Best Copilot Studio alternatives in 2026
Adapt is the strongest Copilot Studio alternative for agents across every tool, with no seat fees and self-hosting from January 2027.
Why do teams look beyond Copilot Studio?
12 credits
Microsoft’s own example cost of one grounded answer in Copilot Studio.
Adapt: Published usage rates
Source: learn.microsoft.com
125%
Of prepaid capacity, where agents stop unless overage bills to pay-as-you-go.
Adapt: $0 platform fee, plus usage
Source: learn.microsoft.com
M365
Credit-free employee use needs a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
Adapt: Every tool, not one suite
Source: microsoft.com
Why choose Adapt over Copilot Studio?
Costs you can forecast
No seat fee or credit packs to prepay, just metered usage at published rates.
Every tool, not one suite
Agents reach tools from every vendor, and nobody needs a Copilot license.
Runs where you need it
MIT licensed and free to self-host from January 4, 2027, or we run it for you.
- Pricing
- Adapt Cloud: no platform or seat fee, just usage at published rates, with 0% markup on your own model keys. Open source: free to self-host from January 4, 2027. Enterprise: an implementation fee plus an annual fee.
- Where it runs
- Run on Adapt Cloud, self-host the MIT-licensed company agent from January 4, 2027, or have AI Transformation Services run it in your VPC or on-prem.
Sources: adapt.com/pricing, adapt.com/product/overview#waitlist, adapt.com/services
What are the other Copilot Studio alternatives?
Google Gemini Enterprise
Google Cloud’s enterprise app for chat, search and agents grounded in company data.
- Best for
- Companies on Google Workspace or Google Cloud that want a packaged employee agent with connectors to Microsoft 365 and Workspace.
- Pricing
- Business edition from $21 per seat per month.
- Trade-off
- The $21 Business edition is limited to 1–500 users.
Sources: cloud.google.com, docs.cloud.google.com
Dust
A multiplayer platform where teams build, share and run agents across company tools, with 20+ models to choose from.
- Best for
- Mid-size teams that want a model-agnostic, no-code agent workspace without committing to one suite vendor.
- Pricing
- Pro €24 per seat per month billed yearly, with 8,000 credits per seat; Enterprise through sales.
- Trade-off
- Usage is credit-metered per seat; pooled credits and single-tenant deployment are listed on Enterprise.
Source: dust.tt
Salesforce Agentforce
Salesforce’s platform for building agents across Sales, Service and its other clouds.
- Best for
- Organisations whose customer and revenue workflows already run on Salesforce and want agents acting on CRM data.
- Pricing
- Flex Credits at $500 per 100,000, or $2 per conversation; add-ons from $125 per user per month.
- Trade-off
- Data 360 must be provisioned and enabled for all Agentforce use.
Sources: salesforce.com, trailhead.salesforce.com
Glean
Enterprise search and work AI, with agents grounded in a company-wide index of connected apps.
- Best for
- Large enterprises whose main problem is finding and acting on knowledge spread across many tools.
- Pricing
- Sales-led; no published pricing.
- Trade-off
- Customer-hosted deployment is documented for GCP and AWS, not Azure.
Sources: glean.com, docs.glean.com
n8n
A workflow automation platform with AI agent nodes, in the cloud or self-hosted.
- Best for
- Technical operations teams that want deterministic workflows with AI steps and the option to self-host.
- Pricing
- Starter €20 per month (2,500 executions), Pro €50 per month (10,000), billed annually; Enterprise through sales.
- Trade-off
- It is source-available rather than OSI open source, limited to internal business or non-commercial use.
Sources: n8n.io, github.com
LangGraph and LangSmith
An MIT-licensed framework for building stateful agents in code, plus LangChain’s managed platform to deploy and observe them.
- Best for
- Engineering teams that want to write agents in Python or TypeScript with full control over orchestration.
- Pricing
- Developer $0 per seat; Plus $39 per seat per month with one small deployment; Enterprise custom.
- Trade-off
- LangGraph is code-first; LangChain’s no-code agent builder, Fleet, is a separate product.
Source: langchain.com
Questions
Adapt, if you want agents across every tool without committing to one suite. Gemini Enterprise fits Google Workspace companies, Agentforce fits Salesforce, and Dust suits teams that want a hosted workspace.
Yes: Adapt connects to tools from many vendors and needs no Microsoft or Google suite license. Dust and n8n are also suite-independent.
Yes: Adapt’s company agent self-hosts from January 4, 2027, and AI Transformation Services runs it in your cloud today. n8n self-hosts too, and Glean and LangSmith deploy in your cloud.
In Copilot Credits: packs of 25,000 for $200 a month, pay-as-you-go through Azure, or prepaid commit units. Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses at $30 per user per month cover internal agents.