10 Microsoft Copilot Studio Alternatives in 2026

The best Copilot Studio alternatives in 2026 are Lleverage, Stack AI, n8n, Botpress, Kore.ai, Dust, Salesforce Agentforce, Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Zapier Agents and ChatGPT Enterprise. At Lleverage we think the right pick depends on one question: does the agent need to answer people, or finish work inside your ERP?

Copilot Studio deserves its place as the default. It puts an agent in Teams in front of every employee, and Microsoft prices its Copilot Credits in public. In a Microsoft 365 estate it is often the cheapest way to get an assistant live. The case for looking elsewhere starts when the job is a transaction rather than an answer: an order that has to become a sales order, or an invoice that has to be matched and posted. That is where the Power Platform skills, the credit meter and the connector work land on your own team. We work every week with manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors whose order desks run on Business Central, Dynamics 365, SAP and Exact. That is the vantage point this ranking comes from.

Lleverage is one of the ten and we have put it first. Our order management agents read incoming orders from the mailbox and write them into the ERP, and you can book a demo to see that against your own formats. If you only want the one-to-one version of this comparison, read our Copilot Studio vs Lleverage breakdown, which works through a single supplier invoice in both products. This page covers the wider field, and we re-checked every price and every ownership fact in September 2026.

How do the 10 Copilot Studio alternatives compare?

Two rows count against us, and a buyer should weigh them. We do not publish prices, while Microsoft, Salesforce, n8n, Dust and Zapier all do. And for reach across a whole organisation, nothing on this list matches an agent sitting inside Teams for every licensed employee. Microsoft owns that ground.

What does each Copilot Studio alternative cost in 2026?

The entry price is the least useful number in this table. What decides the bill is the unit the product counts: a credit per action, a run, a conversation, a seat or an agent. Count how many orders or invoices you process a month and price that volume in each unit before comparing anything else.

The 10 alternatives at a glance

1. Lleverage: AI agents that finish back-office work inside the ERP, for companies that make, move and sell physical products.
2. Stack AI: a visual builder for agents and internal apps, acquired by Asana in May 2026.
3. n8n: open-source workflow automation with agent nodes, for teams that want to host and code it themselves.
4. Botpress: a conversational agent builder aimed at customer-facing chat, with published conversation-based plans.
5. Kore.ai: an enterprise agent suite for service desks, HR and customer service, relaunched as the Artemis edition in May 2026.
6. Dust: a workspace for building agents over company knowledge, priced per seat in euros.
7. Salesforce Agentforce: Salesforce's agent layer, strongest where the work lives in the CRM.
8. Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform: Google Cloud's agent stack, called Vertex AI Agent Builder until April 2026.
9. Zapier Agents: agents on top of Zapier's app connections, quick to start and light on depth.
10. ChatGPT Enterprise: OpenAI's workspace, where workspace agents replaced custom GPTs for organisations in April 2026.

What changed in Copilot Studio in the past year?

Copilot Studio's commercial model changed more than its feature list. Since 1 September 2025, Microsoft bills agents in Copilot Credits instead of messages, with the pack size and rate unchanged. Microsoft's billing documentation, updated in September 2026, sets the meter per event. A scripted answer costs 1 credit, a generated answer 2, an agent action 5, and every page a content-processing step reads costs 8.

That last rate matters for anyone thinking about orders and invoices. Microsoft's own worked example is an order processing agent that fires 4 agent actions per order, which is 20 credits. Add a two-page PDF read at 8 credits a page and you reach 36 credits per order, and 1,000 orders a month then needs 36,000 credits. That is our arithmetic on Microsoft's published rates, and it comes to two $200 packs a month. The credits are not the expensive part. The build and the upkeep are.

Three rules in the same documentation deserve a line in any business case. Unused credits do not carry over to the next month. Custom agents are switched off when a tenant reaches 125% of its prepaid capacity. Users then see a message that the agent has reached its usage limit. And the free use that Microsoft 365 Copilot licences include only applies when a licensed user is working with the agent under their own identity. An agent triggered by an order landing in a shared mailbox is billed in credits.

