# Dust vs Overclock (slim)

> Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Overclock's 7.5 (F), 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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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Overclock's 7.5 (F), 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
- Overclock: F 7.5, rank #841 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/overclock.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 10; Schema & documentation, 75 against 0; Agent ergonomics, 67 against 5; Security & auth, 75 against 10; Payments & pricing, 20 against 0; Maintenance & community, 86 against 0; Transparency & trust, 68 against 34. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Open source.
- Overclock, good for Built for a company that wants cited answers over its own Drive, SharePoint and similar stores, through a chat app or an agent over MCP, without loading a corpus by hand.

| Category | Dust | Overclock |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 53 | 10 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 75 | 0 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 5 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 75 | 10 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 86 | 0 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 34 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Dust | Overclock |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |
| Vendor | Permutation Labs | Overclock |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://dust.tt/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| 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. No terms of service published |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | none |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-09-20 |
| Popularity | 1.5k stars, 17k npm/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 1/5 (2) |