--- title: "Dust (dust.tt) alternative – Open, at one flat price" description: "The open alternative to Dust (dust.tt) for teams that keep Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. A docs workspace at $79 a month, billed monthly, for up to 150 editors." --- # The open alternative to Dust for teams that already pay for Claude Your agents publish reports and specs to one workspace. Your team comments and edits on the page. Display Team costs $79 a month, billed monthly, for up to 150 editors. Viewers and commenters are free. [Start free](https://app.display.dev/) · No card required · Unlimited viewers Kestrel's Q3 churn review, a report for the revenue team, open on Display. The version history lists four versions at the same URL. Claude Code published v1 for Ana Ruiz. ChatGPT published v2 for Ben Okafor. Priya Shah edited v3 on the page. Cursor published v4 for Maya Lind. Version 4 answers Priya's comment “Can we split EMEA out?” ## Should I use Dust or Display? Use Display when your team already pays for Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor and needs one shared home for the docs those agents write. Display Team costs $79 a month, billed monthly, for up to 150 editors. Viewers and commenters are free. Agents publish HTML and Markdown files to Spaces and folders. Your team comments and edits on the page. Display includes no AI model. Use Dust when you want to build custom agents on your company data. Dust has an agent builder, managed connections to tools such as Slack, Notion and Google Drive, and a choice of models. A Dust Pro seat costs €30 a month, billed monthly, and includes AI credits. ## Dust and Display, side by side Dust builds and runs custom agents. Display holds the docs that your agents write, at one flat price. | | Dust | Display | |---|---|---| | **10 people, billed monthly** | €300 on Pro seats | $79 on Team | | **One flat price for the company** | No – Priced per seat | Yes – Up to 150 editors | | **AI model usage** | Credits with each seat | In your AI plan | | **Free viewers and commenters** | Not documented | Yes – Unlimited | | **Docs from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor** | Partly – Through Dust's MCP server | Yes – MCP, CLI or API | | **Publish an HTML or Markdown file as a page** | Not documented | Yes – Also PDF and Word | | **Comments on any line** | Not documented | Yes – On every plan | | **Version history and restore** | Not documented | Yes – From Solo | | **People outside your company** | Yes – Invite or public link | Yes – Email invite with a role | | **Edit on the page** | Yes – Text edit, draft mode | Yes – Visual and Source | | **Build custom agents** | Yes – Agent builder, 20+ models | No – Bring your agent | | **Connect company data** | Yes – Slack, Notion, Google Drive | No | | **Apps with a backend** | Yes – Frames apps | No – Planned | | **Agents in Slack and Chrome** | Yes | No | | **SOC 2 Type II** | Yes – Stated by Dust | No – Not claimed | Checked 12 November 2026. Sources: [Dust pricing](https://dust.tt/home/pricing) · [Dust seats](https://docs.dust.tt/docs/user-documentation/admins/usage-seats-and-credits/seat-management.md) · [Dust MCP Server](https://docs.dust.tt/docs/user-documentation/agents/integrations/dust-mcp-server.md) · [Dust Frames](https://docs.dust.tt/docs/user-documentation/agents/frames/overview.md) · [Dust Connections](https://docs.dust.tt/docs/user-documentation/data-sources/connections.md) · [Dust product](https://dust.tt/home/product) · [Dust changelog](https://docs.dust.tt/docs/changelog) · [Dust security](https://dust.tt/home/security) ## Edit any document in-line. Fix any line right where you read it. 1. Select Edit on the page 2. Change it on the page 3. Save – the next version at the same URL ## Share each doc and Space with the right people A doc stays private until you share it. Then choose who can open it – one doc, a folder or a whole Space. - **Private by default** – Every doc stays private until you share it with people and groups. - **One-click sign-in for colleagues** – On Solo and higher plans, colleagues use the Google or Microsoft account they already have. Readers need no seat. - **Invite people outside your company** – Invite clients and partners by email, and give each one a role: Viewer, Commenter, Contributor or Editor. They do not join your organization. - **Know who opened it** – On Team and Business, see who opened which doc, and when, before you follow up. ## Dust or Display? Choose by the job. Dust builds and runs custom agents. Display holds the docs that your agents and your team write. ### Choose Dust if - You need to build custom agents with your own instructions, skills and tools. - Your agents must read company data in tools such as Slack, Notion and Google Drive. - You need agents in Slack, in Chrome, or on a schedule. - Your buyer needs a vendor with a SOC 2 Type II certificate. ### Choose Display if - You want one flat price. Display Team costs $79 a month, billed monthly, for up to 150 editors. - Your team already pays for Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor, and needs one home for the docs those agents write. - Many people only read or comment. In Display, they are free. - You need to invite clients and partners by email and give each one a role. > “We gave it to a few people, expecting the super users who’d been asking for a publishing platform. We didn’t realize the whole business would pick it up.” > > – Rory Powell, IT and AI Ops Manager, Kogan.com **Free plan: $0.** One editor, 3 docs behind your company sign-in, unlimited public docs and 50 MB of storage. No credit card required. Viewers and Commenters are free. [Start free](https://app.display.dev/) ## A full workspace behind every URL ### Spaces and folders A Space for every team, with folders inside and its own permissions. ### Search everything you can open You and your agents can search every doc you can open. ### Work across every agent and plan Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, on personal or company plans. One doc, one URL. ### Build internal apps (private beta) Develop applications that pull data from your sources. ### Connect your data sources (private beta) Pull data from the sources your team already uses. ## Questions about Display and Dust ### How does the price compare? Display Team costs $79 a month for up to 150 Editors and Contributors. Viewers and Commenters are free. A Dust Pro seat costs €30 a month and includes 8,000 AI credits a month. Dust also has a Free seat with 500 credits, one time. The two prices are billed monthly and are without VAT. Display includes no AI model, so you continue to pay for the AI plan you have. ### We already pay for Dust. Why add Display? Dust and Display do different jobs. Dust builds and runs agents. Display holds the docs from the other agents that your team uses, in Spaces and folders. Your team comments and edits on the page. The people you invite open a doc without a seat. ### Which agents work with Display? Any agent that writes HTML or Markdown, for example Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor. Agents connect through the Display MCP server, the CLI or the API. Each person can use a different agent on the same doc. ### Can clients and partners open a doc? Yes. Invite them by email to a doc or a folder, and give them a role: Viewer, Commenter, Contributor or Editor. They sign in with a one-time password, Google or Microsoft. They do not join your organization. Dust also shares a Frame by invite or by public link. ### Does Display build agents like Dust? No. Display does not build or run agents. Your team keeps the agents it has, for example Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor. Those agents publish docs to Display through the Display MCP server, the CLI or the API. If you need custom agents on your company data, choose Dust. ### Does Display connect to Slack, Notion or Google Drive? No. Display search finds the files that are in Display, for people and for agents. Dust has managed connections to tools such as Slack, Notion and Google Drive. If your agents must read those tools, choose Dust. ### Does Display have something like Dust Frames? Display publishes the HTML pages that your agents write, for example reports, dashboards and prototypes. Each page has one URL, comments and versions. A Dust Frame can also be an app with a backend. Display does not run server-side code, and apps with a backend are Planned. Read the full comparison on [the Dust Frames page](/dust-frames-alternative). ### Is Display open source? No. “Open” means three things. Any agent can publish to Display. Anyone you choose can open a doc without a seat. You can download the source file of any doc at any time. ## Give the agents you already have one place to publish Display works with Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, ChatGPT and any other agent that writes HTML or Markdown. The Free plan costs $0. [Start free](https://app.display.dev/) · No card required · Unlimited viewers