# AI agent workspaces for engineering teams, compared

> Six products where a team and its AI agents work together, judged on what an engineering team needs.

By Eimen, founder of Leverage Computer. Last reviewed 12 November 2026.

Disclosure: We make Leverage Computer, one of the tools on this page. We describe every product, ours included, from its own public pages, and each fact links to its source. Prices change: check the linked page before you buy. Found something wrong or out of date? Email [founders@leverage.computer](mailto:founders@leverage.computer) and we will fix it.

## The short answer

- **Claude Cowork** for individual knowledge work on Anthropic's cloud; sessions are not shared [1].
- **Cursor** if your engineers live in its editor and want cloud agents that open pull requests [3][4].
- **Viktor** for one shared AI coworker in Slack or Teams [5][6].
- **Dust** for company-wide agents over your knowledge and tools [7][8].
- **Perplexity Computer** for research-heavy work in shared projects [9][10].
- **Leverage Computer** for engineering teams that already run Claude Code or Codex every day and want to run far more of it together: shared sessions, work that keeps going with laptops closed and starts from webhooks or schedules, and rules on every tool call [11][12][17][13].

**Figure: Who does the work?.** Decide who does the work, then compare features.

- One person, one assistant: Claude Cowork: your sessions and your files [1].
- One shared coworker: Viktor: one instance and context for the whole team [5].
- Company agents: Dust: agents built on your company's knowledge and tools [7].
- Many shared sessions: Cursor and Leverage Computer: many agent sessions that people start and share [4][12].

## What an engineering team should check

1. **Multiplayer.** Can teammates see, join and continue each other's agent work?
2. **Where agents run.** A sandbox per task, a computer per user, or a lasting machine per session.
3. **Coding.** Real repositories, terminals and pull requests, with the coding agents your team already uses.
4. **Governance.** Approval before risky actions, a record of what ran, admin controls.
5. **Price model.** Per seat, per workspace or per use.

## Side by side

|  | Sharing | Where agents run | Coding | Governance | Price |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Claude Cowork | "Sessions can't be shared"; artifacts can [1] | Anthropic's cloud [1] | Positioned for work "beyond coding" [1] | Admins control auto-approve [1] | Claude plans; Team from $20 per seat a month, billed yearly [2] |
| Cursor (Teams) | Team sees agents, read-only by default [4] | Isolated cloud VMs [4] | Yes; opens pull requests [4] | SSO on Teams; audit logs on Enterprise [3] | $30+ per user a month [3] |
| Viktor | One shared instance and context per workspace [5] | "His own computer in the cloud" [5] | Opens pull requests [5] | Confirms high-stakes actions; audit logs on Enterprise [5] | Team from $100 a month in shared credits [6] |
| Dust | Create and share agents [7] | Not stated [7] | Code reviews; GitHub connector [7] | Permission model; audit logs on Enterprise [7][8] | Pro 24€ per seat a month, billed yearly [8] |
| Perplexity Computer | Shared projects and files [9] | A container per task [10] | Coding is one of its listed workflows [9] | Roles and activity logs [10] | Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max plans [10] |
| Leverage Computer | Watch, steer, queue or stop live [12] | Its own VM per session, persistent disk [11] | Claude Code, Codex and Grok Build; GitHub pull requests [14][15] | Allow, ask or deny per tool; every call recorded [13] | $0.50 per agent hour; people free [16] |

## The options

### Claude Cowork: for individual knowledge work

**Strengths**

- Brings "Claude Code's agentic capabilities to knowledge work beyond coding" [1].
- Runs remotely: "Work continues if you close your laptop", and scheduled tasks run in the cloud [1].
- Projects keep their own files, links, instructions and memory [1].

**Weaknesses**

- "Sessions can't be shared with others, but you can share individual artifacts" [1].
- Coding itself is Claude Code's job; see our page on Claude Code for teams.

**Price.** Included in paid Claude plans; Team Standard $20 per seat a month billed yearly [2].

### Cursor (Teams with cloud agents): for teams that live in the Cursor editor

**Strengths**

- Cloud agents "run in isolated VMs in the cloud with full development environments" and produce pull requests [4].
- Start them from Slack, Linear, GitHub, the web or the API [4].
- Teams adds a team marketplace for rules, skills and plugins, SSO and Bugbot code reviews [3].

**Weaknesses**

- Teammates can see agents started under the team, but "Viewing is read-only" unless an admin enables follow-ups [4].
- Audit logs and repository, model and MCP access controls are on Enterprise [3].

**Price.** Teams $30+ per user a month; Enterprise custom [3].

### Viktor: for one shared AI coworker in Slack or Teams

**Strengths**

- Lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams and connects to "9,800+ tools" [5].
- "All team members on a plan share the same Viktor instance and context" [5].
- Asks for confirmation before high-stakes actions; admins decide which tools need approval [5].

**Weaknesses**

- One agent for the workspace, rather than many sessions people run side by side [5].
- Audit logs and SAML SSO are on Enterprise [5].

**Price.** Free with up to $100 in credits to start; Team from $100 a month for 40,000 shared credits, priced per workspace, not per seat [6].

