7 Best Stilla Alternatives in 2026
Stilla is joining Meta. It says service continues, and its team now works on Meta’s business messaging agent.
If your team runs real work through Stilla, it is worth knowing where you would go next. Here are seven alternatives, by the job you use Stilla for.
The quick answer: Carly is the best Stilla alternative for the operations side of a team: the follow-ups, the meeting prep, the triage and the status posts. It works inside your email and calendar, runs workflows that start on Slack messages, GitHub issues and meeting recordings, and connects to thousands of apps. Free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month. Get started here.
Quick comparison
| Alternative | Best for | Where it works | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carly | Team workflows, email, calendar and agents | Email, text, web, Slack, Teams, ChatGPT, Claude | Free workflows; agents from $35/mo |
| Viktor | An AI coworker the whole team tags | Slack, Teams | $100 free credits; Team from $50/mo |
| Dust | Custom agents for teams up to 100 | Dust app, Slack, API | Free tier; Pro $30/seat/mo |
| Claude Tag | Claude as a member of your Slack | Slack | Claude Team or Enterprise plan |
| ChatGPT Work | Teams already paying for ChatGPT | ChatGPT | Included in paid plans |
| Granola | Meeting notes with no bot on the call | Desktop app | Free; Business $14/user/mo |
| Devin | A coding agent you tag in Slack or Linear | Slack, Teams, Linear, web | Pro $20/mo; Teams $80/mo + $40/seat |
1. Carly: the operations alternative
Carly is an AI assistant and agent builder for the work that surrounds a team’s real output: the inbox, the calendar, the CRM and the hundred small handoffs between them.
Connect your Google or Microsoft accounts and Carly triages email, drafts replies in your voice and sends them from your address. It finds times, sends invites and moves meetings across everyone’s calendars. It updates the deal, files the document and creates the task without a second instruction.
Where Carly replaces most of a Stilla setup is workflows. They start on their own:
- Slack: someone posts in a channel and Carly answers in the thread, or a brief for your next meeting lands in Slack before it starts
- GitHub: a pull request opens and Carly leaves a first-pass review, or an issue opens and Carly suggests a label, priority and owner
- Meetings: a Zoom recording finishes and the action items become Linear tickets, or your Granola and Fathom notes land on each attendee’s record in the Carly CRM
- Everything else: an email from a key account, a form submission, an uptime alert, a Monday at 8am
The agents you build run those workflows for the whole team, and Carly connects to thousands of apps, from HubSpot and Salesforce to Slack, Linear and GitHub. You can also text Carly, email it, or use it from ChatGPT with the Carly plugin and from Claude with the Carly connector.
- Best for: teams who want email, calendar, CRM and cross-app follow-through handled in their own accounts
- Pricing: free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month
- Limitations: for code changes that end in a merged PR, pair Carly with a coding agent like Devin; Carly handles the review, triage and status around it
2. Viktor
Viktor is the closest like-for-like replacement: an AI coworker that lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams, works across more than 3,200 tools and writes code on its own cloud computer to finish a task. Credits are shared across the workspace and unused credits roll over.
- Best for: teams who want one shared agent everyone tags in chat
- Pricing: free to start with up to $100 in credits; Team from $50 a month for 20,000 credits, $100 for 40,000
- Limitations: heavy tasks burn credits fast, and the home is a chat thread, not the inbox where clients and vendors reach you
3. Dust
Dust lets a team build its own agents with its own knowledge and tools, then run them from the Dust app, Slack or the API. Agents can run on schedules and triggers, and Dust supports US and EU data residency.
- Best for: teams of up to 100 that want to design several specialist agents
- Pricing: free tier with 500 credits; Pro $30 per seat a month ($24 billed yearly); Max $150 ($120 yearly)
- Limitations: per-seat pricing adds up across a company, and someone has to design and maintain the agents
4. Claude Tag
Claude Tag is Anthropic’s Slack teammate. Colleagues tag @Claude in a channel and it works the task with its own memory of the channels it sits in and the tools your admin has granted.
