Key takeaways
  • Both connect an AI agent to your company's tools and finish real work, not just draft it.
  • Coworker's home base is its own web app and chat interface, with Slack and Microsoft Teams as connected surfaces. Its Organizational Memory (OM1) automatically builds a knowledge graph across 50+ connected tools with zero configuration. Bob has nothing equivalent.
  • Coworker prices per seat: $29.99/user/mo (Pro), $149.99/user/mo (Max), custom Enterprise. Nothing in its public docs meters or caps usage.
  • Bob's home is Slack itself, with Microsoft Teams in early access, priced by usage with a receipt on every run and a hard workspace spend cap.
  • Coworker documents VPC peering and on-premise or air-gapped deployment on its platform page; Bob offers Enterprise deployment inside your own VPC.

What Coworker is

Coworker is an enterprise AI platform built around a chat interface and a web app (app.coworker.ai), with Slack and Microsoft Teams as connected surfaces for triggers and messages. It connects to 50+ native integrations, generates artifacts (decks, docs, dashboards, financial models, branded PDFs, interactive apps), and runs code in a cloud sandbox with multi-file edits. Its defining feature is Organizational Memory (OM1): a knowledge graph built automatically, with zero configuration, across every connected tool. Pricing is per seat: Pro at $29.99/user/month, Max at $149.99/user/month, and custom Enterprise pricing that adds REST API access and dedicated implementation.

What Bob is

Bob connects to 3,200+ apps and works across them from Slack, with Microsoft Teams in early access. Every run executes in its own sandboxed cloud computer, external writes pause for an Approve/Deny button by default, and every completed task posts a compact receipt with total credits, duration, and tool-call count. Workspaces can set a hard monthly spend cap with a warning at 80%, reruns caused by Bob's mistakes are free, and Enterprise customers can deploy Bob inside their own VPC.

What Bob connects to

An AI employee is only as useful as the systems it can reach. If the work lives in a tool Bob cannot open, you are back to copying and pasting, and the whole promise collapses. So the answer has to be boring and complete: Bob reaches 3,200+ apps, and connecting one takes a sentence in Slack and a sign-in.

Ask in the channel ("connect HubSpot"), Bob posts a Connect button, you sign in once on the hosted page, and that connection is ready for every run after it. Personal tools like Gmail, Google Calendar, HubSpot, and Linear connect per person, so a request runs against your row in the CRM and your inbox, under your own role, not a shared service account's.

What your team runsApps Bob works in (examples)
CRM and pipelineHubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive
Inbox and calendarGmail, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook
Docs and spreadsheetsGoogle Sheets, Google Drive, Notion, Microsoft Excel
Tickets and projectsJira, Linear, Asana, ClickUp, monday
Support queuesZendesk, Intercom, Front
Money and billingStripe, QuickBooks, Xero
StorefrontShopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce
Code and incidentsGitHub, GitLab, Sentry
Meetings and signaturesZoom, Google Meet, Docusign, Calendly

The catalog is the shortcut, not the ceiling. If your tool is not in it, Bob can work through its API, through an MCP server, or through the same browser your team uses, and for a core internal system we can build the connection. The full list is on the integrations page.

Where Coworker is genuinely ahead

Organizational Memory is a real differentiator and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Coworker's OM1 ingests your connected tools, breaks documents and messages into atomic facts, maps people, projects, deals, and relationships across 120+ dimensions, and keeps compounding that graph as new data arrives, all with zero configuration. That is a standing, automatically maintained model of your company that a request can draw on instantly. Bob keeps workspace memory, channel memory, and per-person memory, each listable and deletable from Slack, but nothing that automatically ingests every connected tool into a single cross-app knowledge graph the way OM1 does. If what you need is a system that already understands how your deals, tickets, and docs relate to each other before you ask, that is Coworker's strength today.

Whose side is your bill on?

