ChatGPT
Conversational AI for writing, coding, and research
73
/100
Microsoft Copilot
Your AI companion
78
/100
ChatGPT vs Microsoft Copilot
Detailed side-by-side comparison of features, pricing, and performance
Comparing
Our Expert Verdict
RankTool's data-driven recommendation based on scores, features, and pricing.
Winner
Microsoft Copilot
by a solid margin
For most users, both ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot are strong options. Microsoft Copilot edges ahead overall, while ChatGPT may be better for specific workflows. Use the category winners and feature matrix below to decide.
💰
Best Price
Microsoft Copilot
💻
Best Coding
Microsoft Copilot
🎨
Best Creative
Microsoft Copilot
👥
Best for Teams
Microsoft Copilot
🧩
Best Ecosystem
Microsoft Copilot
Overview
Complete side-by-side specs in one place.
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| RankScore™ | 73 /100 | 78 /100 |
| Category | AI Chatbots & Assistants | AI Chatbots & Assistants |
| Starting price | $20/month | $10/month |
| Free plan | ✓ | ✓ |
| API available | ✓ | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Self-hostable | — | — |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | Web, iOS, Android |
| Target user | individual | individuals |
| Learning curve | Beginner | Beginner |
| Context window | — | — |
| Image generation | ✓ | Creates AI-generated images from text prompts for... |
| Languages supported | — | — |
| Launch year | 2022 | 2023 |
| Company | OpenAI | Microsoft |
| Funding | Private / Late-stage or mega-round · $182.6B | — |
| Team size | — | — |
Pricing Comparison
Plan-by-plan breakdown with what's included at each tier.
Free
ChatGPT
Free
Free
- ✓ Messages and interactions: Limited
- ✓ Chat history: Unlimited, subject to reasonable-use policies
- ✓ Web, iOS, and Android access: Yes
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Instant: Limited access
- ✗ GPT-5.5 Thinking
- ✗ GPT-5.5 Pro
- ✓ GPT Instant total context window: 27K
- ✓ Voice: Yes
- ✗ Voice with video
- ✓ Memory: Limited
- ✓ Search: Yes
- ✓ Codex: Limited
- ✓ Projects: Yes
- ✗ Scheduled tasks
- ✓ Data analysis: Limited
- ✓ File uploads: Limited
- ✓ Image generation: Limited and slower
- ✓ Deep research: Limited
- ✗ Interactive tables and charts
- ✗ Create and share GPTs
- ✗ Apps connecting to internal tools
- ✗ SAML SSO
- ✗ Admin console
- ✓ Business data used for training: Consumer content may be used with opt-out available
- ✗ Data residency
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot Free
Free
- ✓ AI chat: Included
- ✓ Web-grounded answers: Included
- ✓ Image creation: Available when signed in
- ✓ Chat history: Available when signed in
- ✓ Longer conversations: Available when signed in
- ✓ Voice interaction: Available when signed in
- ✗ Microsoft 365 desktop apps with Copilot
- ✗ Higher usage for select Copilot features
- ✗ Higher usage for AI image creation
- ✗ AI-generated audio
- ✗ Visual AI assistance
- ✗ Use Copilot with work files in select apps
- ✗ Microsoft Teams video calling with Copilot
- ✗ Cloud storage
- ✓ Multiple device access: Web, desktop, mobile, and Edge access available
- ✗ Family sharing
- ✗ Advanced AI agents
- ✗ Exclusive advanced Copilot features
- ✗ Video editor with 4K export
- ✗ Identity, data, and device security
- ✗ Free trial
Plus / Pro
ChatGPT
Plus
$20/month
- ✓ Messages and interactions: Unlimited, subject to reasonable-use policies
- ✓ Chat history: Unlimited, subject to reasonable-use policies
- ✓ Web, iOS, and Android access: Yes
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Instant: Expanded
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Thinking: Expanded
