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Dust alternatives

Dust is listed under Agents: Platform for building company agents on internal data. We compare it with 15 other Agents tools that have researched data. 15 of them offer a free plan or are free to use (4 open source), and 0 are paid only. Dust itself is freemium (free plan + paid tiers).

Order: Sorted by how much you can use for free (free or open source first, then free plan with paid tiers, then paid only), then by the number of documented features, then alphabetically. No ratings or reviews are used.

ToolPricingFree tierKey featuresWho it's for
Dust this tool Freemium (free plan + paid tiers) Paid plans from 30€/seat/month Yes
  • Connect agents to Slack, Notion, Drive, GitHub, Salesforce, and Zendesk
  • Choose among 20+ models for each workflow
  • Run multi-agent workflows on schedules and event triggers
Company teams that create, share, and run AI agents across their workflows.
Agno Freemium (free plan + paid tiers) Paid plans from $150/month Yes
  • Build agents, teams, and workflows using 100+ toolkits
  • Expose agents as a product API or MCP server
  • Run the platform in any cloud, on-prem, or locally
Engineers and teams who build customer-facing and internal agents in their own cloud.
CrewAI Freemium (free plan + paid tiers) Yes
  • Ranks automations from tickets, chats, apps, and workflows
  • Visual editor builds workflows and exports them to Python
  • Traces LLM calls, tool calls, and memory reads with costs
Business teams, engineers, and platform teams that build and govern agents.
Dify Freemium (free plan + paid tiers) Paid plans from $590 per workspace / year Yes
  • Visual builder for agent workflows, prompts, tools, and decisions
  • Pipelines that extract, clean, chunk, and index source files
  • Create agents by chat or settings, then embed or reuse them
Builders and enterprise teams that ship AI apps and agents.
Flowise Freemium (free plan + paid tiers) Paid plans from $35/month Yes
  • Build multi-agent systems with workflow orchestration across agents
  • Build chatbots with tool calling and retrieval from data sources
  • Let humans review tasks that agents perform
Developers and teams building AI agents and LLM workflows.
Mastra Freemium (free plan + paid tiers) Paid plans from $250/month Yes
  • Define typed agents with instructions, models, and tools
  • Compose multi-step workflows with retries and branches
  • Store context using observational memory and semantic recall
Developers and teams building AI agents and applications in TypeScript.
Agensh Free and open source Yes
  • Agents discover and claim sub-tasks, share findings, verify results, and merge progress
  • Runs without a central orchestrator, using a shared workspace, messages, and shared context
  • Published experiments scale the harness to 1,024 agents
Engineers reproducing a self-organized multi-agent harness on one machine.
Browserbase Freemium (free plan + paid tiers) Paid plans from $20/month Yes
  • Cloud browsers agents can drive to use websites
  • Search for sites from a single query
  • Fetch any URL as HTML, JSON, or markdown
Developers and companies building agents that browse and act on the web.
LangChain Freemium (free plan + paid tiers) Yes
  • Trace agent runs step by step and search traces fast
  • Turn traces into datasets and score each agent step
  • Deploy agents with persistent state and isolated code sandboxes
For individual developers and teams of any size building agents.
Haystack Free and open source Yes
  • Wire retrieval, reasoning, memory, and tools into agent flows
  • Plug in OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Hugging Face, and vector databases
  • Run serializable pipelines on Kubernetes with logging and monitoring
Teams and developers building LLM-powered agents and NLP applications.
Omnara Freemium (free plan + paid tiers) Platform fee $0; pay as you go for models and machines Yes
  • Runs agents through one REST API, a TypeScript SDK, and a CLI
  • Uses OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, LiteLLM, or a model you host
  • Runs agents on sandboxes or on your own macOS or Linux machine
Teams who want to run production agents on their own models and machines.
Browser Use Freemium (free plan + paid tiers) Credits from $5 Yes
  • Remote browsers for agents via SDK, REST, or CDP
  • Hosted agents that complete browser tasks
  • MIT-licensed code you can run on your machine
For AI startups and automation teams that run browser agents.
Langfuse Freemium (free plan + paid tiers) Paid plans from $29/month Yes
  • Trace LLM calls, tool use, and retrieval steps
  • Filter traces by user, session, cost, latency, or metadata
  • Score outputs with model judges, rules, or human review
Developers building production AI agents and LLM applications.
Letta Freemium (free plan + paid tiers) Paid plans from $20/month Yes
  • Stateful agents that remember and continue learning
  • Store agent memory in git-based context repositories
  • Let agents reason about context during idle time
Individuals, teams, and developers who use or build stateful AI agents.
Harness² Free and open source Yes
  • Task-level recursion proposes edits, probes them on the same task, and composes a harness
  • Harnessing-level recursion keeps adopted harnesses and lessons for the next task
  • Eight editable parts: system prompt, guardrails, memory, tool guidance, subagents, skills, scripts, and plugins
Engineers refining an agent harness for tasks unseen when that harness was designed.
LearnHarness Free and open source Yes
  • Measures where understanding ends, then plans a dependency map from there to the goal
  • Teaches one reasoning step at a time, then runs separate practice sessions
  • Stores propositions and reasoning chains in a knowledge graph across sessions
People who want an agent to teach a subject from what they already understand.

Dust alternatives: FAQ

What are the best Dust alternatives?

Agno, CrewAI, Dify, Flowise, Mastra, Agensh, Browserbase, LangChain, Haystack, Omnara, Browser Use, Langfuse, Letta, Harness², LearnHarness are the Dust alternatives in our directory that have researched data. They are ordered by how much you can use for free, then by documented features. No ratings or reviews are used, so the order is not a quality ranking.

Is there a free alternative to Dust?

Agno (freemium (free plan + paid tiers)), CrewAI (freemium (free plan + paid tiers)), Dify (freemium (free plan + paid tiers)), Flowise (freemium (free plan + paid tiers)), Mastra (freemium (free plan + paid tiers)), Agensh (free and open source), Browserbase (freemium (free plan + paid tiers)), LangChain (freemium (free plan + paid tiers)), Haystack (free and open source), Omnara (freemium (free plan + paid tiers)), Browser Use (freemium (free plan + paid tiers)), Langfuse (freemium (free plan + paid tiers)), Letta (freemium (free plan + paid tiers)), Harness² (free and open source), LearnHarness (free and open source). Free tiers can change, so check each site.