2 categories · RankedMicrosoft 365 Copilot
Leads at enterprise. Ranked 2 of 139 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
ChatGPT is first at 45%.
Ranked first, contested: ChatGPT has 20%. 10 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Ranked first. Next is Glean at 10%.
Why models recommend it
“Best for: Deep integration into Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and SharePoint... Why it wins for Mid-Market: Inherits your existing Microsoft Entra ID permissions out of the box”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“For a typical mid-market B2B company already on Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Copilot is the most practical, cost-effective starting point.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“I recommend Microsoft Copilot (especially if you're already on Microsoft 365) or Glean as the top company-wide AI chatbot for employees.”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“If your organization is heavily standardized on M365 or Google: Microsoft 365 Copilot or Gemini Enterprise offer the fastest ROI”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid Microsoft 365 Copilot in its default configuration (too broad access)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
“Enterprise platform integrations such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, Google Gemini for Workspace, or Salesforce Einstein... their deep integration means the AI inherits existing internal user permissions”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Microsoft's own security guidance notes the specific data risk for Copilot: with the right permissions, Microsoft Copilot can access your emails, documents, and Teams messages”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Enterprise versions like those in Microsoft 365 Copilot (rated C/use with caution) improve this but still access broad tenant data”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Microsoft 365 Copilot, over the 181 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 138 | 35 | Compare → | |
| 88 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 80 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 74 | 0 | View → | |
| 36 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 35 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 32 | 1 | View → | |
| 32 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Microsoft 365 Copilot →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Microsoft 365 Copilot's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- работното си място
- Free plan or trial
- Free forever
- Customers named
- ICG, Dow, Clifford Chance, Campari Group, Lumen Technologies, Air India
- Also from Microsoft
- Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft 365 Administration, Microsoft 365 Backup, Microsoft 365 Compliance Center, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and 165 more
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 161 of the 181 answers that named Microsoft 365 Copilot and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
259 of the 379 domain citations in answers naming Microsoft 365 Copilot came from a third party's page. Forty-eight were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |