Dynamiq vs StackAI

StackAI, now part of Asana, is a closed, no-code enterprise agent builder with VPC and on-prem options. Dynamiq adds an open-source SDK and voice agents on one engine.

By Maria-Elena Tzanev, AI strategy Updated September 29, 2026

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In short

StackAI, now part of Asana and still run as its own product, is a closed, drag-and-drop platform for IT and operations teams to build, govern and scale agents, with deployment from multi-tenant cloud to air-gapped on-premises, 300+ integrations, and forward-deployed engineers who co-build weekly with every enterprise customer. Dynamiq covers the same deployment depth on a governed platform that also includes inbound voice agents, an Apache-2.0 open-source SDK for teams that build in code, and real-time evaluations on live deployments. IT teams that want a no-code builder with hands-on support fit StackAI; teams that also need voice agents, an open-source engine or evals on live traffic fit Dynamiq.

Side by side

Facts checked September 29, 2026. Sources below.

Dimension	Dynamiq	StackAI
Best for	Enterprises in regulated industries that need chat, voice and workflow agents on one governed stack, deployed inside their own environment.	IT and operations teams that want a drag-and-drop, no-code platform to build, deploy, govern and scale agents across an enterprise, per StackAI's site.
Deployment options	Dynamiq Cloud, or self-hosted on your AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift or any Kubernetes 1.32+ cluster, or on-prem. Fully isolated or air-gapped setups are delivered with our engineers.	Four deployment models from multi-tenant cloud to air-gapped on-premises, including VPC and dedicated infrastructure; on-prem installs run on AWS, GCP, Azure or your own servers, per its security page and docs.
Self-hosted or on-prem	Yes. Self-hosted on your cloud or on-prem, or Dynamiq Cloud; both run the same engine.	Yes. On-premises and virtual private cloud deployment are Enterprise features, per StackAI's pricing page, and existing deployments continue unchanged after the Asana acquisition, per its announcement.
License and source code	The Python SDK is open source under Apache-2.0 (github.com/dynamiq-ai/dynamiq), and the visual canvas runs on the same engine. The platform around it is not open source.	Closed source; StackAI's GitHub organization has no public repositories, and no SDK is published.
Model choice	29 model providers in the SDK, the most-used models behind one OpenAI-compatible AI Gateway endpoint, plus open models served on vLLM and LoRA fine-tuning.	Model-agnostic: providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and AWS Bedrock, models hosted on Azure or Bedrock, and local LLMs, with admins able to turn off StackAI-provided keys or block providers.
Agent types (chat, voice, workflow)	Chat, inbound voice and workflow agents on one engine. AI Coworker works with its own cloud sandbox computer, in the browser, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Telegram; Voice Agents answer inbound calls; Agent Builder runs workflow agents.	Agents and workflows, including Multi-Agent Teams (September 2026), delivered as forms, chat assistants, website chatbots, batch runs, APIs, and apps in Slack, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp or SMS. Audio nodes transcribe and generate speech, but no real-time voice agent is offered.
Developer surface	Agent Builder pairs a visual canvas with the open-source Python SDK on one engine, with Choice and rules nodes, workflows generated from a prompt, and versions with rollback.	A drag-and-drop builder with Python code and custom API nodes, a REST API, an MCP server for assistants such as Claude and Cursor, MCP client nodes, and JSON project export; no general-purpose SDK is published.
Governance (guardrails, approvals, SSO)	Guardrails that detect PII and prompt injection, policy detection, validators and approvals with editable fields on any tool step, on every plan; SSO (OIDC with Okta and Microsoft Entra ID) on Enterprise.	PII detection and masking, retention controls, admin review before a project is published with version history and diffs, human-in-the-loop approval nodes, SSO with Okta or Entra ID, SAML, SCIM, RBAC and audit logs; DPAs keep customer data out of model training.
Evals and observability	Evals with datasets built from traces, LLM-as-a-judge, predefined and code metrics, and real-time evaluations on live deployments; traces with cost and latency per node, monitoring, and an AI agent that surfaces issues from production traces.	An Evaluator that scores a test set with LLM-as-a-judge before a project goes live, plus analytics on usage, latency, tokens and users, run history and per-step traces.
Integrations	2,100+ app integrations and 11,800+ actions, plus MCP servers and per-user connections.	300+ integrations plus MCP servers, in a public catalog on StackAI's site.
Compliance	SOC 2 and CASA Tier 2, with a BAA for HIPAA workloads and a DPA under GDPR.	SOC 2 audited and ISO 27001 certified with continuous monitoring, per its trust center, plus HIPAA, GDPR and CCPA-CPRA, with a BAA available, per its site and docs.
Delivery help (engineers)	Forward-deployed engineers run a bootcamp in your environment, ship the first production agent with your team, then hand over.	Forward-deployed engineers lead weekly co-building sessions with every enterprise customer, alongside dedicated solution engineers, per StackAI's docs and pricing page.
Pricing model	Free to start ($0), and Enterprise with custom pricing. Available on AWS Marketplace, Microsoft Azure Marketplace and IBM Marketplace.	A free plan at $0 a month (500 runs, 2 projects, 1 seat), and custom Enterprise pricing with on-prem or VPC deployment, dedicated infrastructure, solution engineers and SSO, per StackAI's pricing page.

