AI agent workspace ('Super Agent') for research, slides, sheets, calls and content generation.
Microsoft Copilot
AI Chat & General AssistantsMicrosoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant, available as a free app on Windows, macOS, mobile and the web, and built into Edge and Bing. Microsoft 365 Personal, Family and Premium subscribers also get Copilot inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote. It offers web-grounded answers, image generation, voice conversations, Deep Research and Copilot Pages.
Pricing
Microsoft Copilot pricing
Free plan: yes; paid via Microsoft 365 Personal/Family/Premium (Premium ~$19.99/mo; Copilot Pro folded into M365 Premium)
Last checked September 2026 · Confirm on copilot.microsoft.com
Features
What Microsoft Copilot does
- Web answers with citations via Bing
- Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote (Microsoft 365 plans)
- Voice conversations and Copilot Vision
- Image generation and editing
- Deep Research and Think Deeper reasoning modes
- Copilot Pages and Notebooks for organizing work
Pros
- Built into Windows, Edge and Microsoft 365 apps people already use
- Free tier includes web search, image generation and voice
- Microsoft 365 Premium bundles AI with Office apps and cloud storage
- Uses a mix of OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft models
Cons
- Copilot in Office apps requires a Microsoft 365 subscription
- Consumer and work versions (Microsoft 365 Copilot) differ, which is confusing
- No developer API for the consumer assistant
- Fewer custom-assistant options for consumers than ChatGPT GPTs or Gemini Gems
Fit
Who Microsoft Copilot is for
Look elsewhere if: People who work mainly in Google Workspace or want a developer API should look at Gemini or ChatGPT instead.
For teams & enterprise
Enterprise readiness
Microsoft 365 Copilot runs inside the M365 tenant boundary with existing permissions, Purview and commercial data protection.
- Business / enterprise plan
- Yes
- SSO (SAML / OIDC)
- Via Microsoft Entra ID
- SCIM user provisioning
- Via Microsoft Entra ID
- SOC 2
- —
- ISO 27001
- Yes
- HIPAA (BAA available)
- Yes
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Data residency options
- EU Data Boundary
- No training on your data
- Yes
- Audit logs
- Via Microsoft Purview
- Admin controls
- Yes
- Deployment
- Cloud
From the vendor's own security documentation (trust center). "—" = not confirmed. Verify during your security review. Compare all tools.
| Chat Assistants feature checklist | |
|---|---|
| Web search with sources | Yes |
| Image generation | Yes |
| Voice conversations | Yes |
| File & PDF analysis | Yes |
| Custom assistants / GPTs | Limited |
| Runs code / data analysis | Limited |
| Deep research mode | Yes |
| Mobile apps | Yes |
| Developer API | No |
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Buying guides
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