{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "dust", "name": "Dust", "vendor": "Permutation Labs", "vendorUrl": "https://dust.tt", "kind": "http-api", "category": "company-knowledge", "summary": "Dust is a platform for building AI agents on a company's documents and connected tools, from Permutation Labs in Paris. Outside agents reach it through a REST API, a JavaScript SDK, a CLI and a remote MCP server with OAuth.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/dust.json", "repo": "https://github.com/dust-tt/dust", "license": "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`", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://dust.tt/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@dust-tt/client" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@dust-tt/dust-cli" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. The REST API takes a workspace API key as a Bearer token, created by an admin in the workspace under Developers, API Keys. A key can be limited to chosen spaces and given a spending cap on a rolling 30 days. The remote MCP server takes OAuth only, with dynamic client registration or a client ID metadata document, and the token works as the signed-in user. The client-side MCP server (preview) needs an OAuth personal access token. Sign-in to create a workspace is in a browser.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free seat with 500 lifetime credits. Pro is €30 a seat a month (€24 billed yearly) with 8,000 credits, Max €150 (€120 yearly) with 40,000, and Enterprise is by quote, as dust.tt/home/pricing showed our reader in euros. API and other programmatic usage has no free credits and draws only on the workspace credit pool, bought as top-ups on Business or committed on Enterprise. No price per top-up credit was found (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1482, "npmWeekly": 17225, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.dust.tt", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.dust.tt/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dust-tt/dust/refs/heads/main/front-api/public/swagger.json", "capabilities": [ "knowledge.search", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "open-source", "mit", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "typescript", "cli", "eu-region", "status-page", "soc2", "freemium" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.8, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 378, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 86, "payments": 20, "reliability": 53, "schema": 75, "security": 75, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The whole platform is MIT on GitHub, with a public OpenAPI document of 68 operations, llms.txt and a remote MCP server that acts with the signed-in user's access. API calls that run agents draw only on a paid workspace credit pool, and the terms of service could not be read.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "The platform's source is public under the MIT licence at github.com/dust-tt/dust, with commits on the day of the check", "Public OpenAPI 3.0 document with 68 operations, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each docs page", "Remote MCP server at `https://dust.tt/mcp` and `https://eu.dust.tt/mcp`, with OAuth, dynamic client registration and the signed-in user's own access", "API keys can be limited to chosen spaces and given a spending cap on a rolling 30 days", "SOC 2 Type II on the security page, a HackerOne disclosure programme, and US or EU hosting" ], "weaknesses": [ "Programmatic usage has no free credits. It draws only on the workspace credit pool, which Free seats cannot use", "Rate limits are published for document upserts and app runs only, and no Retry-After guidance was found in the docs", "The terms link redirects to a Notion site drawn by script, so the service terms, any SLA and the DPA went unread", "Audit logs are an Enterprise feature, and no security.txt is published (404)", "Two major incidents on status.dust.tt in the last 90 days, one of 2 hours 3 minutes on 16 July 2026 that covered the API" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use `https://eu.dust.tt` for a workspace in the EU region and `https://dust.tt` otherwise, for both the API and the MCP server", "Connect an MCP client by OAuth and send the `resource` parameter in authorisation and token requests. API keys do not work on the MCP server", "Expect HTTP 429 with type `rate_limit_error` when the credit pool, the programmatic monthly cap or the key's spend cap is exhausted. Retrying will not help", "Call `GET /api/v1/w/{wId}/search` with `limit` (1 to 100, default 25) and `cursor`, or a data source view's search with `top_k`", "Keep document upserts under 120 a minute per workspace" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 86, "payments": 20, "reliability": 53, "schema": 75, "security": 75, "transparency": 71 }, "provenanceScore": 64 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @dust-tt/client", "config": { "mcpServers": { "dust": { "type": "http", "url": "https://dust.tt/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/knowledge.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/dust" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Permutation Labs", "domain": "dust.tt", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://dust.tt/home/platform-privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.dust.tt", "changelog": "https://docs.dust.tt/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Platform Privacy Policy names Permutation Labs, 86 avenue de Wagram, 75017 Paris, France. It covers the platform where Dust is the data controller, not customer data Dust handles as a processor.", "No terms link is recorded. dust.tt/terms redirects (308) to a Notion site, dust-tt.notion.site, which is drawn by script and gave our reader no text, so we could not tell which document there governs the platform.", "The API and the MCP server answer on dust.tt and eu.dust.tt. OAuth for MCP is at signin.dust.tt.", "dust.tt/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The repository's SECURITY.md sends reports to dust.tt/home/vulnerability, a HackerOne programme.", "No RDAP service answers for the .tt registry, so the domain's registration date is not recorded.", "dust.tt/robots.txt returns 404. docs.dust.tt/robots.txt carries `Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes`." ], "score": 64 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.json", "live": { "slug": "dust", "probe": { "target": "https://dust.tt/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T10:42:41.938062523Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 202, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 156, "p95ms24h": 202, "samples24h": 33, "samples30d": 33, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 33, "ok": 33 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.dust.tt", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T10:41:35.388664013Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T10:42:41.938062523Z" } }, "answer": "Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Guru's 45.1 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "guru", "name": "Guru", "vendor": "Guru Technologies, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.getguru.