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Using the most advanced AI models at a corporate scale isn\u2019t cheap, even for a company as massive as Microsoft. The cost of AI tokens, the unit used to measure how much computing work a model is doing, is getting so expensive that Microsoft is reportedly turning to its own models to save some cash.<\/p>\n

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Bloomberg reports, citing an unnamed source, that tens of thousands of AI prompts each week in Microsoft\u2019s Excel and Outlook software are now being completed using Microsoft\u2019s own MAI models. The spreadsheet and email programs previously relied more heavily on models from OpenAI and Anthropic to complete some tasks.<\/p>\n

That is still only a small fraction of Microsoft\u2019s overall AI usage, Bloomberg notes. For example, Copilot, the company\u2019s workplace AI assistant, requires massive amounts of AI tokens.<\/p>\n

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Microsoft declined to comment on the report.<\/p>\n

The news comes a little over a month after Microsoft announced seven new in-house models, including MAI-Thinking-1, Microsoft AI\u2019s first reasoning model.<\/p>\n

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At the time, the company said MAI-Thinking-1 was built for \u201chigh efficiency and performance, but importantly, at a low-token cost.\u201d Microsoft describes the model as a mid-sized, 35 billion active-parameter model with a 256K context window. According to a blind test, it matched the coding abilities of Anthropic\u2019s popular Claude Opus 4.6.<\/p>\n

Microsoft also rolled out new image, transcription, voice, and coding models.<\/p>\n

The new models arrive as cheaper and more efficient AI models are getting more attention across the industry.<\/p>\n

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China\u2019s DeepSeek made headlines earlier this year when it realeased new budget-friendly models. For instance, DeepSeek charges $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens for its V4-Pro model. While, Anthropic charges $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens for its most advanced Fable 5 model.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnthropic is extremely expensive and I think many people are urgently looking for alternatives,\u201d Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told Bloomberg last month. \u201cWe pay a lot of money to Anthropic\u2014so our goal is to reduce and ultimately eliminate that cost.\u201d<\/p>\n

OpenAI\u2019s pricing is cheaper than Anthropic\u2019s, at $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens for API use of GPT-5.5. Microsoft also enjoys a discount through its partnership with OpenAI. But the clock is ticking on the current deal, which ends in 2032.<\/p>\n

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Still, it looks like Microsoft is trying to get ahead of those pricey costs.<\/p>\n

Suleyman told Bloomberg that \u201cmany, many people in our organization are spending millions of dollars\u201d on AI tokens.<\/p>\n

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The tech giant is reportedly using its own AI models for some AI prompts in its Excel and Outlook software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"yoast_head":"\nClaude and ChatGPT Are Getting Too Expensive, Even for Microsoft - Long Haul Moving Pros<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=785\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Claude and ChatGPT Are Getting Too Expensive, Even for Microsoft - Long Haul Moving Pros\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The tech giant is reportedly using its own AI models for some AI prompts in its Excel and Outlook software.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=785\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Long Haul Moving Pros\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-07-07T20:47:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/?p=785#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/?p=785\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ed9c8f732aec56889e8fd0602fe5af4b\"},\"headline\":\"Claude and ChatGPT Are Getting Too Expensive, Even for Microsoft\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-07T20:47:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/?p=785\"},\"wordCount\":464,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/?p=785#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/9abc9c65b35eb2b9edcab3fc83f86546.webp\",\"articleSection\":[\"Artificial Intelligence\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/?p=785#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/?p=785\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/?p=785\",\"name\":\"Claude and ChatGPT Are Getting Too Expensive, Even for Microsoft - 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