# GBrain gives your team one shared brain for every AI it uses. Is it the same as Maito? And who does the work? Source: https://maito.app/blog/maito-vs-gbrain Date: 2026-10-14 Author: Dmitry Dubovetzky Facts checked: 2026-10-20 Maito vs GBrain: GBrain is a shared AI memory and workspace your team's AI tools connect to, at $199 per month for teams. Maito is one AI teammate your whole company works with in Slack, email, and its AI assistants, for any coding task and business work, at $149 per month plus your AI provider's usage. Memory, code, security, and price compared. ## Which is better, Maito or GBrain? **Maito is the better pick if product changes should come back as tested pull requests without an engineer driving a coding tool, and the work should happen where the team talks. GBrain is the better pick if portable Markdown notes and shared, key-safe tool access across your existing AI clients are the main need.** | | Best pick | | ----------------------------------------------------- | --------- | | Support asks for a fix and gets a tested pull request | Maito | | Business work in your CRM, billing, and support tools | Maito | | Models from any provider you choose | Maito | | One memory behind Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor | GBrain | | Notes as Markdown files you can take with you | GBrain | | One person trying it alone for $49 | GBrain | GBrain is a shared memory and workspace for the AI tools your team already uses. Maito is an AI teammate that remembers your company and also does the work, from business tasks to code. As of October 2026, GBrain Teams costs $199 a month with $100 of AI credit inside; Maito costs $149 with models billed by your own provider. This guide is for a team that already uses several AI tools and wants them to share what the company knows. We rechecked GBrain's features and pricing in October 2026. ## What is GBrain, exactly? **GBrain is one memory that Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, and other connected AI tools read and write, plus a team workspace where people prompt one assistant together.** Notes are plain Markdown files, searchable by words, meaning, and links. Each connected AI gets Read or Full access, GBrain holds the keys to connected accounts such as Gmail and Calendar without handing them to an AI, and every action lands in an activity log. Skills such as weekly summaries run on demand or on a schedule. On Teams, people also reach the assistant by iMessage, Slack, or Telegram. [GBrain features](https://gbrain.io/features), [GBrain pricing](https://gbrain.io/pricing). Where GBrain is strong: - One memory every AI tool your team uses can read and write - Account keys held by GBrain, never handed to an AI, with daily limits per tool - A $49 Personal plan for one person ## So GBrain makes my other AI tools smarter? **Yes, that's the core of GBrain: one memory and one set of connected accounts behind every AI your team uses. Maito is the teammate that takes the work on, with its own memory of your company.** For code, GBrain gives Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex the team's context, and a developer still drives the change there. With Maito, someone in support or product asks in Slack, and Maito writes, tests, and opens the pull request. [GBrain clients](https://gbrain.io/works-with). ## And how is Maito different? **Maito is one AI teammate your whole company works with in the same threads, and it carries work through to the result: a report, a sent follow-up, or a tested pull request.** You give Maito a name, a role, and instructions, then your team works with it in Slack, email, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok, and Muse. Anyone can pick up a thread someone else started. It's the coding agent the whole company shares, with a separate sandbox per task and pull requests that come back with checks. Business work runs in your connected tools. [AI teammate](/product/ai-teammate). ## How do Maito and GBrain compare at a glance? **Maito and GBrain both give your team one shared AI with one memory, unlimited people, and a workspace price. Maito does coding tasks through to a tested pull request and works across your business tools. GBrain keeps memory in portable Markdown and puts it behind every AI client.