Dust vs Harvey (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Dust grades higher than Harvey: 2.2 against 1.6 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 5, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 10, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Dust grades higher on the free plan and platforms. They get the same grade on value for money, features and ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Dust
Platform for building AI agents on your company's knowledge
Which one is for you
Pick Dust if
- Fits if your company wants agents that answer from its own docs and chats
- Works for organizations that need their data kept in the US or the EU
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you're staying free, as the Free seat is 500 credits once and never refills
- Not for you if you need more than 3 data sources, 5 MCP servers or 5 spaces without an Enterprise deal
- Skip it if you need audit logs, SCIM or custom data retention, which sit on the custom-priced Enterprise plan
- Pricey if heavy users need Max, at $120 a seat a month billed yearly or $150 monthly
- Watch out: credits don't roll over, prices exclude VAT, and there's no phone or desktop app
Pick Harvey if
- Fits if you work at a law firm that runs client matters at volume
- Makes sense if you are an in-house legal team reviewing many contracts
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want a price before a sales call, as none is published
- Not for you if you want to try it first, because there is no free plan or self-serve trial
- Skip it if you are not in legal or professional services, as the site is built for those teams
- Watch out: no integrations or API are listed, so ask what it connects to
How we grade them
| 2.2GPADustFair | 1.6GPAHarveyWeak | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CPro is $24 a seat each month billed yearly, or $30 monthly, with 8,000 credits a seat. That's the middle of the road for agent tools here. No model is locked behind a dearer plan, but credits don't roll over and the prices exclude VAT. | CNo price is published and the site has no pricing page, so there is nothing to place against this category's $21 middle. |
| Free plan and trial | CThe Free seat is 500 credits for the life of the seat, with no monthly refill, and then it asks you to upgrade. So it's a trial with no clock on it rather than a plan anyone stays on. | FNothing is free. The only call to action on the site is a demo request. |
| Features | CAgents answering from your Slack, Notion, Google Drive, GitHub, Salesforce and Zendesk, any of 20-plus models each, schedules and triggers, permissions split by team and Frames turning answers into shared dashboards. The cap is the catch: the self-serve plan allows 3 data connectors, 5 MCP servers and 5 spaces. | CAgents, a document Vault, legal research, contract review and usage analytics are listed. The listing shows a product for legal work only, and its own page shows no integrations. |
| Ease of use | CPeople ask an agent in Slack or a Chrome sidebar. Someone has to connect the company's data, set the permissions and build the agents first, and there's no rating on record. | CNo store rating on record, and a firm has to be onboarded and set up before anyone uses it. |
| Platforms and integrations | BA web app, Slack and a Chrome extension, with Zapier, Make, n8n and Power Automate listed and a developer API. No phone or desktop app on the listing. | CWeb only, with no integrations or API listed on the pages read. |
| Best for | company agents that know your own docs and chats | law firms and legal teams that buy through sales |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Dust and Harvey. How we grade
Where they differ
- Dust also covers AI search and workflow automation.
- Harvey also covers chat assistant, research and documents.
At a glance
| Dust | Harvey | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Paid |
| Starts at | $24 per seat / month, billed yearly (Pro) | Not published |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | Free seat with a one-time 500 credits for the lifetime of the seat and no time limit | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Dust | Harvey AI Corporation |
| Price read from | dust.tt | Not confirmed |
| Checked | Oct 5, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Dust
- The Free seat is a one-time allowance of 500 credits, not a monthly quota; once it is used, free users are prompted to request an upgrade.
- The self-serve Business plan covers teams of up to 100 and is limited to 3 data source connectors, 5 remote MCP servers and 5 spaces.
- SCIM provisioning, audit logs, custom data retention and single-tenant deployment require Enterprise.
- Monthly credits reset each billing period without rolling over, and listed prices exclude VAT.
Harvey
- No prices are published and the pricing page does not exist; the only call to action is Request a Demo.
- No free plan or self-serve trial is shown.
- The site is built for legal and professional services teams.
Key features
Dust
- Agents with company context
- Agents draw on connected company data from sources such as Slack, Notion, Google Drive, GitHub, Salesforce and Zendesk to answer questions and take action.
- Model choice per agent
- All plans include 20+ models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral and DeepSeek. The model is chosen per agent, and none is locked to a higher plan.
- Schedules and triggers
- Multi-agent workflows can run on a schedule or in response to events. Dust also lists Zapier, Make, n8n and Power Automate as supported automation platforms.
- Spaces and permissions
- Spaces segment data by team, and a two-layer permission model separates what agents can access from who can use them. The Business plan includes 5 spaces.
- Frames
- Frames turn agent output into interactive dashboards, reports and memos that a team can explore and work on together.
- Slack and Chrome extension
- Agents can be mentioned in any Slack channel or messaged directly, and a Chrome extension opens them in a sidebar on any web page.
Harvey
- Agents for legal work
- Agents take on complex legal tasks, with work routed automatically to the right agent.
- Vault
- Stores and organizes large sets of documents so a team can pull out information with a single query.
- Knowledge
- Legal, regulatory and tax research.
- Spaces
- Shared workspaces for firms, clients and co-counsel, with the ethical walls sensitive legal work requires.
- Contract Intelligence
- Contract review and negotiation support, plus insights across a portfolio of contracts.
- Command Center
- Usage analytics by team, practice group and office, with benchmarks against comparable organizations.
Plans
Dust
Free$0
A Business-plan seat with 500 credits for its lifetime and no monthly refill, meant for occasional users or people trying Dust.
Pro$24
per seat / month, billed yearly; $30 billed monthly
8,000 credits per seat each month on the Business plan, which covers teams of up to 100, with SSO available on request from 5 seats.
Max$120
per seat / month, billed yearly; $150 billed monthly
40,000 credits per seat each month, for people who regularly run complex automations, deep research or tool-heavy workflows.
EnterpriseCustom
Unlimited connectors and MCP servers, workspace-pooled credits, SCIM, audit logs, custom data retention, single-tenant deployment and an SLA.
Harvey
Pricing could not be confirmed. See harvey.ai.
Ways to pay less
Dust
- Annual discount
Save 20% with yearly billing
Dust's pricing page shows a 20% saving on yearly billing: Pro is $24 per seat a month instead of $30, and Max is $120 instead of $150.
Harvey
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Dust or Harvey?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Dust starts at $24 per seat / month, billed yearly (Pro), and Harvey has no price we could confirm.
Which has a free plan, Dust or Harvey?
As of Nov 12, 2026, neither Dust nor Harvey has a free plan. Dust has a free trial.
Which platforms do Dust and Harvey run on?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only Dust lists a browser extension. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.

