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Microsoft
Everything from Microsoft we track, and our call on each.
- Scored
- 0
- First looks
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- On the list
- 9
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Reviewed
Best score first; each shows its best job. First looks are new and not scored yet.
| Name | Score | Cheapest plan | Our verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
MAI-Transcribe-2AI model | No score yet | Pay as you go | Worth trying | Among the most accurate transcription models at $0.10 an hour. Still a preview with no SLA, so not for production yet. |
| Not scored yet | Free | First look: Worth trying | Free Microsoft assistant; 365 plans add it to Word and Excel. No score yet: Microsoft doesn't name its models. |
On the list, not reviewed
Big news or good value, on our Top 20 lists.
- MAI-Image-2.6Microsoft's in house image model is now top six in blind tests for under 4 cents an image; powers Copilot and Bing.
- MarkItDownLightweight Microsoft tool that converts Office files, PDFs and more into Markdown for LLMs.
- Playwright MCPMicrosoft's MCP server that lets agents drive a real browser through the accessibility tree instead of screenshots; the default way to give an agent a browser.
- Azure Document IntelligenceMicrosoft's OCR and prebuilt invoice, receipt and ID extraction, now part of Foundry Tools; common in Azure shops.
- Azure AI FoundryFor teams already on Azure who want GPT, Claude and open models under one contract
- harrier-oss-v1-27bTop open embedding model on the multilingual board; big (27B) so needs a strong GPU. 270M and 0.6B sizes exist
- multilingual-e5-large-instructSmall (560M) long-standing open choice for many languages that runs on modest hardware
- e5-mistral-7b-instructOlder open 7B model; most newer open picks above rank higher at similar size
- Playwright CLIMicrosoft's browser CLI for coding agents; attaching it to your own Chrome exposes your logged-in accounts