EP13 - Microsoft 365 Copilot Pricing Exposed: Copilot Credits, Billing Planes & the Visibility Gap
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Episode EP13 - Microsoft 365 Copilot Pricing Exposed: Copilot Credits, Billing Planes & the Visibility Gap
Microsoft 365 Copilot no longer costs what you think it does. The flat $30-per-seat license is gone — Copilot pricing is now a metered, consumption-based model that splits spend across four separate billing planes, meters every action as Copilot Credits, and leaves most finance teams unable to reconcile their Azure consumption against their M365 commerce invoice.
In this episode we debate the real cost of Microsoft 365 Copilot: how Copilot Credits actually bill, why generative answers and tenant Graph grounding cost different amounts, and the visibility gap that's quietly inflating budgets. One side says pay it and move on. The other says you're flying blind. Both are right about something.
This is FinOps for the AI era — for IT finance leads, CIOs, CFOs, and MSPs who need to forecast, allocate, and optimize Copilot spend before the invoice does it for them.
📘 Get the full rate map, the credit breakdown, and the 90-day rollout playbook in the book "The Real Cost of Copilot" by Mathieu Kessler: https://store.kesslernity.com/l/hhryg
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