Putting AI Platforms on the Bench: How Unique AI Outperformed ChatGPT and Copilot

Blog Author
Pascal New
by Jeremy Isnard
and Pascal Hauri
Dec 9, 2025
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When dealing with financial statements, regulatory filings, and high-stakes compliance tasks, speed is irrelevant if the answers are wrong. The data shows a simple fact: Unique AI delivers the most accurate, reliable analysis of complex documents, significantly outperforming both Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT in error rate, consistency, and depth of reasoning.

We ran systematic evaluations, and the results are unambiguous.

 

Accuracy: Unique AI is in a different league

 

Across a broad benchmark of financial and legal documents (10-Ks, 10-Qs, annual reports, regulatory frameworks), Unique AI produced:

  • Highest answer quality: 4.39/5

  • Lowest error rate: 14%

  • Lowest variance across responses

ChatGPT lands in the middle (3.84/5; 20% errors). Copilot performs worst by a wide margin (3.14/5; 43% errors), including multiple total failures on large files.

This difference matters. In finance, a wrong number is not “almost right” – it is useless.

 

Reliability under load: Copilot collapses, Unique AI stays stable

 

The report highlights a clear pattern:

  • Copilot frequently fails on files above ~500 pages, sometimes refusing to answer at all.

  • Unique AI remains stable, even on the largest documents, and maintains consistent scoring across industries (banking, pharma, energy, aviation).

  • ChatGPT answers but often slowly, and with moderate accuracy.

If you need an agent to survive real enterprise documents dealing with thousands of pages, nested notes, annexes, Unique AI is the only one that behaves like an enterprise tool.

 

Precision citations and traceability

 

Regulated workflows require traceability. According to the evaluation:

  • Unique AI consistently provides exact page citations, correct positions, and passes hallucination checks across almost all queries.

  • ChatGPT provides citations inconsistently (often wrong or off by several pages).

  • Copilot typically provides none.

For audit-proof KYC, due-diligence, financial analysis, and compliance reviews, traceability is not optiona, it’s a core requirement.

 

Structured reasoning beats speed

 

Unique AI is slower at file ingestion (~90s vs. ~27s for ChatGPT and ~3s for Copilot), but the evaluation makes the trade-off obvious:

fast upload processing = poor answers
slow upload processing = highly accurate answers

Once ingestion is complete, Unique AI’s reasoning speed is competitive and delivers the most complete and correct responses.

Copilot’s “fast upload” is misleading. The file is not actually searchable at upload time, which causes dramatic delays and high error density.

In regulated contexts, accuracy beats superficial throughput every time.

 

Unique AI’s architecture explains the performance gap

 

Beyond raw model performance, Unique AI provides capabilities that other platforms simply don't:

  • Precision navigation to exact sections of the document

  • Contextual directory + selective file/folder access

  • Granular, enforced tool usage

  • Direct orchestration of specialized sub-agents with seamless delegation

Copilot and ChatGPT rely on generic ingestion, limited context tooling, and inconsistent sub-agent orchestration. These architectural gaps translate directly into the inconsistent, unreliable results measured in the benchmark.

 

Conclusion: the data favors Unique AI for professional and regulated use

 

The evaluation is clear:

  • Unique AI is the only platform consistently accurate enough for compliance, KYC, financial analysis, and regulated workflows.

  • ChatGPT is acceptable for exploratory or low-risk use cases.

  • Copilot should not be used for high-stakes financial or regulatory tasks due to high error rates and unstable behavior.

Enterprises don’t need quantity of answers; they need correctness, stability, and traceability. Unique AI is the only platform in this comparison that delivers all three.