Guru vs Microsoft SharePoint

Guru

• Companies that want one verified source of answers for staff and AI tools
• Support, sales and IT teams that need cited answers inside Slack or Teams
• Organizations that need audit trails and permission-aware AI answers

Microsoft SharePoint

• Organizations on Microsoft 365 that need an intranet and team sites
• Document management with version history and item-level permissions
• Companies organizing internal content for Microsoft 365 Copilot

Guru

• Guru publishes no prices: its pricing page describes custom packages scoped with the sales team, and the site offers no self-serve signup.
• Every invited user takes a paid seat, including people who only read content.
• There is no native mobile app; phones use a mobile web app or Slack, and Guru says its desktop experience has the most complete functionality.
• Canceling requires written notice at least 15 days before the renewal date, and Guru does not issue refunds.

Microsoft SharePoint

• SharePoint's plans page lists only Microsoft 365 business bundles; no standalone SharePoint subscription is shown.
• The business plans cover 1 to 300 users; larger organizations are pointed to Microsoft 365 enterprise plans.
• Work-grounded Copilot is built into Standard and Premium only; on Business Basic it is an add-on with a regular price of $21.00 per user / month, paid yearly.
• SharePoint runs in a browser, with mobile apps for Android and iOS; Microsoft lists no dedicated desktop app.

Guru

Verified knowledge base

Knowledge is organized into collections and kept current through verification. Usage signals, content age and policy rules handle most checks, and the rest are routed to assigned experts.

Knowledge Agents

Chat-style agents answer questions with citations, run multi-step research across sources and can act in connected systems, such as creating a ticket, as the signed-in user.

Search across connected sources

More than 100 connectors bring enterprise apps, databases and file systems into one search index, and each source keeps its original access permissions.

AI-drafted documentation

Agents turn conversations, meetings and tickets into draft documents and route them to subject-matter experts for review before anything is published.

Answers inside other tools

Guru answers questions in Slack and Microsoft Teams, in a browser extension for Chrome, Edge and Opera, and through an MCP server that AI tools can query.

Governance controls

Role-based access, SAML SSO and SCIM, audit logs with lineage, and DLP masking that redacts personal and sensitive data when content is ingested.

Microsoft SharePoint

Team and communication sites

Sites for individual teams and for organization-wide news, resources and campaigns, built from templates with flexible layouts and drag-and-drop editing.

Document libraries

Libraries keep version history and access control for every file. Documents can be edited by several people in real time, and files and folders can be kept offline.

Microsoft Lists

Lists share, organize and track structured information next to a site's pages and files, and are included in every business plan.

Granular permissions

Administrators control access at the site, list and item level and can apply policies that govern how files are shared.

Copilot in SharePoint

Drafts pages and sites from a natural-language description or from an existing Word or PowerPoint file. Copilot is built into Standard and Premium and an add-on for Basic.

Customization and automation

Sites can be extended with site designs, web parts, Power Apps and Power Automate, or with custom development on the SharePoint Framework (SPFx).

Guru

• Custom packageCustom

  Quoted by sales from an organization's scale, knowledge complexity and AI maturity; includes platform access and a team of solution engineers.

Microsoft SharePoint

• Business Basic (no Teams)$5.40

  per user / month, paid yearly ($7.00 with Teams)

  SharePoint team and communication sites, document libraries and Microsoft Lists, with 1 TB of cloud storage per user and web and mobile Office apps.

• Business Standard with Copilot$23.50

  per user / month, paid yearly ($20.30 without Teams)

  The same SharePoint features plus desktop Office apps and work-grounded Copilot, which is an add-on to Business Basic.

• Business Premium with Copilot$32.00

  per user / month, paid yearly ($28.80 without Teams)

  Everything in Standard plus Intune device management, Defender for Business and Purview Information Protection.

Guru

• Nonprofit

  Guru for Good nonprofit pricing

  Guru for Good offers the product at a reduced cost to eligible 501(c)(3) nonprofits that contact the company. The pricing page does not state the size of the discount.

Microsoft SharePoint

• Nonprofit

  Nonprofit grant and staff pricing

  Eligible nonprofits get Microsoft 365 Business Basic as a grant, free for up to 300 users, with Business Standard at $3.50 and Business Premium at $5.50 per user / month, paid yearly.

• Other savings

  Copilot Business add-on at $18.00 until Dec 31, 2026

  The Microsoft 365 Copilot Business add-on is listed from $18.00 instead of $21.00 per user / month between July 1 and December 31, 2026. It needs an annual commitment and covers the first year only.