What is the difference between Microsoft Copilot and Copilot Studio?

Microsoft Copilot is the ready-made AI assistant in Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams. Copilot Studio is the builder tool for creating your own AI agents that know your company data and processes.

What does Microsoft Copilot cost?

Microsoft 365 Copilot costs about 30 euro per user per month on top of your 365 plan. Copilot Studio uses message packs from roughly 190 euro per month depending on usage.

Is our data safe with Copilot?

Copilot works inside your Microsoft 365 tenant and inherits your existing permission structure. The real risk is messy permissions: whoever can see too much will get too much through Copilot as well. That is why every integration should start with a permission audit.

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Turning Copilot on is easy. Getting value out of it is not.

Plenty of companies buy Copilot licences, try it for two weeks and quietly give up. The problem is rarely the tool. It is the integration: permissions, data, processes and adoption. That is exactly what we work on.

Copilot and Copilot Studio: the difference in one minute

Microsoft 365 Copilot (±€30 per user per month) is the assistant in Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams: summarising mail, drafting documents, taking meeting notes.
Copilot Studio is the builder. It lets you create your own AI agents that know your quotes, procedures and customer data, and take action in your systems through Power Automate.

The first is a licence you buy. The second is a product you build. The biggest gains almost always sit in the second category, provided your processes and data are in order.

Why Copilot projects fail

Permissions are messy. Copilot inherits your 365 permissions. Whoever can see too much will get too much through Copilot as well, from salaries to contracts. Every integration starts with a permission audit.
Data is a mess. An assistant drawing on ten years of unstructured SharePoint gives messy answers. Clean-up and structure come before roll-out.
Licences without a use-case. "Give everyone Copilot" is not a plan. Define per role where the hours sit, and measure the difference.
No adoption. Without short training and concrete example prompts per team, it stays at trying and giving up.

What we build with Copilot Studio

Internal knowledge agent: answers from your own procedures, contracts and manuals, with sources.
Quote assistant: an agent that drafts a first proposal based on past quotes and price lists.
Customer service agent: frequent questions handled in Teams or on your site, with escalation to a human.
Process agents: agents that do not just answer but act: creating tasks, generating documents, starting flows.

How we approach a Copilot integration

Same approach as all our work: Listen, Map, Build, Care. We start with a Quick Scan (€1,199) that shows where Copilot does and does not pay off in your organisation, including a permission check and licence advice. Then we build with fixed scope: a first working agent from €3,999, ongoing care from €495 per month.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Copilot and Copilot Studio?

Microsoft Copilot is the ready-made assistant in your Office apps. Copilot Studio is the builder for your own AI agents that know your company data and processes.

What does it cost?

Microsoft 365 Copilot costs ±€30 per user per month. Copilot Studio uses message packs from ±€190 per month depending on usage.

Is our data safe?

Copilot works inside your 365 tenant and inherits your permission structure. The real risk is messy permissions, which is why every integration starts with a permission audit.

Is Copilot worth it for an SME?

Not automatically. For teams that write, meet and mail a lot it pays back quickly. A Quick Scan shows where the gain is before you buy licences.

Curious whether Copilot would pay off in your organisation?

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