Microsoft 365 Copilot vs. OpenAI API Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
For enterprises, Microsoft 365 Copilot (or just Microsoft Copilot) is a generative AI operating as an intelligent virtual assistant for work. Through a chat interface, business users can use it to solve a variety of complex tasks.
$31.50
per month per user
OpenAI API Platform
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
The OpenAI API platform provides a simple interface to AI models for text generation, natural language processing, computer vision, and other purposes.
$0
per  1K tokens
Pricing
Microsoft 365 CopilotOpenAI API Platform
Editions & Modules
Microsoft Copilot
$31.50
per month per user
Ada
$0.0008
per  1K tokens
Babbage
$0.0012
per  1K tokens
Curie
$0.0060
per  1K tokens
Davinci
$0.0600
per  1K tokens
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft 365 CopilotOpenAI API Platform
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing shown is based on an annual commitment. Discount available for annual payment.
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User Ratings
Microsoft 365 CopilotOpenAI API Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(14 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(13 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft 365 CopilotOpenAI API Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
I highly recommend its usage in Teams meetings to prepare a session transcript, meeting minutes,
next steps and recognize speech by person. Also within the meeting recording, there is separation between the people talking at the time. The Copilot image creation is very accurate and useful to
customize my PowerPoint presentations and other documents
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OpenAI
For smaller organizations that run lean and would like to get to deploy a solution quickly. This is a solution that is easy and quick to develop. It has a good amount of customization. However, for advanced customization this might not be a good solution. I suggest experimenting with OpenAI API and then if the experimentation is successful then it is a good idea to optimize and try other LLM models.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Good analysis of the ticket system at the service desk, so that this can be anticipated properly
  • For the management of IT environments, quick examples of scripting for desired solutions
  • For consultants and managers, they co-pilot a technical report into language understandable to a non-technical client, including a visual summary.
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OpenAI
  • The developer experience is top notch. Their SDKs are super easy to use
  • Organization and project billing separation. You know where everything was consumed.
  • Playground. The playground is super useful to prototype without writing a single line of code
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Cons
Microsoft
  • The quality of image generation in Microsoft Copilot could be improved. Compared to other AI platforms, Copilot's images often fall short in quality and frequently contain typos.
  • When generating agents and chatbots, Microsoft Copilot currently doesn't appear to support file download functionality.
  • The email reply function is useful, but the responses can sometimes be overly elaborate. It would be helpful to have more options for adjusting the tone.
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OpenAI
  • Restrictions are sometimes too strong
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
Absolutely!!! I have a high regard for the product and will use it for years to come.
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OpenAI
No answers on this topic
Usability
Microsoft
it is nearly perfect and it’s usability one of the main factors and contributing to the score is how versatile this tool is. it is vastly usable in a multitude of circumstances, and has a few limitations, but overall this product works well for what it is intended. It is very helpful for some otherwise time consuming tasks.
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OpenAI
Easy to setup, develop and deploy. The payload for the API is simple and has all the inputs required for simple projects. There are a good number of options of LLM models to optimize for speed, cost or quality of the answers. A larger token input might improve the overall usability.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
I think It lost the race for now. I don't think Microsoft will keep investing on it since we have better tools outside their environment. In my opinion, Microsoft Copilot is not even in the benchmark tools and in the race for AGI. I think Microsoft is way behind and Microsoft Copilot suffered the lack of investment like the one made by its competitors.
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OpenAI
Anthropic is only the best for coding and its really really expensive. So, if you're not making a coding app, I would stay away from it. On the other hand, Gemini models are dirt cheap but come with a bit of performance limitations, so i would use it for big volume non sofisticated use cases. The OpenAI API platform excels at providing best in class performance models, at not outrageous anthropic-like pricing.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Copilot has had a huge positive impact on my productivity. My job requires a lot of author and customer interaction, so since I use Copilot, I dont need to spend hours in my workday answering emails.
  • Copilot has also helped with my data analysis skills. I use the data analysis to create proposals and I have noticed a significant increase in project approvals after I have started using Copilot.
  • One of the business objectives of my company is to create high quality education resources. Since Copilot is integrated across platforms and departments in all office locations across the world, it has helped streamline operations in my company. This has definitely supported in achieving this objective.
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OpenAI
  • Big question about functionality
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