Build apps, sites, and even Chrome extensions in natural language; Artifacts render and run live in the chat.

Canvas (now folded into the chat window) handles snippets and editing; Codex is a separate developer product. Fine for pieces, not a full build-an-app experience.

Turns prompts into working apps, games, infographics, quizzes, and web pages you can refine and export.

Labs can spin up mini-apps and dashboards from research, but it isn't built for real coding work.

Writes and debugs code well in the conversation, but there's no live build-and-preview surface — you copy the code out to run it.

An agent mode that builds multi-page websites and editable slide decks from a prompt; capable but still beta and best for first drafts.

Builds real .xlsx, .pptx, .docx, and PDF files from a chat, with formulas and formatting — free for all users, 30MB per file.

Generates spreadsheets and files via its data-analysis engine, plus a sidebar for Excel/Sheets; strongest for code-related exports.

Creates Docs, Sheets, Slides, and PDFs directly in chat, free for all users since April 2026.

Labs turns research into slides, spreadsheets, and dashboards, but it's a Pro/Max feature, not a general file maker.

Generates Word/Excel/PowerPoint natively — it lives in Office — and Notebooks can build a full deck; needs a paid Office/Copilot plan.

Generates slide decks, spreadsheets, and documents exportable to Office formats through its Work tools on paid tiers.

Set instructions and upload files per project; Skills and Plugins add packaged capabilities. Free users get up to 5 projects.

A large ecosystem via the GPT Store. Build with instructions, knowledge files, and actions. Browsing is free; building needs a paid plan.

Custom personas with instructions and uploaded files, now free to create and shareable via Drive links. They plug into Workspace apps like Docs and Gmail.

More a research workspace with custom instructions and files than a shareable bot. File uploads require a Pro plan.

The consumer app has almost no bot-builder. Real customization lives in Copilot Studio, which is enterprise, low-code, and separately priced.

A marketplace of pre-built specialized agents (academic writing, coding, presentations) plus 'Document-to-Skills' for turning documents into reusable skills; less a from-scratch bot builder.

Generates documents, pages, charts, and interactive pieces you can iterate on live.

Still there for writing and code, but folded back into the main chat window on the newest models.

A dedicated space to draft and refine documents or code, exportable to Google Docs.

Turns research into shareable published pages; more about publishing than collaborative editing.

Collaborative Copilot Pages for building and refining content with suggested edits.

Generates editable slide decks with an in-browser editor, though the editor is basic and you'll often export to PowerPoint for final polish.

Persistent workspaces with files, custom instructions, and project memory. Available even on the free tier (up to 5).

Groups related chats, files, and instructions under one project.

No true project-folder concept. Gems plus NotebookLM notebooks approximate it; NotebookLM integration landed in the app in early 2026.

Purpose-built for this, with team collaboration and unified search across your files and the web.

Copilot Notebooks are emerging but thin on the consumer side compared with the others.

Searches the web when needed, but the web isn't the center of the product.

Web results with source links folded into a general assistant.

Answers grounded in Google Search, which helps on factual, up-to-date questions.

Its whole identity: citation-first answers, and now a full AI browser that's free across platforms.

Built into Edge and can look at what's on your screen or camera to help in context.

Searches the live web for current questions, but citations are lighter and there's no browser.

Web search and browsing are core and free; on paid tiers the WebBridge agent actively navigates sites for you.

Multi-source research with citations, plus connectors to pull from your own tools.

Produces long, well-structured, cited reports at roughly junior-analyst quality.

Autonomous cited reports, now available to try for free, and can turn findings into interactive content in Canvas.

Fast, citation-dense, one-click source verification. Labs can output slides, sheets, and dashboards directly.

Consumer Deep Research was removed in the August 2026 Copilot app merger; its replacement, Researcher, produces multi-source cited reports but is limited to paid Microsoft 365 Premium.

Researches across sources and produces briefs and slides, though it can occasionally cite sources that don't exist — verify before relying on it.

Native, high-quality image creation and editing inside the chat.

Strong image generation and editing, including mixed text-and-image responses.

Can produce images, but it's a side feature, not a strength.

Built-in, free image creation and editing in the Copilot app, with higher-quality options inside PowerPoint on premium plans.

No standalone image generation in chat, but the Slides tool generates per-slide imagery through an integrated third-party model.

Runs on your computer to open files, organize folders, draft emails, and build docs, and can run scheduled recurring tasks.

Can browse, fill forms, and complete online tasks, but broad computer-use access is still a limited rollout.

Agentic task automation, largely on the top tier and still rolling out.

Its AI browser clicks, fills forms, and runs multi-step tasks across tabs. Being agentic, it asks you to confirm sensitive actions.

