Agentic Index
Andesite vs Culminate (2026)
Both automate triage and investigation across the full alert stream, at 5.5 and 6.5 of 14. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Culminate investigates using expert level techniques at machine speed with no playbooks, code or prompts, orchestrating the stack during investigations. Andesite runs a bionic operations centre automating triage, enrichment and investigation across all alerts while analysts own critical decisions, with Evidentiary AI making every decision auditable, aligned to SOC 2, NIST 800-53 High, NIST CSF and the NIST AI RMF with FedRAMP High in process. If your buyer is government or a contractor, that compliance list is the entire comparison.
On the Agentic Index AI SOC ranking, neither Andesite nor Culminate clears the bar, which asks for all five investigation loop capabilities documented in full. Andesite does not document integrations and tool calling in full, nor human oversight and guardrails; Culminate does not document human oversight and guardrails in full. 24 of the 94 vendors in the lane clear it. See the AI SOC ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Andesite and Culminate are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 969 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Andesite if
- FedRAMP High and NIST alignment are procurement requirements you cannot work around.
- Auditable and explainable decisions are what your oversight process demands.
- Analysts owning critical decisions by design is the governance model you need.
Choose Culminate if
- Documented coverage is slightly broader and no configuration is the deployment advantage.
- Orchestrating the whole stack during investigation is the depth you want.
- Commercial rather than government context, so the compliance list is not decisive.
| At a glance | Andesite | Culminate |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Security / SOC agent | Security / SOC agent |
| Entry price | Contact sales | Contact sales |
| Free / trial | Not published | Not published |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | contact only |
| Feature | A Andesite |
C Culminate |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
Partial | 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. |
Partial | Partial |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Partial | Partial |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Partial | Partial |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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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 | Partial |
| 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. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
| 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. |
No / Not documented | 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. |
No / Not documented | 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. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
| 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 | A Andesite |
C Culminate |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Contact sales | Contact sales |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
scope of SOC alert volume and environments under the bionic SOC platform | alert and investigation volume across connected security tools |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
No free tier
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No free tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Sales call |
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