Agentic Index
Alta vs Artisan (2026)
Alta is the enterprise governance play and Artisan is the transparent product led play. Alta bundles SDR, calling, and RevOps agents with SOC 2 Type II and ISO certification and reference customers like Snowflake and Deel, priced through sales. Artisan leads with Ava and public pricing from free through 660 dollars a month. The buyer profile, not the feature list, usually decides this one.
| At a glance | Alta | Artisan |
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| Category | GTM / revenue agent | GTM / revenue agent |
| Entry price | Contact sales | Free ($0, 300 credits/mo) · Intern $280/mo ($250 annual, 12K credits) · Employee $660/mo ($600 annual, 30K credits) · Enterprise custom · ~10% off annual |
| Free / trial | — | n/p |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | public partial |
| Feature |
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| Action & orchestration | ||
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Knowledge & context | ||
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
Partial | Partial |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Full / Explicit | Unknown / Unspecified |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
Partial | No / Not documented |
| Solution readiness | ||
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Platform extensibility | ||
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
Partial | No / Not documented |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
Partial | Partial |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
Partial | Partial |
| Specialist automation | ||
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing |
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Alta
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Contact sales | Free ($0, 300 credits/mo) · Intern $280/mo ($250 annual, 12K credits) · Employee $660/mo ($600 annual, 30K credits) · Enterprise custom · ~10% off annual |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Public — partial |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
flat | hybrid |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | High variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
No free tierTrial
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Free tierTrial
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Mixed |
Choose Alta if
- Your security review requires certifications on paper before anyone sees a demo.
- You want three agent functions, outbound, calling, and RevOps, from one contract.
- Enterprise references matter: our matrix scores Alta at high confidence across security, observability, and knowledge.
Choose Artisan if
- You want to self serve into the product this week with a free tier.
- Published credit pricing keeps finance comfortable and renewal leverage on your side.
- A consolidated outbound platform matters more than adjacent RevOps functions.