- ✗ GPT-5.5 Pro
- ✓ GPT Instant total context window: 54K
- ✓ Voice: Expanded
- ✓ Voice with video: Yes
- ✓ Memory: Expanded
- ✓ Search: Yes
- ✓ Codex: Yes / expanded usage
- ✓ Projects: Yes
- ✓ Scheduled tasks: Yes
- ✓ Data analysis: Yes
- ✓ File uploads: Yes
- ✓ Image generation: Yes / more complex and accurate image creation
- ✓ Deep research: Yes / expanded
- ✓ Interactive tables and charts: Yes
- ✓ Create and share GPTs: Yes
- ✓ Apps connecting to internal tools: Yes
- ✗ SAML SSO
- ✗ Admin console
- ✓ Business data used for training: Consumer content may be used with opt-out available
- ✗ Data residency
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft 365 Personal
$9.99/month
- ✓ AI chat: Included
- ✓ Web-grounded answers: Included
- ✓ Image creation: Included
- ✓ Chat history: Included with signed-in account
- ✓ Longer conversations: Included with signed-in account
- ✓ Voice interaction: Included with signed-in account
- ✓ Microsoft 365 desktop apps with Copilot: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook desktop apps with Microsoft Copilot
- ✓ Higher usage for select Copilot features: Higher than free
- ✓ Higher usage for AI image creation: Higher than free
- ✓ AI-generated audio: Select Copilot features; English only
- ✓ Visual AI assistance: Screen or camera questions in supported experiences
- ✓ Use Copilot with work files in select apps: Select apps
- ✓ Microsoft Teams video calling with Copilot: All-day video calling and Copilot in Teams
- ✓ Cloud storage: 1 TB
- ✓ Multiple device access: Use on PCs, Macs, phones, and tablets; sign into five devices at once
- ✗ Family sharing
- ✗ Advanced AI agents
- ✗ Exclusive advanced Copilot features
- ✓ Video editor with 4K export: 4K export, brand kits, filters, and effects
- ✓ Identity, data, and device security: Included
- ✓ Free trial: 1 month
Team
ChatGPT
Business
$25/month
- ✓ Messages and interactions: Unlimited
- ✓ Chat history: Unlimited
- ✓ Web, iOS, and Android access: Yes
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Instant: Business page lists GPT-5.2 unlimited; exact GPT-5.5 entitlement not stated on business pricing page
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Thinking: Business page lists GPT-5.2 thinking as flexible; exact GPT-5.5 entitlement not stated on business pricing page
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Pro: Business page lists GPT-5.2 pro as flexible; exact GPT-5.5 entitlement not stated on business pricing page
- ✓ GPT Instant total context window: 32K non-reasoning context; 196K reasoning context
- ✓ Voice: Standard advanced voice; standard voice included
- ✓ Voice with video: Yes
- ✓ Memory: Expanded; memory with past chats marked coming soon
- ✓ Search: Yes
- ✓ Codex: Codex agent included
- ✓ Projects: Yes / shared projects included
- ✓ Scheduled tasks: Tasks included
- ✓ Data analysis: Yes
- ✓ File uploads: Yes
- ✓ Image generation: Yes
- ✓ Deep research: Yes; Business can purchase credits for more access
- ✓ Interactive tables and charts: Yes
- ✓ Create and share GPTs: Yes / share GPTs with workspace included
- ✓ Apps connecting to internal tools: Yes
- ✓ SAML SSO: Yes
- ✓ Admin console: Yes
- ✗ Business data used for training: No training on business data by default
- ✗ Data residency
Enterprise
ChatGPT
Enterprise
Custom
- ✓ Messages and interactions: Unlimited
- ✓ Chat history: Unlimited
- ✓ Web, iOS, and Android access: Yes
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Instant: Enterprise page lists GPT-5.2 unlimited; exact GPT-5.5 entitlement not stated on business pricing page
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Thinking: Enterprise page lists GPT-5.2 thinking as flexible; exact GPT-5.5 entitlement not stated on business pricing page
