Agentic Index
ASAPP vs Cresta (2026)
Both are enterprise contact center AI platforms that blend automation with human agent assist, and the split is emphasis: ASAPP foregrounds human in the loop validation before resolution, while Cresta unifies autonomous agents, real time agent assist, and conversation intelligence on one system. Both are contact sales and aimed at large contact centers. Choose Cresta for its combined autonomous plus assist story, ASAPP for its validation first approach.
| At a glance | ASAPP | Cresta |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Customer support agent | Customer support agent |
| Entry price | Contact sales | Contact for pricing |
| Free / trial | — | — |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | contact only |
| Feature |
A
ASAPP
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C
Cresta
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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 | Full / Explicit |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
Partial | Full / Explicit |
| 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 | Full / Explicit |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Partial | 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. |
Partial | Partial |
| 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. |
Full / Explicit | 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 | Full / Explicit |
| 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 | Partial |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing |
A
ASAPP
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C
Cresta
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|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Contact sales | Contact for pricing |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
flat | — |
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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 | — |
Choose ASAPP if
- You want generative AI for the contact center with human validation gating resolutions.
- You run a large enterprise contact center and want a vendor focused on that environment.
- You prefer a careful, human checked automation posture.
Choose Cresta if
- You want autonomous agents, live agent assist, and conversation intelligence unified on one platform.
- Real time coaching for human agents is as important to you as automation.
- You want durable memory and strong orchestration across the contact center.