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What is the difference between Agentforce and Einstein Copilot?

Real World Scenario

A client confuses the employee-facing Copilot on the Salesforce UI with the customer-facing service agent. You clarify.

Expected Answer

• Einstein Copilot assists Salesforce users inside the CRM with tasks like summarizing records • Agentforce agents typically serve customers or external users on channels like chat • Copilot uses user permissions; customer agents use configured topics and actions • Both use LLMs but differ in audience, channel, and configuration model • Projects may use both—internal productivity and external service

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Conceptually similar—both invoke Salesforce capabilities—but configuration surfaces differ. Reuse invocable Apex or Flows behind both when possible.

Architect Perspective

Audience first: employee vs customer. That one line clears most confusion.