KyoubeAI vs Microsoft Copilot Cowork: a self-hosted option

Feature by feature

Features compared
Capability	KyoubeAI	Copilot Cowork
Multiplayer environment
One sign-in for the whole company	Yes	YesCopilot-licensed work accounts
People and agents in one shared workspace	Yes	No
Tasks handed between people and agents	Yes	PartialDelegate and review only
Governance
Companies kept apart at the database level	Yes	YesLogical isolation per tenant
An audit trail for every change	Yes	YesIn Microsoft Purview
Human approval before risky actions	YesBy admin policy	YesOn by default
Data and apps
A database the agents design and populate	Yes	PartialApp data, Frontier preview
Apps the agents build and publish	Yes	PartialFrontier preview only
Apps respect each viewer's permissions	Yes	PartialOrg members with the link
Hosting, models and licence
Runs on your own server	Yes	No
Bring your own model providers	Yes	No
Choose the agent runtime	Yes	No
Source code you can read	YesBSL 1.1	No
Trade-offs
Nothing to host or maintain	PartialHosted plan in early access	Yes
On a phone as well as in a browser	No	Yes

In brief
Criterion	KyoubeAI	Copilot Cowork
What it is	A self-hosted AI operating system where a company's people and AI agents work together.	Microsoft's agentic system in Microsoft 365 Copilot. It carries out multi-step work across Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel and SharePoint, and asks for your approval before each sensitive action.
Built for	Organisations that want agents working under their own roles and approvals, with someone who can run Docker.	Organisations with Microsoft 365 Copilot licences, once an admin grants access through a spending policy. Personal Microsoft 365 accounts are in preview.
Where it runs	Your own server, from one Docker Compose file. It needs 4 GB of RAM on amd64 or arm64.	Microsoft's cloud, inside your Microsoft 365 tenant. You reach it on the web, in the Copilot desktop and mobile apps, and in Outlook and Teams.
Price	Free for up to five users on your own server, then US$39 per user a month self-hosted or US$99 hosted, with custom terms for enterprises. You pay your model providers for usage.	A Microsoft 365 Copilot licence, then usage-based billing in Copilot Credits. Microsoft publishes its prices on microsoft.com.

What it is
KyoubeAI
A self-hosted AI operating system where a company's people and AI agents work together.
Copilot Cowork
Microsoft's agentic system in Microsoft 365 Copilot. It carries out multi-step work across Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel and SharePoint, and asks for your approval before each sensitive action.
Built for
KyoubeAI
Organisations that want agents working under their own roles and approvals, with someone who can run Docker.
Copilot Cowork
Organisations with Microsoft 365 Copilot licences, once an admin grants access through a spending policy. Personal Microsoft 365 accounts are in preview.
Where it runs
KyoubeAI
Your own server, from one Docker Compose file. It needs 4 GB of RAM on amd64 or arm64.
Copilot Cowork
Microsoft's cloud, inside your Microsoft 365 tenant. You reach it on the web, in the Copilot desktop and mobile apps, and in Outlook and Teams.
Price
KyoubeAI
Free for up to five users on your own server, then US$39 per user a month self-hosted or US$99 hosted, with custom terms for enterprises. You pay your model providers for usage.
Copilot Cowork
A Microsoft 365 Copilot licence, then usage-based billing in Copilot Credits. Microsoft publishes its prices on microsoft.com.

your company already runs on Microsoft 365 and wants an agent that works in its mail, calendars, Teams chats and SharePoint files
you want Microsoft to host it, with access, spending limits and Purview audit set in the admin tools you already use
people need to start and approve tasks from a phone, in Outlook or in Teams, with no server to run

people and agents should share one board and hand tasks back and forth under the same roles
the records agents produce must live in a Postgres database you own, on servers you run
agents should build apps your team uses, with each viewer's permissions checked on every call
you want to bring your own model keys and pick the agent runtime yourself

People and agents on one board
Several people and AI employees work the same board, and any task can be owned by either. Copilot Cowork works for the person who starts each task, with that person's permissions, and the task sits in their own task list.
Company data in your own database
Agents design and fill a Postgres database that you host, and every change is written to the audit log. Copilot Cowork saves its files to OneDrive and SharePoint, and the App skill that can create a data schema is a Frontier preview.
Your server and your model keys
KyoubeAI runs on your server with your own Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter keys, and you choose the runtime: Claude Code, pi or Hermes Agent. Copilot Cowork runs in Microsoft's cloud, on the OpenAI and Anthropic models that Microsoft makes available.