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Dust vs Sana

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

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Dust

Agent

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

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Sana

Assistant

Enterprise AI assistant that searches and acts across your tools.

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At a glance

Feature comparison of Dust and Sana
AttributeDustSana
Category (differs)AgentAssistant
Pricing (differs)PAIDFREEMIUM
License (differs)Open coreProprietary
Deployment (differs)HybridCloud
Platforms (differs)Web, APIWeb, iOS
Model supportMulti-modelMulti-model
Vendor (differs)DustSana Labs
Capabilities (differs)
  • Agent framework
  • Multi-agent orchestration
  • MCP server
  • RAG pipeline
  • Chat with documents
  • Unified search
  • Trigger-action automation
  • Unified search
  • Cited answers
  • Report generation
  • Data analysis / BI

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

Sana

Answers, drafts and runs multi-step agents over your real company data across 100+ connected tools with native permissions — not the public web.

  • Enterprise search over your own data
  • Respects native app permissions
  • Answers, drafts, and automates tasks
  • Web and iOS apps
  • Free tier to start
  • Enterprise focus
  • Future tied to Workday acquisition
  • Pricier beyond the free tier

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 Sana if you need Trigger-action automation, Cited answers, Report generation, and Data analysis / BI.

  • Trigger-action automation (primary capability)
  • Cited answers (secondary capability)
  • Report generation (secondary capability)
  • Data analysis / BI (secondary capability)

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

  • Unified search (primary capability)

They also differ on:

Pricing
PAID · FREEMIUM
License
Open core · Proprietary
Deployment
Hybrid · Cloud
Platforms
Web, API · Web, iOS
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