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "company-knowledge", "summary": "Hosted knowledge platform from Guru Technologies, Inc. in Philadelphia.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/guru", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/guru.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/guru.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/guru.json", "repo": "https://github.com/guruhq/remote-mcp-server", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Guru's terms of service. The Python SDK (guruhq/guru-py-sdk) is MIT, and the MCP server's public repository holds only a README and server.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "MCP clients sign in with OAuth. Some popular clients are pre-approved and others need Guru Support to allowlist them, and no scopes are documented. Without OAuth, the MCP server takes `Authorization: Bearer EMAIL:TOKEN`. The REST API takes basic auth with the user's email and a token. User tokens read and write with the user's own permissions, and collection tokens are read-only and limited to one collection. The developer docs also have pages on OAuth2 clients and impersonation tokens.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "getguru.com/pricing shows no plans or prices and sends every visitor to sales, describing the price as tailored to the organisation. We found no free plan or trial on the pricing or home pages. The terms say AI use is subject to usage limits and overage fees set in each order (checked 2026-10-03).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the help centre MCP article or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-03).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.getguru.com/docs/guru-mcp-server-overview", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.getguru.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/guruhq/guru-py-sdk/main/swagger/swagger.json", "registryName": "com.getguru/mcp-server", "capabilities": [ "knowledge.search", "work.docs" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "official", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "enterprise", "status-page" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 45.1, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 773, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 48, "maintenance": 46, "payments": 0, "reliability": 48, "schema": 58, "security": 52, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Hosted MCP server at https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp, registered as com.getguru/mcp-server in the official MCP registry. No public prices, plans or trial, and the pricing page sends everyone to sales.", "bestFor": "Companies already running Guru that want agents to answer from verified cards with each user's permissions, and to draft card changes.", "strengths": [ "Hosted MCP server at https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp, registered as com.getguru/mcp-server in the official MCP registry", "Every MCP and API call keeps the signed-in user's Guru permissions, and collection tokens are read-only and limited to one collection", "Swagger 2.0 file of 251 operations in Guru's Python SDK repository, plus llms.txt and Markdown docs", "Atlassian Statuspage with an API component and incident history back to 2021", "SOC 2 Type II, and terms that bar training public models on customer content and delete it 90 days after termination" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public prices, plans or trial, and the pricing page sends everyone to sales", "No rate limits, 429 guidance or SLA published, and the terms sell the service as is", "The developer site lists five MCP tools while the help centre describes 14 actions, among them archive and move", "OAuth works only for clients Guru has pre-approved, and others need Guru Support to allowlist them", "No security.txt, disclosure policy or bug bounty, and the help centre's release notes stop at April 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the person for a Guru account. There's no trial or keyless route, and OAuth needs a pre-approved client", "Send `Authorization: Bearer email:token` to the MCP server when OAuth isn't available, and basic auth to https://api.getguru.com/api/v1/", "Use a collection token for read-only work. User tokens write with the user's full rights", "Follow the `Link` header to page REST search results. Each page holds at most 50 cards", "Confirm with a person before archiving or moving cards. Guru documents no confirmation step" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 45.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 48, "maintenance": 46, "payments": 0, "reliability": 48, "schema": 58, "security": 52, "transparency": 47 }, "provenanceScore": 70 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -u $GURU_USER:$GURU_TOKEN https://api.getguru.com/api/v1/teams -D -", "config": { "mcpServers": { "guru": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/knowledge.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/guru" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Guru Technologies, Inc.", "domain": "getguru.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.getguru.com/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.getguru.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.getguru.com", "changelog": "https://help.getguru.com/docs/guru-release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-03", "notes": [ "The terms (last updated 25 March 2026) name Guru Technologies, Inc., 111 S Independence Mall East, Suite 960, Philadelphia, PA 19106.", "getguru.