Octopus22 vs Viktor (2026): one AI employee or a team of AI teammates?
Viktor is one AI employee that lives in your Slack or Teams. Octopus22 is a team of AI teammates in their own workspace. Here's how they compare on features, team use, security and real monthly cost, and who should pick which.
By Tishant Sunil · Updated October 5, 2026 · We make Octopus22. Every claim about Viktor links to its source.
The short answer
Viktor gives your whole workspace one capable AI employee inside Slack or Teams. Octopus22 gives you several AI teammates with their own roles, working together with your people in a separate workspace.
Choose Viktor if
- Your team lives in Slack, Teams or Discord and you want the AI there
- You want one shared AI employee with 3,200+ integrations and webhook triggers
- Many people will only use the AI now and then: Viktor charges for usage, not seats
- You need SAML single sign-on or SOC 2 today, or a choice of 300+ AI models
Choose Octopus22 if
- You want several AI teammates with different roles that hand work to each other
- You want to watch each teammate work on its own screen and take over
- You want people and AI teammates in shared conversations, routed automatically
- You're a small team and prefer a fixed price per member with included credits
Checked October 5, 2026. Both products change fast. Viktor's details come from its own site, docs and changelog plus reviews. Octopus22's come from our own product.
Terms used: single sign-on (SSO) lets staff log in with their company account, and SAML and OIDC are two kinds of it. SCIM adds and removes users automatically from your company directory. MCP is a standard way to plug other tools into an AI.
At a glance
| Viktor | Octopus22 | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | One AI employee for your whole workspace | A team of AI teammates you hire by role |
| Where you use it | Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, web app (Slack workspaces) | Octopus22 web app |
| How many agents | One per workspace | As many as you like; 3 work at once on Pro (6 on Max, 12 on Ultra) |
| Its own computer | A sandboxed cloud environment per workspace | A cloud computer per member, with a screen per teammate you can watch and take over |
| Integrations | 3,200+, plus webhooks and MCP | 500+, plus custom MCP and any website |
| Started by | You, schedules, webhooks, app events, twice-daily check-ins | People, other teammates and its own schedules |
| AI models | 300+ to choose from | One model (GLM 5.3 Flash) for all teammates, no choice |
| Security | SOC 2 Type 1, SAML SSO (Enterprise) | OIDC SSO, SCIM, audit log (Ultra plan); no SOC 2 yet |
| Pricing | Per workspace, from $50/month, no seat fees | Per member, from $49/month |
| Free trial | $100 of credits, no card | 7 days, 10,000 credits for the company, no card |
What each one is
Viktor is "the AI employee that lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams" (Viktor). Zeta Labs launched it in February 2026 and raised a $75M Series A led by Accel in May (The Next Web). You add it to your workspace, mention it in a channel or DM it, and it does the work: reports, CRM updates, ad changes, code and pull requests, and hosted web apps called Spaces.
Octopus22 lets you hire AI teammates with names and roles, such as a sales teammate, a support teammate or a finance teammate. Each works on its own screen of a cloud computer, uses your apps, and shares one Company Brain memory. They work in shared conversations with your people, where an AI model decides which teammates each message is for.
The biggest difference: one employee or a team
Viktor is one AI employee shared by everyone in the workspace. Admins decide who can use it, everyone talks to the same Viktor, and it keeps both workspace memory and personal memory (Viktor docs).
Octopus22 is built around several teammates:
- You can hire a teammate for each role.
- Teammates hand work to each other by name.
- They split big jobs across background helpers.
- They can hire a new teammate when the work needs one.
If you picture one very capable assistant, Viktor fits. If you picture a small team with different jobs, Octopus22 fits.
Where they work
Viktor lives where your team already talks (Viktor):
- Slack, and Microsoft Teams since June.
- Discord since August.
- Web app chat, for Slack-linked workspaces only.
In a channel it replies when you @mention it, and stays quiet otherwise while still reading the channel for context (Viktor docs).
Octopus22 has its own web app. You talk to teammates in private chats or in shared conversations with colleagues. You don't need to mention anyone: an AI model reads each message and wakes the teammates it's for. When you name a teammate, the model is told to wake that one. There's no Slack, Teams or mobile app presence. Teammates can only use Slack or Teams as connected apps.