The field around Copilot Studio moved too. Google renamed Vertex AI Agent Builder the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform in April 2026. Asana acquired Stack AI in May 2026. OpenAI replaced custom GPTs for organisations with workspace agents in April 2026. In June 2026 it announced that its developer Agent Builder closes on 30 November 2026. This refresh reflects all of it, and it swaps Glean out for Salesforce Agentforce, which now appears on more of the top-ranking comparison lists.

What should decide the choice between Copilot Studio alternatives?

Start with what the output of the work is. If it is a person reading an answer, most of this list will do the job, and Copilot Studio probably does it cheapest inside a Microsoft 365 company. If the output is a record that has to exist in the ERP, correct, thousands of times a year, then half the list drops away. Most of these products were built to talk, search or move data between apps rather than to own a transaction.

Next, ask who changes the agent on the Tuesday after go-live. Copilot Studio, n8n, the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Agentforce all assume somebody in-house who can build and repair agents: a Power Platform maker, a developer or a Salesforce admin. In a 300-person wholesaler, that person is often the one IT colleague who is already fully booked. When the customer changes its order template, the agent waits for them.

Third, look at the systems the work actually touches. Copilot Studio is deepest across Microsoft 365, Agentforce across Salesforce, and Gemini across Google Cloud. Each is excellent at home and progressively weaker away from it. A manufacturer whose ERP is an on-premise Ridder iQ or an AS/400 should test that path in the first week, not the last.

Fourth, judge each product on the exceptions rather than the happy path. Think of a missing delivery week, an article number the customer invented, or a price that does not match the agreement. That slice of the work is the job, and a demo on clean input shows nothing about it.

Finally, price the volume rather than the licence. Credits, runs, conversations, activities and seats all behave differently at 50 orders a day. The product that looks cheapest at pilot size is often not the one that stays cheapest in production.

Why do buyers look for Copilot Studio alternatives?

1. Built for everyone, so built for nobody's order desk. Copilot Studio is designed so any department can assemble an agent, which is its strength and its limit. It has no view on what a sales order in a wholesaler should become, how a supplier invoice that is 4 units short should be handled, or which article a customer means when they use their own code. We take the opposite bet: narrow on the buyer, companies that make, move and sell physical products, and deep on the work that moves money and stock inside their ERP.
2. The skills bill arrives after the licence. Anything beyond a basic assistant needs Power Platform knowledge, connector configuration and someone to maintain both. SMEs without a Power Platform team discover this after the pilot, when the agent needs its first change.
3. A meter that switches the agent off. Credits are cheap, but capacity is enforced. At 125% of prepaid capacity, Microsoft disables custom agents until capacity is added. For an agent that processes incoming orders, that is an operational risk, not a billing detail.
4. Strong at home, thinner away from it. Copilot Studio's connectors and grounding are deepest inside Microsoft 365. Operational data in a non-Microsoft ERP, a supplier portal or an on-premise database takes custom work, and computer-use agents are billed separately from Microsoft 365 Copilot licences.
5. Answers are not transactions. Copilot Studio is excellent at retrieving and drafting. Posting a validated order with the right customer, article, price and delivery date is a different problem, and most of the value of back-office automation sits there.
6. Cost is hard to tie to an outcome. Microsoft 365 Copilot at $30 per user per month, plus credit packs, plus the internal build time, rarely maps to a number the operations director reports on, such as orders entered per FTE.

1. Lleverage: #1 Copilot Studio alternative: AI agents for real-world operations

Lleverage builds AI agents for real-world operations in companies that make, move, and sell physical products. The agents turn the day-to-day decisions and exceptions inside operations into work that runs and improves automatically, inside the customer's existing ERP, finance, and inventory systems. Among Copilot Studio alternatives, Lleverage is the only one built specifically for mid-sized manufacturers, logistics operators, and wholesale and distribution businesses, and the one whose agents are judged on transactions posted rather than questions answered.

