Comparison table
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| Product | Billing unit | Headline list price | Status | Biggest trap | Verified |
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| Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft · Assistant + agents (per user) | Per user per month (annual commitment). Agent use by unlicensed users is metered in Copilot Credits. | £23.10 user/month, paid yearly | verified | From 1 Dec 2026, new Copilot Business licences bought through a CSP have usage-based billing ON by default, with a default limit of 4,000 Copilot Credits per user per month (about $40/user/month at $0.01/credit). Set your own limit, or 0 to switch it off. | 17 Oct 2026 |
| Copilot Studio (Copilot Credits) Microsoft · Agent platform (consumption) | Copilot Credits, pooled per tenant. Prepaid packs of 25,000 credits/month, pay-as-you-go meter via Azure, or pre-purchase Commit Units. | £153.80 per 25,000-credit pack/month | verified | Unused pack credits do not roll over. A pack bought for a quiet month is money lost. | 17 Oct 2026 |
| Microsoft Agent 365 Microsoft · Agent governance / control plane | Per user per month (annual commitment). Licensed per human user who interacts with, owns, manages or sponsors agents, not per agent. | £11.50 user/month, paid yearly | verified | Standalone purchase needs a prerequisite licence: Microsoft 365 E5/A5/G5, Business Premium, or the Defender + Purview suites. | 17 Oct 2026 |
| Salesforce Agentforce (Flex Credits) Salesforce · Agent platform (consumption) | Flex Credits per action (20 credits per standard/custom action, 30 per Voice action). Alternatives: per-conversation, per-user licence, or unmetered add-ons. | £400 per 100,000 Flex Credits | verified | Unused Flex Credits do not roll over into the next subscription term. | 17 Oct 2026 |
| ServiceNow Now Assist ServiceNow · ITSM/CSM/HR agents (tier + consumption) | Bundled into the Foundation / Advanced / Prime tiers (from 9 Apr 2026), with usage metered in 'assists' from a tenant-level pool. Overages may be invoiced. | Not published quote only | not published | Legacy SKUs (Standard, Pro, Pro Plus, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus) reached end of sale on 1 Jul 2026, so renewals move to the new tiers. | 17 Oct 2026 |
| Gemini Enterprise Google Cloud · Assistant + agents (per seat) | Per seat per month by edition (Business, Standard, Plus), with quotas and overages. | $21 (USD) seat/month (Business, 'starting at') | verified | No sterling list price: UK buyers pay a USD-denominated or quoted price, so FX moves the bill. | 17 Oct 2026 |
| ChatGPT Enterprise OpenAI · Assistant + agents (seat + credits) | Contracted seats plus a shared workspace credit pool for advanced features (Deep Research, Thinking models, image gen, Codex). Some agreements bill tokens in USD instead. | Not published quote only | not published | Enterprise credit pools have no per-seat caps by default. Set group spend controls with RBAC. | 17 Oct 2026 |
| Claude Enterprise Anthropic · Assistant + agents (seat + usage) | Per seat per month (billed annually) for access, plus all usage billed at standard API token rates. No included token allowance. | $20 (USD) seat/month + usage at API rates | verified | The seat fee includes zero usage; every token is billed on top. | 17 Oct 2026 |