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9 Dust alternatives, 5 with a free plan (2026)

The closest alternatives to Dust in November 2026 are ElevenLabs Agents, Blits.ai Agentic AI for the Enterprise and Gumloop.

Updated 1 November 2026

9 agents compared · entry plans $26.81 to $447 a month · 5 with a free plan · prices checked 2 September–1 November 2026

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Dust and its alternatives at a glance

Agent	Best for	Starts at	Better than Dust at	Checked
Dust		Free, then about $34 a seat a month source		1 October 2026
ElevenLabs Agents	Developers and product teams who want ElevenLabs' voice quality and cloning as the foundation of their agent, and are comfortable assembling the rest of the stack themselves.	Free, then $6 a month source	Done-for-you service, Runs autonomously	18 October 2026
Blits.ai Agentic AI for the Enterprise	Enterprise operations teams automating governed workflows across business systems	On quote source	Done-for-you service, Runs autonomously	31 October 2026
Dify	Developers and teams who want an open-source, self-hostable platform to build RAG apps and agents with full data control.	Free, then $59 a month source	Runs autonomously, Self-hosted	2 September 2026
Manus	Individuals and teams who want to offload whole multi-step tasks (research, simple builds, data work) to an autonomous agent rather than prompt a chatbot turn by turn.	Free, then $20 a month source	Writes code, Debugs and fixes	19 September 2026
Letta	Developers and researchers who specifically need an agent whose memory, skills and identity genuinely persist and evolve across long-running sessions, rather than reset on every call.	Free, then $20 a month source	Writes code, Debugs and fixes	2 September 2026
Genspark	A consultant, marketer, founder or operations lead who wants research, files, code, slides and media handled in one web workspace.	Free, then $24.99 a month source	Writes code, Runs autonomously	26 October 2026
n8n	Ops and automation teams who want to build agentic workflows visually while keeping data on self-hosted infrastructure.	From about $27 a month source	Runs autonomously, Agent permissions	18 October 2026

“About” figures are converted at the European Central Bank rate of 30 October 2026.

Closest alternatives to Dust

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ElevenLabs Agents
From Free
Hosted platform for building voice and chat agents, with telephony, SDKs and a choice of LLM.
Why it's on this list
Done-for-you service: PartlySelf-serve software you run, but enterprises can buy ElevenLabs Forward Deployed Engineers who scope, build and stabilise the deployment; no price is published.
Source ↗
Better than Dust at
- Runs autonomously: Yes ↗
- Agent permissions: Yes ↗
Trade-offs
- In your editor: No ↗
- Open source: Partly ↗
Watch for
Covers the voice + LLM-orchestration layer, not a turnkey ops product, CRM/helpdesk workflows, observability and compliance UI are yours to build.
2
Blits.ai Agentic AI for the EnterpriseVerified owner
On quote
Enterprise platform for governed agentic workflows across models, tools, data and systems.
Why it's on this list
Done-for-you service: YesBlits.ai supplies both the platform and a team that builds, deploys, operates, and improves customer use cases.
Source ↗
Better than Dust at
- Runs autonomously: Yes ↗
- Agent permissions: Yes ↗
Trade-offs
- In your editor: No ↗
- On the command line: No ↗
3
Gumloop
From $37 a month
Multiplayer AI agent builder: teams build agents over their apps while IT keeps governance and spend control.
Why it's on this list
Writes code: YesAgents generate and execute Python and shell code in a per-conversation cloud sandbox that is on by default, and can ship code as a shareable artifact.
Source ↗
Better than Dust at
- Runs autonomously: Yes ↗
- Agent permissions: Yes ↗
Trade-offs
- Reviews code: Partly ↗
- Free tier: Partly ↗

The rest of the shortlist

Dify
Open-source platform for building agentic workflows, AI agents and RAG knowledge pipelines.
Watch for: The "open-source" licence carries extra conditions beyond Apache-2.0, not unrestricted for every commercial use.
From Free
Manus
General-purpose AI agent that plans and executes multi-step tasks on its own cloud computer.
Watch for: Credit consumption is hard to predict; complex jobs can be costly.
From Free
Letta
Stateful agent harness, cloud and SDK for agents with persistent, git-versioned memory.
Watch for: Smaller ecosystem and community than LangChain, LlamaIndex or Microsoft AutoGen.
From Free
Genspark
All-in-one AI workspace with an autonomous Super Agent plus agents for slides, docs, media and code.
Watch for: Credit metering can make heavy agent, video, audio or multi-model runs difficult to forecast.
From Free
PitchAI Agent EngineVerified owner
Scheduled agents that run recurring office administration across accounting, CRM and mail systems.
From €400 a month (about $447)
n8n
Workflow automation platform for building and running AI agents on a visual canvas, with code where needed.
Watch for: Fair-code is source-available, not OSI open-source, so check the licence before commercial resale.
From €24 a month (about $27)

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What are the best alternatives to Dust?

ElevenLabs Agents, Blits.ai Agentic AI for the Enterprise and Gumloop are the closest. They share the most of Dust's features.

What is the cheapest alternative to Dust?

5 of the 9 have a free plan: ElevenLabs Agents, Dify, Manus, Letta and Genspark. The lowest paid plan is n8n, from about $27 a month. Price checked on 1 November 2026.