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OpenAI dots, introduced on 29 September 2026, gives a ChatGPT Pro or Business Premium user an always‑on agent with its own cloud computer, reached in ChatGPT, Slack and Teams. afka is one AI employee the whole workspace hires: in six team chats, by email and on the phone, in your Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls, and in your sales demos, priced per workspace with unlimited seats. This page compares who the AI works for, where you reach it, meetings, tools, approvals, the record of the work, the model and price.
Last verified 4 October 2026, against OpenAI's announcement of dots.
OpenAI describes dots as always‑on agents that work toward your goals around the clock, each with its own cloud computer and browser and the apps you connect, learning your preferences as you work together. The first dot is included in a ChatGPT Pro or Business Premium plan.
Choose dots when one person wants a personal agent with a computer of its own, inside ChatGPT.
afka is one AI employee that the whole company hires. Every member reaches it in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Zoom Team Chat, Discord or ClickUp, by email or in the Talk app; it joins calls on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, runs sales demos, and does support, sales, recruiting, e‑commerce and operations work in the tools the team already pays for.
Choose afka when a team wants one AI everyone can hand work to, with the company's memory and a record of every action.
Last verified 4 October 2026, against OpenAI's announcement of dots.
| Topic | afka | OpenAI dots |
|---|---|---|
| Who it works for | The whole workspace. Every member hands work to the same afka, and what afka learns becomes the company's memory. | One person. OpenAI includes the first dot in a Pro or Business Premium plan, and a dot learns the preferences of the person who uses it. |
| Where you talk to it | Six team chats: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Zoom Team Chat, Discord and ClickUp, plus email, the web dashboard and the Talk app. | ChatGPT on desktop, web and mobile, plus Slack and Teams. Texting is announced for later. |
| Voice | Talk: a live call with afka from your phone, in your own language, and the work lands in the channel you named. | Voice calls with your dot in ChatGPT. |
| Meetings | A meeting agent that joins calls on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams and does what the call agreed. | Not described in OpenAI's announcement. |
| Sales demos | A demo agent that runs booked demos of your product and follows up until the lead decides. | Not described in OpenAI's announcement. |
| Where the work runs | The afka platform, with sandboxed execution and connections to your tools. | A cloud computer and browser of its own, for each dot. |
| How it reaches your tools | Connections the person who owns each tool makes once. Thousands of tools through managed connectors. | Over 4,000 apps through OpenAI plugins. |
| Approvals | Auto by default: afka does the work and asks a person before money goes back to a customer or a decision against a person. Review asks before every external action. | Custom Rules allow an action, require approval or block it; an auto‑review checks consequential actions; a password change always stays with you. |
| Record of the work | An append‑only audit log on every plan: who asked, what afka did, what it touched and what it cost. | Activity View, where you follow a dot's progress, including background work, and redirect it. |
| The model | The workspace picks the model on afka's Models page, from several AI providers, and new models appear as they ship. | GPT‑6 Astra. |
| Price | Per workspace with unlimited seats: Team at $50 a month, Pro at $500 a month. A new workspace starts free with 10,000 credits and no card. | The first dot is included in a ChatGPT Pro or Business Premium plan. More dots and more capacity per dot are announced for later. |
| Availability | Open to every workspace today. Single sign‑on on Scale and Enterprise, a DPA, SOC 2 in progress. | Rolling out to Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets. Enterprise, Edu and Healthcare can try a beta once an admin enables it. |
Every member hands work to the same afka, and what one person teaches it, the whole team gets. OpenAI describes a dot as a personal agent that learns how its person thinks, included one per Pro or Business Premium plan.
afka joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls and does what was agreed, and its demo agent runs booked product demos. OpenAI's announcement describes voice calls with your dot, not joining meetings or running demos.
afka is priced per workspace with unlimited seats, so the tenth teammate, or the fiftieth driver, costs nothing extra. A dot comes with a Pro or Business Premium plan, which is bought per person.
A dot is a personal agent: OpenAI includes the first dot in a Pro or Business Premium plan, and it learns the preferences of the person who uses it. afka is one AI employee that the whole workspace hires: every member reaches the same afka in six team chats, by email and in the Talk app, and afka keeps the memory of the company, not of one person. afka also joins meetings on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, runs sales demos, and keeps an audit log on every plan.
Yes. OpenAI says you can message your dot in Slack and Teams, besides ChatGPT, and that texting will follow. afka works in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Zoom Team Chat, Discord and ClickUp, by email and in the Talk app, and answers in the thread where a person asked.
OpenAI's announcement does not describe dots joining meetings; it describes voice calls with your dot. afka has a meeting agent that joins calls on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, answers out loud when asked, and does what the call agreed afterwards.
dots is the better choice for some work, and this page says so plainly. The four cases below come from OpenAI's own announcement.
OpenAI says each dot has its own cloud computer and browser, kept apart from your own computer unless you connect it. For work that lives in websites with no integration, that is a real advantage.
Your dot lives in ChatGPT on desktop, web and mobile, and conversations with it do not count toward ChatGPT usage limits, according to OpenAI.
dots runs on GPT‑6 Astra. afka lets each workspace choose its model from several providers, OpenAI among them.
The first dot is included in ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium at no extra cost, so a person on those plans can start without a new purchase.
dots is an always‑on agent from OpenAI, introduced on 29 September 2026. OpenAI says each dot is powered by GPT‑6 Astra and has its own cloud computer and browser, works toward your goals around the clock with the apps you connect, and learns your preferences over time. You reach your dot in ChatGPT on desktop, web and mobile, and in Slack and Teams, with texting announced for later.
A dot is a personal agent: OpenAI includes the first dot in a Pro or Business Premium plan, and it learns the preferences of the person who uses it. afka is one AI employee that the whole workspace hires: every member reaches the same afka in six team chats, by email and in the Talk app, and afka keeps the memory of the company, not of one person. afka also joins meetings on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, runs sales demos, and keeps an audit log on every plan.
Yes. OpenAI says you can message your dot in Slack and Teams, besides ChatGPT, and that texting will follow. afka works in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Zoom Team Chat, Discord and ClickUp, by email and in the Talk app, and answers in the thread where a person asked.
OpenAI's announcement does not describe dots joining meetings; it describes voice calls with your dot. afka has a meeting agent that joins calls on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, answers out loud when asked, and does what the call agreed afterwards.
OpenAI says the first dot is included in a ChatGPT Pro or Business Premium plan at no extra cost, and that more dots and more capacity per dot will be offered later. afka is priced per workspace with unlimited seats: Team at $50 a month and Pro at $500 a month, and a new workspace starts free with 10,000 credits and no card.
Yes, both can. OpenAI describes Custom Rules that allow an action, require approval or block it, an auto‑review that checks consequential actions against your instructions, and sensitive steps such as changing a password that always stay with you. afka works on its own in Auto and always asks a person before money goes back to a customer or before a decision against a person; in Review it asks before every external action. Every afka action is written to an append‑only audit log.
OpenAI says dots is rolling out to Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets, and that Enterprise, Edu and Healthcare users can try the beta when their workspace admin enables it. afka is available to every workspace today, with single sign‑on on the Scale and Enterprise plans and a DPA; SOC 2 for afka is in progress.
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