Tag Archives: Copilot Credits

Licensing School Copilot Credit Calculator now in Public Preview!

With the introduction of the Copilot Credits Pre-Purchase Plan as a new way to buy Copilot Credits, we at Licensing School certainly needed a method to help us understand which option to use and when! Realising others would face the same predicament led to a new creation: the Copilot Credits Calculator. Our tool lets you enter a monthly prediction of Copilot Credits usage and instantly see which purchasing option will be most cost effective – PAYG, Copilot Credits Capacity Pack, or the Copilot Credits Pre-Purchase Plan. Interactive calculators are another tool we can add to your licensing arsenal, so watch this space for more to come. It’s now in LicenseVerse in Public Preview, so come and have a go: https://bit.ly/3X5yhkx.

If you’re not a subscriber and want access to this kind of resource, get in touch with us: info@licensingschool.co.uk.

Copilot Credits added to Dynamics 365 licenses

Agents Agents everywhere! It really does feel like there are new Agents being launched every day. From a licensing perspective, for the Agents that work with the Dynamics 365 products you need a license for the specific Dynamics 365 App as well as access to Copilot Credits. To that end, from November 25, 2025, Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise, Customer Service Enterprise, Finance, and Supply Chain Management licenses will include 1,000 Copilot Credits per user. These will be pooled at the tenant level and customers will be notified that the Copilot Credits have been added.

Find the information in this Partner Alert: https://bit.ly/4poCsEh.

November 2025 Power Platform resources

There are updated (November 2025) Power Platform licensing resources now available. References to AI Builder Capacity Packs have been removed, as part of the transition to Copilot Credits, which you can read more about in our blog here: https://bit.ly/4hOxpdw. On page 21, there’s an updated table that shows the changes to the default capacity entitlements in Dataverse, ahead of the anticipated changes on December 1, 2025.

You’ll find details in the Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/48XHjat, and the supplementary Licensing Deck here: https://bit.ly/4olptmm.

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 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.

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.

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.

Power Platform Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (September 2025) Power Platform Licensing Guide with just a minor change for the renaming of Copilot messages to Copilot Credits.

Find this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3JGHyfv.

Copilot Studio Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (September 2025) Copilot Studio Licensing Guide. The main change is the renaming of “messages” to “Copilot Credits”, but there’s also some futureproofing done where specific LLM names are removed. These are replaced with the more generic “Basic”, “Standard” and “Premium” groupings – for instance in the AI Builder capability table on page 13.

Keep your Licensing Guide collection up to date and help yourself to this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/3JIOWXx.