BUILT BY SEGMENTUM · COWORK COST GUIDE
How many Copilot Credits does a tender response use?
A tender or RFP response first draft is heavy Cowork work - roughly 800 to 2,000 Copilot Credits, about £6.30 to £15.80 per submission. Set against what a tender actually costs a business to produce - estimator weeks, bid-team evenings - it's the most lopsided price on this site.
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
The evidence base drives the cost. A tender response is built from what you already hold - old bids, case studies, method statements, team CVs, policy documents - and Cowork's job is finding, matching and assembling it against the question set. More questions, more retrieval, more credits. A four-question PQQ sits at the floor; a forty-question framework submission at the ceiling.
Unlike most tasks on this site, this one doesn't average - it arrives in bursts. A quarter with three live bids might spend £20 to £50 on drafting; the next quarter, nothing. Budget it against the pipeline, not the calendar, and use spending alerts so a heavy bid season reads as good news rather than a billing surprise. One discipline matters more here than anywhere: tenders fail on wrong answers, and an assembled draft can be confidently out of date. Every claim gets checked against the current question, by a person who'll stand behind it.
Common questions
What does it need from us to draft well?
Your bid library: previous responses, case studies, method statements, certifications. The better organised that library is in SharePoint, the better and cheaper the drafts.
Can it answer a whole question set?
It can draft against each question from your material - and it will attempt all of them, including ones where your library is thin. The thin answers are where human work concentrates.
Why does our spend spike some months?
Bids are bursty and heavy. That's the shape of the work. Alerts and per-person caps make the spikes deliberate.
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.