# Dust vs Guru (slim)

> 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- Dust: B 62.8, rank #378 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dust.min.md
- Guru: E 45.1, rank #773 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/guru.min.md
- 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 48; Schema & documentation, 75 against 58; Agent ergonomics, 67 against 48; Security & auth, 75 against 52; Payments & pricing, 20 against 0; Maintenance & community, 86 against 46; Transparency & trust, 68 against 59. Also Open source.
- Guru, good for Companies already running Guru that want agents to answer from verified cards with each user's permissions, and to draft card changes.

| Category | Dust | Guru |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 53 | 48 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 75 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 48 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 75 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 86 | 46 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 59 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Dust | Guru |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Permutation Labs | Guru Technologies, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://dust.tt/mcp` | `https://mcp.api.getguru.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| 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 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.getguru/mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | none |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-03-25 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-08-19 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 1.5k stars, 17k npm/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (2) |