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Consumption-based pricing for SharePoint agents
Completely agree - not what we were expecting at all. We haven't enabled SharePoint Agents for other reasons (complete lack of governance controls, etc.) but this seals the deal for us unfortunately.
Hi grant_jenkins - Appreciate you taking the time to respond. I'll message you directly with my email, as I'd love to better understand your perspective on the "complete lack of governance controls, etc." SharePoint agents are governed and managed like any other SharePoint file, with the same governance, security, and management capabilities. If your concern is that we need to do more, I would better understand your point (and agree to some extent). We look forward to addressing in the very near future via new features and a blog dedicated directly to this topic.
- tb1978Mar 26, 2025Brass Contributor
grant_jenkins- I agree and we are in a similar situation. There is no way we can enable PAYG billing when there is no way to:
- Control the users who can use it (with ~90k users the cost will spiral rapidly)
- Control the site(s) on which agents can appear - using Restricted Content Discovery is too "heavy handed" - we'd like to be able to enable/disable agents per site
- Control / cap the consumption per agent / site - again, to control cost spiral
- Better cost segregation - we need some way to back-bill the costs to business based on site / user
- SDBWAug 01, 2025Copper Contributor
This is exactly the questions we have too. The cost cannot be easily controlled and allocated (chargeback) to the business units, or reporting units.