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I am taking the PL-200, PL-400 and PL-600 certification exams and I need to be able to learn AI Builder. However, the instructions for how to get a trial no longer work as there is no "Start free trial button" to get a 30 day trial. Here is a screenshot of the instructions. Does anybody know how to get an AI Builder trial at this point? Thanks, Kathryn

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Hi @kbirstein ,

Please try:

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kbirstein 130 on at

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Hi Bof,

The problem is that I don't get this link. Refer to the screenshot below. I believe it is because I have 500 AI credits. I believe these were added when I purchased one Power Apps Per User license because these 500 credits also appeared on a colleagues' tenant. The AI Builder documentation says that if a tenant has ANY credits they can't have a AI Builder trial account. This policy is preventing those of us who would like to get certified from learning AI Builder because as you can imagine, you basically can't do anything with only 500 credits. Surely there is someway around this issue? I know Microsoft is very interested in people becoming certified. However, people like me can't spend $500 a month to get 1 million credits in order to learn AI Builder. . .

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kbirstein 130 on at

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This is the Microsoft docs information about not being able to get an AI BUILDER TRIAL if you have any AI Builder credits. PLEASE MICROSOFT, STOP GIVING 500 AI BUILDER CREDITS WHEN A USER BUYS A POWER APPS PER USER LICENSE!!!!!! THEY ARE USELESS AND THIS PREVENTS ME FROM HAVING AN AI BUILDER TRIAL!!!! I SHOULD NOT HAVE PURCHASED THE ONE LICENSE I HAVE!!!! WHAT A MISTAKE!!! BEWARE CONSULTANTS!!!

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OK, so here's the solution. The use case is to extract data from PDFs. Although it would be MUCH EASIER to use AI Builder, we are going to use Adobe PDF Extract API (for which we CAN get a trial) to get the data out of the PDFS, BECUASE WE DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO AN AI BUILDER TRIAL to see how it would work with AI Builder and the client doesn't want to spend $500 just to test this out. Way to go Microsoft!!

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@v-bofeng-msft @kbirstein

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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Thanks takolota! I'll try this out. . .

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