Copilot Studio is the SaaS (software as a service) product from Microsoft to build, manage and monitor agents for enterprise AI solutions. On it you can make AI Agents for various business use cases such as document processing, quotation generation, marketing blogs, etc.., basically a good AI agent can be made on Copilot Studio. A well-designed agent in Copilot Studio can cover real workflows with clear guardrails. see more
You do need to purchase a business license to access the copilot studio. They also offer a 30-day free trial for a business account; hence, you cannot use personal accounts ending with “gmail.com”, “outlook.com”, etc… to sign up for copilot, you need to use your work account that ends with your company’s domain like “contoso.org”. see more - link1, link2
Copilot studio has a lot of components, and it does make developing an AI agent fairly easy while maintaining very good functionalities. It is part of the Power Platform ecosystem so you can use power automate flows, power apps, etc… to integrate with your agent on copilot studio.
It is deeply integrated in Microsoft apps, so you can actually directly publish your agent to Teams, SharePoint and other apps within minutes. They also support sharing with limited people across your organisation (private share) and public share, so you can actually host your agent to website in a click using copilot studio. see more - link1, link2
It also includes really good monitoring capabilities, so you can gather metrics such as % of successful task execution, response time, error rates, throughput, etc… via the inbuilt dashboard inside copilot studio. see more
It also provides access to GPT-5, GPT-5 reasoning, GPT 4.1 and other Claude models after the partnership of Microsoft and Anthropic. But if this is not enough you can also connect it to Microsoft AI Foundry where all kinds of models from open source to DeepSeek r1 are present. When using copilot studio, you can be sure that as new models are released by Open AI, you will have access to them in copilot studio. see more
Overall copilot is an amazing software service from Microsoft to enable enterprises develop and monitor AI agents at scale while shipping them quickly to internal and external users.