Microsoft 365 Copilot vs. Perplexity

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Score 8.1 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
Perplexity
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
An answer engine for publicly available knowledge, Perplexity's Enterprise Pro plan helps employees get fast answers to their most complex questions without the usual need to click on different links, compare answers, or endlessly dig for information.
$20
per month
Pricing
Microsoft 365 CopilotPerplexity
Editions & Modules
Microsoft Copilot
$31.50
per month per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft 365 CopilotPerplexity
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
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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Community Pulse
Microsoft 365 CopilotPerplexity
Considered Both Products
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Chose Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft Copilot is a serious competitor to ChatGPT in the corporate world, due to its heavy and well implemented integration across the Microsoft 365 suite. It produces comparable results, but provides data security, controls, customisation and options that ChatGPT can't …
Perplexity
Chose Perplexity
Compared to the competitors Perplexity is more advanced in terms of doing its own research and giving an output that others cannot generate. Its algorithm is well equipped to handle complex queries and asks followup questions to gererate the desired output. Its faster and the …
Chose Perplexity
Perplexity offers a unique approach to generative ai tools, which is built more around a search engine, over a chat style tool. While this is novel, and some times more useful than the chat type of tool, i didn't feel it added enough value or increased power over the standard …
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User Ratings
Microsoft 365 CopilotPerplexity
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(16 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(13 ratings)
8.8
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft 365 CopilotPerplexity
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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Perplexity AI, Inc.
Perplexity is helpful when you want auto-code generation for day-to-day problem scenarios such as Powershell script to accomplish a task, Code to invoke a REST API, Class generation from JSON/XML data, etc. It is also helpful when you want to correct or optimize code that you have self-written. Perplexity might not be best suited for scenarios when you need 100% accuracy without your self-verification of correctness.
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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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Perplexity AI, Inc.
  • Research the company that my prospects work for.
  • Research background on my prospects.
  • Combine those two and come up with about one page on how to approach them based on the space (persona) I created.
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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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Perplexity AI, Inc.
  • Image generation is not upto mark
  • Data analysis for excel is way off
  • Getting insights on data not available online is hard
  • Need to embed like copilot in assisting day to day activities
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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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Perplexity AI, Inc.
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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Perplexity AI, Inc.
It's great, but doesn't necessarily feel like it adds enough value over using CoPilot, ChatGPT, or whichever generative AI tool your business already uses. Time will tell if this model continues to be developed, and whether it remains competitive with the other big models out in the industry, and innovating features and integrating more use cases fast.
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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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Perplexity AI, Inc.
I use all three at present, Perplexity IS outstanding when It comes to researching, like a search engine on steroids. If you need programming skills Claude or Chatgpt seem better suited for the task. What I normally do in a project IS use all three in order to arrive at a more insightful outcome. The BEST of all world.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • It is too early to tell at the moment but I can see it as a positive moving forward
  • The amount of time saved in creating content will be a huge asset for faculty
  • The same holds true for students as they to will be able to safe a lot of time
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Perplexity AI, Inc.
  • Increases efficiency
  • Saves costs (e.g. for creation of creative content)
  • Frees up time that can be used for other productive actions
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