Microsoft Copilot vs Tana

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.

Tana is an agentic meeting platform that proposes work during native video calls. Its AI can file issues, draft follow-up emails, update a CRM, and log decisions while a meeting is taking place. Tana says calls are captured locally from the user’s computer, so no bot appears as a participant in Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet. Each proposed issue, email, CRM update, or decision is presented for a person to accept, edit, or dismiss. Listed integrations include Google Calendar, Outlook, GitHub, Linear, Jira, Slack, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Claude, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Lovable, and MCP. Its MCP server and API let tools and agents read and write a workspace, with proposal review matching the built-in AI process. Tana offers web access and desktop apps for Mac, Windows, and Linux, but no mobile apps are listed. The Free plan includes five meetings per month, one calendar, and 50 AI queries. Paid plans start at $30/user/mo, and a 30-day trial is listed.