Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant for people who want help writing, brainstorming, summarizing information, and getting answers grounded in the web. Its free experience offers chat and Edge webpage summaries, while signing in enables additional chat features. People with eligible Microsoft 365 subscriptions can also use Copilot in desktop apps, and business licenses can add answers grounded in organizational information. The exact capabilities and usage limits depend on the plan and, for business, on eligibility and configuration.
That makes Copilot a collection of related consumer and business experiences rather than one uniform set of features. It can help with everyday questions and content tasks, while qualifying subscriptions connect some assistance to Microsoft 365 apps or work data. Choosing a plan requires checking which features are included for the intended account.
What can Microsoft Copilot do?
In the free experience, Copilot supports chat for writing, brainstorming, and summarizing, provides web-grounded answers, and can summarize webpages in Edge. Signing in enables chat history, image creation, longer conversations, and voice interactions. Free and paid features and usage limits are not identical.
Eligible individual subscriptions provide Copilot in desktop Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Business Copilot Chat can answer questions, research, summarize documents and webpages, and create images. A Microsoft Copilot business license can ground answers in organizational files, email, chats, and people, and adds Researcher and Analyst agents and Teams meeting summaries where available.
- Use free chat for writing, brainstorming, and summarizing.
- Ask web-grounded questions or summarize a webpage in Edge.
- Use Copilot in desktop Microsoft 365 apps when the subscription includes it.
- With a business license, ask questions grounded in organizational information.
- Upload Word, Excel, PowerPoint, image, or PDF files in the mobile app for questions and summaries.
Who is Microsoft Copilot best for?
Copilot may suit individuals who want chat assistance for writing and information summaries, with optional Microsoft 365 app access through eligible subscriptions. A subscription owner choosing the Family plan should note that the AI benefits are restricted to that owner, even when the subscription is shared. Organizations considering business capabilities should check the license, tenant configuration, market, and language requirements, and confirm which users need access to work->Notion is a workspace alternative, while Miro offers a visual collaboration alternative. The verified facts here do not establish their specific features, so compare their current product details separately before choosing between them and Microsoft Copilot.
