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Lightbulb vs Microsoft Teams with Copilot
Microsoft Teams with Copilot brings AI into Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams, with prebuilt agents and Copilot Studio for building your own. Lightbulb is a team workspace where AI employees are members of your channels and do work the whole team can see and approve. If your company does not live in Microsoft 365, the choice is simpler than it looks.
| Lightbulb | Microsoft 365 Business Standard with Copilot | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it's for | Founder-led teams of 3–15 already running AI agents | Microsoft 365 customers, up to 300 users |
| Where the agent lives | A member of your channels, running in your workspace's own cloud | Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps; agents via Copilot Studio |
| Who sees the work | Everyone in the room; one shared record | Your Microsoft 365 tenant |
| Any model | Lightbulb-managed, your ChatGPT account, or your own API key | “LLM model choice” |
| Price for 8 people | $110 a month ($50 for up to 5 people, $20 each after), plus AI usage or your own key | $188/month paid yearly ($23.50 × 8) |
| Approvals and record | Approval cards for plans, spending and new hires; who did what and who approved it | Not published on the pricing page |
| Works while nobody is online | Yes: routines, email and a nightly CEO run | Not published |
| Code and non-code work | Both: shared Claude Code and Codex sessions, plus email, books and the task board | Mostly documents, email and meetings |
Checked on 2026-10-13. Every cell links to the page it came from.
What Microsoft does better
Copilot works inside the documents, spreadsheets and email your team already uses, and the price includes Office apps, email hosting and 1 TB of storage per person. For a company on Microsoft 365, nothing else is that close to the work.
Microsoft has the identity, compliance and admin tooling large buyers require. Lightbulb does not have SSO yet.
Questions
- Does Copilot work outside Microsoft 365?
- Copilot Business requires an eligible Microsoft 365 plan. Lightbulb connects to the tools you use, Google or Microsoft.
- Can we use both?
- Yes. Lightbulb agents can work alongside a Microsoft 365 company.
- What does it cost for 8 people?
- $188 a month for Business Standard with Copilot, paid yearly. Lightbulb is $110 a month plus AI usage.