Microsoft are moving more and more towards consumption billing for their products – right across the portfolio. This makes it much more difficult for customer organisations to predict and forecast usage, which will generally lead to over-commitment and uncertainty. It also, however, means that Microsoft’s revenues and product sales are less predictable, which isn’t what they want.
Copilot is a huge focus for Microsoft as is moving towards Agentic AI – which is done via Copilot Studio. Much of this is billed via Credits (formerly Messages) and Microsoft have now introduced the “Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan” (aka “P3“) to help with some of the unpredictability (on both sides). You purchase an amount of “Copilot Credit Commit Units (CCCU)” and pay upfront for the year.
Each CCCU is worth $1 and is equivalent to 100 credits. There are 9 tiers:
These credits expire annually which is a better than the Microsoft Copilot Studio Copilot Credit capacity packs, which expire monthly.
Understanding when to buy this, which level to buy, and whether they’re being used effectively will be a great example of collaboration between ITAM & FinOps teams.
See more here – https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/finopsblog/unlock-savings-with-copilot-credit-pre-purchase-plan/4464511
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