I solely reported final week that Microsoft was about to shake up its Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing, and now the corporate has officially revealed that its gross sales, service, and finance Copilots are being bundled into Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Microsoft at the moment provides enterprise Copilot entry for $30 per person per 30 days, and in order for you the additional Copilot for Gross sales, Service, and Finance choices, these have been a standalone additional $20 per person. Beginning in October, all three might be out there for all Microsoft 365 Copilot customers at no additional value from the Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Retailer.
This transfer takes the worth of most of Microsoft’s high AI instruments all the way down to $30 per person per 30 days, as a substitute of the $50 per person per 30 days some companies needed to pay for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot for Gross sales, Service, and Finance collectively.
Microsoft is positioning this internally as a strategy to simplify its Copilot subscriptions for companies, whereas it pushes forward with extra AI brokers inside its productiveness suite. Agent 365, which is because of be introduced at Microsoft Ignite in accordance with sources, is being developed as a set of instruments to handle AI brokers and make sure the safety and compliance necessities of companies are met.
Microsoft can also be reportedly planning to make use of Anthropic’s AI fashions for some options in Microsoft 365. The Information reviews that the Microsoft 365 Copilot might be “partly powered by Anthropic fashions,” after Microsoft discovered that a few of these fashions outperformed OpenAI in Excel and PowerPoint. It’s a shock transfer, particularly provided that Microsoft will reportedly pay Anthropic for entry to its fashions by way of AWS. It’s additionally a giant admission that OpenAI’s GPT-5 mannequin has been disappointing, in comparison with a few of Claude Sonnet 4’s options.