LICENSING

4 pieces tagged licensing.

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01 What an agent actually costs you Agents are billed in Copilot Credits, and the runtime you pick decides the bill. Most agent business cases are costed in the wrong unit. Agents Licensing LONG READ 7 MIN 02 E3, E5, E7, and how not to overbuy E7 buys agent governance at scale rather than discounting E5, and parts of it already sit unused in licences you hold. Licensing ARTICLE 5 MIN 03 Say credits, not messages The unit changed on 1 September 2025, and a business case counted in messages is pricing something that does not exist any more. Field notes Licensing FIELD NOTE 2 MIN 04 E7 exists. Read the small print E7 bundles E5, Copilot, Entra Suite and Agent 365 at $99 per user. Whether that is a saving depends on what you were going to buy anyway. Field notes Licensing FIELD NOTE 1 MIN

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