Dust vs LobeHub

Dust

• Companies that want agents grounded in internal knowledge
• Teams that mix light and heavy users on different seat types
• Organizations that need US or EU data residency

LobeHub

• People who want several agents working on scheduled tasks in the cloud
• Reaching agents from Slack, Discord, Telegram or WhatsApp
• Developers who want to self-deploy an agent workspace and use their own API keys

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.

LobeHub

• Cloud usage is metered in credits that reset monthly; the Free plan's 500,000 credits are about 70 messages on GLM-5.3-Flash.
• GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5 and Kimi K3 are marked Subscription required on the Free plan.
• The docs note that the desktop app is not fully offline: cloud models, sync and online tools still need a connection.
• The code uses the LobeHub Community License, based on Apache 2.0: distributing a derivative work needs a commercial license.

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.

LobeHub

Agent Builder

Describe the agent you need in a sentence and its name, role, skills and behavior are set up automatically, ready to use or to adjust.

Agent Groups

Several agents work on one task as a team: the system picks the agents for the job, runs them in parallel and iterates on the result.

Skills and MCP marketplaces

Agents are connected to skills and MCP servers from community marketplaces. The homepage counts more than 334,000 skills and 106,000 MCP servers.

Messaging channels

The docs cover channels for Slack, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, WeChat, iMessage, LINE, Lark, Feishu and QQ, so agents answer in the chat apps you already use.

Pages, schedules and projects

Pages are documents written with several agents in a shared context, scheduled tasks run agents at set times, and projects keep related work together.

Personal memory

Agents build a structured memory of how you work that you can read and edit. Agent Memory is listed on the Starter plan and above.

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.

LobeHub

• Free$0

  500,000 credits a month, 15 MB of file storage, 100 vector entries, and email and community forum support.

• Community EditionFree

  The open-source edition, self-deployed with Docker or a cloud host under the LobeHub Community License and run on your own model API keys.

• Starter$9.9

  per month, billed yearly ($118.8); $12.9 billed monthly

  5,000,000 credits a month, 1 GB of file storage, 5,000 vector entries, Agent Memory and early access to new models.

• Premium$19.9

  per month, billed yearly ($238.8); $24.9 billed monthly

  15,000,000 credits a month, 2 GB of file storage, 10,000 vector entries and priority email support.

• Ultimate$39.9

  per month, billed yearly ($478.8); $49.9 billed monthly

  35,000,000 credits a month, 4 GB of file storage, 20,000 vector entries and priority chat and email support.

• Enterprise EditionCustom

  Private deployment with a commercial license, brand theming, user management, self-hosted providers, private models and custom integration.

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.

LobeHub

• Annual discount

  20% off with yearly billing

  The pricing page labels yearly billing as 20% off: Starter is $118.8 a year instead of $12.9 a month, Premium $238.8 instead of $24.9 and Ultimate $478.8 instead of $49.9.

• Education

  50% off for students and educators

  The pricing FAQ offers eligible students and education institutions a 50% discount code, requested by email from a school address with proof of status.