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and the security page names no disclosure route.", "The help centre's release notes for 2026 stop at April. The developer changelog at developer.getguru.com/changelog has four undated entries." ], "score": 70 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/guru.json", "live": { "slug": "guru", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T10:42:45.149548043Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 460, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 446, "p95ms24h": 478, "samples24h": 260, "samples30d": 1524, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 54, "ok": 54 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 114, "ok": 114 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.getguru.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T10:41:42.548369336Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "com.getguru/mcp-server", "version": "1.0.2", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T02:57:46.004536428Z" } ], "githubStars": 1, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://getguru.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:59.455007434Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://developer.getguru.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:30.283727655Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "getguru.com", "registered": "2010-02-26", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/getguru.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:11.913459927Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://help.getguru.com/docs/guru-release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:49.048524265Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:09:33.549824885Z", "fingerprint": "4f82dbc5c716" }, { "url": "https://www.getguru.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:27:57.950685872Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0aedb1072851" }, { "url": "https://www.getguru.com/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:00.02915072Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "8bf342dea25e" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T10:42:45.149548043Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Permutation Labs", "b": "Guru Technologies, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://dust.tt/mcp", "b": "https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "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", "b": "Proprietary hosted service under Guru's terms of service. The Python SDK (guruhq/guru-py-sdk) is MIT, and the MCP server's public repository holds only a README and server.json", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "com.getguru/mcp-server", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-08", "b": "none", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-03-25", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2025-08-19", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "1.5k stars, 17k npm/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Guru's 45.1 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Dust or Guru?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Dust and Guru need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Dust has a hosted endpoint at https://dust.tt/mcp and Guru at https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call Dust and Guru without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Dust is open source (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`). No open-source release is listed for Guru.", "question": "Are Dust and Guru open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 53 against 48", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 58", "Agent ergonomics, 67 against 48", "Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 52", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 0", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 86 against 46", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 59" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "dust", "watchFor": "Programmatic usage has no free credits. It draws only on the workspace credit pool, which Free seats cannot use" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Companies already running Guru that want agents to answer from verified cards with each user's permissions, and to draft card changes.", "slug": "guru", "watchFor": "No public prices, plans or trial, and the pricing page sends everyone to sales" } ], "job": { "capability": "knowledge.search", "name": "Company knowledge search" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-dust.json", "title": "Alation vs Dust", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-dust" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-guru.json", "title": "Alation vs Guru", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/alation-vs-guru" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-dust.json", "title": "Atlan vs Dust", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-dust" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-guru.json", "title": "Atlan vs Guru", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlan-vs-guru" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-dust.json", "title": "Cohere North vs Dust", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-dust" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-guru.json", "title": "Cohere North vs Guru", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-north-vs-guru" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-glean.json", "title": "Dust vs Glean", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-glean" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-onyx.json", "title": "Dust vs Onyx", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-onyx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-overclock.json", "title": "Dust vs Overclock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-overclock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glean-vs-guru.json", "title": "Glean vs Guru", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glean-vs-guru" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guru-vs-onyx.json", "title": "Guru vs Onyx", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guru-vs-onyx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guru-vs-overclock.json", "title": "Guru vs Overclock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guru-vs-overclock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datahub-vs-guru.json", "title": "DataHub vs Guru", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datahub-vs-guru" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guru-vs-marmot.json", "title": "Guru vs Marmot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guru-vs-marmot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guru-vs-openmetadata.json", "title": "Guru