Admin control for "Request Access" vs "Learn More" for Code and Autopilot

Sohna, Microsoft has now documented the replacement setting, in a page updated on 16 October. The path is Copilot > Settings > All Settings > Access to usage-based billing experiences. Under the spending-policy request options, choose No users for the Learn More experience, or select the users and groups allowed to request access. Microsoft says changes can take up to 24 hours and currently lists Global Administrator as the required role for this setting. The instructions are here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/request-access-usage-based-billing-experiences .
This is separate from configuring the spending policy in Cost Management, so the earlier reply addresses the billing side rather than this specific request control. I would verify it with an account that has no spending policy, after the propagation window.
In my published PALO Framework and its documented AI FinOps model (https://paloframework.org/PALO_FinOps.html), I keep request eligibility, approval, budget allocation and actual consumption as separate records. For your rollout this means naming who reviews requests, which workload budget they belong to and when access is reviewed again. The PALO local FinOps module is a reference for that accounting and evidence model; it does not configure or enforce Microsoft tenant settings.