There’s an updated (April 2026) version of Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry Pricing Guide.
This is a useful document for understanding how you pay for the different Microsoft Foundry services via Pay-As-You-Go, Batch deployment, or Provisioned Throughput Units.
Everyone can find this document here: https://bit.ly/3Ovg52W, and subscribers can additionally find the detail of what’s new and what’s not quite right by grabbing the guide from our Licensing Guides Gallery: https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery.
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.
Microsoft announce the availability of the Agent Pre-Purchase Plan. 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 Microsoft Foundry costs. You buy Agent Commit Units (ACUs) in one of three tiers, with discounted pricing, and then have a year to use the ACUs over a wide range of services.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3XRbUiZ with information about the tiers and the services covered, and find some useful licensing examples in the Learn documentation here: https://bit.ly/4ahnYBv.