** | | Maito | GBrain | | ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------- | | Where you use it | Slack, email, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok, and Muse | Web app, AI clients, iMessage, Slack, Telegram, and a CLI | | Working together | Yes: The whole team works with one agent, in any thread | Yes: The team prompts one assistant in shared threads | | Business tasks | Yes: Research, reports, follow-ups, connected tools | Partly: Skills for email, calendar, and research | | Code changes | Yes: A sandbox per task, checks, QA, pull request | Partly: Through the coding tools you connect to it | | Company knowledge | Yes: Learns facts and saves skills | Yes: Shared Markdown notes every connected AI reads | | Recurring work | Yes: Schedule, Slack, email, or a webhook from any system | Yes: Skills on a schedule | | Models | Yes: The provider and model you choose | Anthropic or OpenAI models | | Security | Dedicated cloud computer, encrypted Vault, audit log | Private server per workspace, key custody, activity log | | Price | $149 per workspace plus provider usage, unlimited people | Teams $199 with $100 of AI credit | Sources: Maito [FAQ](/faq) and [pricing](/pricing). GBrain [features](https://gbrain.io/features), [clients](https://gbrain.io/works-with), and [pricing](https://gbrain.io/pricing). ## What happens when you ask Maito something GBrain would remember? **Maito recalls the decision and acts on it in the same thread. GBrain's memory gives the decision to whichever AI tool someone opens next, and for a code change, a developer takes it from there.** _Illustrative conversation:_ > **Lena:** @Maito what did we decide about annual billing for the Team plan? Can you put it on the pricing page? > > **Maito:** You decided on September 30: annual billing at 2 months free, Team plan only. > I opened PR #512 with the new toggle on the pricing page and a test for the annual price. Preview link is in the PR. Lena asked once, in the channel where the team already talks. Nobody had to find the decision, copy it, and paste it into a coding tool. **Winner: Maito.** Remembering is half the job; doing something with it is the other half. ## And what do Maito and GBrain do when a customer reports a bug? **GBrain gives your coding tool the context for the bug, and a developer drives the fix. Maito takes the bug from the customer's report all the way to a tested fix and a reply.** _Illustrative conversation:_ > **Marco:** @Maito an EU customer says their invoice PDFs show dollars instead of euros. Ticket #3307. > > **Maito:** Reproduced with a test EU account. Video attached: the PDF uses the account's default currency, not the invoice's. > PR #498 fixes the template and adds a test for EUR and GBP invoices. QA passed on staging. > Here's a reply for the customer, with the corrected invoice attached. Maito reproduces the problem, records it, finds the cause in your code and logs, writes the fix and the tests, runs QA, and opens the pull request. Marco gets a reply he can send, without filing a ticket for engineering. [Support teams](/use-cases/support). **Winner: Maito.** ## Do Maito and GBrain both remember your company? **Yes. GBrain keeps shared Markdown notes every connected AI reads and writes, with per-AI read or full access. Maito learns facts and workflows from shared work, and keeps private conversations private.** Maito picks up things like a pricing rule, how a feature behaves, or who owns which account, and uses them the next time anyone asks. Tell it to remember, correct, or forget something, and it does. [Company knowledge](/product/company-knowledge), [Skills](/product/skills). **Winner: GBrain** if you want the notes as files behind every AI tool. Maito, if you want them learned without anyone writing them. ## Can Maito and GBrain run work every week? **Yes. GBrain skills run on a schedule, write what they found to memory, and report back to the thread. Maito Loops run on a schedule, from a webhook, or when someone asks in Slack or by email, across code and business tools.** [GBrain features](https://gbrain.io/features), [Maito FAQ](/faq). **Winner: Maito.** A webhook from your CRM or error tracker can start the work, not only a clock. ## Is GBrain or Maito more secure? **GBrain runs a private server for each workspace, holds the keys to connected accounts without giving them to an AI, caps daily calls per tool, and logs every action. Maito runs each workspace on its own cloud computer, keeps credentials in an encrypted Vault, and logs every agent action for admins.** [GBrain features](https://gbrain.io/features), [Maito FAQ](/faq). **Winner: even.** Both isolate each workspace and log what the agent does; GBrain adds per-tool call limits, Maito adds a sandbox per coding task. ## What do Maito and GBrain cost? **As of October 2026, Maito is $149 a month per workspace for unlimited people, with $20 of cloud credits and models on your own provider account. GBrain Teams costs $199 a month, including $100 of AI credit, and GBrain Personal costs $49 for one person.