Expense Agent just got half as expensive, and you can now try it for free

 

If you skipped Directions EMEA, you missed the most practical Expense Agent news since it went into preview: the per-expense cost is being cut in half, and a free trial is coming so you can evaluate the agent without opening a billing conversation first.

What changed

Two things, both landing with version 29.1.

The first is pricing. Expense Agent currently consumes 50 Copilot Credits per receipt processed, flat, no matter how many lines come out of it. That drops to 25. At the pay-as-you-go rate of $0.01 per credit, you go from roughly $0.50 per receipt to $0.25.

For a company putting 250 receipts a month through the agent, that’s 12,500 credits down to 6,250. About $125 a month becomes about $62.50.

The second is a trial: 50 expenses free per environment. Same shape as the Payables Agent trial Microsoft shipped recently with its 50 free invoice uploads. You get to run the full workflow, extraction through categorization through expense report creation, on real receipts.

Why now matters

Expense Agent goes GA in December. Right now it’s in preview worldwide, which means the gap between today and GA is the cheapest time you’ll ever have to form an opinion about it.