Microsoft is rolling Agent 365 into its E7 license tier on April 1, 2026. The price: $99 per user per month. For enterprise giants with thousands of seats already on E7, it’s a checkbox. For mid-market companies with 20 to 500 employees, it’s a budget line item that deserves scrutiny.
Here’s what we think you should know before you commit.
The pricing math
Agent 365 is priced per seat. JieGou is flat-rate. That distinction matters more the larger your team gets.
| Team size | Agent 365 (per month) | JieGou (per month) |
|---|---|---|
| 30 people | $2,970 | $499 |
| 50 people | $4,950 | $499 |
| 100 people | $9,900 | $499 |
With Agent 365, every new hire increases your AI automation bill. With JieGou, the price stays the same whether you have 20 people or 200. For a 50-person team, the annual difference is $53,412. That’s not a rounding error — it’s a headcount.
And that $99 figure assumes you’re already on E7. If you’re currently on E3 or E5, the jump to E7 includes additional costs beyond Agent 365 itself. Microsoft bundles aggressively, which works in your favor if you need everything in the bundle and against you if you don’t.
The integration gap
Agent 365 operates inside the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. It can automate tasks across Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Dynamics 365, and Azure AD. If your company runs entirely on Microsoft, that coverage might be sufficient.
Most mid-market companies don’t.
They use HubSpot for CRM, Shopify for e-commerce, Slack for messaging, Zendesk for support, QuickBooks for accounting, and LINE or WhatsApp for customer communication. Agent 365 can’t reach any of these. You’d need to build custom connectors through Power Automate or Azure Logic Apps, which adds development time and ongoing maintenance costs.
JieGou connects to 250+ tools out of the box. That includes the full range of CRM, e-commerce, messaging, support, and productivity platforms that mid-market teams actually use. When your sales team runs on HubSpot and your support team runs on Zendesk and your customers message you on LINE, you need an automation platform that can bridge all three — not one that only talks to itself.
Governance: tenant-level vs. 10-layer
Agent 365 inherits Microsoft 365’s tenant-level security controls: conditional access policies, data loss prevention rules, and sensitivity labels. These are solid tools, battle-tested at enterprise scale.
JieGou takes a different approach with a purpose-built 10-layer governance stack designed specifically for AI automation:
- RBAC — Five roles (Owner, Admin, Manager, Editor, Viewer) with 20 granular permissions
- Approval gates — Human-in-the-loop checkpoints before sensitive actions execute
- PII detection — Automatic scanning of inputs and outputs for personal data
- Confidence thresholds — Block or flag AI outputs below configurable certainty levels
- Audit trails — Every action logged with user, timestamp, and context
- Content filters — Block harmful or off-policy content before it reaches end users
- Rate limiting — Per-user and per-account controls to prevent runaway costs
- Data residency controls — Choose where your data is processed and stored
- Model access policies — Control which AI models each department can use
- Compliance mapping — Pre-built mappings to EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001
If your industry faces regulatory requirements around AI usage — financial services, healthcare, legal, or any company operating in the EU — JieGou’s governance stack gives you audit-ready controls without bolting on third-party compliance tools.
Where Agent 365 makes sense
Agent 365 is a strong choice if your organization:
- Already holds E7 licenses across the company
- Runs entirely on Microsoft tools (M365, Dynamics, Azure AD, Teams)
- Has 500+ employees where the per-seat cost is already budgeted
- Needs automation that stays within the Microsoft ecosystem
In that scenario, Agent 365 is a natural extension of infrastructure you already pay for.
Where JieGou is the better fit
JieGou is built for a different profile:
- Teams of 20–500 people where per-seat pricing scales painfully
- Mixed SaaS stacks — HubSpot + Slack + Shopify, Salesforce + Zendesk + WhatsApp, or any combination of non-Microsoft tools
- Agencies and consultancies managing multiple client accounts from a single platform
- Cross-platform automation — workflows that start in email, route through a CRM, trigger a message on LINE, and log results in a spreadsheet
- Regulated industries that need AI-specific governance beyond what tenant-level controls provide
The flat-rate pricing means you can roll out AI automation across every department without negotiating additional seat licenses.
Make the comparison yourself
We’ve published a detailed feature-by-feature breakdown at /vs/agent-365, covering pricing tiers, integration catalogs, governance capabilities, and deployment options.
If you’re evaluating your AI automation budget ahead of Agent 365’s April 1 launch, check our pricing to see how the numbers compare for your team size. The difference between per-seat and flat-rate pricing compounds fast — and it compounds in your favor.