Wait, Microsoft 365 Copilot costs 30$/user per month. Or are you talking about just "Copilot" wich does not have any integration inside Microsoft 365 Apps (Office apps like Powerpoint or Outlook).
One example was how our p1v3 ($0.17 listed) was much cheaper than our p1v2 ($0.11 listed) because our 3rd party agreement was set up that way. The most beautiful part about that, and these things in general, that nobody told our development teams this until around 3 months before we changed 3rd party vendor. A switch we also weren’t informed about, so we went from p1v2 to p1v3 and back again over a few months.
Similarly things like Microsoft teams, crazy amounts of SharePoint online document storage, PowerApps, 365 Copilot and so on, necessarily an increase in cost because they are included on the user licenses we pay per user which “bundles” things.
I can’t get much more technical on the actual pricing and licensing because it’s never been my field of expertise, and to be perfectly honest, I don’t really care about it. But things aren’t always as clear cut as the public price listings. When you drop a lot of money with Microsoft or Amazons AWS you get “features” that aren’t available to you or me.
It’s important to note that it’s not necessarily free just because it looks free on the budget, but budgets in enterprise organisations are a whole story of themselves.