Spinrun

Spinrun vs Dust

Dust gives each person agents that know your company’s documents, priced per seat and in credits. Spinrun gives your team agents that run the work on their own, on a private machine, on the AI plan or key you bring.

Last reviewed , against each product’s public pricing and docs.

The short answer

Pick Dust when the job is answering from company knowledge across Notion, Drive and Slack, for a large team that needs SSO, SOC 2 Type II and EU or US hosting. Pick Spinrun when agents should run operations on their own, on a schedule or a webhook, across 3,000+ apps, with every run visible to the whole team.

Choose Dust if

  • The main job is search and answers across your company’s documents
  • You need EU data residency, SSO and SOC 2 Type II today
  • You are rolling out one assistant to a whole company

Choose Spinrun if

  • Agents should act on a schedule, and the whole team should see the runs
  • You need more than 3 connectors without an enterprise contract
  • Automated runs should not be metered per credit
  • You do not want to pay for the colleague who only answers an agent twice a week

Side by side

Spinrun vs Dust at a glance.

Dust answers from your company’s documents, priced per seat. Spinrun agents do the recurring work for the whole team.

Price for a team of three
€24 a seat each month billed yearly, or €30 monthly: €72 to €90, before VAT.
$29 a month for the three of you, with unlimited agents.
Adding a teammate
Everyone who uses it is a paid seat with its own credit allowance, and credits do not roll over.
Seats are free and unlimited: the teammate who approves an agent’s email costs nothing.
Automated use
Usage nobody types, like an API call or a trigger run, is billed at $0.01 a credit, against your credits or the workspace’s.
Scheduled and webhook runs cost nothing extra on Spinrun’s side.
Apps on the self-serve plan
Up to 3 data connectors and 5 remote MCP servers.
All 3,000+ apps and any MCP server, on every plan.
Scheduled runs
“Triggers belong to the member who created them”: the run lands in that person’s history unless they file it in a Pod, and a webhook trigger fires 42 times a day at most.
Every routine of every agent sits in one Routines list the workspace shares, with its next run, and any teammate can answer the agent.
The AI behind it
20+ models, billed in Dust credits per message.
Run on the Spinrun model included in the plan, sign in with the ChatGPT or Claude plan you already pay for, or bring an API key.

Key differences

Where Spinrun and Dust part ways.

Four differences that change your day to day, shown on the real product.

Automation is not metered

Automate a task

Dust bills usage nobody types, like an API call or a trigger run, at $0.01 a credit, and a webhook trigger fires 42 times a day at most. On Spinrun, a schedule can fire every minute and webhook runs are not metered by Spinrun.

listening
running

A payment just failed

Margo is chasing it

done

New email from a lead

Jules is drafting a reply

done

Every morning at 7:00

Sam sorted your inbox

Every app on every plan

Connect your stack

Dust’s self-serve plan connects up to 3 data sources and 5 remote MCP servers. Every Spinrun plan reaches 3,000+ apps, a sign-in for Gmail, Drive, Notion or Stripe and a token for the rest, plus any MCP server.

Runs the whole team can see

Set up approvals

On Dust, “triggers belong to the member who created them” and the run lands in that person’s history unless they file the conversation in a Pod. On Spinrun, every routine of every agent sits in one Routines list the workspace shares, with its next run, and any teammate can answer an agent that stops to ask.

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Margo · Invoice Chasing
Two invoices at acme.com are 20 days overdue. How should I chase them?
1
Send a firm reminder to billing@acme.com
2
Call their AP contact first
3
Escalate to the account owner
Something else

Seats are free, and the knowledge is shared

See how it learns

Dust prices every person who uses it, each with their own credit allowance that does not roll over. On Spinrun, your whole team joins the workspace, and every agent reads the same company brain, which holds your offer, your prices, your market and your tone, next to its own memory and files.

Invoice chasingChase overdue invoices without burning the client.skill

## Procedure

1. Pull unpaid invoices from Stripe daily

2. Send a first reminder on day 7 past due

3. Escalate to the account owner after 2 tries

4. Log every touch in the CRM thread

## Exceptions

- Never chase an invoice under $50

- Read references/tone.md before escalating

3files
Acme CorpWhat the coworker knows about the account.context

## Billing

- Pays around day 30, sometimes later

- A PO number is required on every invoice

- Invoices go to ap@acme.co, not to Dana

## People

- Dana Reyes runs ops, answers within a day

- Escalations go through their COO

74%
Email toneHow the user wants leads written to.preference

## Voice

- English, formal, no emoji

- Sign off as the founder, not an assistant

- Keep it under 120 words

## Timing

- Follow up twice, then stop

- Send whenever the draft is ready

44%

Switching

Move from Dust in three steps.

No migration project. Start with the one task that costs you the most, and let it prove itself.

