Dust or HUMAIN: which one in 2026?
Dust is a customizable AI assistant platform, mainly aimed at tech and knowledge workers. Great for knowledge-base search, but requires manual configuration of each assistant.
HUMAIN vs Dust: which one to choose?
Honest comparison based on the public information published by Dust at the time of writing.
AI teammates make decisions, take action in your tools and learn without constant supervision.
Sarah (Ops), Marc (Sales), Alex (Growth), Charly (Design), David (Legal), Marie (Finance), Tomy (Logistics) — a ready-to-deploy team.
Plug-and-play connectors (CRM, email, calendars, drive, Slack…).
Long-term memory specific to your company, context enriched with every interaction.
EU hosting, framed transfers (SCCs), multi-jurisdiction compliance.
Average time before an AI teammate is productive.
Official public pricing at the time of comparison.
Sources: public pages of Dust (pricing and features). No affiliation, no smear intent.
Frequently asked questions
What's the difference between Dust and AI Squad?+
Dust provides AI assistants that users configure themselves. AI Squad provides a team of pre-configured AI teammates (Sarah, Marc, Alex, Charly, David, Marie, Tomy) who hold specific roles and act autonomously in your tools.
Is Dust a good fit for SMBs?+
Dust targets tech and knowledge worker teams. For an SMB that wants to delegate sales, ops, design or finance to ready-to-deploy AI teammates, AI Squad is the more turnkey approach.