What is the main difference between AEQI and Viktor?

Viktor is an AI employee that installs into a Slack or Teams workspace you already run and returns finished artefacts. AEQI is the company underneath that: hosted, with roles, a quest ledger, memory owned by the company, and its own server and billing. Viktor staffs a workspace; AEQI is the company the workspace is for.

Why does Viktor give 20,000 credits for $50 when AEQI gives 1,250 for €50?

The credits aren't the same unit. Viktor's are model costs passed through with no markup, on shared infrastructure. An AEQI credit runs on a machine provisioned for your company alone, paid for every month whether used or not, carrying your database, files, website and integrations. Compare the deliverable, not the number.

Who should choose Viktor over AEQI?

A team that already has a company, accounts and a Slack or Teams workspace, and wants finished output delivered into that conversation with almost no setup. Choose AEQI when the company itself is what needs to exist and keep running: roles, a ledger, memory, a website and infrastructure you own.

AEQI vs Viktor

Choose Viktor if you already have a company and want finished work delivered into the Slack or Teams channel where your team talks, at close to the cost of the model it calls.

Choose AEQI if the company itself is what’s missing — roles, a ledger, memory and a server, not one more hire added to an existing one.

What Viktor is

Viktor’s own line, as of September 2026, is “Not a tool. A hire.” It installs into a Slack or Microsoft Teams workspace you already run, connects to your stack, and returns finished artefacts — PDFs, spreadsheets, web apps, pull requests, board packs, campaigns. It was founded in 2023 by two former Meta engineers, launched publicly in February 2026, and raised a $75M Series A led by Accel in May 2026. The unit of the product is the employee itself, metered in credits rather than seats: as of September 2026, $50 buys 20,000 credits, rising to $30,000 for 12,000,000 credits, with every tier carrying the same features and a free trial of $100 in credits to start.

Side by side

Question	Viktor	AEQI
Who it's for	A team that already has a company and wants finished work delivered into the Slack or Teams channel where the team already talks.	A founder or small team that wants a company built from named roles, not one more hire added to an existing one.
Where it lives	Inside a Slack or Microsoft Teams workspace you already run; no separate app.	Its own hosted Company — a dedicated server in Germany, plus a website, app, API, MCP and CLI.
Agents and roles	No named roles — one AI employee connected to your stack, working across whatever task you hand it.	Ten officer agents in named roles — CEO, CTO, COO, CFO, CMO, CRO, CPO, Chief of Staff, General Counsel, Founder's Associate — each with its own permissions.
Memory	Not published.	A shared Company memory — mail, decisions and quests linked together — that outlives any single agent or session.
Channels	Slack and Microsoft Teams.	One inbox across Email, Slack, Teams, Telegram and WhatsApp.
Hosting and data	Hosted by Viktor; security posture is self-asserted — SOC 2 Type 1, with Type 2 and ISO 27001 described as in progress.	One hosted Company per customer, on its own server in Germany, with EU data residency.
Pricing	$50 a month for 20,000 credits, rising to $30,000 for 12,000,000 credits; credits are model costs passed through with no markup.	€50 (Personal, 1 seat, 1,250 credits), €200 (Startup, 4 seats, 5,000 credits) or €800 (Business, 16 seats, 20,000 credits) a month; two months free annually.
Trial	Free trial with $100 in credits, as of September 2026.	3-day free trial; 33% off Personal for the first 3 months through 31 October 2026.
Best for	A team that wants an AI hire dropped into the chat app it already uses, with almost no setup.	A founder whose company — the roles, the ledger, the website — is the thing that still needs to exist and keep running.

Viktor is the better choice when

You already have a company — accounts, customers, a Slack or Teams workspace where the work is discussed — and want finished work delivered straight into that conversation, with setup measured in minutes because there is nothing else to set up.
You want to pay close to model cost, with no markup: Viktor states plainly that its credits are model costs passed through, on infrastructure it runs and maintains, rather than provisioning and paying for a server of your own whether you use it or not.
Connector breadth matters more than an org chart: Viktor advertises more than 3,200 tools, well ahead of what AEQI ships today, and there is nothing to configure beyond connecting the tools you already use — backed by a $75M Series A that makes pass-through pricing at model cost survivable.

AEQI is the better choice when

The company is the part that doesn’t exist yet, or exists only as you — not a workspace that already has accounts and a Slack channel waiting for a hire.
You want roles with their own authority instead of one employee doing every kind of task, and a quest ledger you can open, redirect or audit rather than a thread of finished deliverables with no record of why any of them were built.
Decisions and memory need to belong to the company, not disappear when a chat thread scrolls past — every agent asks before it publishes, sends or pays, through a Decisions pane it cannot route around, and what one agent learns is there for the next.
The work includes a website, billing and an inbox of its own, not just artefacts returned into someone else’s chat app, running on a server in Germany with EU data residency, and priced as one cent of execution on a machine provisioned for your company alone.

The difference in one sentence

Viktor is an employee hired into a company you already run, paid close to the cost of the model it calls; AEQI is the company itself — roles, a ledger, memory and a server of its own — built for when that company doesn’t exist yet, or exists only as you.

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Last verified 14 September 2026. Competitor facts are quoted from their public pages on that date.