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Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft's everyday AI assistant for chat, images, and vision.

Category
Assistant
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Proprietary
Hosting
Cloud
Platforms
WebiOSAndroidWindows
Models
Single model (proprietary)
Verified
Jun 6, 2026

Microsoft's everyday assistant — chat, image generation, and Copilot Vision, woven into Windows, Edge, and the Microsoft 365 apps. The consumer front-door to Microsoft's AI.

Capabilities 4

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Voice agent (primary capability)
  • Chat with documents (secondary capability)
  • Text-to-image (primary capability)
  • Web research agent (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Built into the OS and Office apps
  • Mixes OpenAI, Claude, and in-house MAI
  • Useful free tier on GPT-4o
  • Copilot Vision and image generation
  • No image gen on free tier
  • Output quality can be inconsistent
  • Weak conversational memory
  • Pro plan hard to justify outside M365

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