Coworker charges per seat: a flat fee per user per month, the same whether that person runs one agent a month or a hundred. Its public pricing page does not mention credits, usage limits, or overage charges of any kind, so a heavy user and a light user on the same plan cost the same, and there is nothing in its docs that tells either of them what a given run cost to produce. That is a legitimate way to price a product; it is also a model where a buyer cannot see cost per task at all.

Bob charges by usage instead: a receipt on every run so cost is visible the moment it happens, a hard monthly spend cap the workspace sets and Bob will not cross, and free reruns when a run failed because Bob got it wrong. The tradeoff is real too: usage pricing means Bob's bill can move with how much work you hand him, which is exactly why the receipt and the cap exist.

Side by side

Coworker doesn't price by usage, so there's no credit math to check. Its plans are a flat fee per seat, and its public docs don't mention a credit, a per-task rate, or an overage charge anywhere. That makes the "what a task costs" row below genuinely asymmetric: Coworker's answer is "whatever your seats cost," and Bob's is a number on the receipt.
What a buyer can verifyCoworkerBob
Pricing model
Per seat: Pro $29.99/user/mo (10 connectors), Max $149.99/user/mo (all connectors), custom Enterprise (all connectors, REST API access)
Choose-your-volume subscription from $99/mo; custom Enterprise
What a task actually costs
Not applicable to how Coworker prices. It charges per seat, not per task, and its pricing page does not mention credits, a per-task rate, or overage charges, so there is no published figure to convert into a cost per run
A typical interactive run is 7 to 10 credits and a scheduled one is 3 to 5. At the $99 entry rate a credit is about $0.0495, so that is roughly 35¢ to 50¢ a run, or 15¢ to 25¢ scheduled. At the 20,000-credit stop, $699, the rate improves to about $0.035 and the same run costs 24¢ to 35¢
Free trial
Not listed in public product or pricing docs reviewed August 23, 2026. The only calls to action on the pricing and home pages are "Book a demo" and "Sign in"
$100 in credits, no card; expires after 14 days
Connected apps
50+ native integrations. The Pro plan includes 10 of them; Max and Enterprise include all
3,200+ managed connectors, plus API, MCP, and browser access
Per-task cost visibility
Not listed in public product or pricing docs reviewed August 23, 2026
Compact receipt on every completed run, posted with the answer
Spend cap
Not listed in public product or pricing docs reviewed August 23, 2026. Per-seat pricing has no usage meter to cap
One hard workspace-wide monthly cap, with an 80% warning
Free reruns
Not listed in public product or pricing docs reviewed August 23, 2026
Included
Approvals before external writes
Coworker's platform page documents "configurable human-in-the-loop gates for sensitive operations" with a full audit trail, and states agents "wait for your approval before acting" on sensitive operations; whether writes are gated by default or opt-in per connector is not listed in docs reviewed August 23, 2026
Approve/Deny gate on writes by default, visible in the thread, with an Always allow that an admin can grant per tool
Bring your own model keys
Coworker's platform page states "BYOM supported out of the box" alongside VPC peering; which model providers this covers, and whether it means your own API account keys or self-hosted open-weight models, is not detailed in docs reviewed August 23, 2026
$349/mo flat: paste your own Anthropic and OpenAI keys, runs execute on your keys at your rates, credits then meter only Bob's infrastructure at a fifth of the managed rate, with 20,000 credits/mo included
Model choice
All plans include "all models," closed and open-weight, with intelligent routing across Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, and self-hosted options, 12+ providers total; a persistent personal default distinct from a workspace default is not listed in docs reviewed August 23, 2026
A default model can be set per person and per workspace, so one person can run a cheaper or stronger model than the workspace default
Whose access a run uses
Connections are OAuth-based with scoped permissions per person; Coworker's docs state agents "only access data the connected user is authorized to see." Whether a personal connection takes precedence over a shared one is not listed in docs reviewed August 23, 2026
Connections are personal: a run uses the connecting person's own access, and a personal connection takes precedence over a shared one
API and MCP
Coworker MCP is listed as included on every plan, including Pro; a broader REST API is listed as an Enterprise-only inclusion on the pricing page, not available on Pro or Max
HTTP API and MCP server on every plan, so other systems can start work and read results, not only Slack
Run it in your own VPC
Coworker's platform page states deployment options of "cloud, private cloud, on-premise, or air-gapped," with "VPC peering... supported out of the box." Which plan tier this applies to is not listed in docs reviewed August 23, 2026
Enterprise deployment inside your own VPC, custom pricing
What can start a job
A schedule ("daily briefings, weekly reports, hourly monitoring"), an event on a connected tool ("new Slack messages, Jira updates, CRM changes, or calendar events"), or a manual trigger. Whether event triggers are pushed or polled, and at what interval, is not listed in docs reviewed August 23, 2026
A mention or DM, a schedule described in plain words, an incoming webhook any system can call, or a dedicated inbound email address
Memory
Organizational Memory (OM1): an automatically built knowledge graph across 50+ connected tools and 120+ dimensions, built with zero configuration in four continuous stages and compounding over time
Workspace memory, channel memory, and per-person memory, each listable and deletable from Slack; no automatic cross-app knowledge graph
Platforms
A chat interface and web app (app.coworker.ai) as the home base, with Slack and Microsoft Teams as connected surfaces
Slack, Microsoft Teams (early access)

