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Microsoft Copilot

Free tier mixing frontier OpenAI models with Microsoft's own MAI models

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What Microsoft Copilot does

  • Free tier mixing frontier OpenAI models with Microsoft's own MAI models
  • Built into Windows, Edge and Microsoft 365
  • Voice, vision and image generation
  • Copilot Vision can see and talk through 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 mixing frontier OpenAI models with Microsoft's own MAI 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 426 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.

Can I use Microsoft Copilot in a browser, or is there an app?

Microsoft Copilot works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on the web, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac and inside another product.

What can Microsoft Copilot do?

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

What is the best free alternative to Microsoft Copilot?

Apertus Chat (Public AI) is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same General Purpose Chatbots sub-category and is free. Falcon LLM Chat (TII), Google AI Mode and HuggingChat also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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ChatGPT

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier on OpenAI's fast GPT-6/GPT-5.x 'Luna' models, with a Think button for harder questions
  • Voice, vision, image generation and web search in one app
  • Agent mode, projects, memory and file uploads
  • Custom GPTs and a large app/connector ecosystem
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Claude

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier on Anthropic's Claude 5 family (Sonnet-class model by default)
  • Top-tier coding, writing and long-document reasoning
  • Artifacts for live code, document and app previews
  • Projects, memory, web search and MCP tool connectors
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Gemini

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier on Gemini 3.x Flash models, with limited access to the top Pro model
  • Very long context for whole books, codebases and long videos
  • Deep Google Workspace and real-time Search integration
  • Native image (Nano Banana) and video (Veo) generation, Gemini Live voice
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Grok

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free, rate-limited access to xAI's latest Grok 4.x models
  • Live data from X and the open web
  • Grok Imagine for image and video generation
  • Fast, less-filtered conversational style
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DeepSeek

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free web and app chat on DeepSeek's V4-series models
  • Instant and Expert (deep-thinking) modes
  • Strong math, coding and reasoning at open-model cost
  • Models are also released as open weights
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Meta AI

General Purpose Chatbots
free
  • Free assistant now powered by Meta's Muse Spark models
  • Built into WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and Ray-Ban Meta glasses
  • Image generation and editing in chat
  • Real-time web answers
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