BUILT BY SEGMENTUM · COWORK COST GUIDE
How many Copilot Credits does building a presentation use?
Building a presentation is typically a medium-to-heavy Cowork task - roughly 600 to 1,500 Copilot Credits, which is about £4.70 to £11.90 per presentation at Microsoft's pay-as-you-go rate. What moves the number isn't the length of the deck - it's how much material Cowork has to gather before it starts building.
What this task adds up to
One person, one task is easy. The monthly picture is what matters - put in how often this actually happens in your business.
Usage only - licences come on top, and every person needs one. Credit ranges are directional; run the task and check /cost in Cowork for your real figure. $0.01 per credit at roughly £1 = $1.27, ex-VAT. Last verified 13 July 2026.
What drives the cost
A deck built from one document you hand over sits at the cheap end of the range. Ask Cowork to research the topic first - pull from your files, meetings, emails and the web, then build the deck - and you're at the expensive end, because every retrieval step spends credits. Ten slides or forty makes less difference than you'd expect; the gathering costs more than the making.
The other lever is the model doing the work. Heavier reasoning models spend more credits per step, so a deck that needs careful thinking through costs more than one that's mostly assembly.
Across a month it adds up in a way per-task figures hide. One person building a deck a week is spending roughly £19 to £47 a month on this task - real money, but cheap against the hours it replaces if each deck genuinely used to take an afternoon. Put your own frequency in below, and scale it up if more of your team works this way. That trade, not the per-deck price, is the number worth judging.
Common questions
Does a longer deck cost more?
A little, but length matters less than research. A 40-slide deck from material you provide usually costs less than a 10-slide deck Cowork has to research from scratch.
Is it cheaper to build decks in Copilot chat instead?
Often, yes - standard Copilot in PowerPoint is covered by the licence you're already paying for. Cowork earns its usage cost when the job is genuinely multi-step: research, then structure, then build, unattended. If you just need slides from a document, the licence you already have may do.
Can I see what a task actually cost after it ran?
Yes - the /cost command in Cowork shows the credits a session used. Worth running on your first few decks to replace these directional figures with your own real ones.
BEFORE YOU COMMIT
That's the cost. The harder question is whether it's the answer.
A new tool sitting on top of an estate that nobody fully understands usually adds cost, not clarity. So before you commit the budget, it's worth asking a simpler question: is Cowork actually your constraint, or is it something underneath it? We help established UK businesses get a clear view of what they're running - and whether the next bit of spend earns its place.
Pricing and defaults last verified
13 July 2026
against Microsoft's published documentation.
Figures use Microsoft list pricing ($0.01 per Copilot Credit, billed in US dollars) converted at roughly £1 = $1.27, ex-VAT. Usage defaults come from Microsoft's Cowork Frontier programme data. This is a budgeting aid, not a quote - confirm current pricing with Microsoft. This is an independent tool built by Segmentum and is not produced or endorsed by Microsoft. "Microsoft 365", "Copilot" and "Cowork" are trademarks of Microsoft, used for identification only.