Best for

DynamiqEnterprises in regulated industries that need chat, voice and workflow agents on one governed stack, deployed inside their own environment.

StackAIIT and operations teams that want a drag-and-drop, no-code platform to build, deploy, govern and scale agents across an enterprise, per StackAI's site.

Deployment options

DynamiqDynamiq Cloud, or self-hosted on your AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift or any Kubernetes 1.32+ cluster, or on-prem. Fully isolated or air-gapped setups are delivered with our engineers.

StackAIFour deployment models from multi-tenant cloud to air-gapped on-premises, including VPC and dedicated infrastructure; on-prem installs run on AWS, GCP, Azure or your own servers, per its security page and docs.

Self-hosted or on-prem

DynamiqYes. Self-hosted on your cloud or on-prem, or Dynamiq Cloud; both run the same engine.

StackAIYes. On-premises and virtual private cloud deployment are Enterprise features, per StackAI's pricing page, and existing deployments continue unchanged after the Asana acquisition, per its announcement.

License and source code

DynamiqThe Python SDK is open source under Apache-2.0 (github.com/dynamiq-ai/dynamiq), and the visual canvas runs on the same engine. The platform around it is not open source.

StackAIClosed source; StackAI's GitHub organization has no public repositories, and no SDK is published.

Model choice

Dynamiq29 model providers in the SDK, the most-used models behind one OpenAI-compatible AI Gateway endpoint, plus open models served on vLLM and LoRA fine-tuning.

StackAIModel-agnostic: providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and AWS Bedrock, models hosted on Azure or Bedrock, and local LLMs, with admins able to turn off StackAI-provided keys or block providers.

Agent types (chat, voice, workflow)

DynamiqChat, inbound voice and workflow agents on one engine. AI Coworker works with its own cloud sandbox computer, in the browser, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Telegram; Voice Agents answer inbound calls; Agent Builder runs workflow agents.

StackAIAgents and workflows, including Multi-Agent Teams (September 2026), delivered as forms, chat assistants, website chatbots, batch runs, APIs, and apps in Slack, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp or SMS. Audio nodes transcribe and generate speech, but no real-time voice agent is offered.

Developer surface

DynamiqAgent Builder pairs a visual canvas with the open-source Python SDK on one engine, with Choice and rules nodes, workflows generated from a prompt, and versions with rollback.

StackAIA drag-and-drop builder with Python code and custom API nodes, a REST API, an MCP server for assistants such as Claude and Cursor, MCP client nodes, and JSON project export; no general-purpose SDK is published.

Governance (guardrails, approvals, SSO)

DynamiqGuardrails that detect PII and prompt injection, policy detection, validators and approvals with editable fields on any tool step, on every plan; SSO (OIDC with Okta and Microsoft Entra ID) on Enterprise.

