Microsoft Copilot Alternatives
Copilot lives inside Office. Here are the tools worth considering alongside it.
Microsoft Copilot's biggest advantage is how directly it's embedded across Word, Excel, and Outlook. If your team isn't fully on Microsoft 365, though, or you want a different strength -- broader plugin support, longer-form reasoning, or citation-backed research -- another tool may fit better.
Worth considering
ChatGPT
General-purpose use and broad plugin support
The most widely adopted assistant, with the largest ecosystem of integrations across platforms, not just Microsoft's
Claude
Long documents, writing, careful reasoning
Strong at following detailed instructions and handling large amounts of text, useful outside the Office ecosystem
Gemini
Google Workspace users
The natural pick if your team is on Google's tools rather than Microsoft 365
Perplexity
Research with sources
Answers come with citations built in, closer to a search engine than an Office-embedded assistant
NotebookLM
Working from your own documents
Built around a set of sources you upload, keeping answers grounded in your own material
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