** | | Maito | GBrain | | ------------- | ------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------ | | Billing unit | Workspace, unlimited people | Workspace on Teams; one person on Personal | | Monthly price | $149 | Teams $199, Personal $49 | | Included | $20 cloud credits for sandboxes and search | $100 of AI credit on Teams | | Model usage | Billed by your AI provider | Inside the credit, then more when needed | | Models | Any supported provider | Anthropic or OpenAI | | Trying it | No: No free plan | No: Monthly billing, cancel any time | [GBrain pricing](https://gbrain.io/pricing), [Maito pricing](/pricing). ## What would ten people pay for a month of Maito or GBrain? **As of October 2026, Maito costs $149 a month plus your AI provider's usage. GBrain Teams costs $199 a month with $100 of model usage included. Neither charges per person.** **Maito: $149 per month + provider usage** - One workspace, unlimited people - $20 in included credits for coding sandboxes and web search - Your AI provider bills its usage separately **GBrain Teams: $199 per month** - The whole team at no extra cost - $100 of AI credit each month, more when you need it - Anthropic or OpenAI models GBrain's $100 pays for models. Maito's $20 pays for coding sandboxes and web search, and your provider bills the models, so a team that uses a lot of model time pays that on its own provider account. ## When is GBrain enough? **GBrain is enough when your team mainly wants one portable memory and one set of connected accounts behind the AI tools it already uses, and its developers drive the coding themselves.** ## Can we use Maito and GBrain together? **Yes. Maito works inside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Codex, the same AI tools GBrain connects to, so your team can keep GBrain's notes and hand the work to Maito.** Connect GBrain's MCP address to Maito, and it reads the same notes as every other AI tool your team uses. ## What carries over when a team adds Maito next to GBrain? **GBrain's notes are plain Markdown, so they carry over as they are. Paste them into a Maito thread and ask it to propose company memories for you to confirm.** Leave personal notes with their owners. GBrain's scheduled skills become Maito Loops; run each once by hand and turn off the GBrain one so nobody gets two. [GBrain features](https://gbrain.io/features). ## So should you choose Maito or GBrain? **Choose Maito if you want an AI teammate that remembers your company and does the work, in Slack, email, and your AI assistants, for $149 per workspace plus your provider's usage. Choose GBrain if portable Markdown memory and shared tool access across your existing AI clients are the main requirements.** **Choose Maito if:** - Your team talks in Slack and wants the work done there - Support and product should get fixes without waiting on an engineer - You want any coding task done, plus business work - You want to choose any AI provider **Choose GBrain if:** - Portable notes and shared tool permissions are your priority - Your team works in its AI tools more than in Slack - Your developers drive their own coding tools Try it on a decision your team made last month. Ask both what was decided, then ask them to act on it, and see which one gets you to the finished result. ## Maito vs GBrain: frequently asked questions ### How much does GBrain cost? As of October 2026, GBrain Personal is $49 a month and GBrain Teams is $199 a month with $100 of AI credit included. Both are billed monthly. [GBrain pricing](https://gbrain.io/pricing). ### Does GBrain work in Slack? Yes. On the Teams plan, people can message GBrain's assistant in Slack, iMessage, or Telegram, as well as in its web app. [GBrain pricing](https://gbrain.io/pricing). ### Does GBrain write code? GBrain gives coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor the team's notes, and a developer drives the change in those tools. [GBrain clients](https://gbrain.io/works-with). ### Can Maito read GBrain's notes? Yes. Connect GBrain's MCP address to Maito like any other MCP server. [Maito FAQ](/faq). ### Which models does each use? GBrain offers Anthropic or OpenAI models. Maito runs on the provider you connect, including OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub Copilot, xAI, OpenRouter, and many more. [GBrain features](https://gbrain.io/features), [Maito FAQ](/faq).