Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Office-native AI across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
What it is.
Microsoft's AI surface across the Office 365 estate. Drafts Word documents, generates Excel formulas and pivot tables, builds PowerPoint decks from prompts, summarises Outlook threads, and recaps Teams meetings. Grounded in Microsoft Graph — pulls from the user's mail, calendar, files, and chat history. The default enterprise AI deployment for any organisation already running Microsoft 365.
Where it fits.
Fortune 500 and public-sector buyers with existing Microsoft enterprise agreements. Procurement-friendly — sits inside the same contract, the same compliance perimeter, the same identity provider. Less compelling for engineering and design teams whose work happens in Figma, Notion, and the terminal. The buyer is the CIO, not the practitioner.
- Grounded in Microsoft Graph — sees mail, files, calendar, chat
- Procurement inside existing enterprise agreement
- Deep integration into every Office surface users already know
- Output quality trails ChatGPT and Claude on equivalent prompts
- $30/seat adds up fast across 10,000-employee deployments
Frequently asked.
Which model powers Microsoft 365 Copilot?
Primarily GPT-5 via the Azure OpenAI partnership, with Microsoft-tuned variants and Phi models handling specific retrieval and ranking workloads.
Is Copilot worth $30 per seat?
Inside Microsoft-standardised enterprises, yes — the Graph grounding pays for itself in email and document work. Outside that estate, ChatGPT Enterprise at $25 typically wins on raw quality.
Does Copilot work with on-prem SharePoint?
Hybrid scenarios are supported via Microsoft Graph Connectors, though pure on-prem deployments require additional configuration and surface fewer Copilot features.
