Microsoft Copilot

Free tier with frontier OpenAI models

What Microsoft Copilot does

  • Free tier with frontier OpenAI models
  • Built into Windows, Edge and Microsoft 365
  • Voice, vision and image generation
  • Copilot Vision can see your screen

Microsoft Copilot — straight answers

What is Microsoft Copilot?

Microsoft Copilot is listed under General Purpose Chatbots, in the AI Chat & Assistants category on Flocci AI Tools. Free tier with frontier OpenAI models. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at copilot.microsoft.com.

Is Microsoft Copilot free?

Microsoft Copilot is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 391 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.

What can Microsoft Copilot do?

Microsoft Copilot does 4 things the catalog singles out: Free tier with frontier openai models; built into windows, edge and microsoft 365; voice, vision and image generation; copilot vision can see your screen.

What is the best free alternative to Microsoft Copilot?

Alibaba Quark AI Assistant is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same General Purpose Chatbots sub-category and is free. Baichuan Bai Xiao Ying (百小应), Baidu Ernie Bot (Wenxin Yiyan) and Falcon LLM Chat (TII) also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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  • Agent mode for multi-step tasks
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Claude

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier with the Claude family (Opus/Sonnet class)
  • Best-in-class coding and long-form reasoning
  • Artifacts for live code & document previews
  • Projects, memory and MCP tool connectors

Gemini

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier with Gemini 3 models
  • Up to 2M-token context (largest of any flagship)
  • Deep Google Workspace + real-time Search integration
  • Native image (Nano Banana) & video (Veo) generation

Grok

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier with Grok 4-series models
  • Live data from X and the open web
  • Grok Imagine for image & video generation
  • Less-filtered, fast conversational style

DeepSeek

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free access to V3-series & R1 reasoning models
  • Open-weight, MoE-efficient architecture
  • Strong math, coding and reasoning
  • Transparent chain-of-thought mode

Meta AI

General Purpose Chatbots
free
  • Free, powered by Llama 4
  • Built into WhatsApp, Instagram & Messenger
  • Image generation and editing in chat
  • Real-time web answers

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