Microsoft announced today the availability and prices of Microsoft 365 Copilot for businesses. This makes Copilot for Microsoft 365 available to businesses of all sizes, including small and medium-sized businesses, with no minimum number of seats required. It also enables its partners, such as Alistar, to help any business become AI-powered.
Last year, Microsoft Copilot was already available to companies with at least 300 users. Customers such as Visa, BP, Honda, and Pfizer, and partners such as Accenture and KPMG, have been using Copilot for some time now, which means that thousands of people across various industries and sectors have already discovered this new way of working, with an AI-powered copilot by their side. Now it’s time for the rest of us!
Availability and Pricing for Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business
- Copilot for Microsoft 365 is generally available for small businesses with Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Business Standard.
- Customers can purchase 1 to 299 seats for about 30 euros per person per month.
- The minimum purchase requirement of 300 seats for commercial plans is being eliminated, and Copilot will be available to Office 365 E3 and E5 customers (previously, a Microsoft 365 license was required).
- Commercial customers can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider partners.
New features in Copilot:
As Microsoft expands Copilot's availability, it's also offering a free trial for anyone who wants to try Copilot. Microsoft shared additional updates about Copilot. You can try it out for yourself at copilot.microsoft.com
Copilot GPTs: With Copilot GPTs, you can customize Microsoft Copilot’s behavior to focus on a topic that interests you. Starting today, a number of Copilot GPTs are being rolled out with specific topics such as fitness, travel, cooking, and more. Soon, Copilot Pro users will also be able to create their own Copilot GPTs using Copilot GPT Builder.
Copilot mobile app: The mobile app is now available for Android and iOS. With the Copilot app, you have access to the power of Copilot on the go, since you can use Copilot queries and chats on both your phone and your PC. The Copilot mobile app offers the same features as Copilot on your PC, including access to GPT-4, Dall-E 3 for creating images, and the ability to use images from your phone during chats with Copilot.
Copilot in the Microsoft 365 mobile app: Copilot has been added to the Microsoft 365 mobile app for Android and iOS for anyone with a Microsoft account. This new feature will be rolled out over the next month. You have direct access to Copilot within the app, and you can easily export the content you create to a Word or PDF document.
Achieve More with AI and Copilot
Copilot boosts your creativity in Word, analyzes data in Excel, designs presentations in PowerPoint, checks your Outlook inbox, summarizes meetings in Teams—whether you were there or not—and much more. With natural-language prompts like “Tell my team how we’ve updated the product strategy,” Copilot can generate a status update based on that morning’s meetings, emails, and chat conversations.
Backed by enterprise-grade security, privacy, and compliance, as well as Microsoft’s Customer Copyright Commitment, every business of any size can now achieve more with the help of AI.
Copilot Pro
Copilot Pro, a new subscription that offers the most advanced features and capabilities of Microsoft Copilot to consumers who want to enhance their Copilot experience. Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers will also be able to use the AI tool in Microsoft Office apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote and Teams. A subscription to Copilot Pro will cost about 20 euros per user per month.
