Microsoft today introduced Copilot Pro, a paid plan to deliver the best AI experience in all its apps. Copilot Pro will cost $20 per month per user (Rs 2,000 in India), and it will provide access to GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo even during peak hours. Subscribing to the paid plan will also unlock AI-powered Copilot features in Office apps, previously only available to business users.

The Copilot Pro plan allows you to get priority access to the latest OpenAI models, i.e. GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo for accelerated performance. For quite some time, Microsoft offered free access to the GPT-4 model in Copilot. However, following the introduction of the paid plan, Microsoft says that access to GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo will now be available to free users only during "off-peak" times.

Basically, if you want to use the best OpenAI models all the time, subscribing to the paid plan would be suitable for you. Along with that, Copilot Pro brings AI-powered features to Office apps (Microsoft 365). If you subscribe to Microsoft 365, you can now use Copilot in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Note that Copilot in Excel is still in preview for data analysis and graph generation. And you can't use a Word document to create a full PowerPoint presentation. However, you can create presentations with natural language prompts with Copilot. In addition to that, you also get access to Copilot in Outlook to summarize emails, and in the OneNote app.