Microsoft Copilot Cowork to Shift to Pay-As-You-Go Pricing or Introduce Azure Hosted Version of DeepSeek V4
Microsoft plans to introduce a self-hosted DeepSeek V4 in Copilot Cowork, creating a more cost-effective model option, and will fully transition to a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Previously, the agent based on Anthropic Claude faced a surge in inference tasks, leading to significant token consumption. The original fixed-rate pricing became unsustainable under heavy usage, with users performing hundreds of tasks per week.