All comparisonsChecked November 13, 2026
Brigade vs Claude Duet
Claude Duet is one proactive agent for one person. Brigade gives your whole company a team: several teammates at once, each with its own job, Apps and memory, your colleagues in the same threads, and every decision in one shared list. Brigade runs Claude through the official Claude Code and GPT through Codex, so you pick a model per teammate; its teammates write, test and ship code with pull requests; and anyone can start today, not only by waitlist in the US.
Side by side
| Feature | Brigade | Claude Duet |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An open-source app that gives your company a team of AI teammates, each one the official Claude Code or Codex with a job, its own computer, the Apps you give it and a shared memory. | A proactive agent for one person, in one ongoing conversation, with its own cloud computer. |
| Availability | Open to everyone: sign up and start today. | A research preview by waitlist, starting with US Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers. |
| AI models | Claude through Claude Code and GPT through Codex, side by side; a model per teammate. | Claude Opus 5.5 only; you can’t choose a model. |
| Who pays for AI | Your own Claude or ChatGPT plan. Brigade never bills you for AI usage. | Included in your Claude plan, sharing its usage limits. |
| Your team | Invite your team: threads, lists and files are shared, and each teammate holds one job. | Built for one person; Claude’s Team and Enterprise plans aren’t included yet. |
| How you stay in control | For each teammate, you choose whether its writes to Apps (an email through Gmail, a change in Stripe, a merge on GitHub) go on their own or wait for your yes, and each mailbox can be set to approve every email. Every request lands in one Needs you list, also on your phone. Commands and files on its own computer don’t ask. | Asks before it sends messages, pays, signs or deletes anything, in its own app. |
| Code | Teammates write, test and ship code, with pull requests and previews. | Builds prototypes, dashboards and web apps; no code workflow described. |
| Open source | Yes, MIT. You can read every line and host it yourself. | No. |
Which one is for you
Pick Brigade if
- You want a team for your company: several teammates, each with its own job, and your colleagues in the same threads.
- You want ChatGPT as well as Claude, with a model per teammate.
- You want code written, tested and shipped through pull requests.
- You want to start today, wherever you are, and read the code.
Pick Claude Duet if
- You are in the US on a Claude plan and want one proactive assistant for your own work.
What Claude Duet is
Claude Duet is an Anthropic app, released as a research preview on October 21, 2026, where Claude works as a proactive agent: it brings you what needs your attention, does tasks on its own cloud computer, sends a morning brief, and asks before it sends messages, pays, signs or deletes anything. It runs on Claude Opus 5.5, is included in Claude’s Pro, Max and Ultra plans, and opened by waitlist to US subscribers, on iOS, Android and claude.ai.
Meet your AI teammates
Start free on your own computer. Brigade runs on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for.
Sources, checked on November 13, 2026
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