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Licensing for document processing for Microsoft 365
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In October 2025, Microsoft announced a progressive end of AI Builder credits. Learn more in the End of AI Builder credits article.
Microsoft 365 offers flexible, scalable document processing services through a pay-as-you-go licensing model. This model is ideal for organizations seeking agility without upfront commitments.
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For Government Community Cloud (GCC) organizations, pay-as-you-go licensing-and the services that require pay-as-you-go licensing-aren't yet available. GCC organizations can continue to purchase and use per-user licenses until pay-as-you-go becomes available.
Benefits of pay-as-you-go licensing
No upfront license purchase: Use services as needed-only pay when services are used. Learn more about pay-as-you-go pricing.
Organization-wide access: Any user in your tenant can use the services, provided they have a Microsoft 365 license.
Azure-based billing: Use your active Azure subscription for billing. Learn more about setting up billing and the terms of service.
Document processing services
The following pay-as-you-go services are currently available for document processing:
- Autofill columns
- Document translation
- eSignature
- Optical character recognition
- Content assembly
- Image tagging
- Taxonomy tagging
- Prebuilt document processing
- Structured and freeform document processing
- Unstructured document processing
Other features
The following features are also available to support your document processing workflows:
- Content query - Search and filter content based on metadata.
- Annotations - Add notes and comments to content for collaboration and review.
- Content processing rules - Automate actions and workflows based on content conditions.
- Solution accelerators - Use prebuilt templates to speed up site creation and deployment.
- Taxonomy tools - Manage and import term sets and content types to organize content effectively.
If you still have active per-user licenses
Per-user licenses for these services are no longer available for purchase. However:
- Existing licenses can still be assigned to new users.
- Once expired, you must switch to pay-as-you-go to continue using services.
If you still have an active per-user license, you can continue to:
- Apply unstructured models to libraries.
- Create prebuilt, structured, and freeform models.
- Upload content to libraries with applied models.
- Run models on demand.
- Use content assembly and taxonomy services.
- Use content query and annotations.
- Use document library rules for automation.
For structured or freeform models in a custom Power Platform environment, see Set up a custom Power Platform environment.
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