Dust vs SmythOS
Dust
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| Figure | Dust | SmythOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | €24/mo | $39/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 7 |
| Spec score · AI Agent Builders | 8.4 (#6) | 8.7 (#3) |
| Spec score · AI Agent Platforms | 8.3 (#21) | 8.8 (#8) |
| Data protection | The security page states that data is encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS in transit, is not used to train models, and is not stored by third-party model providers. | For SmythOS SaaS, the security page states that data in transit uses TLS 1.2+ and data at rest is encrypted using the cloud provider’s KMS. |
| Models | Users can build agents with more than 20 frontier and open-source models, including providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Mistral. | SmythOS says it supports models from providers including OpenAI and Anthropic, plus Hugging Face models and customer-provided models. |
| Plan limits | The Business plan is for teams up to 100 people; its comparison lists up to three connectors for Enterprise and five remote MCP servers for Business. | The pricing page lists 100 fast API calls per day for Builder, 5,000 for Startup, 25,000 for Scaleup, and unlimited for Enterprise. |
| Security | Dust says it is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant, and that it enables HIPAA compliance. | The security page describes zero-trust access controls, least privilege, fine-grained ACLs, and isolated agent contexts. |
| Support | Dust offers email support, a help agent, and a community, and says it responds to support requests within two business days. | Plan comparisons list community support on free and Builder tiers, personal or priority support on higher tiers, workshops, and optional forward-deployed engineering. |
| What it does | Dust connects company knowledge, tools, and teams so organizations can create, share, and run AI agents across workflows. | SmythOS is an AI-agent platform for visually building, testing, deploying, and orchestrating agents and workflows. |
Plans
Dust
- FreeFree
- Pro€24 a month
- Max€120 a month
- Pro€288 a year
- Max€1,440 a year
- EnterprisePriced on request
SmythOS
- Public FreeFree
- Builder$39 a month
- Startup$399 a month
- Scaleup$1,499 a month
- Enterprise$4,955 a month
- PublicFree
- Private Builder$39 a month
In their own words
Dust
Dust connects company knowledge, tools, and teams so organizations can build, share, and run AI agents across workflows. People and agents coordinate through shared knowledge, tools, conversations, notifications, and human review. Dust lists 70+ connectors, including Slack, Notion, Google Drive, GitHub, Salesforce, and Zendesk, and supports building agents with more than 20 frontier and open-source models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Mistral. Agents can run multi-agent workflows on schedules and triggers, with reusable skills, tools, and memory. Its Chrome extension provides access to company knowledge and AI assistance from the current tab. Dust says it is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant, and enables HIPAA compliance. Its Free plan includes 500 credits for lifetime use. Pro costs €24 a month billed yearly, and Max costs €120 a month billed yearly. Enterprise is listed without a price and includes unlimited connectors and MCP servers, workspace-pooled credits, SCIM, audit logs, single-tenant deployment, and priority support with an SLA.
SmythOS
SmythOS is an orchestration platform for designing, observing, and deploying AI agents. Its Studio provides a drag-and-drop workspace for agents and workflows, while Agent Weaver can create, troubleshoot, and revise workflows from conversational prompts. Agents can be deployed through chat, APIs, webhooks, MCP servers, and ChatGPT, or exported to run locally. Connections include Slack, Trello, GitHub, and Stripe, alongside OpenAPI and Postman collections. The platform supports models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and customer-provided sources. Deployment options include local, on-premises, VPC, and SaaS; the maker describes access controls and isolated agent contexts. A free plan is available, and paid plans start at $39 a month. Fast API call allowances vary by plan, from 100 per day on Builder to unlimited on Enterprise. Built-in model use is charged separately according to usage. SmythOS runs on web, Windows, macOS, Linux, API, and self-hosted environments, and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.