Agentic Index
Beam AI vs Kognitos (2026)
Beam AI and Kognitos both turn business processes into running automations, and the split is agentic process automation versus neurosymbolic determinism: Beam AI converts SOPs into self learning agents across finance, HR, and support with 1000+ integrations and custom hosting including on premise, while Kognitos lets business users write automations in plain English that execute deterministically without hallucinations, with a full audit trail and a free community edition. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Both are demo led for enterprise. Choose Beam AI for self learning agent breadth, Kognitos for deterministic, auditable execution.
On the Agentic Index automation platform ranking, Beam AI clears the bar and Kognitos does not. Beam AI documents all five unattended run loop capabilities in full; Kognitos does not document testing, debugging and optimization in full. 11 of the 26 vendors in the lane clear it. See the automation platform ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Beam AI and Kognitos 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 956 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Beam AI if
- Uploading SOPs and getting working agents matches your adoption model.
- Self learning agents that improve with each run is the value you are buying.
- On premise or custom hosting options matter to your compliance posture.
Choose Kognitos if
- Deterministic execution without hallucinations is a hard requirement for your processes.
- Plain English automation authored by business users fits your operating model.
- A free community edition lets you validate before enterprise commitment.
| At a glance | Beam AI | Kognitos |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Enterprise operations agent | Enterprise operations agent |
| Entry price | Free tier at $0; lowest published paid plan $50 per month (Pro, 200 tasks) on beam.ai/pricing, against Grow from $499 per month on beam.ai/pricing-2 — the two published pages disagree | Free to start; enterprise pricing quoted |
| Free / trial | Free tier published on both pricing pages — Core at $0 per month, and Free at 20 tasks per month with self-healing outputs; a free trial is referenced in the pricing FAQ, and app.beam.ai is a live self-serve entry point | — |
| Pricing confidence | public partial | public exact |
| Feature | B Beam AI |
K Kognitos |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | No / Not documented |
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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. |
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. |
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. |
Full / Explicit | 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. |
Full / Explicit | 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. |
Full / Explicit | 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 | Full / Explicit |
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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. |
Full / Explicit | 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 | Full / Explicit |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing | B Beam AI |
K Kognitos |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Free tier at $0; lowest published paid plan $50 per month (Pro, 200 tasks) on beam.ai/pricing, against Grow from $499 per month on beam.ai/pricing-2 — the two published pages disagree | Free to start; enterprise pricing quoted |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, partial | Public, exact |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
Per month by plan tier, gated on task or automation volume and consuming Beam tokens, with base-integration count as the other axis; managed service and professional services priced separately | — |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
High variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
Free tierTrial
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No free tierTrial
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Mixed | Mixed |
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