Microsoft have released a brand-new Copilot Credits Guide!
While some sections are the same as the existing Licensing Guides for Copilot Studio, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform, this 12-page guide adds to that information with details of Copilot Cowork, Work IQ API, and some more guidance on AI administration.
You can grab your copy of the (increasingly rarely-published) PDF guide here: https://bit.ly/4esvZUM or view the website version here: https://bit.ly/44ov5Uz.
Microsoft have updated the Copilot Studio Licensing Guide (twice!) for June 2026.
Whilst the first version had minimal changes, a mid-month update completely reworks the document into a couple of main sections – explaining what Copilot Studio is, and explaining how to pay for it.
A few existing errors have been corrected, but some new ones have snuck their way in! If you’re a subscriber, don’t forget that we help you navigate these with our “Cautionary Notes” in the Licensing Guides Gallery: https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery. You can also add the latest guide to your collection with a copy here: https://bit.ly/4x3HSsO.
The Copilot Studio Licensing Guide is updated for April 2026. This month the guide only has a few minor wording refinements, with no major updates.
The existing Cautionary Notes remain, which subscribers will find using the one-click “Copilot Studio” filter in the Licensing Guide Gallery: https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery. You’ll also find a link to the Licensing Guidance website version, helping you keep up to date with all resource types in one place.
Grab your copy of the guide here: https://bit.ly/3NPNnd2.
The Agent Pre-Purchase Plan was launched back in November 2025 to make it easier to buy consumption units for Agents created through Microsoft Foundry and/or Copilot Studio. You buy 20,000, 100,000 or 500,000 Agent Commit Units and then have a year to use them on any of the supported services. What’s new? From February 2026 Microsoft Fabric and GitHub Copilot are added to the list of services that the ACUs can be used on.
This is a good overview article explaining how the Pre-Purchase Plan works with some good diagrams, including the list of supported services: https://bit.ly/4uonAJ0.
There’s a new (March 2026) Copilot Studio Licensing Guide. It has fleshed-out detail on the recently introduced Agent Pre-Purchase Plan, which covers use of Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry, making it feel front and centre of the available options.
The methods for purchasing Copilot Credits are now in the Licensing Overview section, rather than beside the purchasing channels in the How to Buy section. This change has resulted in a rather nice side-by-side summary of the purchasing options being removed and scattered elsewhere. Whilst most wording and phrasing tweaks are only minor, one change raises an eyebrow: the Copilot Credits Capacity Pack is now (mostly) referred to as the “Copilot Credit pack” – a term not consistently found in other documentation.
Grab your copy here: https://bit.ly/4rboIx4. Subscribers can now view the details of “What’s New” and read the “Cautionary Notes” in our Licensing Guides Gallery: https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery.
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.
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.
There’s an updated (July 2025) Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide with just a couple of minor changes. Firstly, there’s confirmation added on page 27 that the Expense Mobile Role only requires a Team Members licence. Secondly, the Copilot Studio Paid Offers section that formed Appendix G has been removed and now just appears in the Copilot Studio Licensing Guide. Help yourself to this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/44tjkvQ.
There’s an updated (June 2025) Power Platform Licensing Guide with one big change – all the Copilot Studio licensing content has been taken out to form a brand new Copilot Studio Licensing Guide.
Find the slimmed down Power Platform Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/4kGJGRs, and its new friend here: https://bit.ly/43Sg5xG.
There’s a new Copilot Studio Agent Usage Estimator from Microsoft. The unit of consumption of Agents is a message and different sorts of queries “cost” varying amounts of messages, dependent on how hard the Agent has to work to produce an answer.
Find this new tool in preview here: https://bit.ly/4jMS2pM.