What's New: Understanding Copilot Credit Consumptions for Your Business Central Agent
Copilot credit consumption for Business Central agents: how to view credits charged per agent, action, capability and task, and which permission sets are needed. Covers the agents list, the agent tasks list, task-level filtering, and how credits are bundled or bought.
- Introduction and Overview
- Understanding Copilot Credits
- Accessing Consumption Data - Agent List View
- Consumption Data Interface and Details
- Filtering and Analyzing Task-Specific Consumption
- Agent Tasks View and Permissions
- Permission Sets and Documentation
- Summary and Next Steps
Overview
The video explains how to assess what it costs to run a Business Central agent each month. Copilot credits are described as Microsoft’s unified currency for AI usage. Some licenses bundle free credits every month, and more can be obtained through pay-as-you-go billing or by pre-purchasing credits.
The demo opens the agents list, selects an agent and shows consumption data per action, capability and task. It then filters by task number to see all entries of a multi-turn task, and shows the agent tasks list with a total credits column. It closes with the permissions needed to see this data.
Key points
- Copilot credits are Microsoft’s unified currency for AI usage; certain licenses, including Business Central, bundle free credits each month.
- Extra credits can be obtained through pay-as-you-go billing or by pre-purchasing credits.
- Open the agents list, select an agent and use View consumption data to see credits per entry, capability, agent user, action and description. This works for custom-built agents and Microsoft-built agents such as the payables agent and sales order agent.
- The consumption view defaults to one month, with actions for previous/next month, jumping to the current month, and a custom date range; it shows entry count and total credits.
- Credit charges are decided per feature and differ per agent. Example: 50 credits for processing an e-document plus a per-line charge (spoken as ‘5 cents per line’, but the example shows four lines charged 20 credits, i.e. 5 credits per line).
- Click a task number to filter consumption to all entries of a multi-turn task, and follow a link to see all steps the task performed.
- The agent tasks list has a column on the far right showing total credits consumed per task, with drill-down into entries.
Features
| Feature | Status | At |
|---|---|---|
| Copilot credit consumption overview | status not stated, demoed | 1:58 |
| Agent consumption data in agents list | status not stated, demoed | 2:15 |
| Task-level consumption filtering | status not stated, demoed | 4:55 |
| Agent tasks consumption view | status not stated, demoed | 5:41 |
| Agent diagnostics permission set | status not stated | 6:26 |
| Copilot credits bundled with licenses | status not stated | 1:12 |
| Copilot credits pay-as-you-go and pre-purchase | status not stated | 1:23 |
AL objects mentioned
As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.
Not found in BC28-30: page “agents list”, page “agent tasks”.
Quotes
- 0:18 “I’m going to show to you how you can assess how much does it cost to run an agent per monthly basis and how”
- 0:50 “The co-pilot credits are Microsoft Unifi currency for AI usage.”
- 1:12 “They are bundled with certain licenses. You will receive free credits every month.”
- 1:39 “the different features are going to consume different amount of credits and this is completely decided per feature basis”
- 4:11 “So here you can see that it is E document number 10 and that we processed four lines. Thus we charged you 20 credits”
- 4:23 “we are charging 50 credits for processing E document and then we are charging 5 cents per line”
- 6:26 “you need to have agent diagnostics permission set assigned or a super user permission set assigned”
Presenters (as heard): Nicolola Kukria.