Which one should you pick?

Pick Coworker if…

  • You want a knowledge graph that automatically maps your company across every connected tool with zero configuration.
  • Your team's home base is a dedicated web app and chat interface, not a Slack channel.
  • Flat per-seat pricing is easier for you to budget than usage-based billing.
  • You need on-premise or air-gapped deployment and can work within an Enterprise contract.

Pick Bob if…

  • You want Slack, or Teams in early access, to be the actual place the work happens.
  • You want to see what a task cost, not just what the seat costs.
  • You want a hard workspace-wide spend cap with a warning before you hit it.
  • You want writes gated behind approval by default, not opt-in per connector.
  • You want API and MCP access without an Enterprise contract.

Either way: an AI employee that finishes the job beats a dashboard of automations you have to check on. The category is right; pick the interface, the pricing model, and the cost controls you can live with.

Switching?

Early customers switching from another AI-employee platform get the credits remaining on their existing commitment matched, and Bob performs the migration itself during onboarding: it reads your recurring tasks and playbooks and rebuilds them in your workspace.

Fair questions

Is Bob a good Coworker.ai alternative?

Yes, if you want the work to happen in Slack rather than a separate app. Coworker's home base is its own web app and chat interface, with Slack and Microsoft Teams as connected surfaces; Bob's home is Slack itself. Coworker prices per seat; Bob prices by usage with a receipt and a spend cap on every workspace.

How is Bob's pricing different from Coworker's?

Coworker charges per user per month: Pro at $29.99/user/mo with 10 connectors, Max at $149.99/user/mo with all connectors, and custom Enterprise pricing with REST API access included. Nothing in Coworker's public pricing docs meters usage, so there is no published per-task cost. Bob charges by usage from $99/month for 2,000 credits, with a compact receipt on every completed run and a hard monthly spend cap.

Does Bob build an automatic company knowledge graph like Coworker's Organizational Memory?

No, and this is a genuine gap. Coworker's Organizational Memory (OM1) automatically builds a knowledge graph across 50+ connected tools and 120+ dimensions with zero configuration, and keeps compounding as new data arrives. Bob keeps workspace, channel, and per-person memory, but nothing that automatically maps entities and relationships across every connected app the way OM1 does.

Can I switch from Coworker to Bob?

Yes, see above. Credit match on your remaining commitment for early customers, and agent-led migration of your recurring tasks.

Do Bob's credits expire?

Unused plan credits roll over one month before expiring, and one-off top-up packs never expire. Trial credits ($100 in value, no card required) last 14 days.

Coworker is a trademark of its respective owner. HeyBob and Bob are products of Tiny Cloud Ventures, which is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Coworker. This comparison is provided for informational purposes; details rechecked August 23, 2026 against Coworker’s public site.