Alternatives to Microsoft Copilot Studio
A Microsoft platform for building, managing and publishing custom AI agents connected to business data. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Microsoft Copilot Studio
A Microsoft platform for building, managing and publishing custom AI agents connected to business data.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Microsoft Copilot Studio.
TextCortex
An AI platform for companies to build, deploy and govern AI agents that work with internal data.
TextCortex is a hosted platform for companies to deploy and govern agents on internal data, with a free tier instead of requiring a Microsoft plan.
Relevance AI
A platform for building specialist AI agents that handle sales, customer success, marketing and HR tasks.
Relevance AI provides ready-made agent roles for sales, marketing, customer success and HR, with per-task model choice and cost tracking, and no Microsoft dependency.
Gumloop
A web platform for building AI agents and automation workflows that connect to work apps.
Gumloop lets non-developers build agents with many integrations and IT access controls, on a hosted freemium service outside the Microsoft ecosystem.
Zapier AI
AI features in Zapier for building agents, AI workflow steps and chatbots across connected apps.
Zapier AI builds agents and chatbots across more than 9,000 connected apps, with model choice and sensitive data checks, on a freemium cloud service.
MindStudio
A no-code web platform for designing, building and deploying AI agents and applications.
MindStudio is a no-code hosted platform for building AI agents and apps that suits individuals as well as teams, with a free tier available.
Sim
An open-source workspace for building, deploying and governing AI agents, used online or self-hosted.
Sim is an open-source agent workspace with visual, conversational and code building, team spending controls, and an option to self-host instead of using Microsoft's cloud.
Botpress
A hosted platform for building AI agents that handle customer support tickets and chat conversations.
Botpress focuses on customer support agents that act on tickets and hand off to humans, with no per-seat pricing and AI usage included.
Coze
An AI agent platform for building assistants, automating workflows and producing office documents.
Coze builds custom agents and workflows without code as an online freemium service, adding writing, slide and design tools in the same platform.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Microsoft Copilot Studio as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Lindy
A hosted AI agent that connects to work tools and handles email, meetings, reports and scheduled tasks.
Microsoft Copilot Studio builds custom agents connected to business data for organisations on Microsoft 365, requiring a Microsoft plan.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Dify
Self-hosted platform for building AI agent workflows and RAG pipelines.
n8n
Source-available workflow automation platform with AI nodes and self-hosting.
Zapier
A hosted no-code automation platform that connects thousands of web apps through workflows and AI agents.
Tasklet
A hosted AI agent service that automates recurring tasks across connected apps from plain-English instructions.
