№ — Head-to-Head
ChatGPT vs Copilot by Microsoft
Side by side: starting price, pricing model, free tier and platforms. Check each vendor's pricing page before you buy, since plans change often.
At a glance
What each one is
ChatGPT
ChatGPT by OpenAI runs on the GPT-6 family — Astra, Sol, Luna and the GPT-6 Instant interface released in October 2026 — as a single multimodal assistant for text, voice, vision, image generation and file analysis. Free tier with usage limits; Go at $8/mo, Plus at $20/mo, and Pro tiers from $100/mo. Includes Custom GPTs, projects and canvas. Sora video generation was discontinued in 2026.
Full ChatGPT entry →Copilot by Microsoft
Microsoft Copilot brings AI assistance across Windows 11, Edge, Bing, and the Microsoft 365 apps. Free for consumers with voice and vision; Copilot Pro at $20/mo for priority GPT-4o access and Copilot in Word/Excel/PowerPoint; Microsoft 365 Copilot at $30/user/mo for businesses with tenant grounding.
Full Copilot by Microsoft entry →We haven't written a verdict for this matchup yet, so we don't name a winner. How we choose what to feature is explained in our editorial methodology.