Compare · Trelium vs ChatGPT

ChatGPT drafts.Trelium ships.

ChatGPT is the smartest co-pilot for an individual. Trelium is the agent that runs your team's workflows on triggers, across your real tools, no copy-paste required.

ChatGPT
Chat

Now copy this and paste it into Gmail. Then into Slack.

Trelium · Agent Builder
Listening

Describe what you want your agent to do

Send an onboarding email to support@questom.ai…

Then Trelium

  • Connected Gmail
  • Connected Slack
  • Deployed agent
  • Sent email to support@questom.ai
  • Posted in #product
Done in 1.4s · 2 apps · zero copy-pasteLive in production

What you get with Trelium

An operating layer for agents, not just a chat box.

01 · The builder

Plain English to a live agent.

Type a sentence. Trelium reads intent, picks the apps, wires the steps, and ships the agent. No flowcharts, no glue code.

Agent Builder

Describe what you want your agent to do

Send onboarding email to support@questom.ai and post to #product.

Run

02 · The reach

2,600+ tools. Connect once.

Authenticate Gmail, Slack, Salesforce, QuickBooks, Notion, and the rest. Every agent on your team uses them, no rebuilds.

Connections

5 / 2,600+

Connect once. Every agent uses them.

03 · The cockpit

Every agent, every action, one screen.

The Command Center is your team's manager view. See what's running, what's blocked, what needs a person, live.

Workflows4 active
  • Team OnboardingRunning
  • Email Auto-ReplyRunning
  • Sales HandoffBuilding
  • Invoice TriageRunning

04 · The trust

Approvals and audit, built in.

Per-agent autonomy modes: autopilot, approval-required, escalate-to-admin. Every action stays in a searchable trail.

Stats · last 7dAudited

1,284

Total jobs

1,267

Healthy

14

Pending approval

3

Escalated

The full breakdown

Side-by-side, every dimension.

What each one does

Builder paradigm

Trelium

Plain English sentence becomes a deployed agent on your real tools.

ChatGPT

Conversation in chat.openai.com, or model calls via the API.

Acts on real systems

Trelium

Reads, writes, and updates across 2,600+ tools natively.

ChatGPT

Tool-use available, but you build and host the integrations.

Runs without you

Trelium

Triggers on events: deals close, emails arrive, schedules fire.

ChatGPT

Runs only when you start a session or fire an API call.
Integrations

Direct app integrations

Trelium

2,600+ business SaaS tools out of the box, custom on enterprise.

ChatGPT

Custom GPT actions or API tool-use, you build and maintain connectors.

Cross-app workflows

Trelium

One agent fans out across CRM, billing, ticketing, comms in a single run.

ChatGPT

Possible via the API, you write the orchestration code.

Memory of your stack

Trelium

Knows your apps, accounts, and policies; persists across runs.

ChatGPT

Context per chat or per API call; persistence is your problem to solve.
Oversight & ops

Command Center

Trelium

Every agent, every action, one screen. Live status + audit trail.

ChatGPT

No native ops surface; you build dashboards on top of API logs.

Approval & autonomy modes

Trelium

Per-agent: Autopilot · Approval required · Escalate to admin · custom.

ChatGPT

You implement approvals in your application code.

Audit trail

Trelium

Every action, every approval, searchable forever.

ChatGPT

API logs at the request level; downstream actions are your records to keep.

Team-wide rollout

Trelium

Agents are shared assets the whole team operates.

ChatGPT

Each ChatGPT user runs their own conversations; API access is dev-team-shaped.
Trust & enterprise

SOC 2

Trelium

In progress.

ChatGPT

Type II on the API and Enterprise plans.

SSO · SAML · SCIM

Trelium

Available from Growth tier up.

ChatGPT

Available on ChatGPT Enterprise.

Per-account data isolation

Trelium

Single-tenant data plane, per-account encryption keys.

ChatGPT

Multi-tenant; zero-data-retention available on the API for eligible customers.

Never trains on your data

Trelium

Contractual. Audit logs prove it.

ChatGPT

OpenAI does not train on customer data via the API; review the DPA for current terms.
Pricing

Pricing model

Trelium

Sized to team and active workflows. Predictable monthly.

ChatGPT

Per-seat for ChatGPT, per-token for the API.

Risk-free trial

Trelium

Live 30-min POC on your real workflows. Pay only when working.

ChatGPT

Free tier with rate limits.

See Trelium do what ChatGPTcan't.

30-minute live POC. We build one of your real workflows, on your tools, and you decide.

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