KyoubeAI vs Claude Cowork: a self-hosted option for teams

Feature by feature

Features compared
Capability	KyoubeAI	Claude Cowork
Multiplayer environment
One sign-in for the whole company	Yes	PartialTeam and Enterprise plans
People and agents in one shared workspace	Yes	PartialClaude Docs only, in beta
Tasks handed between people and agents	Yes	PartialYour own tasks only
Governance
Companies kept apart at the database level	Yes	YesRecords scoped per organisation
An audit trail for every change	Yes	PartialTeam and Enterprise plans
Human approval before risky actions	YesBy admin policy	Yes
Data and apps
A database the agents design and populate	Yes	No
Apps the agents build and publish	Yes	PartialArtifacts only, no versions
Apps respect each viewer's permissions	Yes	PartialOnly on artifacts
Hosting, models and licence
Runs on your own server	Yes	No
Bring your own model providers	Yes	No
Choose the agent runtime	Yes	No
Source code you can read	YesBSL 1.1	No
Trade-offs
Nothing to host or maintain	PartialHosted plan in early access	Yes
On a phone as well as in a browser	No	Yes

In brief
Criterion	KyoubeAI	Claude Cowork
What it is	A self-hosted AI operating system where a company's people and AI agents work together.	Anthropic's agent for knowledge work in the Claude app, merging into Claude from 16 September 2026.
Built for	Organisations that want agents working under their own roles and approvals, with someone who can run Docker.	People and teams on paid Claude plans doing knowledge work across their apps.
Where it runs	Your own server, from one Docker Compose file. It needs 4 GB of RAM on amd64 or arm64.	Anthropic's cloud, reaching local folders through the Claude Desktop app on macOS and Windows. Web and mobile are in beta.
Price	Free for up to five users on your own server, then US$39 per user a month self-hosted or US$99 hosted, with custom terms for enterprises. You pay your model providers for usage.	A paid Claude plan: Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise. Prices are on claude.com/pricing.

What it is
KyoubeAI
A self-hosted AI operating system where a company's people and AI agents work together.
Claude Cowork
Anthropic's agent for knowledge work in the Claude app, merging into Claude from 16 September 2026.
Built for
KyoubeAI
Organisations that want agents working under their own roles and approvals, with someone who can run Docker.
Claude Cowork
People and teams on paid Claude plans doing knowledge work across their apps.
Where it runs
KyoubeAI
Your own server, from one Docker Compose file. It needs 4 GB of RAM on amd64 or arm64.
Claude Cowork
Anthropic's cloud, reaching local folders through the Claude Desktop app on macOS and Windows. Web and mobile are in beta.
Price
KyoubeAI
Free for up to five users on your own server, then US$39 per user a month self-hosted or US$99 hosted, with custom terms for enterprises. You pay your model providers for usage.
Claude Cowork
A paid Claude plan: Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise. Prices are on claude.com/pricing.

you want an agent on your own files and apps today, on a laptop or phone, with nothing to host
the work is personal: research, reports, spreadsheets, recurring briefings
you want a built-in browser, computer use, or tasks that keep running while your laptop is closed

the whole company needs one place where people and agents share roles, data and an audit trail
the records agents produce must live in a database you own, on servers you run
agents should build apps your team uses, with each viewer's permissions checked on every call
you want to pick the model providers and the agent runtime yourself

One workspace for the whole company
Everyone signs in with a role, from owner to viewer, and agents work under the same permissions. In Cowork each person has their own account, and organisation roles need a Team or Enterprise plan.
Company data in your own database
Agents design and fill a Postgres database that you host, and every change is written to the audit log. Cowork's documentation describes no shared database for agents to build.
Your choice of models
Use your own Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter keys, and pick which agent runtime does the work: Claude Code, pi or Hermes Agent. Cowork runs on Claude models only.