Computer, browser and apps
Viktor:
- Runs in its own sandboxed cloud environment, where it writes and runs code (Viktor security).
- Connects to 3,200+ tools, most with one-click sign-in, and can build a custom integration from an app's API docs (Viktor integrations).
- Its own pages disagree on whether it can drive a web browser when there's no integration (Viktor blog).
Octopus22:
- Each member gets a cloud computer, and each teammate works on its own screen with a real browser that stays signed in. You can watch any teammate live and take over the mouse and keyboard.
- Connects to 500+ apps, plus your own MCP servers.
- Sign-ins, two-step login codes and payment screens in the browser are handed to a person. Anything that moves money through a connected app waits for the owner's approval.
In short: Viktor has far more ready-made integrations. Octopus22 can work in sites that have no integration, through its browser.
Memory
Viktor:
- Keeps personal memory ("only you can see it") and workspace memory shared with everyone.
- Stores what it learns as skills, plus workspace instructions that any member can change.
- Memory can be exported or deleted on request (Viktor docs).
Octopus22:
- The Company Brain learns facts from your conversations automatically: decisions, owners, preferences.
- It keeps each fact's history, and anyone can correct or retract a company fact.
- Facts are company-wide by default, even ones learned in a private chat. Only personal preferences stay private.
- It doesn't learn from your documents, can't hard-delete a single fact, and shows where a fact came from as a label rather than a link.
What starts the work
Viktor:
- Scheduled tasks.
- Event triggers from connected apps, raw webhooks and Slack or Teams events.
- A "heartbeat" check-in around 9:00 and 15:00 (Viktor docs).
Octopus22:
- Teammates set their own schedules: later, at a set time, or recurring.
- They can't yet be started by outside events like a webhook or a new email.
This is a real gap if your work starts from alerts or incoming requests.
Approvals and control
Viktor:
- Approval cards in chat, an "always approve" option per tool, and admin-set approval levels.
- Built-in gates for things like spending and settings changes (Viktor approvals).
- Audit logs on Enterprise.
Octopus22:
- Before a teammate sends, pays, deletes or cancels something through a connected app or in its browser, an AI check pauses it until the teammate's owner approves. Reading runs freely. Its own tools, like hiring a teammate or scheduling, and commands it runs on its own computer aren't checked.
- Owners can set each tool to "always allow", "always ask" or off.
- Its audit log covers members, connections and approval decisions, but not the actions teammates take without asking.
Security and compliance
| Viktor | Octopus22 | |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type 1, Type 2 in progress | None yet |
| ISO 27001 | In progress | None yet |
| Single sign-on | SAML (Okta, Entra, Google, OneLogin), Enterprise | OIDC only, Ultra plan |
| SCIM | Not found | Users only, Ultra plan |
| HIPAA | Not offered | Not offered |
| Training on your data | Never, with no-training agreements | Not used for training; model providers commit not to train on it |
| Data location | US by default; EU residency described as both "available on Enterprise" and "on the roadmap" | Computers in Frankfurt; app, data and files in Singapore |
Sources: Viktor security, Viktor enterprise.
Viktor is further ahead on certifications today.
Pricing and real monthly cost
Viktor has one Team plan on a slider (Viktor pricing):
- Plans: from $50 a month for 20,000 credits, up to $50,000 for 20 million, priced per workspace with no seat fees.
- Credits: model costs passed through with no markup, about $2.50 per 1,000 credits.
- Rollover: unused plan credits roll over for a month.
- Trial: $100 of free credits.
- Task cost: a quick task uses 100 to 300 credits, a full project 2,000 to 5,000.
Octopus22 charges per member:
- Plans: $49, $99 or $199 a month, with 40,000, 80,000 or 160,000 credits per member, pooled across the team.
- Credits: model cost plus 25%. Included credits don't roll over; credits you buy do.
- Running out: work pauses until you buy more or the next period starts, unless you turn on auto-reload.
- Single sign-on needs the $199 plan.
- Trial: 7 days with 10,000 credits for the whole company.
- Enterprise: a custom plan with a security review and an SLA is available on request.
