Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's AI assistant baked into Windows, Edge, and Microsoft 365.
Watch the demoOfficial walkthroughMicrosoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant baked into Windows, Edge, and Microsoft 365. Freemium, with paid plans from $20/mo.
About Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot is the umbrella brand for Microsoft's generative AI assistants, spanning consumer chat, Windows, the Edge browser, Microsoft 365 and developer tools. Built on a mix of OpenAI models and Microsoft's own Phi family, it appears directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams, where it drafts documents, builds formulas, summarizes meetings and turns prompts into slide decks. Copilot Pages provides a shared multiplayer canvas for working with AI output, Copilot Vision can see what is on screen in Edge to answer questions about it, and Copilot Studio lets organizations build their own agents grounded in business data through Microsoft Graph. The product is sold to consumers as Copilot Pro and to enterprises as Microsoft 365 Copilot, with security-focused variants like Security Copilot and developer-focused GitHub Copilot. Microsoft has steadily added autonomous agents, voice, and deeper Outlook and Teams integration through 2024 and 2025.
Microsoft Copilot pros and cons
Hand-derived from the catalog data, strengths and trade-offs to weigh before signing up.
- Free tier available; paid plans from $20/mo
- Includes an autonomous AI agent for multi-step tasks
- Microsoft 365 integration
- Copilot Pages
- Image generation
- Competition is strong in this space, see Kimi and Gemini for comparison
3 plans from Microsoft Copilot
Pulled from Microsoft Copilot’s public pricing page. Prices may change, verify on the vendor’s site before purchasing.
Free
Free Copilot chat in Windows and on the web
- Chat with GPT-powered Copilot
- Image generation with Designer
- Voice conversations
Copilot Pro
Priority access and Office integration
- Priority access to latest models
- Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Faster image generation
- Use across desktop and mobile
Microsoft 365 Copilot
For work via Microsoft 365
- Copilot in M365 apps
- Business chat across data
- Enterprise-grade security
- Requires Microsoft 365 sub
Microsoft Copilot vs Chat & Assistants
Side-by-side with the top 3 other chat & assistants in this category.
| Picked from the top tools in chat & assistants | Microsoft's AI assistant baked into Windows, Edge, and Microsoft 365. | Moonshot AI's assistant, powered by the 2.8T open-weight Kimi K3 model. | Google's multimodal AI integrated with Workspace and real-time search. | OpenAI's flagship conversational AI for writing, reasoning, and analysis. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STARTS AT | $20/mo | Free chat; API from $3 / 1M tokens | $19.99/mo | $20/mo |
| PRICING | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| AI AGENT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| EDITOR'S PICK | No | No | No | Yes |
| KEY FEATURES | Microsoft 365 integration, Copilot Pages, Image generation | 2.8T-param open-weight MoE (16 of 896 experts active), 1M-token context window, Native multimodal (vision) | Gemini 3.8 Flash & 3 Pro models, Workspace integration, Deep Research | GPT-6 Astra + GPT-5.6 tiers, Advanced Voice Mode, Code interpreter |
| BEST FOR | Document drafting, Email, Slide creation | Long-document analysis (1M context), Coding & front-end generation, Self-hosted / private deployments | Workspace tasks, Research, Image understanding | Brainstorming, Writing, Research |
| WORKS WITH | #chatbot#microsoft#productivity | #chat#open-source#reasoning#long-context | #chatbot#multimodal#google | #chatbot#reasoning#assistant |
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Related tools
Moonshot AI's assistant, powered by the 2.8T open-weight Kimi K3 model.
Google's multimodal AI integrated with Workspace and real-time search.
OpenAI's flagship conversational AI for writing, reasoning, and analysis.
Alibaba's open-source Qwen models in a free chat interface.