Copilot Pro vs. Free Version: Which Is Right for You?

Introducing Copilot Pro:

Copilot pro is an upgraded and premium version of Copilot offering enhanced performance, priority access during the peak times, and increased image creator boosts with more AI powered images to create per day. Copilot Pro has also introduced the latest AI features in Office apps including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

With Copilot Pro, users have advantages such as:

• Priority access during peak times.
• AI-powered features integrated with the Office apps.
• Faster performance.

Whereas drawbacks of Copilot Pro include:

• It is a paid subscription, which is slightly expensive.

In this blog, we will draw a comparison between Copilot Pro and the free version of Copilot to find out which plan is better.

Copilot Pro vs Copilot (Free)

Features:

Copilot (Free) includes these features:

• Access on web, mobile, Windows, macOS, iPadOS.
• Designer creates AI-generated images with up to 15 boosts in a single day.
• Supports plugins and GPTS.
• Ability to use text, voice, and images in its conversational search feature.

In addition to all these features, Copilot Pro offers some additional benefits such as:

• Priority access to GPT-4 as well as GPT-4 Turbo even during peak times, thus enabling faster and smoother user performance.
• Integrated AI-powered features in Microsoft 365 apps. Copilot Pro can summarize your emails, build presentations, draft documents, and so much else.
• Copilot Pro can create AI-powered landscape images with DALL-E 3 with as many as 100 boosts in a single day.

Hence, if we break down the differences between Copilot and Copilot Pro features, the paid version offers enhanced performance, such as:

1. Microsoft 365 integration:

Copilot Pro introduces Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, as well as Outlook. Microsoft 365 integration benefits users in rewriting texts, drafting documents, creating presentations, summarizing mails and so much more.

• Word:

Copilot for Microsoft Word comes with new features such as Draft and Chat. Draft is an amazing tool that lets generate texts with new or existing documents as well as present and format them as per the user’s choice.

• The Chat mode is an AI assistant that displays relevant answers to user’s queries such as how to use Word and gives suggestions regarding what type of content should be included in a document. The Chat tool comes with controlling features for the app users.

• PowerPoint:

Copilot offers almost similar features in PowerPoint as it does in Word. Copilot analyzes a Word document and creates an entire presentation based on that particular topic. By leveraging Copilot in PowerPoint, users can build presentations from scratch with specific criteria set by the user.

• Excel:

Copilot in Excel can analyze your table and generate suggestions when prompted. It can also show correlations and give insights into the data so that you can understand it better. Copilot in Excel can also create visualizations based on your data and organize the table for you.

• OneNote:

Copilot can assemble Notebook information and show it in an organized manner. You can do amazing things with Copilot, such as create lists, get more creative ideas or plans, and format the content in your Notebook.

• Outlook:

Copilot for Outlook can draft new emails, summarize your existing mail, and send them to others with certain parameters as set by the user in terms of length, tone, and format. Also, when the users are dealing with multiple email chains, Copilot has the power to generate information from other mails and give context in an email thread.

2. Custom Copilot GPTS for content:

Copilot Pro allows users to utilize Copilot GPT Builder as a custom Copilot GPT to create their own version of Copilot. Copilot’s GPT Builder is a customized version of Copilot that allows enhanced creativity for users with specialized knowledge, a wide variety of AI prompts, and streamlined tasks.

3.  Priority access to GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo:

With Copilot Pro, users benefit from priority access to GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo features as a reserved capacity for Microsoft subscribers. Such additional features ensure that users don’t need to wait around to leverage the power of AI assistance, even during peak times.

On the other hand, Copilot falls back to GPT 3.5 during peak times when the demand is high.

4. Designer boosts for visual content:

With Copilot Pro, customers gain more Image Creator by Designer boosts. While the free version of Copilot allows only 15 boosts in one day, Copilot Pro enables users 100 boosts per day, ensuring users get to use Image Creator by Designer excessively.

Is it worth upgrading to Copilot Pro?

Although the free version of Copilot already offers multiple useful functions for users, with Copilot Pro subscription, there are several added benefits, especially for regular Microsoft Office users. For one, Copilot Pro integrates AI into the Office apps and thereby transforms the whole experience for Microsoft users. With Copilot Pro, you can command Copilot to create an entire PowerPoint presentation based on the data of any Word document or even an email and watch it do wonders within minutes. Employees can use Copilot Pro to complete daily tasks, enhance their performance, and unlock more creative ideas. It’s a real time-saver.