Comparison

The same objection, on the Microsoft side.

Microsoft 365 Copilot is Microsoft's own AI add-on for Outlook. It drafts, summarises, coaches your tone and prioritises your inbox, grounded in your organisation's Microsoft 365 data. Beemy makes the same case here as it does against Gemini. It infers a priority model from your relationships, rather than a written rule. That loop spans both providers too: Gmail and Google Calendar are live in beta, Outlook is next.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft's AI add-on for Outlook — drafts and summarises email, coaches tone, and prioritises your inbox, grounded in your organisation's Microsoft 365 data.

Beemy One assistant across your whole life: inbox and calendar today, Slack next, not a faster client for one of them.

At a glance

Seven ways a bundled add-on differs from a dedicated assistant.

Dimension	Microsoft 365 Copilot	Beemy
Where it runs	Outlook, on an existing, licensed Microsoft 365 plan.	Gmail and Google Calendar live in beta today; Outlook next as it clears its own safety gate. See what's next →
What it is	Microsoft's AI, bundled into Outlook — drafts emails, summarises threads, coaches your tone, and prioritises your inbox.	Works in the background across email, calendar and Slack (as it rolls out) without a prompt.
Drafting	“Draft with Copilot” generates a full email from a prompt, based on thread context and organisational information, with tone/length options.	Drafts unprompted, learned per relationship, ready for a one-tap approval.
Prioritising your inbox	“Copilot reviews your emails as they arrive in your inbox and assigns a priority (high, low, normal) to them based on a list of factors” — “like people on the thread, their job titles, email content and more.” Microsoft adds: “You'll need to give it at least one high priority instruction to get it started,” and it “will prioritize emails which are received after the feature has been turned on.”	Weighs every message by relationship and urgency from the first sync, building the priority model from your existing mail rather than from an instruction you write.
Coaching	An email “Coach” suggests tone, clarity and reader-sentiment adjustments before you send.	Learns your voice per relationship, so drafts already sound like you rather than coaching you on your own.
Price	An add-on to an existing Microsoft 365 plan: Copilot Business at $18/user/month paid yearly (listed down from $21) or $25.20 monthly, and Enterprise at “$30.00 user/month, paid yearly”; bundles run from Business Standard with Copilot at $23.50/user/month. Microsoft notes list prices “may not reflect the actual list price due to currency, country, and regional variant factors.”	$29–49/month, free to start — no separate suite required. See plans →
Work and personal	Tied to your organisation's Microsoft 365 licence and its own data (“Work IQ”) — built for the workplace account it's licensed to.	Personal and work kept in strictly separate architectural silos, not two accounts on the same enterprise licence. How the silos hold →

One item, shown

What Beemy actually produces.

Illustrative

In Gmail · work

What arrived

someone senior, rarely in touch

Quick favour

A message arrives from someone with a senior title you barely talk to, the kind a title-based rule would bump straight to the top.

What Beemy tells you

A senior title alone doesn't decide priority here. Beemy checks how often you actually talk to this person and weighs it against a message from your closest collaborator.

You still see it, just not first. Nothing about today's order came from a title alone.

The real difference

Prompted assistance vs. triage that already ran.

Copilot's Draft, Coach and thread summaries are strong, licensed features you invoke as you go, and Prioritize my inbox genuinely runs on its own — Microsoft says it “reviews your emails as they arrive.” Two details from Microsoft's own doc shape the comparison: “You'll need to give it at least one high priority instruction to get it started,” and it prioritises mail “received after the feature has been turned on.” Beemy builds its priority model from the mail already in your account, so what matters is inferred from your relationships rather than written out as a rule first.

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The price of the add-on

Copilot is an add-on on top of a plan you already pay for.

Copilot in Outlook requires an existing, qualifying Microsoft 365 licence plus the add-on itself, at a price Microsoft says varies by plan, currency and region. Beemy's price is the whole cost, with a free tier and no separate suite purchase required first.

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Breadth

Deep inside Microsoft's suite, not built to cross into Google's.

Copilot is grounded in your organisation's own Microsoft Graph data, licensed to the Microsoft 365 tenant you're on (a real strength inside that world). Microsoft's own pages describe it as bundled with Microsoft 365 plans and licensed Outlook clients, and don't address a personal or Google account alongside it. Bridging both onto one loop, in separate silos, is the gap Beemy is built for: Gmail and Google Calendar live in beta today, Outlook next.

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Alternatives

Looking for a Microsoft 365 Copilot alternative?

Copilot isn't the only way to add AI to Outlook — here's the honest field, including options that aren't Beemy.

SuperhumanYou want a dedicated fast client with its own AI layer on top of Outlook.
Fyxer AIYou want an assistant layer that triages and drafts, on Outlook or Gmail.
Gemini in GmailYour organisation runs on Google Workspace instead.
BeemyYou want a priority model inferred from your relationships, on one loop built to span both providers — Gmail and Google Calendar live in beta today, Outlook next.

A fair word

When Microsoft 365 Copilot is the better tool.

Your organisation may already be invested in Microsoft 365. Copilot brings an AI layer deeply integrated with Outlook and your organisation's Graph data. That sits inside your existing security and compliance boundary (Microsoft names GDPR, ISO 27001 and HIPAA support for Copilot). In that case, the add-on is a strong, enterprise-grade choice with reach well beyond email. Draft, Coach, thread summaries and Prioritize my inbox are all genuinely useful, and generally available today; nothing here claims otherwise. Beemy's case is narrower: a priority model inferred from the relationships already in your mailbox, not from instructions you write. That loop spans both providers in separate silos: Gmail and Google Calendar are live in beta today, Outlook is next.

Questions

Fair questions, straight answers.

How much does Microsoft 365 Copilot cost?

It's an add-on to an existing Microsoft 365 plan. Microsoft's enterprise pricing page lists it at “$30.00 user/month, paid yearly”; its business pricing page lists Microsoft 365 Copilot Business at $18/user/month paid yearly (down from $21) or $25.20 billed monthly, plus bundles like Business Standard with Copilot at $23.50/user/month and Business Premium with Copilot at $32/user/month. Microsoft notes its listed prices “may not reflect the actual list price due to currency, country, and regional variant factors” (microsoft.com, checked 1 Aug 2026).

Does Copilot in Outlook work with Gmail?

Microsoft's own pages describe it purely as bundled with Microsoft 365 plans and licensed Outlook clients, and don't address Gmail. Beemy's Gmail and Google Calendar are live in beta today, with Outlook clearing its own safety gate next.

Is Microsoft 365 Copilot worth the add-on cost?

If your organisation already runs on Microsoft 365 and wants AI drafting, summarisation, tone coaching and inbox prioritisation tied into that licence and its compliance boundary, it's a well-built, enterprise-grade add-on that ships today. If what you want is a priority model inferred from your relationships rather than instructions you write, or one assistant spanning a Microsoft account and a personal or Google one, that's a different job.

Does Copilot train on my organisation's email?

Microsoft states prompts, responses and Microsoft Graph data “aren't used to train foundation LLMs” and data stays encrypted at rest (learn.microsoft.com, checked 1 Aug 2026); it also names Anthropic and OpenAI as subprocessors, with Anthropic-hosted models currently excluded from the EU Data Boundary.

How we checked this

Every claim about Microsoft 365 Copilot above traces to Microsoft's own public pages, checked on 1 Aug 2026:

Microsoft 365 Copilot is a trademark of its owner. Beemy is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. Details checked 1 Aug 2026 against their public site — spot something out of date?

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Last updated 2 September 2026