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What do scheduled Cowork tasks actually cost?
A scheduled task costs the same as its one-off equivalent - 100 to 700 credits per run for most light and medium work, £0.80 to £5.50 - but it runs without being asked, on the cadence you set. A daily morning digest is thirty runs a month: £24 to £166 a month, per schedule. Scheduling turns a task price into a subscription.
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
Cadence times weight drives the cost. A weekly light digest is a few pounds a month and easy to justify forever. A daily medium-weight report is a standing £70-ish line that nobody remembers switching on. Multiply by the number of scheduled tasks across a team and this becomes the quietest route to a surprising bill - not because any run is expensive, but because nothing about it asks permission twice.
The discipline is a review habit: list the schedules, monthly, and make each one re-earn its place. The admin centre shows spend by person, which surfaces the enthusiast with nine daily digests soon enough. Scheduled tasks are also where Cowork is at its best - the report that happens whether or not anyone remembered is a genuinely different thing from a report someone has to start. Pay for that deliberately.
Common questions
Do scheduled tasks cost more per run?
No - same task, same credits. The difference is that runs accumulate on a timetable instead of on demand.
How do we stop schedule sprawl?
Monthly review of what's scheduled, per-person spending caps, and a rule that every schedule has an owner. If nobody would miss it, cancel it.
What's worth scheduling first?
The recurring report someone always assembles late - weekly status, Monday pipeline summary, morning inbox digest. Things with a deadline and a sigh attached.
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.