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Glean vs. Microsoft Copilot

A practical comparison of Glean and Microsoft Copilot across pricing, GDPR, EU AI Act risk, and workflow fit.

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Glean

Enterprise search with AI assistant across your tools

DSGVO: conformEU-AI-Act: limitedPricing unknown

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Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft's AI assistant for web and Microsoft 365

DSGVO: conformEU-AI-Act: limitedFree tier

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FactorGleanMicrosoft Copilot
PricingPricing unknownFree tier
GDPRconformconform
EU AI Actlimitedlimited
Data residencyeueu
Use casesText, Multimodal, Research & analyze, Summarize & structureText, Image, Data / Tables, Create content
Data quality
Updated6/15/20266/15/2026

Choose Glean when

Indexes Slack, Drive, Notion, Confluence, Salesforce, ... — answers questions with sources from internal knowledge.

Choose Microsoft Copilot when

Web chat (free) plus Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint. Built on GPT models with Bing search.

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