Lleverage features

• Agents that read incoming orders, supplier confirmations and invoices from email, PDF and Excel
• Writes directly into Business Central, Dynamics 365 F&O, SAP, Exact, AFAS, Infor, Epicor, Ridder iQ, Navision, NetSuite and IBM AS/400
• Briefed in Teams, Outlook or Slack, so a Microsoft 365 company keeps working where it already works
• On-premise and heavily customised systems connected by our engineers during delivery, behind your firewall
• Thresholds, approvals, permissions and a full audit trail on every run
• Customer-specific rules held in the agent instead of in two senior colleagues' heads
• Forward-deployed delivery: our engineers put the first process into production with your team
• EU hosted and GDPR compliant

Lleverage pricing

• One monthly price per agent, where one agent is one process end to end
• Integration, AI usage within fair use and ongoing improvement included, with no seats and no usage bills
• The more agents you run, the lower the price per agent
• No public price list: we price after mapping the work with your team
• Source: lleverage.ai/pricing, read September 2026

Copilot Studio vs Lleverage

Both produce agents, and in a Microsoft company both can be briefed from Teams. The difference is who builds it and what it produces. Copilot Studio gives your makers a studio and a credit meter. We deliver a working order desk or invoice process and charge a flat monthly price for it.

• Copilot Studio agents answer and draft; our agents post the order or hold the invoice with the reason attached
• Copilot Studio needs Power Platform skills in-house; our first process is built with your team and owned by operations afterwards
• Copilot Studio is metered in credits and capped at 125% of capacity; our price does not move with volume inside fair use
• Copilot Studio is deepest in Microsoft 365; we are deepest inside the ERP, including the on-premise ones

"AI is a topic everywhere. The real challenge is creating concrete value with it. Together we tackled a recognisable problem and translated it quickly into a practical solution that works right away." Robert Broeckmans, Finance & IT Director, SIG Benelux

SIG Benelux runs on Dynamics 365, which makes it a fair test for anyone weighing Copilot Studio. According to the published SIG Benelux story, built with our partner SPAIK, 73% of its incoming order emails now reach Dynamics 365 as a draft order. 88% of order lines match the right article first time. At Topa Bathroom Products, more than 90% of incoming orders post into Business Central with no manual input. At Topa, 4 FTE moved from order entry to after-sales, and customers get a confirmation within 30 seconds. At Microtechniek, around 60 purchase orders a week land in an on-premise Ridder iQ without anyone typing them.

Lleverage limitations

• Not a general agent studio for HR, IT or knowledge questions. For those, Copilot Studio is usually the better and cheaper choice
• No self-serve start: every engagement begins with a scoping session, which is slower than a trial
• Narrow by design, built for companies that make, move and sell physical goods
• Prices are not published, so budgeting before the first conversation is harder than with Microsoft

If your team already lives in Teams, book a demo and we will run 20 of your own orders through an agent you can brief from there.

2. Stack AI: #2 Copilot Studio alternative: a visual builder, now part of Asana

Stack AI is a visual builder for AI agents and internal apps, and one of the names most often shortlisted against Copilot Studio. Asana acquired it on 28 May 2026 to give its own AI teammates cross-system execution, in a deal The Next Web reported at $75 million. The standalone product is still sold, but its roadmap now belongs to a work-management company.

Stack AI features

• Visual agent and workflow builder aimed at business teams rather than developers
• Connections to ERP, CRM and IT service systems, per Asana's acquisition announcement
• On-premise and private-cloud deployment on the enterprise tier
• SSO and compliance certifications including SOC 2 and GDPR on enterprise

Stack AI pricing

• Free: $0 a month, with 500 runs, 2 projects and 1 seat
• Enterprise: custom, with dedicated infrastructure and solution engineers
• Source: stackai.com/pricing, checked September 2026

Copilot Studio vs Stack AI

Both let a business team build agents without writing much code. Stack AI is independent of any one productivity suite, which Copilot Studio is not. After the acquisition, though, it belongs to Asana's suite instead.

