Alternatives
Dust alternatives
6 alternatives to Dust, each with who it suits and a source: Onyx, Open WebUI, Glean, Langdock, Claude Team and Enterprise and Fabric. Every fact is from the vendor's own documentation, read on 10 October 2026. Fabric is on the list, and we built it.
Written by TechFabric, which builds Fabric, an open-source AI agent platform that answers from your company's own documents, code, tickets and conversations, citing its sources, with a person's yes before anything writes. Fabric is on this list, placed by fit.
Vendor documentation read 10 October 2026 · by TechFabric
Why teams look beyond Dust
The alternatives
- 01Onyx
- Teams that need to self-host: Onyx runs in your own cloud, on bare metal or air-gapped, with any model. Business is $20 per user per month billed annually; OIDC/SAML SSO and on-premise deployments are listed under Enterprise.
- onyx.app
- 02Open WebUI
- Teams that want a self-hosted interface over their own API keys or local models through Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic or any compatible API, with RAG and search. Enterprise features such as SSO, RBAC and audit logs are through sales.
- openwebui.com
- 03Glean
- Larger organisations that want a managed enterprise search, assistant and agents over 275+ connectors with permission-aware access, and are prepared to buy through a demo; no price is published.
- glean.com
- 04Langdock
- Organisations that want chat, agents and workflows across several model vendors, hosted in Europe, with cloud or on-premise options; custom deployment is listed from 1,000+ seats. There is a 7-day trial.
- langdock.com
- 05Claude Team and Enterprise
- Organisations that are content with one model vendor and want connectors and enterprise search included in the seat. Team Standard seats are $20 per month billed annually ($25 monthly); SCIM is on Enterprise, which is $20 per seat per month plus usage at API rates.
- claude.com
- 06Fabric
- Product and engineering teams that want agents with defined jobs (Fabric has 50+) and the option to self-host: it is open source under Apache-2.0, free to use with your own model keys, and runs hosted at fabric.pro or self-hosted with Docker Compose or Aspire. Every agent action that writes to a shared system needs a time-boxed permission a person approves, and it supports single sign-on, passkeys and two-factor authentication. Fabric is made by TechFabric, the publisher of this page.
- fabric.pro
How the list was chosen
The list starts from the tools people name when they leave Dust, then each entry is checked against its vendor's own documentation, read on 10 October 2026. TechFabric builds Fabric, which is on this list; it is placed by fit, like every other entry, and nobody paid to be included.
Sources
Each page below was read on 10 October 2026.
- https://github.com/dust-tt/dust/issues/10225
- https://dust.tt/home/pricing
- https://github.com/dust-tt/dust/issues/18839
- https://github.com/dust-tt/dust/issues/18255
- https://onyx.app
- https://onyx.app/pricing
- https://openwebui.com
- https://www.glean.com
- https://langdock.com
- https://claude.com/pricing
- https://fabric.pro
Questions
Who should pick Onyx instead of Dust?
Teams that need to self-host: Onyx runs in your own cloud, on bare metal or air-gapped, with any model. Business is $20 per user per month billed annually; OIDC/SAML SSO and on-premise deployments are listed under Enterprise.
Who should pick Open WebUI instead of Dust?
Teams that want a self-hosted interface over their own API keys or local models through Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic or any compatible API, with RAG and search. Enterprise features such as SSO, RBAC and audit logs are through sales.
Who should pick Glean instead of Dust?
Larger organisations that want a managed enterprise search, assistant and agents over 275+ connectors with permission-aware access, and are prepared to buy through a demo; no price is published.
Who should pick Langdock instead of Dust?
Organisations that want chat, agents and workflows across several model vendors, hosted in Europe, with cloud or on-premise options; custom deployment is listed from 1,000+ seats. There is a 7-day trial.
How was this list of Dust alternatives chosen?
From the tools people name when they leave Dust, checked against each vendor's own documentation on 10 October 2026. TechFabric builds Fabric, which is on this list; it is placed by fit, like every other entry, and nobody paid to be included.