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Microsoft Copilot vs Perplexity
Compare Microsoft Copilot vs Perplexity: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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copilot.microsoft.com ↗ Perplexity
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Free tier
Free GPT-5 access via Bing — most generous of frontier-tier
5 Pro searches/day
Standard plan
Copilot Pro — $20/mo
Pro — $20/mo
Top plan
Microsoft 365 Copilot — $30/mo
Enterprise — $200/mo
API input / 1M tokens
$5.00
$3.00 Best
API output / 1M tokens
$15.00
$15.00 Best
Capability
Context window
128K
200K Best
Max output tokens
8K Best
4K
Knowledge cutoff
2026-01
Live (web)
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
68% Best
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Math (AIME 2025)
82% Best
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Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
76% Best
65%
Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
1382 Best
1280
Features
Image input
✓
✓
Voice mode
✓
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Web search
✓
✓
File upload
✓
✓
Image generation
✓
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Code execution
✓
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Agent / tool use
✓
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Persistent memory
Partial
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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.
Perplexity
Search-grounded, not a general assistant. Best when you need cited, real-time answers.
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