Gumloop vs Cabinet: the workflow engine, or the brain
Gumloop wires AI agents into no-code workflows across 100+ apps, and since July 2026 feeds them from Brain, a paid company knowledge index. Cabinet starts where that index points: the knowledge itself. Files your company owns, agents working in them on schedules, and live dashboards rendered from what they know. Pick Gumloop to automate a pipeline. Pick Cabinet to own the brain the pipelines feed on.
Last reviewed August 2026 against public pricing and docs.
Choose Cabinet if
- You want knowledge people and agents author, read, and keep, not an index of copies held elsewhere.
- You want agent output that compounds as documents and live dashboards instead of expiring as workflow runs.
- You want AI billed at provider prices through your own keys, with open source and real self-hosting.
Stick with Gumloop if
- Your job is automation plumbing: moving data between SaaS tools on triggers, at volume.
- Ops and GTM teams want a no-code canvas with managed enterprise controls today.
Open source · self-hosted · bring your own AI
The core difference
In Gumloop, knowledge is fuel. In Cabinet, knowledge is the product.
Gumloop earns its reputation. A drag-and-drop canvas, agents with triggers and approval gates, deep MCP support, and customers like Gusto, Ramp, Instacart, and Shopify, backed by a $50M Series B from Benchmark in March 2026. If the job is wiring AI into repeatable processes across your SaaS stack, it is one of the best tools available.
Then read how their docs describe Brain, the knowledge layer they added in July 2026: your company knowledge base for agents. That is exactly what it is, and exactly the limit. Brain is a read-only index of copies synced hourly from Notion, Drive, Slack, and GitHub. Editing must happen in the original systems. Nobody writes knowledge in Gumloop, nobody reads it there, and both indexing and every search bill credits on a paid plan.
Cabinet is the thing Brain points at. Knowledge lives here as files your company owns, people and agents author and correct it in place, and the same knowledge renders as live dashboards and working apps. Automation ends when the run ends. A brain keeps its value.
Where Cabinet wins
Three things Gumloop cannot do
A brain, not an index
Gumloop's Brain stores searchable snippets of documents that live somewhere else. Cabinet holds the documents themselves, in one place your team and its agents write, correct, and build on every day.
Results you can open next quarter
A workflow ends as a run in a log. Cabinet agents end their work as briefs, trackers, and dashboards rendered live from the knowledge base, still there and still current when the quarter closes.
Your AI keys, without the toll
Gumloop's own pricing docs, August 2026: model tokens at cost plus an 8% orchestration fee, 1 credit per tool call, compute at 5 credits a minute, and with your own API keys the fee doubles to 16%. Cabinet routes your keys straight to the provider. The price is the provider's price.
# Gumloop, per its docs (Aug 2026) tokens at cost + 8% fee tool call 1 credit compute 5 credits / minute your own keys fee rises to 16% # Cabinet your own keys provider price. done.
Feature by feature
Cabinet vs Gumloop, side by side
The features that actually decide this, including the ones where Gumloop comes out ahead.
| Feature | Cabinet | Gumloop |
|---|---|---|
| A company knowledge base you own as filesBrain indexes copies; per Gumloop's docs, editing happens in the original systems. | Included | Not included |
| A place people write and read knowledge | Included | Not included |
| AI agents with schedules and triggers | Included | Included |
| Human approval gates | Included | Included |
| Drag-and-drop workflow canvas | Not included | Included |
| Automations across 100+ SaaS apps | Partial | Included |
| Knowledge rendered as live apps and dashboardsGumloop agents produce hosted artifacts; there is no rendered view of the knowledge itself. | Included | Partial |
| Bring your own AI keys at provider costSupported, but the orchestration fee doubles to 16% and platform actions still bill credits (Gumloop docs, August 2026). | Included | Partial |
| Self-hostedGumloop Enterprise offers VPC deployment of its managed platform, not self-hosting. | Included | Not included |
| Open source | Included | Not included |
| Free to startGumloop has no free plan, only a 14-day trial, as of August 2026. | Included | Not included |
| Hybrid search over your existing tools | Partial | Included |
| RBAC, SCIM, and audit logs today | Partial | Included |
Being honest
When Gumloop is the better choice
- Your need is integration plumbing at volume: enrich leads, sync CRMs, scrape and route data across a hundred SaaS tools.
- Non-technical ops and GTM teams will build the automations themselves and want a polished no-code canvas.
- You want managed enterprise controls, RBAC, SCIM, and VPC deployment from a vendor today.
Questions
Cabinet vs Gumloop, answered
What is Gumloop Brain?
Brain is Gumloop's company knowledge base for agents, launched July 8, 2026. It indexes text from Notion, Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, Confluence, and uploads so agents can search it with citations. It is read-only, available on paid plans, and both indexing and searching consume credits. Editing still happens in the source tools. Cabinet is the opposite shape: the knowledge itself lives with you, and people and agents write it directly.
How much does Gumloop cost?
As of August 2026, Gumloop Pro is $37 per month with 20,000 credits and unlimited seats; Enterprise is custom. There is no free plan, only a 14-day trial. Usage bills through credits: model tokens at cost plus an 8% orchestration fee, 1 credit per tool call, and compute at 5 credits per minute. Cabinet is free to self-host, and AI runs on your own provider keys at provider prices.
Is Cabinet a Gumloop alternative?
For different jobs. Gumloop automates workflows across your SaaS stack; Cabinet is the knowledge workspace your company owns, where the durable work accumulates. Teams that mainly need pipeline automation should use Gumloop. Teams that want company knowledge, agents, and live dashboards in one owned place pick Cabinet.
Does Gumloop support bring-your-own API keys?
Yes, with a toll. With your own keys, model tokens stop billing credits but Gumloop's orchestration fee doubles from 8% to 16%, per its pricing docs as of August 2026. In Cabinet, your keys are the whole AI bill.
Can Gumloop replace a knowledge base?
No, and its docs are candid about it: Brain reflects content edited in the original systems. There is no editor, no documents of record, and no place a person reads the knowledge. Cabinet is that place.
Can I self-host Gumloop?
No. Gumloop Enterprise can deploy into a VPC in your cloud account, but it remains Gumloop's closed, managed platform. Cabinet is open source and runs fully on your own infrastructure.
Sources
Where these facts come from
Claims on this page are checked against public sources, last reviewed August 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us at hi@runcabinet.com and we will fix it.
Own your knowledge. Keep your AI. Start free.
Run Cabinet in minutes, or get a guided walkthrough. Your files, your models, your infrastructure.
Keep comparing