• Stack AI is suite-neutral on connections; Copilot Studio is Microsoft-first
• Copilot Studio publishes its full meter; Stack AI jumps from a free tier to a quote
• Both leave the design of the operational process, and its upkeep, with you

Stack AI limitations

• Future direction is set by Asana's product strategy, which is worth asking about before a multi-year contract
• Nothing between the free tier and enterprise pricing
• A general builder with no model of an order, an invoice or a stock record

3. n8n: #3 Copilot Studio alternative: open source, self-hosted, developer-owned

n8n is the choice for teams that want out of Microsoft's lane altogether. It is open-source workflow automation with AI agent nodes, and the Community Edition runs on your own servers at no cost. The trade is clear: you give up the vendor lock-in and take on the hosting, the security and the upgrades.

n8n features

• Open-source core, self-hostable on the free Community Edition
• AI agent nodes alongside a large library of app connections
• Pricing by workflow execution rather than per step
• Git-based version control and SSO on the Business tier
• Full control over where data is stored

n8n pricing

• Community Edition: free, self-hosted
• Starter: 20 euros a month billed yearly, 2,500 executions
• Pro: 50 euros a month billed yearly, 10,000 executions
• Business: 667 euros a month billed yearly, 40,000 executions, self-hosted
• Enterprise: contact sales
• Source: n8n.io/pricing, checked September 2026

Copilot Studio vs n8n

Copilot Studio is closed, visual and hosted by Microsoft. n8n is open, closer to code and hosted by you if you choose. Both make you build the agent, so the real question is which constraint your team would rather live with.

• n8n suits teams with developers who want source control and self-hosting
• Copilot Studio suits Microsoft 365 companies that accept the Power Platform
• Neither knows what a sales order should look like in your ERP until someone builds it

n8n limitations

• Operations teams rarely change a workflow without a developer present
• Ships as building blocks, with no model of manufacturing or distribution work
• Self-hosting moves uptime, patching and security reviews onto your team

4. Botpress: #4 Copilot Studio alternative: conversational agents for customer-facing chat

Botpress has built chatbots and conversational agents for years, and it is strongest where the agent talks to customers on a website or in messaging channels. In 2026 it publishes clear plans priced by conversation, which makes budgeting easier than it was.

Botpress features

• Visual flow editor for conversational agents
• Deployment to web chat and messaging channels, with white-label chat on paid plans
• AI spend billed separately and carried over for up to 12 months
• Human handover, routing and role-based access on the Team plan
• Developer extensibility for custom logic

Botpress pricing

• Free: $0, with 25 conversations a month
• Plus: $150 a month billed yearly, 250 conversations and $25 of AI usage included
• Team: $750 a month billed yearly, 1,500 conversations and $150 of AI usage included
• Enterprise: custom
• Source: botpress.com/pricing, checked September 2026

Copilot Studio vs Botpress

Both build conversational agents in a visual editor. Botpress points outward at customers and channels, while Copilot Studio points inward at employees in Microsoft 365. Neither targets the back office.

• Botpress prices by conversation; Copilot Studio by credit
• Botpress is stronger in customer-facing channels; Copilot Studio inside Teams
• Both leave the build and the maintenance with your team

Botpress limitations

• Conversation-first, not built for posting transactions into an ERP
• Overage conversations cost $0.50 to $0.65 each depending on plan
• No out-of-the-box handling for orders, invoices or master data

5. Kore.ai: #5 Copilot Studio alternative: an enterprise agent suite for service work

Kore.ai is an established enterprise vendor for conversational AI and agents, strongest in IT service desks, HR and customer service. It relaunched its product as the Kore.ai Agent Platform, Artemis edition, on 21 May 2026, with governance and observability built in before an agent goes live. In August 2026 it reported Leader placements across evaluations by Gartner, Forrester and Everest Group.

