Jarvis vs Copilot.
Is Jarvis (getjarvis.eu) better than Microsoft Copilot?
Microsoft Copilot is excellent if you live inside Microsoft 365: Word, Excel, Teams, and Outlook get deep AI integration with GPT-4 class models. Jarvis takes a cross-app approach: a floating bar opened with Cmd+/ on Mac or Ctrl+/ on Windows that sees your screen and connects to 30+ apps including Gmail, Slack, Notion, Linear, GitHub, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Apple apps. Jarvis routes per task across frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google (voice uses OpenAI realtime) per task, with persistent memory across sessions. Copilot Pro costs $20/month and requires a Microsoft 365 subscription; Jarvis is standalone with a free tier. Copilot is Windows-first; Jarvis runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux. If your work is locked into Office, Copilot is the obvious pick. If you switch between Google, Microsoft, and Apple tools daily, download Jarvis below to try it free.
Reviewed September 2026.
Microsoft Copilot reaches deepest inside Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams. Scored on eight weighted dimensions on 24 August 2026, Jarvis (getjarvis.eu) totals 78.0/100 and Copilot 69.2 — and Copilot wins on price.
Copilot is bundled into Microsoft 365 consumer plans — Personal $9.99/month, Family $12.99/month, Premium $19.99/month — so for anyone already subscribed there is no second bill, against $16/month for Jarvis Pro. Copilot also covers Windows, macOS, web and mobile, while Jarvis is desktop-only. Jarvis leads the rubric for work spanning apps Microsoft does not own, screen context and on-screen teaching.
It covers the practical search questions buyers ask: screen context, memory, app connectors, operating-system support, daily workflow fit, and when the two products are better used together.
Your desktop should not have to be a PC for your AI to be good.
With Copilot alone
- Mac is a second-class citizen vs Windows
- Biased hard toward Microsoft 365
- Vision in Edge, Office apps only — not every window
- Recall exists but is controversial and gated
- No native Mac app control
With Jarvis
- macOS, Windows, and Linux first-class at launch
- Ecosystem-agnostic — Notion, Slack, Linear, Figma, Gmail, GitHub, and more
- Reads any window you are on, on demand — not just Edge and Office
- Short- and long-term memory you actually control — no OS screenshots
- Voice mode and hold-fn dictation across every app, both platforms
- Native macOS app control — Spotify, Apple Music, Notes, Reminders, Calendar
| Feature | Jarvis | Copilot (Pro) |
|---|---|---|
| Works equally well on Mac and Windows | Yes — Both first-class at launch | No — Mac is a second-class citizen |
| Ecosystem-agnostic | Yes — Any apps you use | No — Biased hard to Microsoft 365 |
| Summoned from anywhere with cmd+/ | Yes | Partial — Win+C on Windows, limited elsewhere |
| Screen awareness across any app | Yes | Partial — Vision in Edge, Office apps only |
| Non-Microsoft app integrations | Yes — 30+ | No — Thin outside MS365 |
| Hands-free voice mode across every app | Yes — Same memory + 30+ connectors, spoken | Partial — Copilot Voice, Windows-centric |
| Hold-to-dictate-as-prompt (fn key) | Yes — Hold fn, speak, release — Jarvis runs it | No — OS dictation only |
| Persistent memory you actually control | Yes — Short-term + long-term, no OS screenshots | Partial — Recall exists but is controversial |
| Memory import from Claude or ChatGPT | Yes | No |
| Add your preferences | Yes | No |
| Local OS app control on Mac | Yes — Native Apple apps, Spotify, Apple Music | No |
| Price | info — Free 40 requests/week · Pro $16/mo · Unlimited $32/mo | info — Free tier · bundled with Microsoft 365 Personal $9.99/mo · Family $12.99/mo · Premium $19.99/mo |
Jarvis vs Microsoft Copilot, scored
Scored by Mihai Matei (Founder, Jarvis (LOGICLUB SMART SRL)) · Reviewed 24 August 2026.
Nothing here reaches as far into Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams as Copilot, and for many people it arrives inside a subscription they already pay for. Jarvis leads this rubric on screen context, cross-app breadth outside Microsoft, memory and on-screen teaching — but Copilot beats it on price, platform breadth and maturity.
