Dynamics 365 Project Operations Licensing and Pricing 2026: Full, Attach, and Team Members

Prices are Microsoft list price, October 2026 price list, US commercial. Microsoft's own pricing page shows the full license at $135.00 per user per month paid yearly and notes that the Project Operations agents in preview need Copilot Credits, which are sold separately. The three prices are the whole model: there is no device license and no per-tenant fee for the application itself, although a Dataverse environment and its storage sit underneath, covered in Dataverse capacity and pricing.

Microsoft's product page lists the areas: deal management (multiple contract types, lead-to-project contracts, configure-price-quote for services), work planning (project scheduling, Gantt and Kanban boards, estimates and budgets, templates), resourcing (skills management, resource requests, booking reconciliation, workforce planning), project execution (time, expense and material usage, mobile apps, policies and approval rules, budget tracking and earned value), subcontracting (capacity planning, supplier onboarding, three-way invoice match) and billing (unbilled and billed backlog, not-to-exceed limits, invoice review, adjustments). Fixed-price, time-and-materials and retainer contracts are supported.

In practice it is a sales-to-invoice chain for a services firm. An account manager quotes from a project estimate, a resource manager fills the roles from skills and availability, consultants submit time and expenses from the Team Member app, a project manager approves and watches budget against actuals, and the accountant turns approved actuals into a proforma invoice, or into a customer invoice with revenue recognition when Dynamics 365 Finance is in the picture. Microsoft's documentation describes universal resource scheduling as shared with Field Service and Customer Service, and project planning as built on Microsoft Project for the web.

Microsoft's deployment guidance (3 March 2025) names three deployment types and warns that there is no supported data migration between them; moving requires custom scripts and manual work. Choosing the type is therefore a licensing-stage decision.

Microsoft describes the Integrated with ERP type as an extension of Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management, chosen when you need an IFRS-compliant project accounting and revenue recognition system, policy-driven expense management with reimbursements, or customer-facing invoices from an enterprise tax engine. A firm that invoices from another accounting system, or from Business Central through an integration, stays on Core and sends proforma invoices across. The same environment can run stocked and non-stocked scenarios per legal entity, so a mixed company does not need two deployments.

Microsoft's Team Member app page (9 January 2025) lists what the Dynamics 365 Team Members license can do in Project Operations: time entry, expense entry (in the Core deployment), material usage, approvals, and extensibility of up to 15 custom entities. To use the app, a person needs either a full Project Operations license or a Team Members license, and the tenant needs a Project Operations deployment. Team Members is not a base license, so nothing can attach to it.

The line that moves cost is the Team Member limit on write access. A consultant who also creates projects, edits schedules or reconciles bookings is doing full-user work and needs the $135.00 license; the Dynamics 365 pricing guide explains how the same read-versus-edit rule applies across the Dynamics 365 family.

Microsoft prices every Dynamics 365 application twice: a base price for the first qualifying app a person holds, and a lower attach price for each further app on the same person. For Project Operations the attach is $30.00 per user per month against $135.00 for the base, a difference of $1,260 per user per year. The attach SKU on the price list is named exactly that, and it can only be assigned to a user who already holds a qualifying base license; which licenses qualify is defined in Microsoft's Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide.

Two cases come up in services firms:

• An account manager on Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise ($105.00) who also needs to quote projects: Sales Enterprise is the base, Project Operations attaches at $30.00, total $135.00 instead of $240.00.
• A project accountant in the ERP-integrated deployment who works in Dynamics 365 Finance ($210.00) for the general ledger and in Project Operations for project accounting: one of the two is the base and the other attaches at $30.00; the licensing guide, not the order form, says which must be the base, so we confirm it before quoting.

Attach is not a volume discount. A second project manager needs a base license of their own, and a Team Member cannot be a base. Sales Professional versus Enterprise as the base is covered in Sales Professional vs Enterprise vs Premium.

