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eshers
Jan 16, 2024Copper Contributor
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Offers/Pricing for Non Profits
Now that Copilot is being widely released for businesses of all sizes and personal use, is Microsoft planning on offering CoPilot for Microsoft 365 to Non Profits with discounted pricing?
- JezSaysBrass ContributorJust saw that Microsoft is now providing Copilot to NFPs, as to whether this is only specific for the US or worldwide not sure.
One Microsoft partner is showcasing a Teams session on the 21st of March, so may be worth a look - https://nonprofits.tsi.microsoft.com/EN-US/SmartdescMicrosoftCopilotandnonprofitlicensing/ - Ian_DrewMSFTMicrosoft
eshers thank you for the question but at this time there will not be a nonprofit price. Instead, nonprofits that see value in Copilot would need to make use of the commercial offer, but the base offer licence e.g. Microsoft 365 Business Premium etc can be a nonprofit offer.
- swin66Copper ContributorCan you clarify what you mean, please? We are a newly formed charity and have the basic MS offering that is essentially free for us. Can we use copilot as part of the offering that MS gives us without spending anything?
- Ian_DrewMSFTMicrosoft
swin66 Alongside the clarity that Rupert offered, it's worth noting the following:
- If you are using Microsoft 365 Business Basic then you can already make use of the free version of Copilot (what was called Bing Chat Enterprise) which keeps any data that you paste into the chat secure and does not track your history. Also using the new 'Notebook' capability (Top of the Copilot screen) then you can use up to 18000 characters rather than the standard 2000 to help you to write more complex prompts and include more pasted content.
- If you do want to get access to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and it's enhanced features then you could move from Business Basic to Business Premium which is free for the first 10 users, and then add the licence of Copilot as shared earlier.
- If you are using Microsoft 365 Business Basic then you can already make use of the free version of Copilot (what was called Bing Chat Enterprise) which keeps any data that you paste into the chat secure and does not track your history. Also using the new 'Notebook' capability (Top of the Copilot screen) then you can use up to 18000 characters rather than the standard 2000 to help you to write more complex prompts and include more pasted content.
- JillArmourMicrosoftCommunity Manager
Grace_Chang Risa_Coleman Ian_DrewMSFT Can you help here? Thank you!