StackAIPII detection and masking, retention controls, admin review before a project is published with version history and diffs, human-in-the-loop approval nodes, SSO with Okta or Entra ID, SAML, SCIM, RBAC and audit logs; DPAs keep customer data out of model training.

Evals and observability

DynamiqEvals with datasets built from traces, LLM-as-a-judge, predefined and code metrics, and real-time evaluations on live deployments; traces with cost and latency per node, monitoring, and an AI agent that surfaces issues from production traces.

StackAIAn Evaluator that scores a test set with LLM-as-a-judge before a project goes live, plus analytics on usage, latency, tokens and users, run history and per-step traces.

Integrations

Dynamiq2,100+ app integrations and 11,800+ actions, plus MCP servers and per-user connections.

StackAI300+ integrations plus MCP servers, in a public catalog on StackAI's site.

Compliance

DynamiqSOC 2 and CASA Tier 2, with a BAA for HIPAA workloads and a DPA under GDPR.

StackAISOC 2 audited and ISO 27001 certified with continuous monitoring, per its trust center, plus HIPAA, GDPR and CCPA-CPRA, with a BAA available, per its site and docs.

Delivery help (engineers)

DynamiqForward-deployed engineers run a bootcamp in your environment, ship the first production agent with your team, then hand over.

StackAIForward-deployed engineers lead weekly co-building sessions with every enterprise customer, alongside dedicated solution engineers, per StackAI's docs and pricing page.

Pricing model

DynamiqFree to start ($0), and Enterprise with custom pricing. Available on AWS Marketplace, Microsoft Azure Marketplace and IBM Marketplace.

StackAIA free plan at $0 a month (500 runs, 2 projects, 1 seat), and custom Enterprise pricing with on-prem or VPC deployment, dedicated infrastructure, solution engineers and SSO, per StackAI's pricing page.

Choose Dynamiq when

The agent engine is an open-source Python SDK under Apache-2.0, with the visual canvas on the same engine, so developers can build in code and read what their agents run on.
Voice Agents answer inbound calls over WebRTC, SIP and WebSocket on the same engine as chat and workflow agents.
Real-time evaluations on live deployments and an AI agent that surfaces issues from production traces, not only tests before launch.
AI Coworker works with its own cloud sandbox in the browser, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Telegram.

Choose StackAI when

A drag-and-drop, no-code builder aimed at IT and operations teams standing up agents across many business units.
Forward-deployed engineers who co-build weekly with every enterprise customer, plus dedicated solution engineers.
300+ integrations in a public catalog, and four deployment models up to air-gapped on-premises.

Moving from StackAI

Agents and workflows built on StackAI's canvas export as JSON, which gives a map for rebuilding them as agents and workflows in Dynamiq's Agent Builder, on the canvas or in the Python SDK. Integrations reconnect as Dynamiq integrations or MCP servers, knowledge bases move to Dynamiq Knowledge, and human-in-the-loop nodes become Dynamiq approvals.

Questions and answers

Is StackAI open source?

No. StackAI is closed source, and its GitHub organization has no public repositories. Dynamiq's Python SDK is open source under Apache-2.0; the Dynamiq platform is not.

Can both Dynamiq and StackAI run on premises?

Yes for both. StackAI lists on-premises and virtual private cloud deployment as Enterprise features, per its pricing page. Dynamiq self-hosts on your AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, OpenShift or any Kubernetes 1.32+ cluster, or on-prem.

What does the Asana acquisition mean for StackAI?

Per StackAI's announcement, it continues to operate as its own product and brand after joining Asana, and existing deployments, including on-prem and VPC, remain functional.

Does StackAI support voice agents?

Not as a product. StackAI has audio nodes that transcribe recordings and generate speech, and text messaging over WhatsApp or SMS, but no real-time voice agent. Dynamiq includes Voice Agents for inbound calls.

Does StackAI offer a free plan?

Yes, a free plan at $0 a month with 500 runs, 2 projects and 1 seat, per its pricing page. Dynamiq also offers a free plan to start, plus custom Enterprise pricing.

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