Dust is a platform to build custom AI agents on your company's knowledge, priced per seat with credits. Here are seven AI teammates for Slack, with our top pick first.
By the Glad team. Updated 14 October 2026. Every fact about another tool comes from that vendor's own site, sources below.
Top alternativeGlad
Nothing to build: ask in Slack and it does the job
Does the work in 1,500+ tools, from any Slack thread
Every team can use it in shared channels, from day one
Does the job in the tool, from a Slack thread: updates the HubSpot deal, files the Linear ticket, pulls overdue invoices from QuickBooks, across 1,500+ tools.
One Glad for the whole company. Sales, finance, support and engineering hand it work in shared channels, and everyone sees the result.
Live in two minutes. Add it to Slack and ask: no workflows to build and no setup call.
Remembers what your team tells it, and you can read and edit every line it keeps about you.
Drafts the email in your Gmail and books the meeting in your calendar, because it works through each person's own accounts.
2. Viktor
Best for: Teams that want one shared AI teammate that also writes and runs code, in Slack or Teams.
Each tool does work for a team, not only chat, and works with Slack in some way. We took every price and feature from the vendor's own site on 14 October 2026, and we didn't use review sites.
What is the best Dust alternative for Slack or Microsoft Teams?
For Slack, Glad. Mention @Glad in any thread and it does the job in 1,500+ tools, with no agent to build first, and everyone in the workspace can use it from day one. Viktor, Runbear and Junior work in Teams as well as Slack.
Is there a free Dust alternative or trial?
Yes. Glad's first 50 tasks are free, with no card and every feature included. Viktor gives $100 in trial credits with no card, Junior a $100 credit for a limited time, Lindy $50 in credits for 7 days, and Runbear is free to start. Dust's own free plan is one seat with 500 credits, once.
Why are teams switching away from Dust.tt?
Dust is a platform for building agents, so someone has to build each one before the team can use it. It also charges per seat, and each seat's credits reset at the start of every billing period. Glad has nothing to build: add it to Slack, and anyone in the workspace can hand it a job.
How does pricing compare across the best Dust alternatives?
Dust Pro is $24 a seat a month billed yearly, or $30 monthly, with 8,000 credits a seat, so 10 people cost $240 a month on the yearly plan. Glad is $49 a month for 250 tasks or $99 for 600, for the whole workspace. Viktor starts at $50 a month in credits, Runbear at $99 and Junior at $100, none of them per seat. Lindy is $29.99 a person a month, Glean doesn't publish a price, and Claude in Slack needs a Claude Team or Enterprise plan plus a usage balance.
What does Dust do?
Dust is a platform where a company builds AI agents on its own knowledge and tools, then uses them in a web app, in Slack and in Microsoft Teams. In Slack, an admin turns the app on once and people mention @Dust, which replies in a thread. Glad starts doing jobs from the thread the day you add it, across 1,500+ tools.
What is the best free alternative to Dust.tt?
Glad. Its first 50 tasks are free, with no card, and the trial includes every feature. Mention @Glad in a thread and it updates the HubSpot deal, files the Linear ticket or pulls the overdue invoices, then replies there.
Which Dust alternative is best for enterprise knowledge search?
Glad looks it up in your connected tools, from Notion pages to HubSpot deals, answers in the thread, and then does the job that comes after the answer, across 1,500+ tools. Of the others here, Glean is the one built around search across company knowledge, priced per person with no public price.
