Copilot pay-as-you-go requires a billing policy and is off by default
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- Microsoft Learn (last updated 2026-08-18): billing is set up by adding a billing policy (an Azure subscription and a set of users) and connecting it to a Copilot service; "By default, pay-as-you-go billing is disabled." The service "gets billed through the Azure subscription that you specified when you set up pay-as-you-go billing."
- Applies when
- Metered Copilot Chat agents, SharePoint agents or Retrieval API use.
- Applies to
- Microsoft Copilot Chat; SharePoint agents; Microsoft Copilot Retrieval API (Preview)
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