Top 5 Dust Alternatives (2026)

Companies leave Dust for reasons Dust documents itself. Its pricing page calls it “the platform for AI Operators”, people who “build it with judgment, deploy it, and run it for their whole team”. Every seat draws down a monthly credit allowance, and according to Dust’s seat documentation, “when members reach their credit limit, they are blocked from sending messages”. Agent memory is a tool a builder adds, and its memories are private to each user. Hosting is “EU or US”, a region, not a country.

If your company works in Microsoft Teams and has no one to run an agent platform, here are the five Dust alternatives to shortlist in 2026. For the head-to-head, see amaiko vs Dust.

1. amaiko: the AI that works before anyone builds anything

amaiko is a Teams-native AI assistant. You install it in Microsoft Teams, say hello, and it starts working. There is no builder interface, no rollout project and no one whose job becomes maintaining agents.

Ready specialists, not a construction kit. amaiko works through a network of specialized agents for email, calendar, research, documents and your company systems. You pick the ones you need from the marketplace. Nobody on your team writes their instructions or keeps them running. For your company that means the value starts in week one, not after a builder has finished.

A memory that belongs to the company. amaiko builds a persistent corporate memory: projects, customers, decisions and who knows what, consolidated overnight into company knowledge that stays when someone leaves. amaiko teams spend 35% less time searching, and onboarding runs up to 57% faster. In Dust, memory is kept per user and per agent, so what one person taught an agent leaves with them.

It acts first. The morning briefing is ready before you open Teams. Active Inbox sorts your email and turns what matters into tasks. With the Meeting Notetaker add-on, meeting follow-ups arrive without anyone asking. In Dust, anything that runs on its own needs a trigger someone built, and automated runs draw only on prepaid workspace credits.

It lives where you work. amaiko reads across the Microsoft 365 workday: email, calendar, files, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Teams chats, OneNote, To Do and SharePoint lists. Dust’s Teams bot is uploaded by your admin as a custom app and sees only the conversations where someone mentions it.

A flat price. amaiko costs €41.58 per user per month billed annually (€499 per user per year), or €49.90 monthly, with unlimited tokens. Dust Pro is cheaper per seat at €24 billed yearly, but it stops at 8,000 credits. The details are in amaiko vs Dust.

Hosted in Germany. amaiko runs on its own infrastructure in Germany, GDPR-compliant, with AI processing inside the EU. Details on the security page.

Best for: Teams-based companies that want AI working on their company knowledge without staffing an agent-building function. Book a demo to see it in your own Teams.

2. Glean: enterprise search for large organizations

Glean is an enterprise search and agent platform with more than 275 connectors. Its pricing page publishes no price: custom pricing, not published. The customer stories it shows instead are Booking.com with 14,000 employees and Zillow with more than 3,400 agents built on the platform.

For a mid-sized Teams company that means a sales process before you know the cost, and a platform on which your people build the agents.

Full comparison: amaiko vs Glean. More options in our Glean alternatives.

3. Cassidy: an assistant and workflow builder

Cassidy is a platform for building AI assistants and workflows on your company knowledge. Its pricing page lists a Starter plan with 3 seats and 10,000 AI credits a month and a Business plan with custom seats and credits, but no prices: custom pricing, not published. Its FAQ lists “Slack and Microsoft Teams deployments” among the benefits of the Enterprise plan.

For a Teams company that means the same build-and-meter model as Dust, and Teams only once you have negotiated the enterprise tier.

Full comparison: amaiko vs Cassidy.

4. Langdock: an EU chat and agent platform

Langdock offers model-agnostic chat and custom agents, hosted on Microsoft Azure servers inside the EU according to its security page. Its pricing page lists €23.20 per Business seat and €99 per Business Max seat per month, billed annually (Business seats: volume discounts above 50) and excluding VAT, with Workflows sold as a separate add-on. A Teams app lets your team use Langdock’s models and agents inside Teams.

For your company that means your team still builds the agents, and automation costs extra on top of the seat.

Full comparison: amaiko vs Langdock. Or see our Langdock alternatives.

5. Onyx: open source, on your own servers

Onyx is an open-source AI search and agent platform with more than 40 connectors. The community edition is free and MIT-licensed; the cloud Business plan costs $20 per user per month billed annually, $25 monthly, according to Onyx. Onyx itself notes that self-hosting “requires comfort with Docker or Kubernetes”, and its pricing page lists region-specific deployments under Enterprise only.

For a Teams company without its own engineers that means infrastructure work in place of agent-building work, and a data location you choose only on the enterprise tier.

Full comparison: amaiko vs Onyx.

Your next step

If your company works in Microsoft Teams, amaiko is the Dust alternative that starts working without a builder, charges one flat price and keeps its knowledge in the company, hosted in Germany. Book a demo and ask it your own questions.