Microsoft was also late to AI’s party it launched Copilot in 2023 where it used the Open AI’s chat GPT to do so. To enhance its AI product, the company has announced its Copilot Pro, which is paid as an addition to its AI bot. If you are interested in how Copilot is different from Copilot Pro, and what advantages the latter has, read below.
What is Microsoft Copilot Premium?
Bing Chat is the new name of Microsoft Copilot that is developed based on Prometheus, the same model as ChatGPT and contains GPT-4 LLM. Bingbot was introduced as an upgraded feature in Windows 11 in September 2023 and its motto was the ‘everyday AI companion’.
It enhances Windows 11 through artificial intelligence tools that arrange windows, take screenshots, look up answers, or indeed create pictures from ideas.
Copilot allows users to generate content, code ask a generic query, or even generate images by providing a written language description. In other words, all of its base competencies, web anchoring, and protection of commercial data are included in the offering free of charge.
Further, this basic plan allows you to generate responses with OpenAI’s most recent GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo models during off-peak hours, so you get accurate replies to your exchanges. Copilot is currently free and can be downloaded for Windows 11, Bing, and Microsoft Edge.
Copilot Pro is a new, paid offering for power users and creators built right on top of the existing Copilot experience. Apart from such features, it connects to Microsoft’s Office apps and offers a priority for the latest OpenAI model to enhance your productivity.
This makes it achieve higher levels of performance than the free tier in that it offers assured optimal performance, even during hours of high demand.
With Copilot Pro, customers have an opportunity to turn to Microsoft AI chatbot for writing, coding, organization, and designing in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. In addition, you are given unique privileges to use the GPT builder to build Copilot GPTs for specific subject areas if desired.
Microsoft Copilot vs Copilot Premium: In which ways do they differ?
As a result, the only substantial distinction between Copilot and Copilot Pro is in the capabilities of the tools in question. The free version is only supported in Windows 11, Microsoft Edge, and Bing and is Limited to basic AI with customer data safety.
Copilot Pro grants you access to AI integration in MS Word and Excel, define twice as many image descriptions per second with DALL-E 3 faster, and priority access, regardless of the time, to OpenAI’s latest models, namely GPT-4 or GPT-4 Turbo.
This ensures that difficult issues are well understood and performance is fast to produce results as required. That is, during peak hours, the Copilot is completely free and works at the level of GPT 3. 5 compared to the current model instead of using the latest one.
An important addition that I know because of interacting in the community: when generating AI images with Designer (previously Bing Image Creator) based on DALL-E 3, people with pros get to make pictures of a landscape format, with a hundred boosts per day instead of those 15 boosts which people with a free subscription can.
In Word, Copilot Pro will allow you to complete text within new or existing documents as needed. Also, there is a Chat mode in which one can post questions concerning the direction of data in the Word document, formatting, or some recommendations. Copilot Pro in Excel offers features that include visual exploration, checking correlation charts, formula suggestions, and many others.
When working in Word, in such a context, Copilot Pro can create a PowerPoint presentation on the basis of the data contained in the document. It can also assist you in providing the missing slides in the existing presentation that you are making.
Outlook Copilot Pro allows users to generate plans, gather data, control the choice of the e-mail tone, create drafts of e-mails, and even provide the e-mail digest.
The associated subscription makes it possible to use Copilot Pro across the Microsoft apps across PC, Mac and iPad.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 vs. Copilot Premium: So common is this error that one cannot help but ask: Is it any different?
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is a business-oriented product focusing on the filtered, core Copilot experience as well as core priority, enclosed enterprise solution with enhanced data safety and security features.
The extent and uses of artificial intelligence supported by Copilot for Microsoft 365 include use in emails, meetings, chats, documents, and much more in all Microsoft 365 work apps and the Microsoft graph.
However, the enterprise sub does provide two features: you are allowed to use Microsoft Teams so you can make reference to the AI during a meeting to capture the main areas of concern and the actions to be taken.
In particular, Copilot for Microsoft 365 now contains the Copilot Studio to create a corporate Copilot and corresponding plugins. However, to be able to subscribe to Copilot for Microsoft 365, one is required to have a Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Microsoft 365 Business Premium license.
Regarding the cost, Microsoft provides the monthly subscription for $30 per member in your organization on the condition that they have bought a business license product from Microsoft 365 at $12. 50 member/month.
In the case of an enterprise, you have to buy the Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 license plan starting at $36 per member/month in addition to the Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Windows versions of Copilot and when using only standard search tools, there is no cost involved; however, Copilot Pro, which is feature-rich and equipped with artificial intelligence compatibility for several Microsoft applications, is available at a cost of $20 per user per month.
In order to avail of the Pro plan, one needs to have an M365 Personal ($6. 99/month) or Family ($9. 99/month). If you are a poor communicator, then you are getting at least $26 in value. An individual can pay 99/month to benefit from Microsoft 365 and Copilot Pro, which we find expensive.
However, to get the most out of Copilot Pro, you should combine it with a Microsoft 365 Family subscription as it is a lot more cost-effective.
The price will be $29 while on the website it is $49 for an activate account for a year. For 99 dollars a month (together) for the subscription, under the promoting code, there can be six members/heads, that is, seven in all, for five dollars a month each member.
Final Conclusion:
Regardless of whether one is an individual, business, or enterprise, Copilot is a stable AI product with wide implications. However, Copilot’s Pro and Enterprise subscription only provides value if you spend ample time using Microsoft 365 applications for work and information.
However, you can go with ChatGPT, and as you have seen, you can enjoy Copilot’s free benefits on Windows 11 without paying a dime.
