Comparison
Copilot makes the Microsoft apps you already live in smarter. Tenfold does the work that happens outside them. If your day is Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams, that sentence probably decides this for you.
Tenfold is a team of AI employees you hire by role. They connect to whatever tools you use, work in parallel, and hand back finished output in a console built for reviewing it.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is AI built into Microsoft 365. It works inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams, ships prebuilt agents like Researcher and Analyst, and lets you build your own in Copilot Studio.
Rows say what each product does rather than who wins, because the interesting differences here are not yes-or-no answers.
| Tenfold | Microsoft 365 Copilot | |
|---|---|---|
| What you need before you start | A browser. | A qualifying Microsoft 365 business plan. Copilot is an add-on on top of the licence you already pay for. |
| How you pay | $99, $299 or $799 a month for the company, whatever the headcount. | From $18 per user per month on an annual commitment, discounted through September 2026 and $21 after, or bundled plans from $20.30 to $32.00 per user per month. Plus the Microsoft 365 licence underneath it. |
| Where it is strongest | Between your tools. Reading mail, updating a CRM, publishing a post, filing an invoice, producing a report on a schedule. | Inside the document. Drafting in Word, analysing in Excel, summarising a Teams meeting, triaging Outlook. |
| Microsoft Teams | Not yet. Slack, Telegram and Discord are live today. | It is Teams. This is home ground. |
| Building your own | You hire an employee and brief it in plain language, the way you would brief a person. | Copilot Studio, which is a builder: topics, actions and connectors, assembled by someone willing to learn it. |
| Integrations | Over 1,300 tools, connected by you and revocable at any time. | Over 100 connectors, by their own count, plus the Microsoft graph. |
| Its own email address | Every employee gets a real mailbox that sends and receives. | It works inside your Outlook mailbox rather than having one of its own. |
| Which model runs the work | Chosen per employee, across Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. | Microsoft's hosted models, chosen for you. |
| Identity and admin controls | Accounts, roles and per-account isolation. No single sign-on as a self-serve feature yet. | Microsoft Entra identity, tenant admin, and the governance an IT department already knows how to operate. |
| Compliance posture | We do not hold a SOC 2 report today, and our security page says so plainly. | The full Microsoft enterprise compliance estate, which is as good as this gets. |
Copilot is at its best when the work and the AI are in the same window. You are in a spreadsheet, you want the analysis in that spreadsheet, and it appears there. Nothing else gets that close, because nothing else owns the window.
Almost none of the work we hear people complain about happens in one window. It is reading forty invoice emails and putting the line items in a sheet. It is watching a channel and drafting the reply. It is producing the same report every Monday from four systems that do not talk to each other. That work lives in the gaps.
So the question is where your time actually goes. If it goes into documents, Copilot shortens the document. If it goes into moving things between systems, that is the part we take.
But honestly. If most of your week genuinely is inside Office files, Copilot will do more for you than we will, and it will do it without you connecting anything.
Copilot looks inexpensive at $18 a user and is not quite, because it sits on top of a Microsoft 365 licence you are already buying. That is fine if you were buying it anyway, and most companies were. It is worth counting properly all the same.
The shape matters more than the number. Copilot is per person, so it scales with headcount. We are per company, so it scales with how much work runs at once. A ten-person team on Copilot is roughly $180 a month against our $299. A forty-person team is roughly $720 against our $799, and every hire after that moves theirs and not ours.
Neither shape is a trick. They are priced for different things: theirs for giving everyone a better version of the tools they have, ours for getting work done that nobody currently has time for.
But honestly. On a small Microsoft-centric team, Copilot is cheaper, already procured, and does not ask anyone to learn a new place to look.
1,000 credits, no card. Give an employee the task you have been putting off and judge it on what comes back.
Or read the 7-day challenge first.
Everything stated here about Microsoft 365 Copilot was read on 25 August 2026 from Microsoft 365 Copilot for business. Things change. If we have something wrong, tell us and we will correct this page.