Perplexity vs Microsoft Copilot

Choosing between Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot? Here's a quick side-by-side look at pricing, key strengths and limitations of both AI tools — so you can pick the right one faster.

Perplexity

$20/mo · Freemium

AI answer engine that searches the web and cites its sources

✅ Strengths:

• Direct answers with cited, clickable sources
• Real-time web search built in
• Pro Search for deeper, multi-step research
• Upload and analyse files and documents

❌ Limitations:

• Answer quality depends on available web sources
• Pro features sit behind a paywall

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Microsoft Copilot

$20/mo · Freemium

Microsoft's AI assistant built into Windows, Edge and Office apps

✅ Strengths:

• Works inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Drafts, rewrites and summarises documents
• Builds and explains Excel formulas and data
• Generates images with built-in AI

❌ Limitations:

• Deepest features need a Microsoft 365 plan
• Priority access requires Copilot Pro

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