Copilot
The assistant built into Windows, Office and the Microsoft ecosystem.
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- What sets it apart
- It's less a chatbot than an assistant living inside Windows, Edge and the Office apps, with access to your work documents, mail and calendar. The real difference from rivals is that integration: Copilot doesn't ask you to paste the context, it already has it. Microsoft retired the old $20 Pro plan in late 2025 and folded everything into the 365 subscriptions.
- Strengths
- It summarizes Outlook threads, minutes your Teams meetings and drafts in Word without leaving the app. The paid version works on your real data (mail, files, chat) under enterprise security controls, and businesses now get autonomous agents that run multi-step tasks. There's also a free version at copilot.microsoft.com and in Windows for everyday use.
- When to use it
- Worth it if you already live in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem: that's where it shines, because it kills copy-paste and works on the context you actually have. Great for anyone whose day is Outlook, Teams and Excel and who wants to offload the repetitive work of summarizing, drafting and building formulas.
- When to avoid it
- If you don't use Office or Windows the value collapses: you're paying for the integration that is its one real edge. The business price ($18-32 per user per month) is steep and the consumer plan caps Office use at 60 credits a month. For pure conversation or general reasoning, ChatGPT or Claude cost less and are just as capable.