Dust vs Guru

A side-by-side comparison of Dust and Guru, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.

Compared from listings verified as of 2026-06-15

Dust

Agent

Enterprise platform for building and sharing custom AI agents on company knowledge.

View Dust

Guru

AI enterprise search on a verified company knowledge layer.

View Guru

At a glance

Feature comparison of Dust and Guru
Attribute	Dust	Guru
Category (differs)	Agent	Search
Pricing	PAID	PAID
License (differs)	Open core	Proprietary
Deployment (differs)	Hybrid	Cloud
Platforms (differs)	Web, API	Web, Browser extension, API
Model support (differs)	Multi-model	—
Vendor (differs)	Dust	Guru
Capabilities (differs)	Agent framework Multi-agent orchestration MCP server RAG pipeline Chat with documents Unified search	Trigger-action automation Guardrails Unified search Cited answers Knowledge base authoring

The honest brief

Dust

Org-wide 'multiplayer' AI over shared company knowledge — agents are built once and reused across teams, not siloed per user.

Agents shareable across the org
Broad workspace connector library
Per-agent choice of frontier models
MIT-licensed open codebase

No free tier beyond a 14-day trial
Per-seat cost scales with org size

Guru

Grounds AI answers in a human-verified wiki with expiring 'trust' dates, so search returns governed knowledge instead of stale or hallucinated content.

Answers grounded in verified knowledge
Strong browser extension and in-app delivery
100+ integrations including Slack and Teams
Knowledge Agents per department

Pricing is now custom and sales-led
Needs upkeep of verified content
Overlaps with broader search rivals

When to pick which

Both cover Unified search.

Pick Dust if you need Agent framework, Multi-agent orchestration, MCP server, RAG pipeline, and 1 more.

Agent framework (primary capability)
Multi-agent orchestration (secondary capability)
MCP server (secondary capability)
RAG pipeline (primary capability)
Chat with documents (secondary capability)

Pick Guru if you need Trigger-action automation, Guardrails, Cited answers, and Knowledge base authoring.

Trigger-action automation (secondary capability)
Guardrails (secondary capability)
Cited answers (primary capability)
Knowledge base authoring (secondary capability)

Guru leans on Unified search as a headline capability; Dust treats it as secondary.

Unified search (primary capability)

They also differ on:

License: Open core · Proprietary
Deployment: Hybrid · Cloud
Platforms: Web, API · Web, Browser extension, API

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