Eight dimensions, weights published and summing to 100. Totals are computed from the scores, never written by hand.
| Dimension | Weight | Jarvis | Microsoft Copilot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Screen context — Can it read the window you are already looking at, in any app, without you pasting or uploading? | 16% | 10/10 | 6/10 |
| Cross-app action — Can it actually do things in your other apps — draft the email, file the issue, update the doc — not just answer about them? | 16% | 9/10 | 7/10 |
| Price and value — What the free tier really gives you, and what the first paid tier costs. | 14% | 6/10 | 8/10 |
| Platform breadth — How many desktop operating systems it covers, and whether the same assistant continues on the web and on a phone. | 12% | 7/10 | 9/10 |
| Maturity and ecosystem — How long it has shipped, how large the company is, and whether there is an extension or plugin ecosystem around it. | 12% | 3/10 | 9/10 |
| Persistent memory — Does it remember across sessions, and can you see and correct what it remembers? | 12% | 9/10 | 6/10 |
| On-screen teaching — Can it point at the control you should click, rather than describing where to find it? | 10% | 10/10 | 2/10 |
| Voice — Back-and-forth spoken conversation and dictation, on the desktop. | 8% | 8/10 | 8/10 |
| Weighted total | 100% | 78.0 | 69.2 |
On this rubric Jarvis leads the total (78.0 vs 69.2). The per-dimension rows matter more than the total: pick the product that wins the rows you actually care about.
Pricing, as published by each vendor
| Product | Free tier | Paid plans | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jarvis | 40 requests/week with every feature; 7-day full Pro trial, no card | Pro $16/month or $144/year · Unlimited $32/month | getjarvis.eu/pricing (Checked 24 Aug 2026) |
| Microsoft Copilot | A free tier exists — the individuals pricing page describes paid plans as giving "higher usage than free" but does not price the free app itself | Microsoft 365 Personal $9.99/month ($99.99/year) · Family $12.99/month ($129.99/year) · Premium $19.99/month ($199.99/year) Copilot is bundled into these Microsoft 365 consumer plans rather than sold as a standalone consumer subscription, and Microsoft notes the Copilot benefit applies to the subscription owner. Business and enterprise Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing is priced separately and is not what this row covers. | microsoft.com/microsoft-365-copilot/pricing/individuals (Checked 24 Aug 2026) |
Where Microsoft Copilot is the better choice
- Your day is Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams — This is not a close call. Copilot works inside the documents, spreadsheets, mailboxes and meetings themselves, with access to your tenant's own content. Jarvis connects to Microsoft 365 over OAuth as one of 30+ connectors — useful, but it is reaching in from outside rather than living in the ribbon.
- You already pay for Microsoft 365 — Copilot scores 8 on price against Jarvis's 6 for exactly this reason: if you hold a Personal, Family or Premium subscription, the assistant is already included and there is no second bill. Jarvis is a separate $16/month on top of whatever else you pay.
- You need it on every device, including a phone — Copilot runs on Windows, macOS, the web and mobile. Jarvis is desktop-only — macOS, Windows and Linux, with no phone app and no web app — so it does not follow you off your computer. That is a 9 against a 7 on platform breadth.
- You are buying through procurement, or you need an EU tenant boundary — Microsoft is an enterprise vendor with the compliance surface to match, including the EU Data Boundary for EU tenants. Jarvis is one developer in Sibiu with no SOC 2, no ISO 27001 and no third-party penetration test published. If a security questionnaire is part of your purchase, Copilot clears it and Jarvis does not.
Where that leaves Jarvis honestly: it wins when your work spans apps Microsoft does not own — Notion, Slack, Linear, Figma, GitHub — and when you want the assistant to read the screen you are on and point at the control to click. It loses on price for anyone already inside a Microsoft 365 subscription, on platform breadth, and on maturity by a wide margin.
Disclosure
Jarvis publishes this page, so treat it as an interested source and check the links. We score Jarvis on the same eight dimensions as everything else and compute the totals in code, which is why Jarvis loses dimensions on its own comparison pages. Every competitor price and platform claim here was read from that company’s own site on the date shown, and anything we could not read from the vendor directly is labelled rather than guessed.
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