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Pro: Enterprise page lists GPT-5.2 pro as flexible; exact GPT-5.5 entitlement not stated on business pricing page
- ✓ GPT Instant total context window: 128K non-reasoning context; 196K reasoning context
- ✓ Voice: Flexible advanced voice; standard voice included
- ✓ Voice with video: Yes
- ✓ Memory: Expanded; memory with past chats marked coming soon
- ✓ Search: Yes
- ✓ Codex: Flexible Codex agent
- ✓ Projects: Yes / shared projects included
- ✓ Scheduled tasks: Tasks included
- ✓ Data analysis: Yes
- ✓ File uploads: Yes
- ✓ Image generation: Yes
- ✓ Deep research: Flexible; Enterprise can purchase credits for more access
- ✓ Interactive tables and charts: Yes
- ✓ Create and share GPTs: Yes / share GPTs with workspace included
- ✓ Apps connecting to internal tools: Yes
- ✓ SAML SSO: Yes
- ✓ Admin console: Yes, plus global admin console
- ✗ Business data used for training: No training on business data by default
- ✓ Data residency: US, EU, UK, JP, CA, KR, SG, IN, AU, UAE
Monthly cost for a 5-person team
ChatGPT: $125/month
Microsoft Copilot: $50/month
Feature Matrix
Grouped capabilities — see who has what at a glance.
Core Features 1 features — ChatGPT: 0/1 · Microsoft Copilot: 0/1
Feature
ChatGPT
Microsoft Copilot
Conversational AI Chat
✗
Responds to natural-language questions a...
AI Capabilities 5 features — ChatGPT: 3/5 · Microsoft Copilot: 0/5
Feature
ChatGPT
Microsoft Copilot
GPT-4o models
✓
✗
Image Generation
✓
Creates AI-generated images from text pr...
Image generation
✓
Creates AI-generated images from text pr...
AI Content Creation Across Formats
✗
Can help create images, videos, document...
Privacy Controls for Training
✗
Provides user-facing controls to manage...
Integrations 1 features — ChatGPT: 0/1 · Microsoft Copilot: 0/1
Feature
ChatGPT
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft 365 App Integration
✗
Adds Copilot capabilities to apps such a...
Other 13 features — ChatGPT: 6/13 · Microsoft Copilot: 0/13
Feature
ChatGPT
Microsoft Copilot
Chat interface
✓
✗
Writing Assistance
✗
Helps draft, rewrite, summarize, and imp...
Voice Interaction
✗
Supports voice-based interaction in Copi...
Code interpreter
✓
✗
Desktop Apps
✗
Provides Copilot access through Windows...
Custom GPTs
✓
✗
Mobile Apps
✗
Offers Copilot access on iOS and Android...
Voice mode
✓
✗
File uploads
✓
✗
File and Information Search
✗
In Microsoft 365 Copilot app experiences...
Web browsing
✓
✗
Copilot Pages and Notebooks
✗
Supports organizing content and moving p...
Web and Browser Access
✗
Runs in a browser through copilot.micros...
Who Should Use What
Pick the tool that matches your workflow.
Choose ChatGPT if you…
- General-purpose AI assistance and prototyping
- Conversational AI for writing, coding, and research
- OpenAI's flagship chatbot for natural language tasks, coding help, and creative work.
Choose Microsoft Copilot if you…
- Best for individuals
- students
- and Microsoft 365 users who want a conversational AI assistant for everyday questions
- writing
- brainstorming
Ratings Breakdown
All 8 RankScore dimensions compared side-by-side.
ChatGPT
Microsoft Copilot
Decision scores
Five-dimension breakdown from expert reviews and verified user ratings (1–10 scale).
ChatGPT
Decision score
Expert + user ratings blended per dimension (1–10 scale)
5.0
Overall / 5★ search score
Privacy/Security
5.0
Microsoft Copilot
Decision score
Expert + user ratings blended per dimension (1–10 scale)
5.0
Overall / 5★ search score
Privacy/Security
5.0
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