Copilot Pro for Microsoft 365 customers now generally available.

Sumit 44,431 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2024-01-16T02:39:35+00:00

Bringing the full power of Copilot to more people and businesses - The Official Microsoft Blog

As we kick off a new year, we’re thrilled to see people increasingly using and loving Microsoft Copilot for work and life. Our goal is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more by bringing Copilot, the everyday AI companion, to millions of people around the world. We have reached another milestone in this mission with more than 5 billion chats and more than 5 billion images to date. As Copilot continues to earn preference and usage, we’re receiving valuable feedback on how to improve. Two examples: First, there are a set of Copilot power users like creators, researchers, programmers and others who want more rapid access to the very latest we have to offer. And second, our Microsoft 365 customers want access to Copilot in the Microsoft 365 apps for personal use.

To help address those needs, today we’re delighted to announce more options for power users, creators and anyone looking to take their Copilot experience to the next level. This begins with the introduction of Copilot Pro, a new premium subscription for individuals that provides a higher tier of service for AI capabilities, brings Copilot AI capabilities to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers, and new capabilities, such as the ability to create Copilot GPTs. We are also announcing the general availability of our Copilot app for iOS and Android phones. Finally, we’re excited to bring Copilot for Microsoft 365 to more commercial customers by expanding the availability to businesses of all sizes, including small- and medium-sized businesses, starting today.

Introducing Copilot Pro: Supercharge your creativity and productivity

Today we’re announcing the availability of Copilot Pro, a new subscription that delivers the most advanced features and capabilities of Microsoft Copilot to individuals looking to supercharge their Copilot experience. Whether you need advanced help with writing, coding, designing, researching or learning, Copilot Pro brings greater performance, productivity and creativity.

Copilot Pro provides:

  1. A single AI experience that runs across your devices, understanding your context on the web, on your PC, across your apps and soon on your phone to bring the right skills to you when you need them.
  2. Access to Copilot in Word, Excel[i], PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote on PC, Mac and iPad for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers.
  3. Priority access to the very latest models – starting today with OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo. With Copilot Pro you’ll have access to GPT-4 Turbo during peak times for faster performance and, coming soon, the ability to toggle between models to optimize your experience how you choose.
  4. Enhanced AI image creation with Image Creator from Designer (formerly Bing Image Creator) – ensuring it’s faster with 100 boosts per day while bringing you more detailed image quality as well as landscape image format.
  5. The ability to build your own Copilot GPT – a customized Copilot tailored for a specific topic – in our new Copilot GPT Builder (coming soon) with just a simple set of prompts.

You can subscribe to Copilot Pro today for $20 per month/per user.

Expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to businesses of all sizes

While Copilot Pro is our best experience for individuals, Copilot for Microsoft 365 is our best experience for organizations. Copilot for Microsoft 365 became generally available for enterprises in November. As we said earlier this year, 40% of the Fortune 100 participated in our Early Access Program, and since GA for enterprise, customers like Visa, BP, Honda, Pfizer, and partners like Accenture, KPMG and PwC are already using Copilot — which means thousands of people across industries and sectors have started working in new ways, with an AI-powered copilot at their side. Today we are excited to announce that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now available for organizations of all sizes — with no seat minimum. We are also enabling our partners to help every business become AI-powered.

Today’s updates include:

  1. Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now generally available for small businesseswith Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Business Standard Customers can purchase between one and 299 seats for $30 per person per month.
  2. We’re removing the 300-seat purchase minimum for commercial plans and making Copilot available forOffice 365 E3 and E5customers (A Microsoft 365 license was previously required).
  3. Commercial customers can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our amazing network of Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider partners.
  4. Last month, we also announced eligibility of Copilot for Microsoft 365 for education faculty and staff.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 is even more powerful for organizations because it works across your entire universe of data at work — including emails, meetings, chats, documents and more, plus the web. With natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” Copilot can generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads. Copilot is also integrated into the apps millions of people use every day, including Microsoft Teams (which is not available with Copilot Pro). Copilot jump-starts your creativity in Word, analyzes data in Excel, designs presentations in PowerPoint, triages your Outlook inbox, summarizes meetings in Teams – whether you attended or not – and so much more. Backed by enterprise-grade security, privacy, and compliance, and Microsoft’s Customer Copyright Commitment, we can’t wait to see how businesses of all sizes achieve more using AI. Learn more on the Microsoft 365 blog.

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  1. Diane Poremsky MVP 17,536 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2024-01-26T02:22:44+00:00

    Hi, I get this error too. I logged a ticket with Microsoft and after many days they said I'm unable to subscribe directly with Microsoft and have to subscribe via my reseller, which I don't want to do as I intend to move away from them.

    For other products I have been able to subscribe directly. Why not for Copilot for Microsoft 365?

    If this restriction is true, then it is a really silly policy.

    The restriction is most likely because it is linked with your OneDrive account and is in a different tenant or account when you purchase direct from Microsoft.

    Who is your provider and when does your account with them expire?

    For what it's worth, Copilot is kinda buggy IMHO - it might be worth waiting to get it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-26T14:24:46+00:00

    Hi guys, any idea how can I purchase Copilot Pro for $20 per month per user? I cannot find this option.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-27T01:07:10+00:00

    Hi, thanks Diane, no it's the same tenant and account - global admin. Can't see why this would have anything to do specifically with OneDrive. It is a MS365 for Business account, not personal, if that is relevant to what you said. Would rather not name the reseller, and definitely not keen to buy from them as MS requires an annual initial subscription.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-01-27T06:45:41+00:00

    Exact same issue. In the meantime I ended up buying copilot pro, but I want to see copilot in Teams and investigate the other advanced features. I’m in a loop right now between CSPs tier 1 and 2, telling me that the other one is the one that can provide me the license.

    Tier 2 doesn’t have the license in their catalog. Tier 1 has it, but can only sell it to tier 2… so I’m stuck in the not so well structured licensing process

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-01-27T06:54:18+00:00

    Hi there, I tried several things, and the only one that worked was to uninstall office apps and reinstall them via the “install apps” link at the right top corner of office.com.

    I tried:

    • changing the active license in all office apps (none worked)

    -Updating the license in the apps.

    -Signing out of all accounts but the one I purchased Copilot Pro for.

    It finally worked after removing office Apps, rebooting and manually updating the license in File-> Account

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