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ChatGPT vs Microsoft Copilot
Compare ChatGPT vs Microsoft Copilot: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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copilot.microsoft.com ↗ Pricing
Free tier
Limited GPT-5 mini, ~10 GPT-5 messages/day
Free GPT-5 access via Bing — most generous of frontier-tier
Standard plan
Plus — $20/mo
Copilot Pro — $20/mo
Top plan
Pro — $200/mo
Microsoft 365 Copilot — $30/mo
API input / 1M tokens
$5.00
$5.00 Best
API output / 1M tokens
$15.00
$15.00 Best
Capability
Context window
256K Best
128K
Max output tokens
16K Best
8K
Knowledge cutoff
2026-01
2026-01
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
72% Best
68%
Math (AIME 2025)
84% Best
82%
Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
79% Best
76%
Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
1410 Best
1382
Features
Image input
✓
✓
Voice mode
✓
✓
Web search
✓
✓
File upload
✓
✓
Image generation
✓
✓
Code execution
✓
✓
Agent / tool use
✓
✓
Persistent memory
✓
Partial
ChatGPT
Best all-rounder. Strongest agent tooling (custom GPTs, code interpreter, browse).
Microsoft Copilot
Tightest M365 integration (Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook). Free GPT-5 in Bing Chat. Slightly weaker on benchmarks than ChatGPT due to safety tuning.
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