Here are the changes between the March 2025 version and the April 2025 version of the Power Platform Licensing Guide
Power Apps & Power Automate
A smaller clarification was added on page 5 – Power Apps Premium, Power Automate Premium, and Power Automated Process licenses are billed annually:
Copilot Studio
Pages 6 and 7 have a smaller, but important clarification for Cloud Flows that are used as actions in Copilot Studio agents (also brought up again later, see further below in this post):
5) Cloud flows as actions in agents are included with Copilot Studio message pack subscription licenses only
Speaking of Copilot Studio, a further clarification was made on page 7 regarding Generative AI in the Copilot Studio use rights with Microsoft 365 Copilot, which are listed as Limited. The March 2025 footnote stated:
4) Utilization of agents created using “classic orchestration” mode that consumes Classic Answers and Generative Answers for Teams, SharePoint and Microsoft 365 Copilot is included in the M365 Copilot user license at no additional charge.
In April 2025, this has been updated to:
4) Interactive use of classic answers, generative answers, tenant graph grounding and agent actions by authenticated Microsoft 365 Copilot users, in Microsoft 365 apps and services, will be included at no additional cost. Microsoft 365 apps and services include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Exchange, SharePoint, OneNote, OneDrive, Microsoft Stream, Microsoft Bookings, Microsoft Access, Viva Engage, Viva Insights, Microsoft Lists, Microsoft Forms, Sway, Visio, Microsoft Planner, Microsoft To Do, Microsoft Loop, Clipchamp, M365 Copilot Chat, and Teams.
More importantly (well, not that much, but I’ve noticed this issue since the December 2024 version), Dataverse for Copilot Studio is now listed as included in the Copilot Studio in Microsoft 365 Copilot! Its footnote states
6) Dataverse for Copilot Studio default capacities: Dataverse Database 5 GB, Dataverse File 20 GB, Dataverse Log 2 GB
On page 18, the following was added to the paragraph about Copilot Studio pay-as-you-go meter:
A Copilot Author role is required for users building and managing agents for Copilot Studio pay-as-you-go. In the Power Platform admin center (PPAC), navigate to Settings, assign a security group, and add members to give them to access to building and managing agents in Copilot Studio.
This is the corresponding tenant-level setting in PPAC:
As we all know, licensing is never easy – and the many different combinations of orchestration mode (Classic, Generative) and technologies (M365 Copilot, Copilot Chat, Copilot Studio agents) definitely make things tricky when you try to determine billing rates for your scenario. So, Microsoft replaced the old simple table talking about Billing Rates with the following Microsoft Copilot Studio Billing Rates (which is on the only page in the licensing guide that is in landscape mode!):
Not going to claim that this simplifies billing rates, but at least it provides a relatively clear overview!
The examples on the next page were also expanded with the following new details:
The Summary of Copilot Studio table has been updated with two things:
1) Copilot Studio message packs have been clarified to cost $200 per pack/month instead of $200 per tenant/month
2) The row “Power Automate for Copilot Studio cloud flows (Automated, instant, and scheduled flows) within the context of Copilot Studio creations” has been updated to “Power Automate cloud flows as actions in agents“. These cloud Flows are no longer listed as available for Copilot Studio Pay-as-you-go and Copilot Studio in Microsoft 365 Copilot:
This confuses me a bit now and I’ll likely reach out to Microsoft for some further clarification here.
AI Builder
The AI Builder Service overview section has received the following addition:
This section is focused on AI Builder actions performed in Power Apps or Power Automate contexts. When using AI Builder Prompts in Copilot Studio agents, the rules expressed in the Copilot Studio section of this licensing guide apply, and prompts consume Copilot Studio messages, not AI Builder service credits
This is an important thing to remember – when you use AI Builder prompts in Copilot Studio you do not need any AI Builder credits!
The AI Builder rate card has been updated to including the rates for GPT o1:
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