Agentic Index

Agentic Index

Causely vs Cleric (2026)

Causely and Cleric both work out what broke in production, by different methods, and Cleric edges the grid, 10 of 14 against 9.5. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.

Causely infers root cause and blast radius from a causal model of the environment, for SRE teams and for their own AI agents through an MCP server and a GraphQL API; Professional is 2,000 dollars a month for up to 500 services, with a 30 day trial. Cleric verifies each change after merge against live production, investigates alerts read only and hands fix pull requests to engineers, with memories between investigations and credit plans from 100 dollars a month. Causely is Full on human approval, knowledge grounding and prebuilt agents, where Cleric is Partial; Cleric is Full on memory and Partial on model choice and evaluation, where Causely is None. Choose Causely for causal root cause that your own agents can query; choose Cleric for verification after merge with memory.

On the Agentic Index production ops ranking, neither Causely nor Cleric clears the bar, which asks for all five resolution loop capabilities documented in full. Causely does not document workflow orchestration in full; Cleric does not document workflow orchestration in full, nor human oversight and guardrails. 14 of the 37 vendors in the lane clear it. See the production ops ranking

This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Causely and Cleric 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 955 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded

Choose Causely if

  • Root cause and blast radius should come from a causal model of your environment.
  • Your own AI agents should query the analysis through MCP or GraphQL.
  • A flat price by service count, 2,000 dollars a month for up to 500 services, fits your budgeting.

Choose Cleric if

  • Every change should be verified against live production after it merges.
  • Context should carry from one investigation to the next.
  • You want a lower entry price, from 100 dollars a month in credits.
Feature
C
Causely
C
Cleric
Action & orchestration

Integrations & Tool Calling

Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools.

Workflow Orchestration

Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps.

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.
Knowledge & context

Knowledge Grounding & RAG

Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers.

Memory & State Persistence

Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer.
Control & trust

Human Oversight & Guardrails

Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls.

Security, Identity & Governance

RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy.

Observability & Auditability

Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior.

Deployment & Data Residency

Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting.
Solution readiness

Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs

Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value.
Platform extensibility

Model Flexibility & Routing

Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys.

APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility

Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems.

Testing, Debugging & Optimization

Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment.
Specialist automation

Browser & Computer Use

Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone.

Pricing snapshot

Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.

Pricing
C
Causely
C
Cleric

Entry price

Lowest public entry point

 Professional at $2,000 per month for up to 500 services. Enterprise is custom. From $700 per month on Team, with 1,400 credits. Pro is $2,000 and Enterprise is custom.

Pricing confidence

How public the numbers are

 Public, exact Public, exact

Billing

Primary billing axis

 Billed monthly by service count on Professional, up to 500 services. Enterprise runs on a custom plan. Monthly credit plans. A change verification or an investigation draws 10 credits and chat 1 credit per minute, and Enterprise runs on a custom annual credit pool.

Variable cost

Workload / overage exposure

 Low variable cost Medium variable cost

Free tier / trial

Try before you buy
No free tierTrial
No free tierTrial

Buying motion

Self-serve vs sales call

 Mixed Mixed

Both publish prices: Causely by service count, Cleric by credits. Model your own alert and service volumes before comparing.

Causely profileCleric profileCompare the full categorySee SRE and DevOps agents rankedBuild a custom comparison

Other matchups in SRE and DevOps agents

Not the pairing you were after? These compare a different set of SRE and DevOps agents on the same 14 capabilities.

See all 48 SRE and DevOps agents comparisons

Contact us

Found a vendor we missed? Have feedback on the index? We'd love to hear from you.