Anvax vs. Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot is deeply embedded in Office apps. But it runs only in Microsoft’s cloud, on models Microsoft picks, and it surfaces whatever your SharePoint permissions allow. Anvax runs inside your perimeter, with governance before the model.

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Anvax
vs
Microsoft 365 Copilot
At a glance

An Office assistant, or a governed AI workspace.

AnvaxAnvax
  • ✓Runs on-premises, in your VPC or air-gapped
  • ✓Data never leaves your perimeter
  • ✓Open-weight and any-provider models
  • ✓Redaction and audit in the data path
  • ✓Platform pricing, not per seat
  • ✓Permission-aware search across your systems
Microsoft 365 CopilotMicrosoft 365 Copilot
  • !Microsoft’s cloud only
  • !Inside Microsoft 365 boundaries
  • !Models chosen by Microsoft
  • ✓Purview labels, DLP and audit
  • !$30 per user on top of a base licence
  • !Strongest inside Microsoft 365
What sets Anvax apart

AI your regulator can inspect, on infrastructure you control.

Runs where your data lives

On your servers, your private cloud or fully air-gapped. The same product in every deployment.

Governance in the data path

Redaction, prompt checks and model routing run before any model sees a request, with an audit entry for each.

Any model, no lock-in

Open-weight models on your hardware, or approved hosted providers, chosen per request by your policy.

Detailed comparison

Twelve questions a regulated buyer should ask.

Grouped the way risk, security and procurement teams review an AI platform.

1Deployment & data sovereignty2Governance & security3Knowledge & models4Cost & rollout
1

Deployment & data sovereignty

Parameter
AnvaxAnvax
Microsoft 365 CopilotMicrosoft 365 Copilot
Where it runs
✓Runs on your servers, in your private cloud or fully air-gapped.
✓The same product in every deployment, not a reduced on-prem edition.
!Runs in Microsoft’s cloud on Azure.
!No on-premises or air-gapped deployment.
Data residency
✓Index, prompts, outputs and logs stay in infrastructure you control.
✓Nothing leaves your perimeter unless a policy you wrote allows it.
✓Covered by Microsoft 365 residency commitments, including the EU Data Boundary.
!Where models process requests depends on Microsoft’s routing.
Vendor dependency
✓Keeps working if a model provider changes its terms, prices or regions.
✓Swap models or infrastructure without re-platforming.
!Optimised for Microsoft 365 adoption.
!Harder to leave once workflows depend on it.
2

Governance & security

Parameter
AnvaxAnvax
Microsoft 365 CopilotMicrosoft 365 Copilot
Sensitive data
✓Personal data and account identifiers are redacted before any model sees them.
✓Redactions are shown to the user, so nothing disappears silently.
✓Purview sensitivity labels and DLP apply.
!Only effective with a mature Purview set-up.
Prompt and model controls
✓Prompt-injection checks run on every request.
✓The model gateway enforces which model may see which data.
✓Microsoft-managed safety and jailbreak filtering.
!No per-request model routing rules you define.
Audit trail
✓An immutable audit entry for every answer: sources, model and redactions.
✓Records an examiner can read, exported from storage you own.
✓Copilot interactions are logged in Purview audit.
!Depth of audit depends on your Purview licence tier.
Permissions
✓Inherits permissions from every source system.
✓Anvax can narrow access further, never widen it.
✓Inherits Microsoft 365 permissions.
!Over-shared SharePoint content surfaces to anyone with access.
3

Knowledge & models

Parameter
AnvaxAnvax
Microsoft 365 CopilotMicrosoft 365 Copilot
Model choice
✓Run open-weight models on your own hardware.
✓Route approved requests to any hosted provider, after redaction.
!OpenAI and Anthropic models, chosen by Microsoft.
!No open-weight or self-hosted models.
Enterprise search
✓Permission-aware search across documents, tickets, CRM and data platforms.
✓Every answer cites the source it came from.
✓Deep in Outlook, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive.
!Thinner coverage of non-Microsoft systems.
Workflows and agents
✓Ready-made workflows for regulated teams, editable by your staff.
✓Agents run inside the same governance pipeline as chat.
✓Custom agents through Copilot Studio.
!Separate licensing and configuration.
4

Cost & rollout

Parameter
AnvaxAnvax
Microsoft 365 CopilotMicrosoft 365 Copilot
Pricing model
✓Platform pricing, not per seat.
✓Roll out to every employee without headcount driving the bill.
!$30 per user per month, billed annually.
!Charged on top of a required Microsoft 365 base licence.
Time to value
✓First team live within a few weeks.
✓Start with one department and two or three workflows, then expand.
✓Already familiar to Microsoft 365 users.
!Often needs partner support and a permissions clean-up first.

Microsoft 365 Copilot details from Microsoft’s published pricing and independent licensing guides, checked October 2026. Licensing changes often; confirm with Microsoft or your reseller.

Which is right for you

Choose by your constraint.

AnvaxAnvax is best for
  • →Regulated teams whose data cannot leave their perimeter
  • →Organisations that need on-premises or air-gapped AI
  • →Teams that must show an examiner how every answer was produced
  • →Companies that want model choice without lock-in
Microsoft 365 CopilotMicrosoft 365 Copilot is best for
  • →Organisations standardised on Microsoft 365
  • →Teams whose work happens mostly in Outlook, Teams and Office
  • →Companies with a mature Purview and permissions set-up
  • →Buyers comfortable with Microsoft-hosted AI

FAQs

Yes, and that is the risk. Copilot surfaces anything a user can technically access, so over-shared SharePoint sites and Teams files become answers. Anvax also inherits permissions, and adds redaction, prompt checks and an audit entry before any model sees the request.

See how Anvax works with Microsoft 365 apps

We will show you Anvax answering from SharePoint and Teams content, with redaction and an audit record on every request.

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