A consulting firm with 30 billable consultants, four project managers, one resource manager, two project accountants and two account managers who already use Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise. It invoices from an external accounting system, so it chooses the Core deployment.

The two account managers keep paying $1,260 each for Sales Enterprise, which they held already. The firm's Project Operations bill is $14,940 per year, of which $2,880 covers the 30 people who generate the time entries. Had the firm licensed every consultant with a full license, the figure would be 30 × $1,620 = $48,600 for the consultants alone, which is the mistake the Team Member rule exists to prevent.

Two items sit outside the table. If the firm wants the time entry, expense and approvals agents, Microsoft states they require Copilot Credits bought separately. And the Dataverse environment carries storage: the default capacity is pooled across the tenant and additional database capacity is $40.00 per GB per month on the same price list.

1. Pick the deployment type first, against the invoicing and revenue recognition you need in the next three years; a change later is a re-implementation.
2. List every person who touches the system and mark whether they create, edit or only enter their own records. Only the last group is Team Members.
3. Map existing Dynamics 365 licenses to find attach candidates, and name the base for each.
4. Decide whether the Project Operations agents are in scope, and budget Copilot Credits if they are.
5. Count environments: production, a sandbox for configuration and a second for training each carry Dataverse capacity.
6. Choose the term. The annual commitment is $135.00; the monthly no-commitment price is $162.00, and under the New Commerce Experience the seat count can only be reduced at renewal or inside the seven-day window after a change.
7. Check the current Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide for minimum purchase rules on the operations apps and for the attach eligibility list; both change between editions.

For the configuration itself, Dynamics 365 Administrator on Demand is $175 per hour, quoted in writing before work begins.

How much does Dynamics 365 Project Operations cost?

$135.00 per user per month on an annual commitment ($1,620.00 per year), $162.00 with no commitment, for a full user. The attach license is $30.00 and Dynamics 365 Team Members is $8.00 (Microsoft list price, October 2026 price list).

What is the Project Operations attach license?

A $30.00 per user per month license for someone who already holds a qualifying Dynamics 365 base license, such as Sales Enterprise or Finance. It gives the same Project Operations rights as the full license. It cannot be assigned on its own, and a Team Members license does not qualify as a base.

Can Team Members enter time and expenses in Project Operations?

Yes. Microsoft's Team Member app page lists time entry, expense entry in the Core deployment, material usage, approvals and up to 15 custom entities as the capabilities of the Team Members license in Project Operations.

Do I need Dynamics 365 Finance for Project Operations?

Not for the Core deployment, which runs on Dataverse alone and ends at proforma invoicing. The Integrated with ERP deployment extends Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management and adds customer-facing invoicing, full expense management and revenue recognition.

What are the Project Operations deployment types?

Microsoft names three: Project Operations Core (Dataverse only), Project Operations Integrated with ERP (resource or non-stocked scenarios with Finance), and Project Operations for manufacturing (stocked and production-order scenarios). There is no supported migration between them.

Are the Project Operations Copilot agents included in the license?

Microsoft's pricing page says the full license and the trial provide access to the prebuilt agents, but Copilot Credits are not included and must be purchased separately to run them. The Time Entry, Expense and Activity Approvals agents are in preview.

• Dynamics 365 Project Operations pricing — Microsoft, checked 2026-10-11 (list price, features, Copilot Credits)
• Dynamics 365 Project Operations — Microsoft, checked 2026-10-11 (capabilities)
• Determine your deployment type — Microsoft Learn source on GitHub, ms.date 03/03/2025, checked 2026-10-11
• Project Operations Integrated with ERP deployment overview — Microsoft Learn source on GitHub, ms.date 02/27/2026, checked 2026-10-11
• Project Operations Team Member app — Microsoft Learn source on GitHub, ms.date 01/09/2025, checked 2026-10-11
• Microsoft list price, October 2026 price list, US commercial, for every price quoted above