Copilot Credits Guide – September 2026

Microsoft have updated the Copilot Credits Guide (four times!) for September 2026.

App building is the focus this month, with a key update covering Apps in Copilot Cowork, a feature that’s part of the early-access Microsoft Frontier Program. The guide covers details of App creation using natural language, billing, and hosting, and includes a useful illustration of its estimated Copilot Credits usage. The third update of the month adds a new section on Apps in Microsoft Copilot Studio, a feature in Paid Public Preview, covering usage-based billing for building, hosting, running, and managing Apps, its inclusion in the Power Apps Premium licence, and cost estimation. The fourth version features an updated term for the Microsoft-hosted cloud infrastructure, renaming “Microsoft-managed host” to “Copilot Managed Runtime Host”, along with an added section providing further details.

A flurry of other changes includes added terms, prerequisites, and useful links throughout.

Don’t forget the “What’s New” feature in our Licensing Guides Gallery, where we provide an overview of all the important changes. Subscribers can find all versions of the PDF guide here: https://bit.ly/4xPrgVI, alongside the ever-popular Cautionary Notes to navigate the errors we’ve discovered. If you’re not yet a subscriber, you can access the latest guide here: https://bit.ly/3VfBoZp.

New pricing for Power Apps Premium

Microsoft announce a price increase for Power Apps Premium, effective January 1, 2027.

The monthly cost of the affected licences will rise for all new purchases, renewals, and co-terms starting on or after January 1, 2027. US Government customers may see increases phased over two years.

Find the full details in our subscriber-exclusive Product Price Plotter, where we provide an interactive, filterable, and searchable tool to keep you in the loop with all Microsoft price changes: https://bit.ly/ProductPricePlotter. Find the Microsoft announcement here: https://bit.ly/4xdsqcl.

Power Platform Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (August 2023) Power Platform Licensing Guide. Visually, this guide looks quite different, but the main amendments are for the changes to Power Automate licensing (see our blog: https://bit.ly/44GB0Dd), the renaming of the Power Apps per User licence to Power Apps Premium, and the availability of Power Automate Process Mining (see our blog: https://bit.ly/45gaoJ1).

Get this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/44TVtVg.

Changes to Power Apps licensing

Microsoft make a small change to Power Apps licensing – the Power Apps per User licence is renamed the Power Apps Premium licence. There are no other changes – it’s still a user licence costing $20 per user per month, and allows the licensed user to access an unlimited number of apps and Power Pages websites. It continues to include Dataverse capacity and AI Builder service credits – find the detail here: https://bit.ly/BOKPApPricing.