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Copilot is everywhere in Windows 11, but almost nobody is paying for it
Microsoft has spent three years bolting Copilot onto every corner of Windows 11 and Office, but the AI’s adoption numbers show that none of it stuck. Less than 5% of Microsoft’s half a billion commercial Microsoft 365 customers pay for Copilot features, and funnily enough, these users just got hit with a price hike that bundles even more AI into the bill whether they asked for it or not.
Gemini and Claude keep chipping away at whatever lead Copilot could’ve gotten, and Microsoft knows it well enough that they are quietly restructuring the Copilot lineup.
Fewer than 4.5% of Microsoft 365’s 450 million customers pay for Copilot
The figure comes from an industry report, and of the sliver who do pay, only 20 to 30 percent open Copilot on a weekly basis
Do the math, and Copilot’s weekly-active footprint inside Microsoft 365 is somewhere close to 1% of the entire customer base . Microsoft has wired the AI into Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, and the Windows 11 taskbar itself for this.
An internal memo from Copilot chief Jacob Andreou, reported by The Information, mentioned Copilot has to "earn the right to exist."
Note that Copilot Chat , the free tier in eligible Microsoft 365 subscriptions, gets used plenty because it costs nothing extra and shows up automatically.
So, this isn’t Copilot being unpopular in some abstract sense. The 4.5% figure is about people paying in addition to their existing MS365 subscription for the “fuller” Copilot experience, and that’s a far smaller crowd than Microsoft’s ubiquitous branding would have you believe.
What Microsoft 365 Copilot adds for the extra money
Microsoft 365 Copilot isn’t one thing, and figuring out what you’d get for the extra money takes a fair bit of time. It’s layered on your existing subscription, and Microsoft’s support documentation splits it into three distinct tiers.
The free version at copilot.microsoft.com gets you web-grounded chat, image generation, and Copilot in Edge, no Microsoft 365 subscription required.
Regular free version of Copilot<br>Business users with an eligible Microsoft 365 plan get Copilot Chat automatically, at no extra charge, which adds pay-as-you-go agents and IT controls but stops short of touching your own work data.
Difference between paid and free versions of Copilot Chat for Microsoft 365 Business subscribers
Feature<br>Without a Copilot license (Copilot Chat only)<br>With a Copilot license (Microsoft 365 Copilot)
AI model access<br>Standard access<br>Priority access
Web data reasoning<br>Yes<br>Yes
Work data reasoning<br>Limited (uploaded files only)<br>Full (meetings, emails, chats, files, and more)
Access to agents<br>Limited, no advanced agents<br>Extensive, including Researcher, Analyst, and custom agents
Security<br>Enterprise grade<br>Enterprise grade
Copilot Studio access<br>Pay-as-you-go<br>Included
Priority during peak times<br>Standard, may slow down<br>Priority, faster and more reliable
Copilot in Outlook<br>Included<br>Included
Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps<br>Depends on assigned label<br>Included
Only the paid Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on, licensed on top of Business Basic, Business Standard, Business Premium, or an Enterprise plan, unlocks the Copilot that reads your emails, files, and meetings through Microsoft Graph, plus access to agents like Researcher and Analyst.
None of this is cheap. Enterprise customers pay $30 per user per month in...