### Dust: for company-wide agents over your knowledge

**Strengths**

- "Multiplayer AI for human-agent collaboration" with 70+ connectors, including Slack and GitHub [7].
- 20+ models from several providers [7].

**Weaknesses**

- Its homepage does not say agents get their own computer [7].
- SCIM, audit logs and custom retention are on Enterprise [8].

**Price.** Pro 24€ per seat a month billed yearly (30€ monthly); Max 120€ (150€); prices exclude VAT [8].

### Perplexity Computer: for research-heavy work in shared projects

**Strengths**

- Projects give "a persistent file system where humans and agents edit the same files" [9].
- "Each task session runs in its own isolated compute container with a dedicated filesystem and browser instance" [10].
- Admins get roles and logs of all Computer activity [10].

**Weaknesses**

- For companies, it is on the Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max plans [10].
- Personal memory and connector accounts stay with each person [9].

**Price.** Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max plans, with monthly credits per seat [10].

### Leverage Computer: for teams that run Claude Code or Codex every day and want to run much more of it

We make Leverage Computer. This section uses our own public pages, and it says where Leverage Computer does not fit.

Leverage Computer is the team agent workspace: spaces and threads for people, and agent sessions that each run on their own VM, in one workspace with shared memory in Git [11][12][15].

**Strengths**

- **Multiplayer sessions.** Watch, steer, queue or stop a teammate's session; share it like a doc [12].
- **A computer per session** with sudo, a terminal, a browser and a persistent disk; it sleeps when idle [11].
- **The coding agents you already use**: Claude Code, Codex and Grok Build, on your own plans or API keys [14].
- **Governance**: agents never hold your keys; per-tool allow, ask or deny; every call recorded [13].
- **Shared memory**: instructions, memory and skills in Git; agents propose changes and non-managers' changes go to review [15].
- **Your own environments.** Set variables and secrets and pick them per space or session. A secret can be added to HTTPS headers by the network, so its value never enters the VM [11].
- **PR Auto-fix.** Turn it on for a pull request, and the agent fixes failed checks, answers review comments and resolves merge conflicts until it is merged or closed [15].

**Where Leverage Computer is the wrong choice**

- **Mostly non-engineering work** such as research or operations. Perplexity Computer, Dust or Viktor are built for that.
- **Self-hosting required.** Leverage Computer does not offer it.
- **A single editor-based workflow** in Cursor already covers your needs.
- **A fixed per-seat budget** is a must. Leverage Computer bills agent hours, plus AI usage if you pay for it from Leverage credits [16].

**Price.** $0.50 per agent hour on Standard; people and storage free; AI from your own plans or credits [16].

## Also considered

- **OpenAI workspace agents in ChatGPT.** We could not load OpenAI's product and help pages to check the details, so we have left them out until we can.
- **Devin, GitHub Copilot cloud agent and Factory.** Compared on our page of Devin alternatives.

## How to choose

1. **Who does the work?** One person with an assistant (Cowork), one shared coworker (Viktor), company-wide agents (Dust), or many agent sessions people run and share (Cursor, Leverage Computer).
2. **Is it mostly code?** Pick a product with real development machines and pull requests: Cursor or Leverage Computer [4][11].
3. **Must teammates join live and approve actions?** Leverage Computer [12][13].

## Questions

**What is an AI agent workspace?**
A shared place where people and AI agents work with the same files, tools and context. The products here differ in who can see agent work and where the agents run.

**Can I share Claude Cowork sessions with my team?**
No. Anthropic says Cowork sessions cannot be shared, but individual artifacts can [1].

**Which agent workspaces support Claude Code and Codex?**
Leverage Computer runs Claude Code, Codex and Grok Build side by side [14]. Cursor runs its own cloud agents [4].

## Sources

Checked on 12 November 2026.

1. Claude Help Center, get started with Claude Cowork: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13345190-get-started-with-claude-cowork
2. Claude, pricing: https://claude.com/pricing
3. Cursor, pricing: https://cursor.com/pricing
4. Cursor docs, cloud agents: https://cursor.com/docs/cloud-agent
5. Viktor, homepage: https://viktor.com/
6. Viktor, pricing: https://viktor.com/pricing
7. Dust, homepage: https://dust.tt/
8. Dust, pricing: https://dust.tt/home/pricing
9. Perplexity, shared workspaces changelog: https://www.perplexity.ai/changelog/shared-workspaces-personal-computer-for-windows-and-model-council
10. Perplexity Help Center, Computer for Enterprise: https://www.perplexity.ai/help-center/en/articles/13901210-computer-for-enterprise
11. Leverage Computer, the computer underneath: https://leverage.computer/compute/
12. Leverage Computer, work in the open: https://leverage.computer/teams/
13. Leverage Computer, AI governance: https://leverage.computer/governance/
14. Leverage Computer, harnesses: https://leverage.computer/harnesses/
15. Leverage Computer, Git under everything: https://leverage.computer/git/
16. Leverage Computer, pricing: https://leverage.computer/pricing/
17. Leverage Computer, automations: https://leverage.computer/automations/

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