Generally available inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint since April 2026, and strong at acting on your Microsoft 365 content.

A standout: runs autonomous multi-step tasks and coordinates many sub-agents in parallel for research and coding. Behind paid tiers, and still maturing.

50+ integrations via an open standard, free on all plans including free.

Connects to a growing set of apps for reading and limited actions.

The best fit if you live in Google: Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Drive, Calendar, Maps, and YouTube all in reach.

The best fit if you live in Microsoft: deep access to Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and the rest via Microsoft Graph.

Strong tool-use under the hood and a browser extension (WebBridge) that operates the web for you on paid tiers; a consumer connector suite for email and calendar is less established.

Save a prompt to run on a recurring cadence.

Schedules recurring prompts like reminders and briefings — useful, but closer to a reminder tool than a full agent.

Runs recurring prompts, strongest when the task lives inside Google Workspace.

Recurring searches and research tasks that run on their own; heavier automation sits on the top tiers.

Recurring automation runs through agent flows and Cowork rather than a simple saved-prompt scheduler; enterprise-oriented.

Toggle deeper step-by-step reasoning for complex analysis, and watch it work through the logic.

Switch to a thinking model for harder reasoning; the deepest tiers are paid.

Explores multiple solution paths in parallel for complex coding, math, and science problems.

Breaks complex queries into sub-questions and can route to reasoning models, but there's no simple visible 'think longer' toggle like the others.

A 'Think Deeper' mode gives more detailed, reasoning-heavy answers versus quick responses.

A toggle that switches into a slower mode showing its full step-by-step reasoning, tuned for math, logic, and tricky code.

A dedicated thinking mode for harder reasoning, math, and code, alongside a faster instant mode.

Reads images, screenshots, diagrams, and PDFs well — but can't take audio or video as input. Text and images only.

Handles images, documents, and audio; strong at reading screenshots and analyzing uploaded files.

Natively understands image, audio, and video, including frame-by-frame video analysis.

Can read uploaded images and files, but it's a search engine first — analysis isn't its focus, and uploads are capped on free.

Reads uploaded images and files, and Vision can watch your screen or phone camera live to talk through what it sees.

Reads uploaded images, screenshots, and documents including long PDFs and spreadsheets, but can't take audio or video as input.

Natively understands images and video alongside text and handles very large documents in one pass — a core strength.

Choose among OpenAI models only; naming (Instant / Thinking / Pro variants) is confusing.

Choose among Google's models only.

Unusually, you can route to models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google under one subscription.

Switch between a fast everyday model and a slower reasoning mode in one tap, free — but only among DeepSeek's own models.

Switch between instant and thinking modes and among Kimi's own models — no cross-vendor choice.

Spoken conversations in the mobile app.

Fluid, interruptible voice that feels close to a real conversation.

Natural voice in 45+ languages; can also see through your camera or screen while you talk.

Voice mode on desktop and mobile, built on a third-party realtime speech model.

Natural voice in 50+ languages, and it can reference your stored memories.

Account-level memory carries preferences and working style across sessions when turned on.

Robust, user-configurable memory across chats.

Remembers context and can draw on it in voice chats; less granular control than ChatGPT.

Exists and now feeds voice chats, but narrower and less configurable than ChatGPT's, and doesn't carry full context between sessions the same way.

Surfaces products with prices and reviews, but after pulling back its in-chat checkout in early 2026 it now hands you off to the merchant's own site to buy.

Checks out inside the chat through Google Pay for participating retailers.

Completes the purchase inside the chat via PayPal across thousands of merchants, without leaving the conversation.

A comparable step-by-step tutoring mode, less developed than Gemini's and not tied to classroom tools.

A tutoring mode that walks you through a topic step by step and adapts to your level rather than just handing over the answer. ChatGPT has a comparable study mode, but Gemini's is the most developed and ties into its Classroom tools.

An on-device mode that captures and summarizes a spoken meeting or conversation. Gemini and Copilot also record meetings, though ChatGPT's is among the more platform-agnostic.

SOC 2 and standard enterprise-plan controls like SSO and data retention, but not a deep governance suite.

Enterprise tier adds SSO, an admin console, and data controls; lighter than Microsoft's governance stack.

Rides Google Workspace admin controls; the standalone enterprise offering is still maturing, with some admin-tooling churn.

An enterprise plan and admin controls exist but are newer and narrower.

Purview data-loss prevention, sensitivity labels, watermarking of AI output, and endpoint DLP, aimed at regulated industries.

DeepSeek publishes its model weights under an open license, so a technically capable team can download and run it on their own hardware for full data control.

Moonshot publishes Kimi's model weights under an open license, so a technically capable team can download and self-host it for full data control.