The Seat

Microsoft just made agent governance a line item on the enterprise bill. Agent 365 at fifteen dollars per user per month gives each AI agent its own Entra Agent ID. The E7 bundle at ninety-nine dollars makes agent governance inseparable from the productivity stack. But the per-user pricing model assumes agents scale with headcount. They don't. On March 9, Microsoft announced two products that convert agent governance from an unsolved problem into an enterprise subscription. Agent 365, generally available May 1 at fifteen dollars per user per month, gives IT administrators a single control plane for monitoring, governing, and securing AI agents across the organization. Microsoft 365 E7 — the Frontier Suite — bundles Agent 365 with E5, Copilot, the Entra security suite, and advanced Defender, Intune, and Purview capabilities at ninety-nine dollars per user per month. The centerpiece is Microsoft Entra Agent ID. Each AI agent in the organization receives a unique identity in Microsoft Ent