How much does Dust cost?
Paid plans start at
$24/mo billed yearly
or $30/mo billed monthly
- Free plan
- Yes
- Usage price
- $0.01/minute
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
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In your favor
- Free plan. Free seat on the Business plan includes 500 credits, lifetime (not renewing). Free users are prompted to request an upgrade when out of credits.
Watch out for
- Extra usage is billed. Pro and Max users can continue through workspace overage if enabled by an admin, up to a capped amount
- Their pages disagree: Connector count. "Connect Dust to 70+ connectors, including Slack, Notion, Google Drive," vs "Connect Slack, Notion, GitHub, Drive + 20 more — or any tool via MCP"
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Try for free, Start for free, Talk to sales, Contact sales
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup via Try for free / Start for free on Business plan "Start for free"
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Business is for teams up to 100 people; Enterprise via sales for SCIM, audit logs, SLAs, custom terms "For teams up to 100 people"
- Support
- Email support on Business "Email"
- Support
- Priority support with SLA on Enterprise "Priority + SLA"
What Dust does
Dust connects company knowledge from tools like Slack, Notion, Google Drive, GitHub and Salesforce to agents built on 20+ models from several providers. Teams share agents, workspaces and connected tools, with SSO, audit logs and data residency options on higher plans.
- Good for
- Teams and companies that want to build shared AI agents across departments (sales, support, engineering, marketing, data) grounded in their own company data.
- Channels
- Web app, Chrome extension, API, Slack
- Main product
- Dust, an agent platform that connects company data and tools to multiple AI models
- Also includes
- 20+ frontier and open-source models, Custom agents with skills, knowledge and tools, Multi-agent workflows on schedules and triggers, Connectors to company data sources, MCP servers (native and remote), Pods (collaborative workspaces with shared context)
- Connects to
- Slack, Notion, Google Drive, GitHub, Salesforce, Zendesk, Airtable, Amplitude, Asana, BigQuery, Canva, ClickUp
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- Inline source citationsNot stated
- Multi-step deep research reports
a deep research task that requires complex, multi-step orchestration and tool use will consume more
- Academic paper database searchNot stated
- Upload and query own documentsNot stated
- Connects to internal apps
Connect Dust to 70+ connectors, including Slack, Notion, Google Drive, GitHub, Salesforce, and Zendesk.
- Shared team workspace
Team collaboration workspaces
- SSO and enterprise security
Single sign-on with your identity provider
- No training on customer data
Your data is never used to train models.
- Export reports and tablesNot stated
- API access
Conversation API
The same 10 checks appear on every tool in AI research assistants. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | no | "Your data is never used to train models."security |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II certified | "SOC 2 Type II certified"home |
| GDPR | GDPR compliant | "GDPR Compliant & SOC2 Type II Certified. Enables HIPAA compliance."security |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | SSO with Okta, Entra ID and Jumpcloud on Business (5+ seats on demand); SAML and | "SSO (Okta, Entra ID, Jumpcloud)"pricing |
| Trust center | https://trust.dust.com | "Visit our Trust Center"security |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Pro seat/seat/mo | $30 | $24per month | 8000 credits | – | "Pro: $30/month, or $24/month billed yearly, with 8,000 credits/month." "Pro: $30/month, or $24/month billed yearly, with 8,000 credits/month." |
| Business Max seat/seat/mo | $150 | $120per month | 40000 credits | – | "Max: $150/month, or $120/month billed yearly, with 40,000 credits/month." "Max: $150/month, or $120/month billed yearly, with 40,000 credits/month." |
| Business Free seat | – | – | 500 credits | – | "Free: $0, 500 credits lifetime." |
| Programmatic usage (Business)/ credit | $0.01per minute | – | – | – | "$0.01 / credit" |
| Enterprise | Quote | – | – | – | "Talk to sales" |
Their pages disagree: Connector count"Connect Dust to 70+ connectors, including Slack, Notion, Google Drive, GitHub, Salesforce," vs "Connect Slack, Notion, GitHub, Drive + 20 more — or any tool via MCP"
Free plan: Free seat on the Business plan includes 500 credits, lifetime (not renewing). Free users are prompted to request an upgrade when out of credits.
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Pro and Max users can continue through workspace overage if enabled by an admin, up to a capped amount "Pro and Max users will be able to continue through workspace overage if enabled by an admin up to a capped amount."
- Contract
- Monthly seats can be cancelled anytime; annual seats stay available for reassignment until their commitment ends "Monthly seats can be cancelled anytime; annual seats stay available for reassignment until their commitment ends."
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Founder
- Stanislas Polu, Co-founder, CTO
- Founder
- Gabriel Hubert, Co-founder, CEO
- Funding
- Raised $40M (reported by Axios, May 18, 2026) "Agentic AI startup Dust raises $40M"
- Customers
- "Trusted by teams at 3,000+ global organizations" their claim
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Questions
Is Dust free?
Yes. Free seat on the Business plan includes 500 credits, lifetime (not renewing). Free users are prompted to request an upgrade when out of credits. Paid plans start at $30/month.
How much does Dust cost?
Paid plans start at $24 per month billed yearly, or $30 billed monthly.
Does Dust train AI on your data?
No, according to Dust: "Your data is never used to train models."