Copilot & Licensing Guide 2025

Every Role,
One Platform.

Microsoft Copilot isn't one product — it's an AI system woven into every Microsoft service. Nine purpose-built copilots, one licensing framework, zero guesswork.

9 Copilots
40% Faster decisions
30% Time saved

The Complete Copilot Portfolio

Nine distinct AI products, each purpose-built for a different part of your organisation.

Most Popular

Microsoft 365 Copilot

AI woven into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Outlook. Draft emails, summarise meetings, analyse data, and generate presentations — all from natural language prompts.

Word Excel Teams Outlook PowerPoint
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GitHub Copilot

AI pair programmer that suggests code, tests, and documentation directly in your IDE.

VS Code JetBrains Dev

Copilot Studio

Low-code platform to build, deploy, and manage custom AI agents and copilots for any workflow.

No-code Agents Power Platform

Security Copilot

AI-powered threat intelligence that summarises incidents and guides response in seconds.

SOC Defender SIEM

Copilot in Azure

Cloud operations assistant — manage resources, diagnose issues, and optimise costs with natural language.

IaC AKS Monitor

Copilot for Sales

Surfaces CRM insights inside Outlook and Teams, automates follow-ups.

Dynamics 365 Salesforce

Copilot for Finance

Streamlines reconciliation, variance analysis, and financial reporting in Excel.

Excel ERP

Copilot for Service

AI-assisted customer service — real-time answer suggestions and case summarisation.

Contact Centre D365

Copilot (Free)

GPT-4 powered web assistant — available free at copilot.microsoft.com with no licence required.

Free Web Mobile

Pick the Right Plan

Transparent pricing and prerequisites — select a product family to compare plans.

Microsoft 365 Business Basic
£ 5 / user / month
Teams, SharePoint, Exchange Online
1 TB OneDrive storage
Web & mobile Office apps
Standard security features
Microsoft Entra ID P1
Foundation licence — add Copilot add-on separately.
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Microsoft 365 E5 (with Copilot)
£ 57 / user / month
All M365 E3 features
Advanced compliance & eDiscovery
Microsoft Purview Information Protection
Entra ID P2 & Defender for Office
Power BI Pro included
Copilot add-on still required on top of E5.
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GitHub Copilot Individual
$ 10 / user / month
AI code completions in any IDE
Copilot Chat in VS Code & JetBrains
Code referencing filter
CLI integration
Free for verified students
Requires a GitHub account. No org needed.
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GitHub Copilot Enterprise
$ 39 / user / month
All Business features
Copilot Chat trained on your codebase
Pull request summaries
Custom model fine-tuning
Enterprise documentation search
Requires GitHub Enterprise Cloud.
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Copilot Credits power Copilot Studio agents. Credits are consumed each time an agent performs a task or generates a response. 25,000 credits = approx. 25,000 standard agent interactions. Official pricing
Copilot Studio via M365 Copilot
£ 23.10 / user / month
Copilot Studio included at no extra cost
Build & deploy internal agents within M365
Unlimited internal workflow interactions
Teams, SharePoint & M365 app channels
Power Platform admin management
Internal use only — no external channels
Paid yearly. Requires qualifying M365 Business or Enterprise plan.
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Copilot Studio — Pay-as-you-go
Usage / billed by credits used
No upfront commitment
Pay only for what you use
Build agents for external channels
Publish to websites, apps & social platforms
Reach users without an M365 licence
Monthly flexible billing
Requires Azure subscription. Ideal for variable or pilot workloads.
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Security Copilot — Standalone
$ 4 / SCU / hour
Security Compute Units (SCU) based
Embedded in Defender XDR
Incident summarisation & triage
Script & threat analysis
Natural language KQL query generation
Minimum 1 SCU/hr recommended per analyst.
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Five Steps to Launch

Our proven deployment process gets your organisation up and running with Copilot in weeks, not months.

01

Readiness Assessment

Evaluate your M365 environment, data governance, and security posture.

02

Licence Procurement

Select the right plans, assign licences to pilot users, and configure policies.

03

Pilot & Feedback

Run a 30-day pilot with a cross-functional group and capture adoption metrics.

04

Training & Adoption

Deliver role-based training, champion networks, and prompt libraries.

05

Scale & Optimise

Roll out org-wide, monitor ROI dashboards, and expand with Studio agents.

Common Questions

Quick answers to the questions we hear most often.

Do I need a Microsoft 365 licence to use Copilot?

Yes — Microsoft 365 Copilot (£23.10/user/month, paid yearly) requires an eligible base licence: M365 Business Standard, Business Premium, E3, or E5. The free web-based Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com does not require an M365 licence and is available to anyone with a Microsoft account. GitHub Copilot and Security Copilot are separately licensed and do not depend on M365.

Can I licence Copilot for only some users in my organisation?

Absolutely. Microsoft 365 Copilot licences are per-user add-ons, so you can assign them selectively to specific roles, teams, or departments without requiring an org-wide rollout. This makes it straightforward to start with a pilot group of 10–50 power users, measure impact, and expand from there. There is no minimum seat count for the add-on when you already hold eligible base licences.

What is Copilot Studio and how does it differ from M365 Copilot?

Microsoft 365 Copilot is a pre-built AI experience embedded in productivity apps like Word, Teams, and Outlook. Copilot Studio is a low-code development platform that lets you build custom AI agents tailored to your business — connecting to your own data, APIs, and line-of-business systems. M365 Copilot includes Copilot Studio at no extra cost for internal agents. For external-facing agents (on websites, apps, or social channels), you need a standalone Copilot Studio licence — either a Pre-Purchase pack (25,000 Copilot Credits for £153.80/month) or Pay-as-you-go via Azure.

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