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Microsoft Copilot

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Your everyday AI companion — built into the tools you already use

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Overall score

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Heat score

Pricing

Copilot Chat (Free)0
Copilot Pro (Personal)22
Microsoft 365 Copilot Business18
Microsoft 365 Copilot (Enterprise)30

Technical Specs

Inputs

Text Prompt, Document, Email Thread, Meeting Recording, Spreadsheet Data, Presentation, Image, Web Search Query, Calendar Event, CRM Data

Outputs

Drafted Email, Generated Document, Meeting Summary, Excel Formula, PowerPoint Presentation, Code Snippet, Web Search Answer, Action Completion, Data Analysis, AI Image

AI Type

LLM

Model Architecture

GPT-style Decoder

Daily Prompts

N/A

Context Length

N/A

Output Quality

Accuracy

91%

Content

90%

Reasoning

92%

Company Profile

Company

Microsoft Corporation

Founded

1975

HQ

Redmond, Washington, USA

Employees

228K

Total Raised / Total Funding

N/A

Revenue

$198.27B

Valuation

$3.4T

ARR

$2B

CEO

Satya Nadella

Overview

Estimated Paid Users

15M

Current estimate

Total Earnings Till Date

N/A

+6.58% from last month

Market Share

11.5%

Current share

Average Session

25

Per active user

Hallucination Rate

4%

Model quality signal

Growth Rate

+1.11%

Monthly active users

Burn Rate

N/A

Total expenses / years active

Paid User Gain

+15.38%

Monthly paid user trend

Profit Analysis

-$3B

Total Loss

$9.1B

Total Profit

$0

Performance Metrics

Accuracy

91%

Context

90%

Reasoning

92%

Safety

95%

Benchmarks

No benchmark scores available.

Microsoft Copilot Models

Microsoft Prometheus (Bing Chat / GPT-4 base)

Type: Text

Description: The foundational model behind the original Bing Chat launch. Microsoft's Prometheus model is GPT-4 fine-tuned for web grounding, citation generation, and conversational search. Enabled Bing Chat to retrieve and cite live web content, differentiating it from base ChatGPT. Powered Bing Chat from February 2023 through the Copilot rebrand in September 2023.

Architecture: GPT-style Decoder

Copilot (GPT-4 Turbo)

Type: Text

Description: Copilot Pro launched with priority access to GPT-4 Turbo, enabling longer context windows, faster responses, and improved instruction following over GPT-4. GPT-4 Turbo integration brought JSON mode, function calling improvements, and an extended knowledge cutoff to Copilot Pro users. Powered Microsoft 365 Copilot enterprise features throughout H1 2024.

Architecture: GPT-style Decoder

Copilot (GPT-4o)

Type: Multimodal

Description: Integration of GPT-4o into Microsoft Copilot across all tiers, bringing native multimodal capabilities — text, image, voice, and visual understanding — to the platform. GPT-4o is OpenAI's omni model, optimized for low latency and natural voice conversation. Powered Copilot Voice's real-time natural language responses and Copilot Vision's screen/camera analysis features.

Architecture: GPT-style Decoder

Copilot Think Deeper (o1 / o3-mini)

Type: Reasoning

Description: Reasoning model integration powering Copilot's Think Deeper mode. Launched on o1 in October 2024 for Copilot Pro users; upgraded to o3-mini (high) in March 2025 for faster deep reasoning. Think Deeper became free for all signed-in Copilot users in February 2025. Used for complex multi-step tasks including math, code, research synthesis, and logical reasoning where speed is less critical than accuracy.

Architecture: GPT-style Decoder

Copilot (GPT-5)

Type: Multimodal

Description: GPT-5 integration across all Microsoft Copilot surfaces — web, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android. GPT-5 is a unified system with a built-in router that automatically selects fast response or deep reasoning modes based on prompt complexity (Smart Mode). Became the universal default model in December 2025. Also powers Copilot Chat's Quick Response and Think Deeper modes.

