Agentic Index
Astelia vs Dux (2026)
Two exposure management platforms scoring 7 of 14 each, both founded by elite Israeli cyber alumni, both quoted through sales, both solving the same problem: your scanner found millions of vulnerabilities and almost none of them matter. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Astelia maps the real network and uses agents to analyze exploitability and reachability, narrowing to roughly the two percent that represent true exposure, with attack path visualization. Dux analyzes what is actually exploitable, then checks whether existing controls already block the path and surfaces lightweight mitigations faster than full patches. Astelia proves the path exists; Dux tells you whether you already stopped it.
On the Agentic Index AI SOC ranking, neither Astelia nor Dux clears the bar, which asks for all five investigation loop capabilities documented in full. Neither documents triggers and channel coverage in full, nor human oversight and guardrails. 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. Astelia and Dux 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 Astelia if
- Attack path visualization is what will move your remediation conversation forward.
- Reachability analysis across the real network is the reduction you need.
- You want the exposure narrowed hard before anything reaches an asset owner.
Choose Dux if
- Your existing controls may already block much of this and nobody has checked.
- Mitigations you can apply today beat patches queued behind a maintenance window.
- Routing targeted remediation to asset owners is the workflow that actually stalls for you.
| At a glance | Astelia | Dux |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Security / SOC agent | Security / SOC agent |
| Entry price | No public pricing; enterprise contracts are quoted through sales | No public pricing; enterprise contracts are quoted through sales |
| Free / trial | No free tier or trial is documented on retrieved pages | No free tier or trial is documented on retrieved pages |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | contact only |
| Feature | A Astelia |
D Dux |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
Partial | Partial |
| 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 | Partial |
| 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. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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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. |
No / Not documented | 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. |
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. |
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 | No / Not documented |
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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 Astelia |
D Dux |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
No public pricing; enterprise contracts are quoted through sales | No public pricing; enterprise contracts are quoted through sales |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
not published; enterprise contract likely scaled by environment size or assets | not published; enterprise contract likely scaled by environment size or assets |
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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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