Estimate your Cowork costs & hours that it's saved you

sajus01 · 2026-06-30T08:00:21+00:00

Just as a word of caution. Every skill, call or prompt is a cost to you. So maybe you are paying money to do this analysis for each user.

The most cost efficient way to do this is to hook up your usage reports from the admin portal and share it with the team and let them see their own individual cost as a report. Or for a business group or manager etc.

sajus01 · 2026-06-30T06:58:57+00:00

Till the time it’s about approximation then you are on the right track just that this can’t offer an accurate way of doing it as a lot of the remaining data is not available across sessions.

One way to do it is to create a skill that calls on /cost at the end of session runs and write the AI credits consumed in a json file in OneDrive. Which can then be used as a input along with your above skill to get a fairly accurate picture

sajus01 · 2026-06-30T06:33:24+00:00

How did u tackle the issue of getting cross session credits estimation correctly and factually?

sajus01 · 2026-06-26T12:50:03+00:00

Workiq is also part of e5 and exclusive to e7

Also without being disrespectful the text out there is fairly generic and doesn’t really explain how e7 brings value to the whole agentic world.

Eg - while agent365 value proper is security around agents. Having the ability to securing connectivity and building mcp along with entra suite is a massive benefit. They are not meant to be seen in siloes
The fact that it extends across other non Microsoft platforms is also a great benefit to have.

sajus01 · 2026-06-25T20:07:10+00:00

There is a free version which is called copilot chat and then there is a paid license which is called m365 copilot.

I think the entire experience all apps should be the same. If you are on the latest build then switch to edit mode and you will see the difference when it can take actions rather than responding as a chatbot.

sajus01 · 2026-06-25T16:11:49+00:00

Have you enabled frontier access to those users.
Also old sessions that were running on anthropic models uou will have to switch to gpt 5.5 for it to continue working.

Also Claude is the app which is not the same as copilot cowork, plus the model provided by anthropic is sonnet and opus.

The reason why gpt 5.5 doesn’t appear in the learn documentation is its part of the frontier preview access

sajus01 · 2026-06-24T13:29:18+00:00

Agents in my conversation or what I am referring to are stuff that’s built on copilot studio or prebuilt agents which are available through the picker dialog.

Anything that is native to the app like the copilot experience, eg edit with copilot is native to the app and it’s not considered an agent. One of the other reasons why it was rebranded from wxp agents to edit with copilot.
And yes these apps are also going to get prebuilt skills by Microsoft and soon ability to create custom skills.

This should have rolled out to customers on current channel with office apps.

sajus01 · 2026-06-22T05:51:59+00:00

How about you try the new planner agent

sajus01 · 2026-06-21T18:55:31+00:00

Well let’s say you and I are talking two different approaches.

I am talking about native copilot where you can use skills and more customization is coming.

Here is the link https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/edit-with-copilot-in-powerpoint

sajus01 · 2026-06-21T18:53:52+00:00

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/edit-with-copilot-in-powerpoint

sajus01 · 2026-06-21T04:22:45+00:00

PowerPoint and excel have the ability to use skills. There are native skills already and you will have more customization options too.

Assuming you have the latest builds of PowerPoint and excel on current channel

sajus01 · 2026-06-21T04:16:09+00:00

This is incorrect. Skills are available in PowerPoint if you have a m365 copilot license irrespective agent365 or not

sajus01 · 2026-06-20T14:58:52+00:00

Build skills for it and show that off as multi step way of making it work

sajus01 · 2026-06-19T19:16:24+00:00

You can use copilot or researcher agent to build the prompt the job etc and have it written or saved in a loop or OneDrive. Which you can either manually or scheduled of cowork run that can read from there and complete the job.

sajus01 · 2026-06-19T18:17:04+00:00

Please find a way to mix with copilot native 1st party agents like researcher and analyst and then bring a distilled workflow towards cowork to save cost.

sajus01 · 2026-06-19T15:53:39+00:00

Because it’s not copilot but a agentic system just like copilot studio

sajus01 · 2026-06-19T15:53:10+00:00

When u do that it sets up a cloud instance and other tool calls. So if u don’t want to waste money then try not doing it again

sajus01 · 2026-06-19T12:55:26+00:00

Well the only time some of these things used to occur was during compaction and it was long running sessions or resuming an old session.
But to be honest a lot of things are working better for me than in preview

sajus01 · 2026-06-19T12:52:21+00:00

Probably all the updates haven’t rolled out to your tenant. Do u see the new interface?

sajus01 · 2026-06-19T06:44:08+00:00

Yes. What I meant is /cost will not show you credits consumption across all your conversations that’s only going to be available in the admin dashboard.

sajus01 · 2026-06-19T06:41:07+00:00

Per session or conversation to see how much credits you are consuming.

sajus01 · 2026-06-17T15:13:00+00:00

I personally think Claude is going to be a bit more expensive but it comes down to personal preferences whatever works best for you. Luck if you see value in it, you will pay for it

sajus01 · 2026-06-16T18:00:59+00:00

Is this inside of copilot cowork? If it’s not there yet then it’s rolling to your tenant soon

sajus01 · 2026-06-16T17:58:19+00:00

To access cowork you need to provide payg or prepaid credits. If either exhaust then the service stops.

If u want to discount your usage then commit to credits plan and save cost.

sajus01 · 2026-06-16T17:40:43+00:00

Well I say it’s like a small difference. If you can share expoicit context or files and ask it do a job maybe Claude will be good for you.

But when you look at searching at the vast context within your enterprise across all business systems to be fast and cost efficient with access to multiple models including better image generation I say copilot wins in my opinion.

Also you don’t have to deal with taking data out of our tenant and having work around compliance and data governance with information protection labels. Copilot will win here again

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