Kore.ai features

• Multi-agent orchestration with governance and monitoring
• Prebuilt agents for IT service, HR and customer service
• Voice and chat across many channels
• Enterprise deployment controls, including a sovereign offering with Atos for UK customers
• Analytics on agent performance

Kore.ai pricing

• Quote-based, sold through enterprise contracts
• Source: kore.ai (no public pricing page as of September 2026)

Copilot Studio vs Kore.ai

Kore.ai goes deeper into service-desk and contact work than Copilot Studio does. Copilot Studio goes wider across Microsoft 365. Both sit a long way from an order desk in a distribution business.

• Kore.ai is stronger for customer service and IT service automation
• Copilot Studio is stronger for employee agents inside Microsoft 365
• Neither is built around ERP transactions

Kore.ai limitations

• Service-desk focus rather than back-office execution
• Enterprise sales cycle and no published prices
• Sized for large organisations more than for a 300-person manufacturer

6. Dust: #6 Copilot Studio alternative: agents over company knowledge, priced in euros

Dust is a French-built workspace where teams create agents over their documents, chats and code, and share them with colleagues. It connects to Google Drive, Notion, Slack and GitHub among others, and lets each agent use models from several providers. For a company that wants Copilot Studio's knowledge use case without committing to Microsoft, it is the closest match.

Dust features

• Visual agent builder that business users can work with directly
• Connections to common collaboration and document sources
• Choice of models from several providers per agent
• Shared threads where people and agents work together
• Workspace-level controls and usage reporting

Dust pricing

• Free: 0 euros, with 500 credits for the lifetime of the account
• Pro: 24 euros per seat a month billed yearly, or 30 euros monthly, with 8,000 credits per seat a month
• Max: 120 euros per seat a month billed yearly, or 150 euros monthly, with 40,000 credits per seat a month
• Enterprise: pooled credits and custom terms through sales
• Source: dust.tt/pricing, checked September 2026

Copilot Studio vs Dust

Both are strongest at knowledge work: finding, summarising and drafting. Dust works across a mixed set of apps and prices per seat, while Copilot Studio is Microsoft-first and prices per credit.

• Dust suits companies on Google Workspace, Notion or Slack
• Copilot Studio suits companies standardised on Microsoft 365
• Neither writes the result of an order or an invoice into the ERP

Dust limitations

• Built for internal knowledge work, not transaction processing
• Seat pricing grows with headcount rather than with work completed
• Self-serve plans stop at 100 people, after which it moves to enterprise terms

7. Salesforce Agentforce: #7 Copilot Studio alternative: agents where the CRM is the centre

Agentforce is Salesforce's agent layer, and for many enterprises it is the other big-suite option next to Copilot Studio. Its logic mirrors Microsoft's: the agents are strongest where your records already live, which in Salesforce's case means accounts, cases and opportunities. It enters this list in place of Glean, because it now appears on more of the top-ranking Copilot Studio comparison lists.

Agentforce features

• Agent builder and prompt builder inside Salesforce, available to start on Salesforce Foundations
• Prebuilt agents for sales, service and field service
• Actions on Salesforce records with the platform's permissions and audit
• Voice agents and customer-facing conversations
• Consumption, conversation or per-user commercial models

Agentforce pricing

• Flex Credits: $500 per 100,000 credits, with a standard action using 20 credits
• Conversations: $2 per conversation
• Agentforce add-ons: $125 per user a month, unmetered for Sales, Service and Field Service
• Agentforce 1 Editions: from $550 per user a month
• Source: salesforce.com/agentforce/pricing, checked September 2026

Copilot Studio vs Agentforce

The two are close cousins built around different homes. Copilot Studio is at its best in Microsoft 365, Agentforce in the Salesforce CRM. At $500 per 100,000 credits and 20 credits per action, an Agentforce action costs $0.10, which is a useful number to set against Copilot Studio's 5-credit agent action.

