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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?
Ian_DrewMSFT
Microsoft
Microsofteshers 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.
- Can 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_DrewMSFT
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.
Ian_DrewMSFT Is the notebook feature generally available? I do not see this yet either at https://copilot.microsoft.com or in the sidebar in Microsoft Edge? Anything I have to do as an admin to enable it for our tenant?
- 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.
swin66 You'd need to upgrade to Microsoft 365 Business Standard first at £2.50+VAT a month, then you can add on Copilot which would be a further £24.70+VAT.
Ref: Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 requirements | Microsoft Learn
