All comparisonsChecked November 13, 2026
Brigade vs OpenAI dots
A dot is one always-on agent per person, inside ChatGPT. Brigade gives your 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 Codex on your ChatGPT plan and Claude Code on your Claude plan, side by side, so you pick a model per teammate. It is free on your own computer, and open source.
Side by side
| Feature | Brigade | OpenAI dots |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | An always-on agent inside ChatGPT, one per person, with its own cloud computer. |
| AI models | Claude through Claude Code and GPT through Codex, side by side; a model per teammate. | OpenAI’s GPT-6 models only. |
| Who pays for AI | Your own Claude or ChatGPT plan. Brigade never bills you for AI usage. | Included in ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium; Enterprise and Edu are billed for it from November 18, 2026. |
| Availability | Sign up and start today, in Europe too. | On Pro, rolling out outside the EEA, Switzerland and the UK. |
| Your team | Several teammates with their own jobs, and your colleagues in the same threads, lists and files. | One personal dot per member; specialist dots for organizations are in enterprise pilots. |
| Code | Teammates write, test and ship code, with pull requests and previews. | Yes: it builds and tests fixes, brings back pull requests and can start Codex tasks. |
| 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. | Rules for when it acts alone, asks first or hands off to you; purchases need approval. |
| Where you talk to it | Brigade’s own app (web, or installed on your phone with push notifications), and with Cloud an email address per teammate. | ChatGPT on desktop, web and mobile, Slack and Teams. |
| 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, not one agent per person.
- You want Claude as well as GPT, with a model per teammate.
- You want to start free on your own computer, or you are in the EU or the UK on a personal plan.
- You want to read the code, or host it yourself.
Pick OpenAI dots if
- You pay for ChatGPT Pro where dots are offered, and want one always-on agent inside ChatGPT, Slack and Teams.
What OpenAI dots is
dots are OpenAI’s always-on agents inside ChatGPT, announced on September 29, 2026. Each dot has its own cloud computer and browser, learns from feedback, runs scheduled checks, can build and test fixes and bring back pull requests, and works in ChatGPT, Slack and Teams. Each member gets one personal dot with ChatGPT Pro (rolling out outside the EEA, Switzerland and the UK) or Business Premium, and with Enterprise and Edu plans. It runs on OpenAI’s GPT-6 models.
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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