• Agentforce is the natural pick when the process starts and ends in Salesforce
• Copilot Studio is the natural pick when it lives in Teams and SharePoint
• Neither reaches into a Business Central, Exact or AS/400 order desk without custom integration

Agentforce limitations

• Most useful when the CRM is the system of record, which in manufacturing it rarely is for orders
• Per-user add-ons get expensive across a large team
• Salesforce skills are needed to build and maintain agents

8. Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform: #8 Copilot Studio alternative: Google Cloud's agent stack

Google renamed Vertex AI Agent Builder the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform in April 2026, announced at Google Cloud Next. It combines a code-first development kit, a visual builder called Agent Studio, a managed runtime and access to a large catalogue of models, including Gemini and Claude. It is the Google-shaped mirror of Copilot Studio.

Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform features

• Code-first Agent Development Kit plus a visual builder
• Managed runtime with memory and sessions for agents in production
• A broad catalogue of Google and third-party models
• Google Cloud security controls and regional data residency, including EU regions
• Integration with the wider Gemini Enterprise workspace

Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform pricing

• Pay-as-you-go Google Cloud consumption, by model usage and runtime
• No per-seat price for the agent runtime itself
• Source: cloud.google.com, checked September 2026

Copilot Studio vs Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

These two are the same bet on different clouds. Copilot Studio ties agents to Microsoft 365 and Azure, the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to Google Workspace and Google Cloud. Google's side leans more towards developers.

• Pick Gemini if your company runs on Google Cloud and has engineers to build
• Pick Copilot Studio if it runs on Microsoft 365 and has Power Platform makers
• Both need custom work before an agent touches a mid-market ERP

Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform limitations

• Developer-oriented: operations teams will not own complex agents alone
• Consumption billing is hard to forecast and harder to tie to one outcome
• Best value assumes a commitment to Google Cloud

9. Zapier Agents: #9 Copilot Studio alternative: agents on the widest app graph

Zapier Agents puts AI agents on top of Zapier's catalogue of app connections, and the free tier means a team can have one working the same afternoon. Where Copilot Studio goes deep in Microsoft, Zapier goes wide across thousands of SaaS apps. That breadth is both its value and its ceiling.

Zapier Agents features

• Agents that act across Zapier's app connections
• Very low effort to get started
• Activities counted separately from Zapier tasks
• Agents included on every Zapier plan, including the free one

Zapier Agents pricing

• Agents Free: 400 activities a month
• Agents Pro: about $33.33 a month billed yearly, 1,500 activities
• Zapier Professional from $19.99 a month and Team from $69 a month, billed yearly; Enterprise on request
• Source: zapier.com/pricing, checked September 2026

Copilot Studio vs Zapier Agents

Both let a non-developer stand up an agent quickly. Zapier wins on the number of apps it can reach, Copilot Studio on depth inside Microsoft 365. Faced with 200 orders on a Monday morning, neither is built to post them into the ERP with the exceptions handled.

• Zapier reaches more SaaS apps than anything else on this list
• Copilot Studio reaches further into Outlook, Teams and SharePoint data
• Both hand the order-desk logic back to whoever builds the agent

Zapier Agents limitations

• Made for light app-to-app work, not multi-step operational processes
• Activity limits bite once real order volume arrives
• Hosted in the United States, which some EU finance teams will question

10. ChatGPT Enterprise: #10 Copilot Studio alternative: workspace agents inside ChatGPT

ChatGPT Enterprise is the option most staff already know how to use. In April 2026 OpenAI introduced workspace agents, the successor to custom GPTs for organisations. They run in the cloud, work across connected apps and can run on a schedule. For developers, OpenAI is closing its Agent Builder dashboard on 30 November 2026 and pointing teams to its Agents SDK or to workspace agents.

