Comparison
UtilitySpaces vs Dust
We build UtilitySpaces, so read this as a comparison written by an interested party. Everything below about Dust is quoted or paraphrased from Dust’s own pages, each one linked, and read on 17 August 2026. Dust has a real human-approval capability — anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something. The differences that matter are what is on by default, what a plan includes, and what you are billed for.
What each one is
Dust. “Multiplayer AI for human-agent collaboration” — connects company knowledge, tools and teams so you can create, share and run agents across real workflows. (source)
UtilitySpaces. An agentic workspace for teams: a chat-first inbox where people and AI agents work in the same threads, agents with scoped access to the applications you already use, and a write to any of them waiting for a person unless an admin has set that connector to run without asking.
Compared, attribute by attribute
| UtilitySpaces | Dust | |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Managed service only. The source is not public and there is no self-hosted option. | Managed SaaS, with EU or US data residency and single-tenant deployment on Enterprise. The source repository is public under an MIT licence, but no supported self-hosting documentation is published. (source) |
| Billed by | Per workspace, monthly. No per-seat charge and no credit meter. Agent tasks our hosted brain runs are capped per month; work on a brain of your own is neither counted nor capped. | Per seat, plus a monthly credit allowance per seat. Credits do not roll over. (source) |
| Published prices | Starter $29/month, Team $79/month, Business $249/month. Enterprise is scoped and priced around your workload inside a published band of $499–$4,999/month. Pay by card and it renews monthly until you cancel, or settle each month's invoice yourself. | Free seat $0 with 500 lifetime credits; Pro $24/seat/month billed yearly ($30 monthly) with 8,000 credits; Max $120/seat/month billed yearly ($150 monthly) with 40,000 credits; Enterprise by quotation. (source) |
| Free tier | A demo workspace: the whole product for about an hour, no card and no call — and creating an account from it keeps the workspace at demo limits until you choose a plan. | Yes — a $0 seat, though its 500 credits are a lifetime allowance rather than monthly. (source) |
| What happens when an agent writes | Reads run unattended. A write waits for a person by default — that is what every new connection gets — and only a workspace admin can set a connector to run without asking, a change that is itself logged. Deletes always wait for a person, and every call — allowed or refused — is logged. An unrecognised tool is treated as a write, so the policy fails closed by default. | A per-action gate built into the product. Tools carry a stake level: high-stake actions such as sending mail require explicit approval every time, and admins can retune the level per tool. Approvals can arrive as Accept/Reject links by email, and there is an API endpoint to approve or reject an action. (source) |
| Integrations | 80 connectors, plus a generic HTTP connector and any MCP server. | “70+ connectors” on the home page; the pricing page describes “connectors to 20+ data sources”, with the Business tier capped at 3. Native managed connectors plus MCP servers, native and remote. (source) |
| Audit log | On every workspace, on every plan. SHA-256 hash-chained with a verification pass, so tampering is detectable rather than merely discouraged. | Yes, on Enterprise only. Distinguishes actions taken by people from actions taken by agents, with full-text search, CSV export and continuous streaming to a SIEM. (source) |
Dust’s pricing and features read from their own pages on 17 August 2026. Pricing pages move; if a figure here is stale, tell us and we will correct it. Our own prices and connector count are read from the running product rather than typed, so they cannot drift from what you are actually charged.
Choose Dust if
- You need SOC 2 Type II and SCIM provisioning today. Dust publishes both; UtilitySpaces has no certification and does not claim one.
- Your knowledge lives in Drive, Notion, Confluence, Snowflake, BigQuery, Zendesk or Gong and you want managed connectors that sync automatically rather than retrieval you wire yourself.
- You want to choose between twenty-plus frontier models with none of them locked behind a higher plan.
- You need EU or US data residency, or a single-tenant deployment, as a contractual requirement.
- You want an audit log that tells a security reviewer which actions were a person and which were an agent.
Choose UtilitySpaces if
- You want approval to be what every new connection gets, with one lever per connector rather than a stake level per tool — and only an admin can move that lever, and moving it is logged.
- You want the audit log on the plan you can actually afford. Dust's is Enterprise-only; ours is on every workspace, hash-chained, from the first day.
- Per-seat plus non-rolling credits is the wrong shape for you. A workspace price with no per-seat charge and no credit meter is easier to predict.
- You want more than three connectors without moving to an Enterprise contract.
Where UtilitySpaces is behind, whichever product you compare
This list is the same on every comparison page on this site, so that no single rival gets a softer version of it.
- No SOC 2 Type II and no ISO 27001. We have not been audited, and we do not have a date for it. Dust and Lindy both publish SOC 2 Type II. If a certificate is a procurement requirement, this is a real reason to buy elsewhere and we would rather you found that out here.
- Far fewer integrations. 76 connectors against Lindy's 1,400-plus and n8n's 2,000-plus. A generic HTTP connector and any MCP server cover a great deal of the gap, and they do not close it.
- Not self-hostable. n8n can run entirely on your hardware; UtilitySpaces is a managed service and the source is not public.
- SSO is OIDC only — no SAML and no SCIM. Dust and Lindy both offer SSO on their higher tiers, and Dust also publishes SCIM provisioning.
- We are new, with no public customer list and no case studies — because inventing them is the one thing we will not do. There is a free demo instead, which is the only honest substitute for a track record.
Keep comparing
UtilitySpaces vs Lindy. UtilitySpaces vs n8n. Or see all comparisons side by side, what we charge, and the applications agents can connect to.
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