Microsoft Ends Charges for Select Teams Metered Graph APIs
As of August 25, 2025, Microsoft will cease charging for several Graph APIs, including Teams exports, transcripts, and meeting recordings (MC1122144). This removes cost barriers for apps using advanced Teams data.
Announced in MC1122144, without much detail as to why, "Effective from August 25, 2025, the APIs listed on this page will no longer incur the metered charges previously applied."
Those API calls are:
- Teams chat export
- Teams chat retained export
- Teams channel export
- Teams channel retained export
- Teams chat / channel change notifications
- Teams conversation Member change notifications
- Teams chat/channel message PATCH operations
- Teams meeting transcript
- Teams meeting transcript metadata
- Teams meeting recording
- SharePoint and OneDrive for Business assignSensitivityLabel
- SharePoint prioritization
After August 25, 2025, no further billing events will be registered when calling the impacted APIs.
Your final bill for metered API calls will be on your regular billing schedule. This does not require any change to client applications.
Most (standard) Graph API calls are not charged for and are considered commercially covered as part of paying for your Microsoft 365 user licences. There is some rate limiting.
Until now, to access select Metered APIs and services in Microsoft Graph, an application must be associated with an active Microsoft Azure subscription to cover the related charges. Microsoft's positioning was that these APIs are either
- High-capacity APIs - purpose-built, bulk export or import endpoints and Microsoft Graph services.
- Advanced APIs - access to enriched or aggregated data, or advanced functionality that extends from Microsoft 365
Microsoft no longer charging for access to these is a positive move for customers and ISVs. Especially for access to meeting transcripts and recordings for potential AI tools/agents/processes.
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