Model vendors

MAEQ vs OpenAI Frontier + workspace agents

OpenAI's enterprise platform for AI coworkers, plus agents inside ChatGPT.

Checked against public documentation on 14 October 2026

MAEQ

Managed AI agents on any model, a branded AI portal and an enterprise context layer, with governance set once.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agents

OpenAI's enterprise platform for AI coworkers, plus agents inside ChatGPT.

Covers: OpenAI Frontier, ChatGPT workspace agents, Agents API and Agents SDK

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When OpenAI Frontier + workspace agents is the better fit

Companies standardising on OpenAI models and ChatGPT.

How MAEQ differs

MAEQ runs OpenAI next to Claude, Gemini and Mistral under one set of policies, with EU data residency and your own keys.

Row by row

29 capabilities, side by side.

AvailablePartialComing soonBuild it yourselfNot offeredNot documented

Foundations

Choice of model vendor, with your own keys
Use models from several vendors, and bring your own API keys.
MAEQAvailable

OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Mistral (EU), Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry, side by side. Your own keys or usage-billed access.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsNot offered

OpenAI models only on Frontier, workspace agents and the Agents API; the open-source SDK supports other models.

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EU data residency
Keep data, and where possible processing, inside the EU.
MAEQAvailable

EU company (Amsterdam). EU storage and vector cloud by default; US or Asia, or your own S3 or Azure Blob, on request.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsPartial

ChatGPT Enterprise offers EU data and inference residency; the Agents API is US-only.

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Self-host or run in your own cloud
Run the platform on your own infrastructure or cloud account.
MAEQNot offered

Hosted SaaS today.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsPartial

Agents can run in your infrastructure or self-hosted sandboxes; the platform itself is OpenAI-hosted.

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Managed agents

Managed agent runtime
The vendor runs your agents; nothing to deploy or scale yourself.
MAEQAvailable

Agents, portals and automations run on MAEQ; there is nothing to deploy or scale.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsAvailable

Workspace agents run in the cloud; the Agents API is a managed runtime in beta.

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No-code agent builder for business users
Business users can create agents without writing code.
MAEQAvailable

Agents are generated from a plain-language description and automations are compiled from plain language, reviewed before saving.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsAvailable

Workspace agents are built conversationally; the Agent Builder canvas shuts down on 30 Nov 2026.

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Routing across specialist agents
Questions are routed to specialist agents and their answers combined.
MAEQAvailable

The portal orchestrator routes each question to specialist agents, runs them in parallel and merges their answers.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsAvailable

Sub-agents in the Agents API; handoffs in the Agents SDK.

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A2A protocol
Agents talk to agents on other platforms through the open Agent2Agent protocol.
MAEQNot offered

Not yet. Agents carry an A2A-style description card, but there is no A2A endpoint.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsNot documented

Not described in the documentation.

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Memory users can see and edit
Agents remember facts across conversations, and people can see and correct them.
MAEQAvailable

Shared and per-person memory; portal users can see and delete what is remembered about them.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsPartial

Workspace agents retain what they learn and can be corrected in conversation; a memory editor is not documented.

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Code sandboxes and coding workspaces
Agents write and run code in isolated sandboxes, including git repositories.
MAEQAvailable

E2B, Daytona or Blaxel workspaces, with git for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsAvailable

Hosted sandboxes in the Agents API; Codex for coding.

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Tools, actions and automations

MCP tools and app connectors
Agents act in business apps through MCP and managed connectors.
MAEQAvailable

1,600+ toolkits through Composio, first-party OAuth for GitHub, Slack, Jira, Teams, Azure DevOps and Gmail, and your own MCP servers.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsAvailable

Custom MCP servers and apps such as Google Drive, SharePoint, Slack and GitHub.

help.openai.com ↗
Your knowledge and agents as an MCP server
Other AI clients (Claude, Cursor and others) can use your knowledge and agents.
MAEQAvailable

Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients can search the knowledge and ask the portals a scoped key allows.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsNot documented

Not described in the documentation.

help.openai.com ↗
Automations on schedules, chains and events
Agents run on their own on a schedule, after another run, or on an event.
MAEQAvailable

Scheduled, run-now, chained and platform-event triggers; inbound webhook triggers are not available yet.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsAvailable

Workspace agents run on schedules and API triggers.

help.openai.com ↗
Approvals where the reviewer can edit or regenerate
A person reviews the exact pending action and can edit or regenerate it before it runs.
MAEQAvailable

The reviewer sees the exact pending action, such as the email about to be sent, and can edit, swap or regenerate it.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsPartial

Write actions ask for approval by default.

help.openai.com ↗

Enterprise context layer

Managed document sync
SharePoint, Google Drive and similar sources stay in sync without custom pipelines.
MAEQAvailable

SharePoint, Google Drive and Dropbox sync incrementally, following changes and deletions; S3 and Azure Blob are read in place.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsPartial

Synced connectors such as SharePoint in ChatGPT.

help.openai.com ↗
Automated intake and curation
Dropped documents are de-duplicated, grouped and proposed as knowledge bases.
MAEQAvailable

Dropped folders and archives are de-duplicated, grouped by topic and proposed as knowledge bases; duplicates merge into restorable golden records.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsNot documented

Not described in the documentation.

