Open Source Microsoft Copilot AlternativesAI Chatbots & Large Language Model (LLM) Tools like Microsoft Copilot

The best open source alternative to Microsoft Copilot is Lumo by Proton. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Microsoft Copilot and loads of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Microsoft Copilot are DeepSeek, Qwen, Jan.ai and Ensu.

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  1. Lumo by Proton icon
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    Privacy-first AI assistant utilizing zero-access encryption and open-source code, ensuring no data logging, profiling, or training on chats, providing user-controlled, encrypted conversations, with compliance under GDPR and no sharing with third parties.

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  2. DeepSeek icon
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    DeepSeek is a state-of-the-art AI assistant designed to provide intelligent, conversational support across diverse tasks. It leverages advanced natural language processing and machine learning to answer questions, generate creative content, solve complex problems, and offer...

    253 DeepSeek alternatives

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  3. Qwen icon
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    Qwen.com is an interface to chat with Alibaba Qwen's Qwen series of models which are renowned for their huge context windows, generous free usage limits, reliability, and their continued tradition of being open-source.

    158 Qwen alternatives

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  4. Jan.ai icon
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    Open-source offline AI platform supports local LLMs including Llama, Gemma, Qwen, GPT-oss, integrates cloud services like OpenAI and Anthropic, enables custom assistant creation, offers OpenAI-compatible API on localhost, operates across diverse hardware and ensures privacy.

    286 Jan.ai alternatives

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    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  5. Ensu icon
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    Private offline AI chat using local language models on mobile and desktop, no accounts or tracking, open source Rust core, privacy-first design, cross-platform availability, ideal for confidential conversations, with end-to-end encrypted sync coming soon.

    80 Ensu alternatives

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  6. Euria icon
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    Confidential AI chat assistant delivering writing, summarization, voice transcription, email handling, and document search tools, all hosted exclusively in Switzerland with open source models, data sovereignty, and compliance with GDPR and FADP standards.

    93 Euria alternatives

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  7. Goose OSS icon
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    An open-source platform for seamless automation in engineering tasks, providing local execution and control. Customizable with any LLM for enhanced autonomy, enabling developers to efficiently handle debugging to deployment tasks while preserving privacy.

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  8. Apertus icon
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    As a fully open language model, Apertus allows researchers, professionals and enthusiasts to build upon the model and adapt it to their specific needs, as well as to inspect any part of the training process.

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  9. Mellum icon
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    Mellum-4b-base is JetBrains' first open-source large language model (LLM) optimized for code-related tasks.

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    • Python
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  10. Z.ai icon
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    Z.ai is an AI-powered conversational platform developed by Zhipu AI, designed to provide intelligent, natural, and context-aware interactions. It leverages Zhipu’s advanced large language models (GLM series) to support tasks such as answering questions, generating content...

    75 Z.ai alternatives

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  11. A gallery that showcases on-device ML/GenAI use cases and allows people to try and use models locally.

    74 Google AI Edge Gallery alternatives

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