Agent 365

Agent 365 launched on May 1, 2026, at $15 per user per month as a standalone product distinct from Microsoft 365 Copilot. The distinction matters: Copilot is the AI assistant layer for end users in apps like Word, Excel, and Teams. Agent 365 is the control plane for the agents themselves, aimed at IT administrators, security teams, and AI governance leads who need to know what agents are deployed across an organization, what data they can access, what actions they can take, and how to shut them down if something goes wrong.

The product covers agents built on Microsoft AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, SharePoint, and third-party agents connected via Microsoft's agent ecosystem. Key capabilities include policy enforcement across agent behaviors, identity and access management for agents (who or what the agent can act as), audit logs, and risk monitoring. It was announced alongside the E7 Frontier Suite, a new enterprise license tier at $99 per user per month that bundles E5, Copilot, Agent 365, and Entra Suite.

For builders selling into enterprise accounts, Agent 365 is a buying-signal term. Enterprises asking about Agent 365 compatibility are signaling they're past the proof-of-concept phase and are thinking about governance, auditability, and risk management for AI agents at scale. If your product deploys agents inside Microsoft environments, being able to speak to how your agents surface in Agent 365's monitoring, and what policies they respect, is likely to become a procurement requirement.