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Snowflake and Databricks grounding, both native
Answers grounded in governed warehouse data, with the warehouse computing the figures.
MAEQAvailable

Snowflake Cortex Analyst and Databricks Genie: the warehouse writes and runs the SQL, and MAEQ shows it.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsPartial

Frontier connects warehouses and CRM through a semantic layer; specific warehouses are not named.

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Portals and end users

Branded portal, website widget and SSO
A ready, branded AI portal for staff or customers, an embeddable website assistant and single sign-on.
MAEQAvailable

Branded portals for staff or customers, an embeddable website assistant, and SSO with Entra ID, Okta or any OIDC provider.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsAvailable

ChatGPT for staff, and ChatKit as an embeddable chat for websites and apps.

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Governance, quality and cost

Policies and guardrails
PII protection, prompt-injection defence, quotas and access rules, enforced on every call.
MAEQAvailable

25 policy types (PII, prompt injection, toxicity, quotas, IP and time limits, tool-chain control), plus Lakera Guard, Bedrock Guardrails, NeMo and Guardrails AI.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsAvailable

Per-agent permissions, prompt-injection safeguards and a guardrails library.

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Agent identity and registry, including other vendors' agents
A governed inventory of agents with their own identities, across platforms.
MAEQPartial

A versioned registry of your MAEQ agents with auto-written description cards; other vendors' agents are not covered.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsAvailable

Frontier gives each agent an identity and permissions, including third-party agents.

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Tracing, call trail and export
Every call traced step by step, with export to your own observability tool.
MAEQAvailable

Every call with its steps and cost; export traces to your own Langfuse. LangSmith, Arize and Helicone export are coming.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsPartial

Agents SDK tracing and workspace agent analytics.

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Retrieval and answer-quality evaluation
Measure whether the right sources are found and whether answers are grounded in them.
MAEQAvailable

Automatically built test sets, recall@k and MRR, regression checks, AI-judge groundedness, citation checks, and Comparison Lab to test models and search settings side by side.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsPartial

Hosted Evals shuts down on 30 Nov 2026; Frontier describes evaluation loops.

developers.openai.com ↗
User feedback to triage to fix
User ratings flow into a triage queue that recommends a concrete fix.
MAEQAvailable

Users rate answers with a reason; a triage console turns each complaint into a recommended fix and where to make it.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsPartial

Agents can be corrected in conversation; usage analytics.

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Agent simulation and task-completion graders
Simulated users and graders that score whether agents complete whole tasks.
MAEQNot offered

Not yet: no simulated users or task-completion graders.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsPartial

Hosted Evals is being retired; Frontier describes optimisation loops.

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Cost tracking and quotas per call
The cost of every call is recorded, and budgets or quotas can cap it.
MAEQAvailable

The cost of every call is recorded in a credit ledger, with token, cost and invocation quotas.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsPartial

Credits per workspace-agent run.

help.openai.com ↗
Automated model-retirement tracking and migration
New and retiring models are detected, and agents are moved with an impact preview.
MAEQAvailable

Daily discovery of new and retiring models across four providers, and a watch on deprecation pages. Guided migration with an impact preview and rollback, started by a person.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsPartial

Deprecation notices and migration guides; no automated migration.

developers.openai.com ↗
Many client organisations from one console
Consultancies and integrators run many client organisations from one place.
MAEQPartial

Each client gets an isolated tenant with its own branding, data and plan; a partner console across clients is not available yet.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsPartial

A console across multiple API organisations; partner delivery through alliances.

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On the MAEQ roadmapComing soon

Automated enterprise ontology
A model of your entities, terms and relationships, built automatically from your data.
MAEQComing soon

Intake already prepares the hand-off. Next is a model of your entities, terms and relationships, built automatically from your documents and data.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsPartial

Frontier describes a semantic layer over warehouses and CRM.

openai.com ↗
Unified triage across documents and warehouse data
Deciding per question which source answers what, across documents and governed tables.
MAEQComing soon

Agents already combine warehouse figures and documents in one answer. Next, MAEQ decides per question which source should answer what.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsPartial

Frontier's business context spans warehouses and documents.

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Conflict triage with confidence scores and human review
Conflicts between datasets, data types or local, regional and global sources are detected, scored and routed to a reviewer when confidence is low.
MAEQComing soon

Detect conflicting figures and statements across datasets, data types and local, regional and global sources; score confidence and send low-confidence cases to a reviewer.

OpenAI Frontier + workspace agentsNot documented

Not described in the documentation.

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How this comparison is made

Every OpenAI Frontier + workspace agents cell is based on the vendor's own documentation, release notes or pricing pages, checked on 14 October 2026, and links to its source. If something here is out of date, email hello@maeq.com and we will correct it.

“Not documented” means we could not confirm a capability from public sources, not that it is missing. Rows in the last group are on the MAEQ roadmap and marked “Coming soon”.

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