- Best for: companies already on a Claude Team or Enterprise plan
- Pricing: included with Claude Team and Enterprise, metered as token spend
- Limitations: in beta for Team and Enterprise only, and it lives in Slack, so nobody outside your workspace can hand it work
5. ChatGPT Work
ChatGPT Work is OpenAI’s agent for multi-step work inside ChatGPT. It connects to company apps, runs scheduled tasks, and can start from events in Gmail, Slack, GitHub and other supported plugins.
- Best for: teams already paying for ChatGPT that want one place for chat and agents
- Pricing: included in paid ChatGPT plans and metered against them; Business is billed per seat
- Limitations: work starts inside ChatGPT, so there is no shared teammate the way Stilla is. See ChatGPT Work alternatives.
6. Granola
Granola is the pick if Stilla’s meeting notes were the part you used most. It records from your device audio with no bot on the call, writes notes you can edit, and shares them in team folders.
- Best for: teams who want botless meeting notes and nothing else
- Pricing: free Basic plan with a 30-day history window; Business $14 per user a month; Enterprise from $35
- Limitations: notes, not actions. Connect Granola to Carly by MCP and the notes turn into follow-ups and CRM records.
7. Devin
Devin is the coding agent from Cognition. Tag @Devin in Slack, Teams or a Linear issue and it reads the thread, writes the code and opens the pull request, which covers Stilla’s coding agent.
- Best for: engineering teams with a backlog of well-defined tickets
- Pricing: Pro $20 a month; Teams $80 a month plus $40 per full seat
- Limitations: code only. The meeting, email and status work around the code needs something else.
How to choose a Stilla alternative
- Follow-ups, meeting prep, triage and status across email, calendar and Slack: go with Carly
- One shared AI coworker the team tags in chat: Viktor
- Several custom agents your team designs: Dust
- Claude in Slack on an existing Claude contract: Claude Tag
- Everything inside ChatGPT: ChatGPT Work
- Meeting notes with no bot: Granola, connected to Carly for the follow-up
- Code that ends in a pull request: Devin
Many Stilla teams will land on two tools: a coding agent for the repo and Carly for everything that happens around it.
FAQ
Is Stilla shutting down?
No. Stilla announced on September 9, 2026 that it is joining Meta and that it will keep serving customers. It has not published a timeline, a roadmap or a migration plan. More in what Stilla is and what the Meta deal means.
How much does Stilla cost?
The Team plan starts at $25 per organization a month for 20,000 credits, or $20 billed yearly, with up to 29 members. Enterprise is priced by sales. Carly runs Zapier-style workflows free, and its AI agents start at $35 a month.
Does Carly work in Slack?
Yes. Carly workflows start when a message is posted in a Slack channel you pick, reply in the thread, and post meeting briefs, digests and alerts to channels. Carly posts to Microsoft Teams channels too. Set up a Slack workflow here.
Can Carly take meeting notes like Stilla?
Carly works with the recorder you already use. Connect Granola, Fathom, Fireflies or Zoom’s AI Companion, and Carly turns each recap into follow-up emails, Linear tickets and notes on the attendee’s record in the Carly CRM.
What is the best Stilla alternative for a small team?
Carly. Build an agent once, connect the team’s inboxes, calendars, Slack and GitHub, and let workflows run on events for everyone. Pair it with Devin if the team also wants an agent writing code.
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"Before Carly, I relied on a Calendly link, but the whole process felt impersonal and not very professional. Carly changed that by handling all the back-and-forth, so I'm no longer stuck in endless email threads trying to line up schedules.
Now Carly reaches out to candidates, shares my real-time availability, lets them pick a slot, then sends a Zoom link and drops it straight into my calendar. She sends reminders to both of us before each call, which has significantly reduced no-shows and last-minute confusion.
On top of scheduling, Carly acts like a full executive assistant, sending me my schedule the night before so I can prepare for each call. It reminds me of the old x.ai assistant, but Carly is noticeably smarter, faster, and better suited to my healthcare recruitment business."
