Microsoft is launching a pay-as-you-go plan for corporate customers that bundles together several, but not all, of the company’s existing AI-pow

Microsoft’s newest Copilot plan for business is pay-as-you-go

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2025-01-15 15:30:02

Microsoft is launching a pay-as-you-go plan for corporate customers that bundles together several, but not all, of the company’s existing AI-powered productivity features for Microsoft 365.

The new plan, Copilot Chat — not to be confused with Microsoft’s Copilot Business Chat or GitHub Copilot Chat — is underpinned by OpenAI’s GPT-4o AI model and lets users ask business-related questions, build workflow automations, generate images, and more.

All of these capabilities were a part of Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft’s sprawling enterprise AI add-on for Microsoft 365. But pricing for Microsoft 365 Copilot is more rigid. A license costs $30 per user per month.

“Copilot Chat … adds pay-as-you-go [services] to our existing free chat experience for Microsoft 365 commercial customers,” Microsoft said in a blog post published Wednesday. “Copilot Chat is a powerful new on-ramp for everyone in [an] organization to build the AI habit.”

From the app, users can ask Copilot, Microsoft’s chatbot experience on top of GPT-4o, to summarize key points in an uploaded file, draft a work document, or create an AI-generated image. Or, they can collaborate on a project with teammates and AI via the built-in Copilot Pages tool.