Alternatives to Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft's AI chat assistant for conversation, answers from the web and creative tasks. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Microsoft Copilot.

  • ChatGPT

    OpenAI's AI assistant for conversation, writing, coding, analysis and image creation.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    ChatGPT is OpenAI's freemium assistant covering writing, coding, analysis and images, with prompts processed on OpenAI's servers instead of Microsoft's.

  • Google Gemini

    Google's multimodal AI assistant, formerly Bard, integrated with other Google services.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Google Gemini is a freemium multimodal assistant that integrates with Google services, most useful to people already in the Google ecosystem.

  • Claude

    Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding, with a large context window.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Claude is Anthropic's freemium assistant with a large context window and an Artifacts panel, strong at coding and analysis, with usage limits on the free tier.

  • Meta AI

    Meta's free AI chat assistant, powered by Llama and built into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Meta AI is free to use, runs on Meta's Llama models and is built into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, but is tied closely to Meta's platforms.

  • Grok

    An AI assistant for chat, images and code, with real-time answers from the web and X.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Grok is a freemium assistant drawing real-time answers from the web and X, with image creation and code writing, processed on its developer's servers.

  • Le Chat

    Mistral AI's chat assistant, a multilingual AI chatbot from a European developer.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Le Chat is Mistral AI's freemium multilingual chatbot from a European developer, with prompts processed on Mistral's servers rather than Microsoft's.

  • DeepSeek

    A web chat assistant from Chinese developer DeepSeek, known for strong coding ability.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    DeepSeek is a freemium chat assistant known for strong coding ability, operated from China, which matters for some privacy requirements.

  • HuggingChat

    Hugging Face's chat app for talking to a choice of hosted open-source AI models.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    HuggingChat is free and lets you choose among hosted open-source models, with automatic selection through Omni, running on Hugging Face's servers.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Microsoft Copilot as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Doubao

    ByteDance's AI chat assistant for questions, writing, translation, coding and video generation.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Microsoft Copilot is a browser-based assistant whose answers can draw on the web, with features varying by plan and region and conversations processed on Microsoft's servers.

  • Kimi

    Moonshot AI's chat assistant for long documents, research, coding and slide creation, powered by Kimi models.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Microsoft Copilot is a browser chat assistant for everyday questions and drafting with web answers, with features varying by plan and region.

  • Perplexity

    An AI answer engine that searches the web and replies with cited sources.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Microsoft Copilot is a freemium chat assistant whose answers can draw on the web, with features varying by plan and region.

  • Pi

    A conversational AI assistant in the browser, built for supportive, informal dialogue rather than task automation.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Microsoft Copilot covers conversation, advice and creative tasks with answers that can draw on the web. It is freemium, with features varying by region.

  • Poe

    A chat platform from Quora that gives access to several AI models in one place.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Microsoft Copilot is a browser assistant with answers drawn from the web, offering Microsoft's service instead of a choice among many models.

  • Qwen Studio

    Alibaba's AI chat assistant built on its Qwen family of language models.

    FreeProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    Microsoft Copilot runs in the browser and its answers can draw on the web. Features vary by plan and region, and conversations are processed on Microsoft's servers.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.