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Microsoft 365 Copilot vs Amazon Q Business

Microsoft 365 Copilot (Microsoft) and Amazon Q Business (AWS) 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 4). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeMicrosoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft

Amazon Q Business

AWS

SegmentEnterprise PlatformsEnterprise Platforms
VersionMicrosoft 365 CopilotAmazon Q Business
Entry costfrom $30/moFree tier · from $3/mo
Pricing tiersMicrosoft 365 Copilot $30Amazon Q Business Lite $3 · Amazon Q Business Pro $20
Model stackAnthropic (as subprocessor option) · Anthropic (subprocessor opt-in) · Anthropic (unspecified model) · Anthropic Claude · Anthropic Models · Claude 3 Opus · Claude 3.5 Sonnet · GPT-4o · GPT-5 class · Microsoft Copilot · PhiAmazon Bedrock · Amazon Bedrock Models · Amazon Nova · Amazon Q Business · Claude · Generative AI model · Nova · Titan
Context window128KModel-dependent
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d48
OriginGlobalGlobal
CapabilitiesGraph-grounded retrieval, Copilot Studio agents, Excel and PowerPoint generation, Teams meeting recap, Tenant data boundary, Copilot Chat, Agent Builder, SharePoint Integration40+ enterprise connectors, Cited answers, Q Apps, IAM Identity Center permissions, Q in QuickSight, Conversational AI, Permission-aware responses, Enterprise single sign-on

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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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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