Estimated monthly cost for moderate use (about 3 tasks per person per workday):
| Team | Viktor | Octopus22 (Pro) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 person | About $75 | $49, plus extra credits if you go over |
| 5 people | About $300 | $245 |
| 20 people | About $1,500 | $980, or $3,980 on Ultra with single sign-on |
These are estimates, not quotes. Viktor's figures assume about 25,000 credits per person a month. Credits aren't the same size: one Viktor credit is worth about $0.0025 of model use, one Octopus22 credit about $0.0008. Octopus22's figures assume the work fits in Pro's included credits, which is likely only because it runs on a cheaper model. Heavy users of either will pay more, so run the same task in both trials to compare.
What reviewers say about Viktor
Viktor is rated 4.2 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 22 reviews, and 4.9 out of 5 on Product Hunt from 16 reviews.
- Praised: how much it can take on, and how quickly it's useful.
- Complaints:
- Cost: "the cost is not at all what the website shows on the pricing chart", per a 3-star review.
- Support: slow replies.
- Memory: forgetting context between channels.
There are no independent reviews of Octopus22 yet.
Where Viktor wins
- It lives in Slack, Teams and Discord, where your team already works.
- It has 3,200+ integrations, plus webhooks and app-event triggers.
- It lets you choose from 300+ AI models.
- Usage-only pricing: people who rarely use it don't cost a seat.
- It has SOC 2 Type 1 and SAML single sign-on.
- It builds hosted web apps and pages.
Where Octopus22 wins
- Several teammates, not one: different roles that hand off, coordinate and hire each other.
- Its own screen per teammate: with a signed-in browser you can watch and take over.
- No @mentions needed: messages are routed to the right teammates automatically.
- A predictable bill: credits included per member, and work pauses instead of running up a bill (unless you turn on auto-reload).
Switching from Viktor to Octopus22
- Integrations: reconnect your apps. Each member connects their own accounts.
- Skills and instructions: copy them over as instructions or skills for the relevant teammates.
- Schedules: recreate scheduled tasks by asking teammates to set them up.
- Webhook and event triggers: these have no direct equivalent in Octopus22 today.
- Spaces and Pages: Viktor's hosted Spaces and Pages stay with Viktor.
- Leaving Viktor: ask Viktor to export or delete your data, which takes up to 7 business days.
Frequently asked questions
What is the main difference between Viktor and Octopus22?+
Viktor is one shared AI employee per workspace that works inside Slack, Microsoft Teams or Discord. Octopus22 lets you hire several AI teammates with their own roles, each with its own screen on a cloud computer, that work together with your people in Octopus22's own workspace.
Which is cheaper, Viktor or Octopus22?+
It depends on how your team uses it. Viktor charges for usage only, from $50 a month per workspace, so people who rarely use it cost nothing extra. Octopus22 charges every member a seat ($49 on Pro), so a team with many light users pays more on Octopus22. For steady daily use, our estimates come out lower on Octopus22, but credits are a different size on each, so run the same task in both trials.
Does Octopus22 work in Slack or Microsoft Teams like Viktor?+
No. Octopus22 teammates work in Octopus22's own web app. They can use Slack and Teams as connected apps, for example to post a message, but you don't chat with them inside Slack or Teams the way you do with Viktor.
Can Viktor or Octopus22 use a browser?+
Octopus22 teammates each have their own screen with a real browser that stays signed in, and you can watch or take over. Viktor runs code in its own cloud environment and connects through integrations and MCP; its own pages disagree on whether it can drive a browser when no integration exists.
Are Viktor and Octopus22 secure?+
Viktor has SOC 2 Type 1 (Type 2 in progress), and SAML single sign-on on Enterprise. Octopus22 has OIDC single sign-on, SCIM and an audit log on its Ultra plan, but no SOC 2 or ISO certification yet. Neither offers a HIPAA agreement.
Does Viktor or Octopus22 train AI models on my data?+
Viktor says your data never trains a model and it has no-training agreements with its model providers. Octopus22 sends work to its model provider through OpenRouter. Octopus22 doesn't train AI models on your data, and uses model providers that commit not to train on it.
Which has better memory?+
Both have shared and personal memory. Viktor stores workspace knowledge as editable skills and instructions. Octopus22's Company Brain learns facts from your conversations automatically, keeps their history, and lets anyone correct or retract company facts, though it can't yet hard-delete a single fact.
Can either one start work on its own?+
Viktor can be started by schedules, webhooks and app events, and checks in twice a day. Octopus22 teammates set their own schedules, but can't yet be started by outside events like a webhook or a new email.
