# Copilot Studio

> Microsoft's low-code studio for building agents and the automations around them, for when an Agent Builder agent needs branching logic, connectors or a trigger.

**Category:** Copilot

**Copilot Studio is where you go once Agent Builder hits its ceiling.** It is the same product whether IT builds something tenant-wide or you build something for your own team. Its building blocks are agents (the conversational layer), workflows (drag-and-drop automations) and [agent flows](/glossary#agent-flow), which run on their own or as a tool an agent can call.

A Studio build can do what an Agent Builder agent cannot: **branch on conditions**, reach outside systems through connectors, run on a schedule or event, and pause for a human approval step. That extra power comes at a price. Studio-built flows and agents are metered in [Copilot Credits](/glossary#copilot-credits), while agents that only use generative answers or standard Microsoft Graph grounding in Copilot Chat are not.

## At work

A team lead who pastes a status update into Teams by hand every Monday builds a Copilot Studio flow that reads the SharePoint list of open client items and posts the summary automatically.

## Often confused with

[Agent Builder](/glossary#agent-builder). Agent Builder makes a quick no-code agent you describe in a sentence, at no credit cost; Copilot Studio is the full low-code studio for agents that branch, connect to other systems and act on a trigger.

## Related terms

- Agent Builder
- Agent flow
- Copilot Credits
- Autonomous agent

## See it in a lesson

[Copilot Studio: build and automate](/en/learn/copilot/advanced/copilot-studio)

## Further reading

- [What is Copilot Studio? (Microsoft Learn)](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/fundamentals-what-is-copilot-studio): Microsoft's overview of what you can build with Copilot Studio.
- [Agent flows overview (Microsoft Learn)](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/flows-overview): How flows, triggers and actions work, and how to attach a flow to an agent.
- [Copilot Studio billing and licensing (Microsoft Learn)](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/billing-licensing): The licensing paths and the ways a tenant can pay.

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Last updated: 14/10/2026  
Source: Rollo Academy glossary