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Is there a less expensive way to purchase AI Builder Credits?

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I am looking for a less expensive way to purchase AI Builder credits than AI Builder Capacity add-on (1M credits for CAD $640).

We are not going to use more than 100K credits per month.  It is my understanding they expire at the end of the month and need to be re-purchased.

 

Does anyone have any ideas?

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  • CedrickB Profile Picture
    Moderator on at
    Re: Is there a less expensive way to purchase AI Builder Credits?

    See Solved: Re: So much confusion on AI Builder Licensing - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)

  • takolota1 Profile Picture
    4,890 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    Re: Is there a less expensive way to purchase AI Builder Credits?

    @Peter_M @FacundoS @CedrickB 

     

    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. 🤷‍

  • FacundoS Profile Picture
    19 on at
    Re: Is there a less expensive way to purchase AI Builder Credits?

    Exactly! I'm looking forward to implement Ai builder to precess invoices, but with U$S 500 per month, in Argentina, you can pay 2 salaries for people processing invoices. 

     

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
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    Re: Is there a less expensive way to purchase AI Builder Credits?

    Thanks. None of that solves our problem, unfortunately.

    • Power Apps licenses have ridiculously low number of credits per license.
    • Power Automate RPA costs more than the AI Builder pack for the amount of credits we need.

    Until there is an economical solution for mid-range businesses with AI credit consumption in the 50K to 100K range per month, I'm afraid the uptake on this feature will be low.

  • CedrickB Profile Picture
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    Re: Is there a less expensive way to purchase AI Builder Credits?

    You get credits with Power Apps per user and per app plans (respectively 250 and 500 credits per license) or with Power Automate RPA (5,000 per license)

    It could be an alternative.

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