Amazon Q Business
Amazon Q Business indexes enterprise connectors and answers with citations, with Q Developer covering the coding side and Bedrock underneath.
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Amazon Q Business vs Microsoft 365 Copilot
Amazon Q Business (AWS) and Microsoft 365 Copilot (Microsoft) both sit in Enterprise Platforms. Amazon Q Business is the cheaper entry point at Free tier · from $3/mo. Amazon Q Business shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (8 vs 6). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Amazon Q Business AWS | Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Enterprise Platforms | Enterprise Platforms |
| Version | Amazon Q Business | Microsoft 365 Copilot |
| Entry cost | Free tier · from $3/mo | from $30/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Free Trial free · Amazon Q Business Lite $3 · Amazon Q Business Pro $20 | Microsoft 365 Copilot $30 · Copilot Chat free |
| Model stack | Amazon Bedrock · Amazon Bedrock Models · Amazon Nova · Claude · Generative AI model · Nova · Titan | Anthropic (as subprocessor option) · Anthropic (subprocessor opt-in) · Anthropic (unspecified model) · Anthropic Claude · Anthropic Models · Claude 3 Opus · Claude 3.5 Sonnet · GPT-5 class · Microsoft Copilot · Phi |
| Context window | Model-dependent | 128K |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 8 | 6 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | 40+ enterprise connectors, Cited answers, Q Apps, IAM Identity Center permissions, Q in QuickSight, Conversational AI, Permission-aware responses, Enterprise single sign-on | Graph-grounded retrieval, Copilot Studio agents, Excel and PowerPoint generation, Teams meeting recap, Tenant data boundary, Copilot Chat, Agent Builder, SharePoint Integration |
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Copilot sits inside the Microsoft 365 apps with Graph-grounded retrieval over a tenant's own mail, files and meetings, plus Copilot Studio for custom agents.
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