Dust vs Microsoft Copilot

Dust connects company knowledge, tools, and teams so organizations can build, share, and run AI agents across workflows. People and agents coordinate through shared knowledge, tools, conversations, notifications, and human review. Dust lists 70+ connectors, including Slack, Notion, Google Drive, GitHub, Salesforce, and Zendesk, and supports building agents with more than 20 frontier and open-source models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Mistral. Agents can run multi-agent workflows on schedules and triggers, with reusable skills, tools, and memory. Its Chrome extension provides access to company knowledge and AI assistance from the current tab. Dust says it is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant, and enables HIPAA compliance. Its Free plan includes 500 credits for lifetime use. Pro costs €24 a month billed yearly, and Max costs €120 a month billed yearly. Enterprise is listed without a price and includes unlimited connectors and MCP servers, workspace-pooled credits, SCIM, audit logs, single-tenant deployment, and priority support with an SLA.

Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant available on the web, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. It supports web search, file uploads, image generation, app integrations, team workspaces, and AI bot generation. A free plan offers limited access subject to capacity and usage limits. Paid Microsoft 365 plans bundle Copilot with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, OneDrive, Defender, and Teams. Microsoft 365 Personal costs $99.99 a year for one person, includes 1 TB of cloud storage, and allows sign-in on five devices at once. Family costs $129.99 a year for one to six people and provides up to 6 TB of storage, but AI features are available only to the subscription owner. Premium is $199.99 a year; Pro is $99.99 a month. Paid plans provide increased usage for chat and visual AI assistance, with agentic AI usage limited on Premium and highest on Pro. AI-generated audio is English only.