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Power Apps Per User License-- What Does 500 AI Credits get you

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Posted on 22 Mar 2022 12:54:27 by 282

Right Now I'm just playing with the technology in prep for PL-200 Exam. What doe 500 AI Credits get you?

 

Also, does the Per User Plan give me any access to Power Virtual Agents or do I just have to keep using the Trial Versions?

 

 

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  • takolota1 Profile Picture
    4,859 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 15 Aug 2023 at 02:19:05
    Re: Power Apps Per User License-- What Does 500 AI Credits get you

     

    So I built this template that processes any document just using the less expensive image recognition AI Builder service & GPT.

    It seems much less expensive with a much lower barrier to entry only requiring a premium Power Automate license with 5000 AI Builder credits per month & some on-going LLM / GPT costs…

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Cookbook/Extract-Data-From-PDFs-and-Images-With-GPT/td-p/2201345/page/4

     

    If I’m looking at this right, this method should cost 

    Image recognition +.0017

    GPT prompt & output +.007

    Flow actions +.00375

    So about $ .013 per page.

    Less expensive than any of the other microsoft document/receipt/invoice processing options. And several of those take about 30 seconds to run. 
    And the 5000 AI Builder credits that come with the now $15 premium Power Automate license is enough for 1500 Image recognition pages. So you could probably process 500-750 documents per month with just 1 premium Power Automate license.


    So it seems this method is faster, less expensive, easier to adjust, & requires less set-up than other standard AI builder set-ups.

    Once the GPT actions are in general availability, I don’t know why I’d use any of the other services. 🤷‍

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    timl Profile Picture
    34,978 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 22 Mar 2022 at 15:23:14
    Re: Power Apps Per User License-- What Does 500 AI Credits get you

    @sonisick 

    The short answer is that 500 AI credits buys you very little. 1 unit @ $500 gives you 1,000,000 service credits, so you can use that to estimate how far 500 AI credits gets you.

     

    The licensing guide here offers a better explaination of how this works.

    https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=2085130&clcid=0x409

     

     

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  • sonisick Profile Picture
    282 on 22 Mar 2022 at 14:47:55
    Re: Power Apps Per User License-- What Does 500 AI Credits get you

    I got the same thing. I'm not sure what that is telling me. It's saying you can process 500 business cards for $500 bucks. How about my 500 AI Credits?

  • timl Profile Picture
    34,978 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 22 Mar 2022 at 14:25:20
    Re: Power Apps Per User License-- What Does 500 AI Credits get you

    Hi @sonisick 

    The best way to find out what 500 AI credits get you is to use the licensing calculator.

    Here, you can enter the number of operations you want to carry out, and it'll give you the unit cost. The per user plan doesn't give any access to PVA.

     

    https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/ai-builder-calculator/

     

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