Best Town AI alternatives in 2026
Adapt is the strongest Town alternative for agents that serve a company, not an inbox, with no seat fees and self-hosting from January 2027.
Why do teams look beyond Town?
1 person
Town is built around one person’s assistant; pooled credits need a paid plan.
Adapt: Agents for every team
Source: town.com
$0.030+
Per credit once a paid plan’s monthly allotment runs out.
Adapt: Published usage rates
Source: town.com
Cloud
No self-hosted option is listed; Town runs in the US on Convex and AWS.
Adapt: Self-host from January 4, 2027
Source: town.com
Why choose Adapt over Town?
Built for the company
Every team’s agents share company memory, so work moves across teams.
Pricing you can forecast
No seat fee, just metered usage, against $59 per seat on Town’s Team plan.
Self-host or use your cloud
MIT licensed and free to self-host from January 4, 2027, or we run it for you.
- Pricing
- Adapt Cloud: no platform or seat fee, just usage at published rates, with 0% markup on your own model keys. Open source: free to self-host from January 4, 2027. Enterprise: an implementation fee plus an annual fee.
- Where it runs
- Run on Adapt Cloud, self-host the MIT-licensed company agent from January 4, 2027, or have AI Transformation Services run it in your VPC or on-prem.
Sources: adapt.com/pricing, adapt.com/product/overview#waitlist, adapt.com/services
What are the other Town alternatives?
Lindy
An AI assistant platform that connects to a company’s tools and runs agents for email, meetings and business workflows.
- Best for
- Small teams that want ready-made assistant agents and one shared pool of credits.
- Pricing
- Team from $49.99 per active user per month for 5,000 pooled credits, with top-ups at $10 per 1,000 credits; $50 of free credits for 7 days.
- Trade-off
- Every active user in the workspace is billed, so cost grows with headcount as well as usage.
Source: lindy.ai
ChatGPT Business
OpenAI’s workspace plan for ChatGPT, with agent mode, connectors to work apps and Codex.
- Best for
- Companies that already use ChatGPT and want one managed workspace with admin controls.
- Pricing
- Standard seats $20 per user per month billed annually ($25 monthly); Premium seats $100 billed annually ($125 monthly); for teams of 2–200.
- Trade-off
- Standard seats carry a five-hour usage limit; Premium seats remove it and add more usage.
Source: openai.com
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft’s AI assistant add-on that works across Outlook, Teams and the rest of Microsoft 365.
- Best for
- Companies standardised on Microsoft 365 that want an assistant inside the email and calendar they already use.
- Pricing
- $30 per user per month, paid yearly, on top of a qualifying Microsoft 365 plan.
- Trade-off
- It requires a separate qualifying Microsoft 365 license, and external data sources come in through Copilot connectors.
Source: microsoft.com
Viktor
An AI coworker that works inside Slack, taking requests and running recurring tasks for the whole workspace.
- Best for
- Slack-first teams that want one shared coworker instead of a seat per person.
- Pricing
- Team plan $100 per month for 40,000 credits for the whole workspace, not per seat; up to $100 of free credits to start.
- Trade-off
- A quick Slack question uses 50 to 100 credits, but a deep research report or multi-step task can use 500 to 2,000.
Source: viktor.com
Dust
A workspace for building AI agents and assistants grounded in company data and tools.
- Best for
- Teams of up to about 100 people who want shared agents over company knowledge, with per-seat admin controls.
- Pricing
- Free €0 (500 lifetime credits); Pro €24 per seat per month billed yearly; Max €120 per seat per month billed yearly; Enterprise custom.
- Trade-off
- The Business plan is positioned for teams up to 100 people; Enterprise is priced through sales.
Source: dust.tt
Google Gemini Enterprise
Google Cloud’s enterprise app for chat, search and agents grounded in company data.
- Best for
- Companies on Google Workspace that want a packaged employee agent with connectors to Gmail, Calendar and Microsoft 365.
- Pricing
- Business edition from $21 per seat per month.
- Trade-off
- The $21 Business edition is limited to 1–500 users.
Sources: cloud.google.com, docs.cloud.google.com
Questions
Adapt, for agents that serve the whole company rather than one person. Lindy and ChatGPT Business are the closest per-person assistants, Microsoft 365 Copilot fits Outlook and Teams, and Viktor suits Slack-first teams.
Both, but it starts with the individual, on plans from Free to $199 a month. A free team shares integrations, routines and skills; pooled credits start at $59 per seat per month, billed annually.
Town’s Team plan is $59 per seat per month, billed annually, with 6,000 pooled credits per seat. Adapt Cloud has no seat fee, just metered usage with 0% markup on your own model keys.
Yes: Adapt’s company agent is MIT licensed and free to self-host from January 4, 2027. No self-hosted option is listed for Town, Lindy, Viktor or Dust.