the announcement article with a sample scenario and the full discount tier table here: https://bit.ly/4ny4AmS.

Extended Service Term in CSP

Microsoft announce that from April 1, 2026, a new option called the Extended Service Term (EST) will be available when CSP subscriptions expire. Customers currently have the choice to renew automatically, and if they don’t, the subscription goes into a grace period, meaning no loss of service. From April 1, 2026, the grace period will no longer exist. Instead, the options will be to either renew automatically, cancel at expiry, or leave auto-renew off and move to EST. When the subscription is in the EST a new SKU is used, and service continues – billed at an uplifted rate. EST allows customers to maintain access to their services while they decide their next steps, at which point they have flexibility to take another route.

An overview of the details and a useful timeline can be found here: https://bit.ly/47KgLIz.