vs OpenMetadata", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/guru-vs-openmetadata" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 5, "dust": 53, "edge": "dust", "guru": 48, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 17, "dust": 75, "edge": "dust", "guru": 58, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 19, "dust": 67, "edge": "dust", "guru": 48, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 23, "dust": 75, "edge": "dust", "guru": 52, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "dust": 20, "edge": "dust", "guru": 0, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 40, "dust": 86, "edge": "dust", "guru": 46, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 9, "dust": 68, "edge": "dust", "guru": 59, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Guru's 45.1 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do company knowledge search.", "verdicts": { "dust": "The whole platform is MIT on GitHub, with a public OpenAPI document of 68 operations, llms.txt and a remote MCP server that acts with the signed-in user's access. API calls that run agents draw only on a paid workspace credit pool, and the terms of service could not be read.", "guru": "Hosted MCP server at https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp, registered as com.getguru/mcp-server in the official MCP registry. No public prices, plans or trial, and the pricing page sends everyone to sales." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-guru", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-guru.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-guru.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dust-vs-guru.min.md" }, "markdown": "Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Guru's 45.1 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do company knowledge search.\n\n- Dust: grade B, 62.8/100, rank #378 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/dust.json\n- Guru: grade E, 45.1/100, rank #773 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/guru.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/guru.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Dust (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 53 against 48\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 58\n- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 48\n- Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 52\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 86 against 46\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 59\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Programmatic usage has no free credits. It draws only on the workspace credit pool, which Free seats cannot use\n\n### Guru (E)\n\nGood for: Companies already running Guru that want agents to answer from verified cards with each user's permissions, and to draft card changes.\n\nWatch for: No public prices, plans or trial, and the pricing page sends everyone to sales\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Dust | Guru | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 53 | 48 | Dust +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 58 | Dust +17 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 48 | Dust +19 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 52 | Dust +23 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 0 | Dust +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 86 | 46 | Dust +40 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 59 | Dust +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.8 · B** | **45.1 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Dust | Guru |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Permutation Labs | Guru Technologies, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://dust.tt/mcp` | `https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | 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` | Proprietary hosted service under Guru's terms of service. The Python SDK (guruhq/guru-py-sdk) is MIT, and the MCP server's public repository holds only a README and server.json |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `com.getguru/mcp-server` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | none |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-03-25 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-08-19 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 1.5k stars, 17k npm/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Dust.** The whole platform is MIT on GitHub, with a public OpenAPI document of 68 operations, llms.txt and a remote MCP server that acts with the signed-in user's access. API calls that run agents draw only on a paid workspace credit pool, and the terms of service could not be read.\n\n**Guru.** Hosted MCP server at https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp, registered as com.getguru/mcp-server in the official MCP registry. No public prices, plans or trial, and the pricing page sends everyone to sales.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Dust\n\n1. Use `https://eu.dust.tt` for a workspace in the EU region and `https://dust.tt` otherwise, for both the API and the MCP server\n2. Connect an MCP client by OAuth and send the `resource` parameter in authorisation and token requests. API keys do not work on the MCP server\n3. Expect HTTP 429 with type `rate_limit_error` when the credit pool, the programmatic monthly cap or the key's spend cap is exhausted. Retrying will not help\n4. Call `GET /api/v1/w/{wId}/search` with `limit` (1 to 100, default 25) and `cursor`, or a data source view's search with `top_k`\n5. Keep document upserts under 120 a minute per workspace\n\n### Guru\n\n1. Ask the person for a Guru account. There's no trial or keyless route, and OAuth needs a pre-approved client\n2. Send `Authorization: Bearer email:token` to the MCP server when OAuth isn't available, and basic auth to https://api.getguru.com/api/v1/\n3. Use a collection token for read-only work. User tokens write with the user's full rights\n4. Follow the `Link` header to page REST search results. Each page holds at most 50 cards\n5. Confirm with a person before archiving or moving cards. Guru documents no confirmation step\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Dust or Guru?\n\nDust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Guru's 45.1 (E), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do Dust and Guru need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Dust and Guru without installing anything?\n\nYes. 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