Microsoft Announces Microsoft 365 Copilot Pricing and Bing Chat Enterprise

Microsoft has just kicked off its Inspire 2023 partner conference with a piece of information many AI enthusiasts have been waiting for. The company has finally announced pricing for its Microsoft 365 Copilot, which is currently available for over 600 organizations via a paid early access program.

Microsoft 365 Copilot, which brings generative AI features to the company’s productivity apps will be priced at $30 per user per month, and it will only be available for commercial customers Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard and Business Premium customers. To put things in perspective, a Microsoft 365 E3 license already costs $36 per user per month.

So yes, Microsoft 365 Copilot will be very expensive. However, you have to keep in mind that the Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT, and other generative AI technologies that leverage advanced AI language models are also very resource intensive.

“Microsoft 365 Copilot is incredible on its own, and it’s also integrated into the apps millions of people use every day. Copilot jump-starts your creativity in Word, analyzes data in Excel, designs presentations in PowerPoint, triages your Outlook inbox, summarizes meetings in Teams – whether you attended or not – and so much more,” the company explained today.

At the moment, Microsoft continues to test its Microsoft 365 Copilot with select organizations through its Early Access Program, and the company plans to share more details about its broad availability in the coming months. In the meantime, the company is also expanding access to its Bing chatbot with Bing Chat Enterprise, which is launching in preview today.

With Bing Chat Enterprise, Microsoft is giving organizations an AI-powered chatbot for work that offers commercial data protection. Conversations with the chatbot are not saved, and Microsoft also doesn’t have access to its data and guarantees that it’s not used to train its AI models.

“Just like Bing Chat, Bing Chat Enterprise is grounded in web data and provides complete, verifiable answers with citations, along with visual answers that include graphs, charts and images, and is designed in line with our AI principles,” the company explained. Bing Chat for Enterprise is available from Bing.com/chat and the Microsoft Edge sidebar, and it will also be available from the new Windows Copilot Microsoft has started testing with Insiders.

Bing Chat for Enterprise is available in preview today for organizations with a Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard and Business Premium subscription. Microsoft also plans to make it available as a standalone subscription priced at $ per user per month.