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AgenticOS vs Copilot Studio

Build the agent.
Own the platform.

Your tools, your model providers and your infrastructure. Put the agent beside the people and processes it works with.

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Apache-2.0 · self-hosted · built on Pydantic AI

AgenticOSYour company workspace
The Spend tab of the Activity page: spend in the window, month to date, cost per run, the agent spending the most and a bar chart of spend per day.
Real AgenticOS interface · illustrative demo data

Work together

People and agents in shared Projects

Build around your work

Knowledge, tools, workflows and apps

Choose how it runs

Your infrastructure and model providers

AgenticOS vs Copilot Studio

Microsoft Copilot Studio builds agents inside Power Platform, publishes them to Teams and Microsoft 365, and bills them in Copilot Credits. AgenticOS builds agents on your own infrastructure, with any model provider, and charges nothing of its own: you pay for the model.

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What you could put to work

Pick a job.
See it in action.

A useful agent should leave you with something you can use. Explore three examples from the AgenticOS product.

Research & operations

Ask the specialists. Get one brief.

Let a lead agent bring together research and analysis from specialist agents. In this example, the brief names its sources and flags the missing financial inputs instead of inventing a margin.

  1. 1.Define the question
  2. 2.Connect specialist agents
  3. 3.Review the combined brief
Explore shared Projects
A Chief of Staff agent's pricing review brief, written from what the Sales Researcher and Finance Analyst agents found.
AgenticOS product capture · illustrative demo data. Inspect the output against your own task and sources. View full-size screen ↗

Make the platform fit the work

Build for your team.
Run it your way.

01

See the model cost behind a run

AgenticOS records model spend from its price snapshot and checks recorded spend before each model request. Missing prices can leave a run partially priced, and concurrent work can cross a budget. Hosting, tools and operation are separate costs.

02

Any cloud, or none

Microsoft notes that Anthropic models in its offerings are outside the EU Data Boundary. AgenticOS runs wherever you deploy it, with the provider and region you configure, or with local inference. Check embeddings, parsers, tools, traces and diagnostics separately; local inference alone does not mean zero egress.

03

Microsoft identity without Microsoft hosting

People sign in with Entra ID over OIDC, directory groups map to roles, and collections can sync from SharePoint and OneDrive. Configure and verify the specific MCP integrations your task needs.

04

Open where it matters to an auditor

Copilot Studio's governance is strong inside Microsoft's stack. AgenticOS lets you read the controls themselves: the permission catalog, the vault, the audit log's hash chain and the refusal tests that run in CI. The spec exports as YAML, so leaving means keeping your agents, not rebuilding them.

The software is Apache-2.0. Your team still owns hosting, model usage, updates and the policies it configures. Self-hosting alone does not mean zero outbound data.

The Finance Analyst’s capability cards beside its draft test panel, ready for a sample question.
Configure capabilities and open the draft test panel before publishing. Product capture with illustrative data.
At a glance

Copilot Studio and AgenticOS, side by side.

  • Where it runs

    Copilot Studio
    Microsoft's cloud, in Power Platform environments
    AgenticOS
    Your infrastructure

  • Source

    Copilot Studio
    Proprietary
    AgenticOS
    Apache-2.0

  • Models

    Copilot Studio
    GPT and Claude models; Azure Foundry models billed separately
    AgenticOS
    28 providers, including local

  • Billing

    Copilot Studio
    $0.01 per Copilot Credit pay-as-you-go, or prepaid commit units at up to 20% off
    AgenticOS
    No licence fee; model usage at your provider's rates

  • How usage is counted

    Copilot Studio
    Credits per feature: a generative answer is 2, an agent action 5
    AgenticOS
    Model tokens, priced per provider

  • Spend enforcement

    Copilot Studio
    Monthly limits per agent; agents are disabled at 125% of prepaid capacity
    AgenticOS
    A budget per agent and per organization, checked before each model request

  • Surfaces

    Copilot Studio
    Teams, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, web, WhatsApp, voice
    AgenticOS
    Web chat, widget, hosted page, API, WebSocket, Slack, Teams, Telegram, Mattermost and browser voice

  • Identity

    Copilot Studio
    Microsoft Entra ID
    AgenticOS
    OIDC SSO including Entra, LDAP and Kerberos

  • Governance

    Copilot Studio
    Power Platform data policies, Purview audit, Entra Agent ID
    AgenticOS
    Permission catalog, grants, approvals and a tamper-evident audit log
Choose the operating model

Choose Copilot Studio when it fits the job.

  • You want agents embedded in Microsoft 365 Copilot and the Power Platform ecosystem, and your users already hold the relevant licences.
  • You need Power Platform connectors, agent flows, voice or WhatsApp. AgenticOS supports Teams and browser voice calls; telephone and WhatsApp channels are not included.
  • Purview, Sentinel and Power Platform data policies are how your organization governs everything else.
Choose AgenticOS

Run the platform. Make it your own.

  • Your team wants to operate the platform and choose its infrastructure and model providers.
  • You want shared Projects, configurable specialist agents and explicit workflows in one workspace.
  • You want open-source software you can inspect and extend, and accept responsibility for operating it.

Before changing your setup

Keep Copilot Studio for agents that live inside Microsoft 365 Copilot. Use AgenticOS for agents on your website, in Slack or behind your API, and for teams that want the model and the data under their own contract.

FAQ

What people ask before they switch.

Is AgenticOS an alternative to Microsoft Copilot Studio?

Yes, if you want to own the platform. AgenticOS runs on your infrastructure with any model provider and no credit meter. Copilot Studio fits particularly well when you need its Microsoft 365 Copilot and Power Platform integration. AgenticOS also supports a Teams channel.

Does AgenticOS work with Microsoft Entra ID and SharePoint?

Yes. People sign in with Entra ID over OIDC, directory groups map to roles, and collections sync files from SharePoint and OneDrive.

Can AgenticOS publish agents to Microsoft Teams?

Yes. Configure a Teams bot and the published agent’s availability, then verify identity linking and access for your deployment. This is distinct from native integration inside Microsoft 365 Copilot.

How much does Copilot Studio cost compared with AgenticOS?

Copilot Studio bills $0.01 per Copilot Credit pay-as-you-go, or sells prepaid Copilot Credit Commit Units at up to 20% off. AgenticOS has no fee of its own; you pay your model provider for the tokens an agent uses.

Make the choice on your own task

One useful agent.
Start there.

Bring a handbook question, a recurring report or a small research task. Build one agent and decide whether this is the workspace you want to run.

Book a working demo Explore the source

Try it on your own infrastructure

Start with the installation guide and a model connection. No software licence fee; infrastructure and model usage are separate.

Terminal
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vstorm-co/agenticos/main/scripts/quickstart.sh | bash
Read the installation guide

Comparison by Vstorm, the team building AgenticOS. Vendor sources checked 21 October 2026.

Documented capabilities, not a head-to-head benchmark. Read the sources and comparison scope.

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