Agentic Index
Catalog vs Lemrock (2026)
Both score 5.5 of 14 solving the same new problem: making a brand's catalog legible to AI assistants so shoppers asking ChatGPT or Perplexity can find and buy the product. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Catalog structures and enriches a brand's catalog into machine readable data and syndicates it through MCP to the surfaces where shoppers ask. Lemrock, a Paris deeptech, builds vendor neutral middleware where a single integration ingests the catalog, structures it for models and makes products discoverable and transactable inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity while brands keep control of pricing and margins. Nearly identical missions, so decide on geography, on transactability, and on which one your assistants actually reach.
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Catalog and Lemrock 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 Catalog if
- MCP syndication is the mechanism you believe in for reaching assistant surfaces.
- Structuring and enriching the catalog itself is the work you need done.
- You want a data layer rather than a transaction rail.
Choose Lemrock if
- Transactable, not just discoverable, is the requirement: the shopper should be able to buy.
- Keeping control of pricing and margin inside assistant surfaces is your commercial condition.
- European presence and vendor neutrality matter for your market.
| At a glance | Catalog | Lemrock |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Agent infrastructure | Agent infrastructure |
| Entry price | Not publicly listed; early access | No public pricing; contracts are quoted through sales |
| Free / trial | No public free tier; some features are invite led developer preview. | No free tier or trial is documented on retrieved pages |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | contact only |
| Feature | C Catalog |
L Lemrock |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
No / Not documented | 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. |
No / Not documented | Partial |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
No / Not documented | Partial |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
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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. |
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 | 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. |
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 | 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 | C Catalog |
L Lemrock |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Not publicly listed; early access | No public pricing; 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 |
Undisclosed; likely managed subscription for brands and usage based API for builders. | not published; B2B contract likely scaled by catalog size, interaction volume, or transactions |
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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 |
Both vendors are early and this category barely exists yet, so capability coverage is thin on both sides and the assistant surfaces themselves are changing quickly. Treat any distribution claim as time limited and ask which specific assistants are live today.
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