# Cohere North vs Dust (slim)

> Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cohere North leads on schema & documentation. Both do company knowledge search. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere North's 55.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cohere North leads on schema & documentation. Both do company knowledge search.

- Cohere North: C 55.1, rank #598 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-north.min.md
- Dust: B 62.8, rank #378 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.min.md
- Cohere North, good for Regulated companies that want an agent and search platform over their own documents, mail and tickets, run privately or air-gapped and called through a REST or OpenAI-compatible API. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 85 against 75.
- Dust, good for A team that already works in Dust and wants an outside agent to search its spaces, read documents and call its agents with a user's own access. Ahead on Reliability, 53 against 37; Payments & pricing, 20 against 0; Maintenance & community, 86 against 78. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Open source; No incidents deducted, where Cohere North loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Cohere North | Dust |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 37 | 53 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 77 | 75 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 78 | 86 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cohere North | Dust |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cohere Inc. | Permutation Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://dust.tt/mcp` |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary platform under Cohere's terms of use and customer agreements. The North MCP Python SDK on GitHub is MIT | MIT for the platform's source at github.com/dust-tt/dust. The hosted service is sold under Dust's own terms. The npm page gives ISC for `@dust-tt/client` and MIT for `@dust-tt/dust-cli` |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2022-09-07 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-01 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | yes |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | none | 1.5k stars, 17k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |