Microsoft shifts Copilot Cowork to usage-based billing and considers DeepSeek (opens in new tab)

Microsoft is transitioning its Copilot Cowork enterprise tool to a usage-based pricing model to manage the high costs of agentic AI. This shift replaces flat-rate subscriptions for the service, which currently utilizes Anthropic’s Claude technology for complex reasoning tasks. The change follows a similar billing adjustment recently implemented for GitHub Copilot to better align revenue with actual token consumption. <a href="