ChatGPT Enterprise features

• Workspace agents that act across connected apps, including Slack, Google Drive, Microsoft apps, Salesforce and Notion
• Scheduled and recurring runs without a person in the loop
• Enterprise security, SSO and admin controls
• A familiar interface with little adoption effort

ChatGPT Enterprise pricing

• ChatGPT Enterprise: quote-based through OpenAI sales
• ChatGPT Business: $20 per user a month
• Workspace agents: credit-based pricing since 6 May 2026, after a free launch period
• Source: OpenAI's workspace agents announcement, April 2026, and openai.com, checked September 2026

Copilot Studio vs ChatGPT Enterprise

Copilot Studio builds agents inside Microsoft's estate. ChatGPT Enterprise builds them inside OpenAI's. Workspace agents close some of the gap on action, but both remain assistant-first.

• ChatGPT Enterprise is the easiest to adopt for staff who already use ChatGPT
• Copilot Studio is the better fit when the data sits in SharePoint and Teams
• Neither posts orders or cleans master data in a system of record out of the box

ChatGPT Enterprise limitations

• Workspace agents are new: OpenAI replaced custom GPTs and scheduled Agent Builder's closure within the same year
• Write-back into an ERP depends on connectors and custom work
• Enterprise pricing is not published

Which Copilot Studio alternative fits which buyer?

For manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors where the work has to finish inside the ERP, Lleverage is the right call. That is where we land after running these processes every week. We build the first agent in production with your team, the order desk owns it afterwards, and the measure is orders posted rather than agents built.

Other buyer profiles:

• Knowledge questions for every employee in Microsoft 365: Copilot Studio itself.
• Knowledge work on a mixed stack, priced per seat: Dust, ChatGPT Enterprise.
• Engineering team that wants to host and own the code: n8n.
• The process lives in the CRM: Salesforce Agentforce.
• Standardised on Google Cloud with developers to build: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
• Customer-facing chat and service desks: Botpress, Kore.ai.
• Business teams building internal agents, already on Asana: Stack AI.
• Quick agents across many SaaS apps: Zapier Agents.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best alternative to Copilot Studio?

It depends on the job. For employee knowledge questions inside Microsoft 365, Copilot Studio is hard to beat on reach and cost. For operations work such as order entry or invoice matching inside an ERP, we think an operations-specific agent is the better choice, because the output has to be a correct record rather than a good answer.

How much does Copilot Studio cost in 2026?

Microsoft sells Copilot Studio as a $200 monthly pack of 25,000 Copilot Credits, as pay-as-you-go through Azure, or as a prepurchase plan that saves up to 20%. An agent action uses 5 credits and a processed document page 8. Microsoft 365 Copilot, at $30 per user per month, covers some agent use by licensed employees.

Does Copilot Studio work with ERP systems other than Dynamics 365?

Yes, through connectors, custom connectors or computer-use agents that drive an application's screens. Each route puts the build and reliability work on your team, and computer use is billed on top of Microsoft 365 Copilot licences. Dynamics 365 and Business Central are the smoothest paths. On-premise ERPs usually need the most work.

Is Copilot Studio free with Microsoft 365?

Partly. A Microsoft 365 Copilot licence lets employees use agents in Teams, SharePoint and Copilot Chat without spending credits on answers and actions. Agents triggered by events, used by unlicensed people or using computer use still consume Copilot Credits. The trial licence lets you build and test agents but not publish them.

Can we use Copilot Studio and Lleverage together?

Yes. The clean split is answers against transactions. Copilot Studio handles the questions employees ask in Teams, and our agents handle the orders, confirmations and invoices that must end up in the ERP. Problems start when one is bought to do the other's job.

Test it against your own orders

If you are comparing Copilot Studio alternatives because an order desk or finance team is overloaded, skip the feature grids for an afternoon. Bring 20 real orders or invoices in the formats you actually receive, and we will show what an agent does with them inside your ERP. For the wider build-or-buy question, our build versus buy piece sets out where each route holds up, and our invoice processing agents cover the finance side. Book a demo when you are ready.