Microsoft Launches Copilot Cowork at 1 Cent a Credit on Top of $30 Copilot Licenses
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Updated · Computerworld · Jun 17
Microsoft Launches Copilot Cowork at 1 Cent a Credit on Top of $30 Copilot Licenses
3 articles · Updated · Computerworld · Jun 17
Summary
Microsoft made Copilot Cowork generally available with usage-based billing, adding per-task charges to Microsoft 365 Copilot subscriptions rather than bundling the agent into a flat fee.
1 cent per credit is the pay-as-you-go rate, while a P3 option lets customers precommit to volume for discounts; costs are driven by model use, context retrieval, tool calls and runtime.
Copilot Cowork is off by default, with IT admins controlling access, setting tenant, group and user spending caps, and getting alerts as usage rises; per-task credit visibility is coming soon.
March introduced the product as a cloud-based AI agent for long-running, multi-step work on Microsoft 365 documents, and Microsoft now says customers can choose models including Anthropic Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 4.6, with GPT 5.5 available via Frontier.