Step 01
Chase invoicesEvery Monday
Reply to leadsOn every new email
Find 20 new leadsEvery day, 8:00

Pick the agent your team triggers most

Describe its job in plain words, or install a ready-made agent that already does it.

Step 02

Connect the same sources

Notion, Drive, Gmail and 3,000+ more apps, with no connector cap and no credit meter on top.

Step 03
This morning07:00
  • Sort the inbox07:04
  • Chase 2 invoices07:09
  • Write the weekly reportRunning

Put it on a schedule and invite everyone

Set a schedule or a webhook, then invite the whole team at no extra cost to watch the runs and answer the agent.

Pricing

What you actually pay.

Dust prices each seat: Pro is €24 a month billed yearly or €30 monthly with 8,000 credits, Max €120 or €150 with 40,000, before VAT, and a free seat gets 500 credits once. Credits do not roll over, automated use is billed at $0.01 a credit, and the self-serve plan connects up to 3 data sources and 5 remote MCP servers.

Spinrun

Everything you need to put Coworkers to work

From$29/month

Add Coworkers or credits whenever you need them.

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Included
  • Unlimited Coworkers

    As many Coworkers as you need, running side by side, each with its own job and tools.

  • Your own machine

    A private computer in the cloud where every Coworker of your workspace lives, shares its files and its data. Only yours.

  • Unlimited seats

    Your whole team on the same workspace, with no per-seat fee.

Also included
  • Bring your own AI

    Optional: your own key, subscription or local model.

  • 3,000+ apps

    All your tools ready to connect, plus any MCP or API.

  • Delegate any task

    Hand off the busywork. Your Coworkers run it around the clock.

  • Invite your teammates

    Share your workspace and build your Coworkers together.

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AI agents for one operator and their clients

Twin is flat-priced too, but the browser agent and the lead data sit on its $149 plan, and the people you invite are clients, not teammates.

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Spinrun vs Squad

AI teammates on the AI plan you bring

Squad is $99 a month on top of the AI plan you bring. Spinrun has agents ready to install and runs on the AI plan or key you bring.

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Spinrun vs Claude Cowork

Claude’s agent for tasks, now built into Claude

Claude takes on the tasks you hand it, on Claude models. Spinrun runs your recurring work with a team of agents, on any model, your Claude plan included.

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Spinrun vs Manus

General AI agent with its own computer

Manus delivers one-off research, slides and sites. Spinrun runs your recurring work every day.

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Spinrun vs Grok Bot

Always-on agents from xAI

Grok Bot comes inside SuperGrok and Cursor plans, in beta. Spinrun is a plan of its own, with agents ready to install on the model you choose.

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Spinrun vs Paperclip

Open-source org chart for AI agents

Paperclip gives the agents you already run an org chart, budgets and approval gates, on a server you host. Spinrun gives you the agents themselves, already running on a machine we keep up.

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Spinrun vs Hermes Agent

Self-improving open-source agent

Hermes is one agent you install and run, or host on Hermes Cloud by the day. Spinrun gives you a team of agents already doing the job, on one machine included in the plan.

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Spinrun vs OpenClaw

Open-source personal AI assistant

OpenClaw is an assistant you install, host and secure, and its foundation sells nothing. Spinrun agents do the same jobs from an isolated machine we run for you.

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Spinrun vs Zapier

App-to-app automation

A Zap moves data between apps. A Spinrun agent sorts the inbox, answers the lead and chases the invoice.

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Spinrun vs Make

Visual automation scenarios

A Make scenario passes data from module to module. A Spinrun agent answers the lead, chases the invoice and learns from your corrections.

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Spinrun vs n8n

Workflow automation, self-hosted or cloud

n8n gives engineers workflows to build and host. Spinrun gives your team agents that answer leads and chase invoices, with nothing to host.

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FAQ

Spinrun vs Dust, your questions.

Is Spinrun a Dust alternative?

For teams that want agents to run work on their own, yes. Dust is strongest at answering from company knowledge in conversations. Spinrun agents run on a schedule or a webhook, across 3,000+ apps, on a private machine.

Does Spinrun charge per seat like Dust?

No. Your whole team can join a Spinrun workspace, and there is no per-person credit allowance to watch. Agents run on the AI plan or API key you connect.

Can Spinrun search our company documents like Dust?

Agents read Notion, Google Drive, Gmail and other apps through their connections, and the workspace keeps a company brain every agent reads, with the pages you validated about your business. For company-wide search across every document, with permissions, Dust is purpose-built.

How often can a Spinrun agent run?

As often as the work needs: a schedule can fire every minute, and webhooks are not capped. Dust’s webhook triggers run at most 42 times per 24 hours by default.

Hire Coworkers on the ChatGPT plan you already pay for.

  • 1. Plug in your subscription
  • 2. Set up your Coworkers
  • 3. Run your business with Coworkers