# Viktor calls itself an AI employee for Slack. How is it different from Maito? And which one costs less? Source: https://maito.app/compare/maito-vs-viktor Date: 2026-10-14 Author: Dmitry Dubovetzky Maito vs Viktor: both are AI teammates your company works with in Slack, for business work and code. Viktor works in Slack and Microsoft Teams and bundles model usage into workspace credits. Maito also works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Codex, runs on the AI provider you choose, and costs $149 per workspace per month plus that provider's usage. ## Is Viktor the same as Maito? **No, but they are close. Viktor and Maito are both AI teammates your company works with in Slack, for business work and code. Viktor also works in Microsoft Teams and bundles model usage into credits. Maito also works in your team's AI assistants and runs on the AI provider you choose.** Both take on whole assignments, remember what they learn, ask before sensitive actions, and run recurring work. The differences are where your team reaches them, how the bill is built, and how coding work is checked before it reaches you. Maito costs $149 per workspace per month, plus your AI provider's usage and any cloud credits beyond the included $20. Viktor's Team plan is $100 per workspace per month with 40,000 credits that include model usage. ## What is Viktor? **Viktor is an AI employee for Slack and Microsoft Teams that does reports, campaigns, dashboards, internal apps, and code across more than 3,200 connected tools.** It shows its work in Spaces and Pages, clones repositories, fixes bugs on branches, and opens pull requests. It remembers personal preferences, team knowledge, and workflow skills, and it requires sign-off before it moves money, pushes code, or emails a customer. [Viktor](https://viktor.com/), [Viktor skills and memory](https://viktor.com/academy/skills-and-memory), [Viktor security](https://viktor.com/security). ## And what is Maito? **Maito is a named AI teammate the whole company shares in Slack and in its AI assistants: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok, and Muse.** Anyone in an invited Slack channel can ask it for work, and teammates can join the thread, add context, and pick it up later. It handles research, reports, and follow-ups in your connected tools, and features, fixes, refactors, reviews, QA, and tests in your repositories, each coding task in its own sandbox with your checks and a pull request. [How Maito works](/homepage). ## How do Maito and Viktor compare at a glance? **Maito and Viktor overlap on business work, code, memory, approvals, and recurring work. They differ in where your team reaches them, which models run the work, and how you pay.** | | Maito | Viktor | | ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | | What it is | An AI teammate for your company | An AI employee for Slack and Microsoft Teams | | Where you use it | Slack, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok, and Muse | Slack and Microsoft Teams | | Models | Yes: The provider and model you choose | Partly: Model usage bundled into credits | | Working together | Yes: The whole team works with one agent, in any thread | Yes: Team-visible work in channels | | Business tasks | Yes: Research, reports, follow-ups, and work in your connected tools | Yes: Reports, dashboards, and campaigns across 3,200+ tools | | Code changes | Yes: Sandbox, checks, browser QA, and a pull request | Yes: Branches and pull requests, with sign-off before pushes | | Company knowledge | Yes: Facts and skills from shared work, plus personal memory | Yes: Personal, team, and workflow memory | | Recurring work | Yes: Loops on a schedule, from a webhook, or on request | Yes: Script jobs and agent jobs | | Price | $149 per workspace, unlimited people, plus provider usage | $100 per workspace with 40,000 credits | ## Where can your team work with Maito and Viktor? **Viktor works in Slack and Microsoft Teams. Maito works in Slack and in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok, and Muse.** An engineer can ask Maito for something from Cursor, a product manager from ChatGPT, and support from Slack, and all of them reach the same agent with the same company knowledge. A rule someone asks Maito to save for the team is there in the next conversation, wherever it starts. [Maito FAQ](/faq). If your company runs on Microsoft Teams, Viktor is there today and Maito is not. ## What do Maito and Viktor do with a business task? **Both Maito and Viktor can take a client report from a Slack message to a finished deliverable, using your connected tools. The difference is what pays for the model work: Viktor's credits, or your own AI provider.** _Illustrative conversation:_ > **Femi:** @Maito Harbor's quarterly review is Thursday. Pull their support volume, NPS comments, and usage trend into our review template. > > **Maito:** Review deck is in Drive. Usage is up 22%, tickets are down a third, and two NPS comments ask for audit logs. > Audit logs are on the roadmap for next quarter, so I added a slide with the planned date. Want me to draft the invite to their admin? Reviewers like Viktor for exactly this kind of account work, and mention a learning curve in the first week and slower multi-step jobs. [Viktor reviews](https://www.producthunt.com/products/viktor/reviews). ## And what do Maito and Viktor do when a customer reports a bug? **Viktor fixes bugs on branches and opens pull requests after a sign-off. Maito runs each fix in its own sandbox, checks it with your tests and a browser recording, and drafts the customer reply in the same thread.** _Illustrative conversation:_ > **Yuki:** @Maito a customer says their scheduled report emails arrive with an empty chart since Monday. Ticket #6012. > > **Maito:** Reproduced. The chart renders before the data loads in the email worker, so the image is blank. Before-and-after screenshots attached. > PR #923 waits for the data before rendering and adds a test that checks the chart has points. Checks pass. > The reply to the customer is drafted below, with a resend of this week's report once the fix is merged. Each Maito coding task gets its own sandbox, branch, and checkout, so several can run at once without touching the same files. ## Can Maito and Viktor both run work every week? **Yes. Viktor runs script jobs and agent jobs on a schedule, and Maito runs recurring work as Loops.** Viktor's script jobs spend no credits when they make no model calls; agent jobs spend credits each run, and work pauses when credits run out. [Viktor recurring work](https://viktor.com/academy/automating-recurring-work), [Viktor billing guide](https://viktor.com/academy/credits-and-billing). Maito's Loops run on a schedule, from a webhook, or when you start them, and anyone can pause or change one from the thread. Their model usage goes to your provider account. ## What do Maito and Viktor cost? **Maito costs $149 per workspace per month with unlimited people, plus your AI provider's usage and any cloud credits beyond the included $20. Viktor's Team plan costs $100 per workspace per month with 40,000 shared credits that include model usage.** **Maito: $149 per month + provider usage** - One workspace, unlimited people - $20 in included credits for coding sandboxes and web search - Your AI provider bills model usage at its own rates **Viktor Team: $100 per month** - 40,000 shared credits, no seats - Credits roll over one period, then expire - Top-ups, automatic top-ups, and spend caps The two bills buy different things. Viktor's credits pay for model work, from 100 to 300 credits for a quick task to 2,000 to 5,000 for a project. Maito's included credits pay for sandboxes and web search, and your provider bills the models. [Viktor pricing](https://viktor.com/pricing), [Maito pricing](/pricing). ## When is Viktor enough? **Viktor is enough when your company works in Microsoft Teams, or when you'd rather have model usage in one credit bill than connect your own AI provider.** Viktor also starts with up to $100 in free credits, without a credit card. ## So should you choose Maito or Viktor? **Choose Maito for one AI teammate your team reaches from Slack and its AI assistants, on the AI provider you choose, with coding work checked before it reaches you. Choose Viktor if you work in Microsoft Teams or want model usage bundled into credits.** **Choose Maito if:** - Your team works in Slack, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Codex - You want to choose the AI provider and see its bill - Coding work should come back with checks, QA, and a recording - Anyone in a channel should be able to ask **Choose Viktor if:** - Your company works in Microsoft Teams - You want model usage included in one credit bill - A free start before paying matters The best test is one assignment your team hands over every week. Run it in both for a week, then compare the results and the total bill.