Forgeron3 or Dust: which one for an SME?

Dust is an AI agent platform for teams that want to share agents connected to company data. Its Business offer is aimed at teams of up to 100 people. Each member gets a Free, Pro or Max seat depending on their usage, and each seat comes with a monthly allowance of credits.

Forgeron3 starts from the daily work of an SME owner or salesperson: their email, calendar, meetings and company documents. The two tools overlap on building assistants, scheduled routines and MCP connection. They differ on the number of models available, where data is hosted and how usage is counted.

Dust lets you choose the AI model agent by agent, from more than twenty models across five providers, without keeping the most capable ones for a higher tier. Its connections sync Google Drive, Notion, Confluence, Slack, GitHub, Salesforce and Zendesk, and the administrator chooses exactly which channels, folders and pages are accessible. Its pricing page highlights SOC 2 Type II certification and SSO with Okta, Entra ID and Jumpcloud. Free, Pro and Max seats can also be mixed in one workspace, so an occasional user does not cost as much as a heavy one.

Dust counts usage in credits per message. An exchange uses more or fewer credits depending on the model and tools involved, and unused credits do not roll over to the next month. With Forgeron3, each plan includes a volume of tokens per user per month. The two units do not convert into each other, so compare the price per user and what is included.

For a salesperson whose day runs between their inbox, their calendar and video calls, Forgeron3 includes meeting notes, email sorting and dashboards from the Free plan. For a product team already organised around Notion, Slack and GitHub, Dust’s library of connections covers more document sources.