Architecture: GPT-style Decoder

Funding Rounds & Investors

Total Funding

N/A

Rounds

1

Funding Update

N/A

Feb 2023

Microsoft Copilot is not an independently funded product. It is developed and wholly owned by Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT), a publicly traded company with a market capitalization exceeding $3 trillion. Microsoft has invested over $20 billion into AI development, with $11.8 billion going directly to OpenAI across multiple tranches (2019, 2021, 2023). Copilot is Microsoft's central AI product strategy, monetized through: (1) Microsoft 365 Copilot enterprise add-on at $30/user/month; (2) Copilot Pro consumer subscription at $20/month; (3) Azure OpenAI Service consumption billing for enterprise API users; and (4) GitHub Copilot subscriptions ($10/month individual, $19/user/month Business). Satya Nadella has stated Microsoft expects Copilot AI to become its fastest division to reach $10 billion revenue run rate. Analyst estimates placed direct Copilot revenue at approximately $400 million in FY2024, scaling rapidly through FY2025 as enterprise seat adoption accelerated. Microsoft FY2025 total revenue was $279.6 billion with AI contributing meaningfully across Azure, M365 Commercial, and GitHub.

Founders/Team

No founding team data available.

Direct competitors

No direct competitors available.

Change Log / Major Updates

2025 · Aug 7

GPT-5 became the default model in Microsoft Copilot across all markets and platforms — web, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android. Introduced Smart Mode for automatic model routing between fast and reasoning models. Launched Copilot Mode in Edge — combining chat, search, and navigation in a single input box. GPT-5 Thinking available for complex multi-step tasks.

2025 · Nov 1

Microsoft Ignite 2025 introduced Microsoft Agent 365 — a unified enterprise agent control plane with MCP server integrations for scheduling, document generation, email, and CRM. Copilot Studio expanded to 1,400+ system integrations. Automatic installation of Copilot on Microsoft 365 clients began rollout. GPT-5 became default in Copilot Studio. Microsoft 365 Copilot reached approximately 20 million weekly active enterprise users.

2025 · Dec 10

GPT-5 set as the universal default for all Copilot Chat experiences. Launched Copilot video creation — converting text prompts, PowerPoint, Word, or PDFs into high-quality branded videos with transcript-based editing, voiceovers, and OneDrive asset integration. Declarative agents upgraded to GPT-5.1 with auto model selection.

Compliance, Integrations & Support

Industry: Personal Productivity

Compliances: Not specified

Integrations: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft OneNote, SharePoint, Microsoft Edge, Windows 11, Bing, Dynamics 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio

Support:email, help center, community forum, phone support, enterprise support, dedicated account manager, 24/7 priority support

Target audience: Enterprise Employees, Knowledge Workers, IT Administrators, Business Analysts, Sales Teams, HR Teams, Finance Teams, Students, Individual Professionals, Developers

Supported languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Dutch, Polish, Arabic, Hindi, Turkish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Romanian, Hebrew, Thai, Indonesian

Microsoft Copilot Acquisitions

AB

Activision Blizzard

October 13, 2023

$68.7B

NC

Nuance Communications

March 4, 2022

$19.7B

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More About Microsoft Copilot

It didn't ask for a new tab. It just showed up in the one you already had open.

The story of Microsoft Copilot is unlike any other AI product launch. OpenAI released ChatGPT and the world opened a new browser tab to use it. Google launched Gemini and people navigated to a new URL. Microsoft made a different bet: don't build a destination for AI. Build the AI into every destination people already visit — Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, Windows, Bing, Edge — and make it available the moment they need it, without switching contexts.

That bet is now showing results at a scale few products in history have matched. 150 million monthly active users. 50,000+ organizations with enterprise Copilot licenses. Copilot Chat rolling out as a default component of every qualifying Microsoft 365 tenant. And a product family that spans from a free chat interface on the web to the most deeply integrated enterprise AI suite ever shipped.

The Copilot Family: One Brand, Many Forms

Microsoft Copilot is not a single product — it is a brand umbrella that covers a layered AI ecosystem, each layer tuned for a different context:

  • Copilot Chat — the free, web-grounded AI chat experience available to all Microsoft Entra ID users with a qualifying M365 subscription. Secure, enterprise-protected, and rolling out natively inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote as of late 2025
  • Copilot Pro — the personal and family tier at $22/month that unlocks priority GPT-4o and o1 model access, Copilot in the full M365 personal app suite, Deep Research, the Analyst mode for Excel data, and Actions — the ability to instruct Copilot to actually do things (send an email, create a meeting, update a document) via natural language
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot (Business & Enterprise) — the $18–$30/user/month add-on that is the commercial heart of the Copilot business. This tier connects Copilot to Microsoft Graph — the underlying data layer that indexes every email, document, calendar event, Teams message, and SharePoint file in your organization — enabling responses that are grounded in your actual work context, not just the web
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (Work) — the no-additional-cost AI chat experience for enterprise M365 tenants, providing secure, organization-aware chat with file uploads, Copilot Pages, and metered agent usage via Azure
  • Copilot Studio — the enterprise agent builder that lets organizations create, test, and deploy custom AI agents for internal workflows, customer service, and external channels without writing code
  • Vertical Copilots — purpose-built AI for sales (Copilot for Sales, integrated with Salesforce and Dynamics 365 CRM), service (Copilot for Service, integrated with help desk platforms), and finance (Copilot for Finance, integrated with ERP systems) — all bundled into the M365 Copilot Enterprise license at no extra cost as of Q4 2025

