On usedby, 43 companies use Dust and 40 use Listen. No company is listed with both yet. Dust leads among the Artificial Intelligence companies on usedby that use either tool, Listen among the Marketing Tech companies.Latest check Oct 5, 2026: 52 of 83 public lines checked. Counts include every proof level, job-post signals included. Companies named on both have a confirmed or observed line on each side.
Who uses Dust, Listen, or both
Every company with a public proof for at least one of the two tools.
43
use only Dust
0
companies use both
40
use only Listen
43 companies use only Dust, 40 use only Listen and 0 use both, out of the 83 companies on usedby that use at least one of them.
Where it lands
Newest customers
No new customer since tracking started on October 2, 2026.
Where it lands
Newest customers
We have not started tracking changes for Listen yet.
Who uses both
Companies with a confirmed or observed line on both tools.
By industry
Which tool the companies on usedby use, by industry. Shares of the companies on usedby that use Dust, Listen or both: a share of the companies on usedby, not of the market.
Dust onlyBothListen only
More common with Dust
- Artificial Intelligence3 of the 5 Artificial Intelligence companies on usedby that use either tool use Dust.
More common with Listen
- Marketing Tech3 of the 5 Marketing Tech companies on usedby that use either tool use Listen.
Source: confirmed and observed usedby lines. Job-post signals, the weakest proof level, are left out of these shares.
Side by side
Facts from our data and from each vendor's public pages. Each line says where it comes from.
Dust
ListenWhat customers report
Results as the vendor or the customer published them, with the source and the date.
Dust

Today, a dozen people, from engineers to executives, access cost data weekly through Dust.
Dailymotion
Vendor case study, dust.tt, published Jun 25, 2026

Within six months, 87% of the company was active monthly
Alma
Vendor case study, dust.tt, published Jun 30, 2026
Listen

the team shipped StudyArena in roughly half the time it took to build A1Zap
A1Base
Vendor case study, listenlabs.ai, captured Oct 2, 2026

Think about it as 100 studies for the price, at least in terms of time, of five or six.
Anthropic
Vendor case study, listenlabs.ai, captured Oct 2, 2026
Questions about Dust and Listen
Which is used more, Dust or Listen?
Dust has more customers on usedby: 43 against 40 for Listen. Dust leads among the Artificial Intelligence companies on usedby that use either tool, Listen among the Marketing Tech companies.
Do companies use both Dust and Listen?
usedby has not found a company with a confirmed or observed line on both Dust and Listen yet.
Who uses Dust?
43 companies on usedby, each with the public page that shows it. See who uses Dust.
Who uses Listen?
40 companies on usedby, each with the public page that shows it. See who uses Listen.
How does usedby count customers?
A company counts when a public page shows it: a vendor's customer page, a case study, a press release or a job post, most saved with a dated capture. Every line is a customer, at one of three proof levels: confirmed, observed or signal (a job post, the weakest). A company is named as using both tools when its lines on both are confirmed or observed.