Workday Illuminate
HR and finance agents on the Workday data model.
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Workday Illuminate vs Microsoft 365 Copilot
Workday Illuminate (Workday) and Microsoft 365 Copilot (Microsoft) both sit in Enterprise Platforms. Workday Illuminate is the cheaper entry point at Enterprise quoted. Microsoft 365 Copilot shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (4 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Workday Illuminate Workday | Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Enterprise Platforms | Enterprise Platforms |
| Version | 2025 | Microsoft 365 Copilot |
| Entry cost | Enterprise quoted | from $30/mo |
| Pricing tiers | — | Microsoft 365 Copilot $30 |
| Model stack | in-house + frontier | Anthropic (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 · Phi |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 0 | 4 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Agent System of Record, HR agents, Finance agents | 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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