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This article covers Copilot Studio licensing details.
Important
- For the most complete and up-to-date Copilot Studio licensing and billing information, refer to the Microsoft Copilot Studio Licensing Guide.
- Forecast your agent's Copilot Credits volume using the Microsoft Copilot Studio agent usage estimator. Create estimates and potential consumption impacts by selecting from agent type, traffic, orchestration, knowledge, and tools.
If you already have a Copilot Studio user license, see Assign licenses and manage access to Copilot Studio.
Copilot Studio is available in the US Government Community Cloud (GCC) plan.
Copilot Credits are the common currency across Copilot Studio capabilities. They're available through pay-as-you-go meters, prepurchase plans, and Copilot Credit prepaid pack subscriptions.
Important
Starting on September 1, 2025, the common currency for agents changed from messages to Copilot Credits. There's no change in the quantity per prepaid pack or to the pay-as-you-go rate.
Get started in Copilot Studio
To use Copilot Studio, you need one of the following configurations:
Copilot Studio user license (free of charge). The admin assigns this license to the maker in the Microsoft Admin Center. For details, see Assign licenses and manage access to Copilot Studio.
Note
You need a Copilot Studio tenant prepaid Copilot Credit pack subscription before you can get this user license.
Copilot Studio authors role in Power Platform admin center.
- Create the security group in Azure portal/Entra and assign users to the group.
- In Power Platform admin center, assign the security group to the Copilot Studio author setting.
Microsoft 365 Copilot license
Copilot Studio trial license. You can access Copilot Studio to create agents, but you can't publish agents.
Get access to Copilot Studio
The following sections describe the different ways you can use Copilot Studio, based on how you license Copilot Studio and purchase Copilot Credits.
Copilot Studio prepaid Copilot Credits subscription
The standalone Copilot Studio subscription lets you build agents on any supported channel and connect to any data using premium connectors.
Get a standalone Copilot Studio subscription from the Microsoft 365 admin center. For more information, see Assign licenses and manage access to Copilot Studio.
Copilot Studio pay-as-you-go
Pay-as-you-go is a way to pay for Copilot Studio using an Azure subscription, which allows you to get started building agents without any license commitment or upfront purchasing. With the pay-as-you-go meter, at the end of each month, your organization pays only for the actual number of Copilot Credits its agents use during the month.
In the Power Platform admin center, you can link environments to an Azure subscription using a billing policy. Create a billing policy associated with your Azure subscription in Power Platform admin center.
Linking an environment to an Azure subscription turns on billing through Azure meters. Any app usage or Dataverse and Power Platform usage that exceeds the included amounts is billed to the Azure subscription.
You can unlink your environment from the Azure subscription at any time and then usage is no longer billed.
Note
For instructions on how to set up your pay-as-you-go consumptive meter, see Set up pay-as-you-go.
Copilot Credits Pre-Purchase Plan
This is a one-year, prepaid option for Copilot Credits. A pool of Copilot Credit Commit Units (CCCUs) is usable across Microsoft eligible products. This option can be purchased in the Azure portal. You need to create a billing policy associated with your Azure subscription in Power Platform admin center.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
A Microsoft 365 Copilot license lets you use Copilot Studio to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot with agents.
Copilot Studio trial license
The trial license lets you sign up for Copilot Studio as an individual.
Admins can assign the trial licenses in the Microsoft Admin Center and block the ability to sign up.
Note
The trial license gives you access to Copilot Studio to create agents. You can test your agents using the test chat panel. However, you can't publish the agent.
Billed Copilot Credits
Copilot Credits measure the time and effort your agent needs to retrieve information, respond to prompts, and use any actions or custom skills. The number of Copilot Credits counted for each response or action depends on the complexity of the task the agent completes. For more information about Copilot Credits, see Copilot Credits and events scenarios.
Capacity enforcement
Copilot Studio enforces purchased capacity monthly, and unused Copilot Credit don't carry over to the next month. If you exceed your purchased capacity, adjust your quantity per standard Microsoft terms to stay in compliance. Monitoring, reporting, and alerting help you manage Copilot Studio capacity. If your usage exceeds your purchased capacity, technical enforcement applies and can result in service denial. For more information, see Enforcement policy.
Copilot Studio in Microsoft 365 Copilot
If you have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, using agents in Copilot Chat, Microsoft Teams, or SharePoint for classic answers, generative answers, or Microsoft Graph tenant grounding doesn't count against the Copilot Studio message pack or meter. For example, when Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users use agents in Microsoft 365 services or apps, classic answers, generative answers, or Microsoft Graph tenant grounding have zero-rated usage.
A Microsoft 365 Copilot license includes these features and capabilities:
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, including Pages
- Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps, including Teams
- SharePoint agents
- Agent capabilities in Copilot Studio when used in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, or SharePoint
- Copilot Analytics (Microsoft Copilot Dashboard, customizable prebuilt business impact reports, and advanced analytics from Viva Insights)
- SharePoint Advanced Management