What Microsoft Graph Changes Everything

The reason enterprise customers pay $30/user/month for M365 Copilot — when Copilot Chat is free — is Microsoft Graph. When you ask a Graph-connected Copilot "summarize the project status from last week," it doesn't search the web. It searches your emails, your Teams channels, your SharePoint documents, your calendar, and your OneNote notebooks simultaneously and synthesizes the answer from your actual organizational data. No other AI assistant in the world has access to this kind of ambient organizational context at enterprise scale, and building that integration took Microsoft 30 years of enterprise software relationships to make possible.

Work IQ: The Intelligence Layer

Announced in 2025, Work IQ is Microsoft's next evolution of organizational AI intelligence. It builds a rich semantic model of how you work — your relationships, your communication patterns, your writing style, your frequently referenced documents — and uses it to proactively surface insights, anticipate needs, and take autonomous actions on your behalf. Work IQ powers features like Copilot Memory (remembers your preferences across sessions), and underpins the autonomous agent capabilities in Copilot Studio.

The Numbers Behind the Narrative

  • 150 million monthly active users across the Copilot family as of Q1 FY2026
  • 15 million+ M365 Copilot enterprise seats as of mid-2025
  • 50,000+ organizations with enterprise licenses
  • AI contributed an estimated $13B annualized run-rate to Microsoft revenue as of January 2025 (last disclosed figure)
  • Microsoft has invested $11.8 billion into OpenAI, holding exclusive license to GPT models
  • 228,000 total Microsoft employees as of June 30, 2025

Microsoft Copilot FAQ's

What is Microsoft Copilot and how does it differ from ChatGPT?

Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant built on OpenAI's GPT-4 and GPT-5 models, embedded across Windows, Edge, Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook), and available as a standalone web and mobile app at copilot.microsoft.com. Unlike ChatGPT, Copilot is deeply integrated into Microsoft's productivity ecosystem — it can access your Microsoft 365 documents, calendar, emails, and meetings via Microsoft Graph, making it contextually aware of your work. It also includes Copilot Vision (camera-based AI), Copilot Voice, and Think Deeper (o3-based reasoning).

What is the difference between free Copilot and Copilot Pro?

Free Copilot provides access to GPT-5-powered chat, image generation via Designer, web grounding, and Copilot Voice across web, Windows, iOS, and Android. Copilot Pro ($20/month) adds priority access to the latest models during peak hours, higher-resolution image generation, access to Copilot Labs (early features like Think Deeper and Copilot Vision), Copilot GPT Builder for custom bots, and full Microsoft 365 app integration for personal accounts. Think Deeper and Copilot Voice are now free for all signed-in users since February 2025.

What is Microsoft 365 Copilot and how much does it cost?

Microsoft 365 Copilot is the enterprise version of Copilot, available as a $30/user/month add-on on top of existing Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard, or Business Premium licenses. It integrates Copilot into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, Loop, SharePoint, and OneNote, and uses Microsoft Graph to understand organizational context — emails, meetings, documents, and chat history. Microsoft also launched a consumption-based Copilot Chat alternative in January 2025 for enterprises resistant to per-seat pricing.

Is Microsoft Copilot available on mobile?

Yes. Microsoft Copilot has standalone apps for iOS and Android, both launched in December 2023. The Android app has surpassed 50 million installs (lifetime). Copilot is also available in the Microsoft Edge mobile browser and through integrations with partner devices — including Motorola RAZR and Edge phones where Copilot Vision can be accessed via the camera. By 2025, Copilot was accessible on over 1 billion devices through Windows and Microsoft 365.

What is Copilot Vision and what can it do?

Copilot Vision is an AI feature that uses your device's camera (mobile) or shares your browser screen (Edge) to give Copilot real-time visual context. It can analyze what you see — a product in a store, a plant you want to identify, a webpage you're browsing, or a UI you're navigating — and respond conversationally. Copilot Vision in Edge launched in October 2024; mobile Copilot Vision launched for Android Pro users in early 2025, later expanding to all Edge free users in the US.