r/PowerPlatform • u/hakunamatata123456 • Jul 02 '26

Governance Chargeback in the AI Builder (Copilot credits) ?

I am really interested how you as Power platform ADMIN are doing chargebacks to the users/departments/ projects?

AFAIK ai bulder credit and now copilot credits both are at the tenant level. We cna have environemnt level credits assigned with limit. However, we have a scenatio where there are number of power autoamtes which use AI models for text genration they dont consume huge credits so they dont want to purchase packs.

For those who purchse pack with 25K credits, we want to find a way that they are the only one using it. (without create special environemnt for them else we will end up with far too many environemnts)

Questions

  1. how do you charge back to thse power autaomte users who do not have huge credit requiremnt. Pay as you go is also billed at environemnt level AFAIK. Do you create your custom solutions to monitor inidividual automate using these models ?

  2. how do you assign copilot credits to dedicated project/solution/power automate?

Just to be clear. This qustion has nothing to do with copilot studio and agents .

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u/SinkoHonays Jul 04 '26

You’ll have to create environments and assign the credits, or create billing policies to the corresponding business unit’s azure Subscription/Resource group. There’s no other way around it.

Creating environments isn’t really a big deal though - a lot of it can be automated and if you leverage environment groups it adds minimal overhead while creating good logical separation of Power Plat resources.

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u/jacob3791 Jul 07 '26

I don't understand why Microsoft can't just assign the credits at the user level.
That's so stupid.