Agentic Index
Coworker vs Sim (2026)
Coworker documents 11.5 of 14 and Sim 12.5 and they differ on what the platform remembers. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Sim is an open source workspace where teams build, deploy and manage agent workflows visually, conversationally through Mothership, or in code, at 25 dollars a month for Pro. Coworker pairs an organizational memory knowledge graph with model routing, fifty plus read and write connectors, a no code builder and approval gates, at thirty dollars per user monthly. Sim gives you three ways to build the same workflow; Coworker gives your agents a memory of the organization, which is the harder thing to build yourself.
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Coworker and Sim 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 Coworker if
- An organizational memory graph is the asset, and agents without it repeat the same questions.
- Read and write connectors across fifty plus systems is the integration you need.
- Approval gates on agent actions is the governance requirement.
Choose Sim if
- Building visually, conversationally or in code suits a team with mixed skills.
- Open source matters for your dependency position.
- Twenty five dollars a month flat is simpler than per user pricing as you scale.
| At a glance | Coworker | Sim |
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| Category | Enterprise operations agent | Agent builder |
| Entry price | $30 per user per month, all features included, published on Coworker's own pricing page. A free trial is offered with an upgrade path; an Enterprise tier is priced on application. | $25/mo (Pro, 5,000 credits) |
| Free / trial | Run your first agent in minutes on connect; no explicit free tier documented | Free Community plan (1,000 one time credits); free unlimited self hosting |
| Pricing confidence | public partial | public exact |
| Feature | C Coworker |
S Sim |
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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
Stands at F, strengthened, and it is now among the best-evidenced Know cells in the lane because the retrieval stack is native rather than an integration. THE MECHANISM IS DOCUMENTED, WHICH ALMOST NOTHING ELSE THIS SESSION MANAGED. Sim's Knowledge Base is described as a native feature using ADVANCED AI EMBEDDINGS AND VECTOR SEARCH TECHNOLOGY, with VECTOR EMBEDDINGS, AUTOMATIC CONVERSION OF TEXT INTO HIGH-DIMENSIONAL VECTORS FOR INTELLIGENT SIMILARITY MATCHING, and semantic search that understands meaning and context rather than matching keywords. THE CONTRAST WITH THE OTHER FULL CELLS TODAY IS WORTH RECORDING. joget and autogpt both reached Full on a Pinecone connector, where the vector store is a customer-supplied dependency and chunking, embedding and refresh are the customer's problem. Here the store is the platform's own and the surrounding controls are documented as their own pages: CONNECTORS, TAGS AND FILTERING, DEBUGGING RETRIEVAL and CHUNKING STRATEGIES. A vendor publishing a chunking strategies page and a retrieval debugging page has built a retrieval product, not a database binding. DEBUGGING RETRIEVAL IS THE PAGE THAT STANDS OUT and it is rare across the index. Most grounding failures are silent: the agent answers confidently from the wrong passage and nobody knows. A documented surface for inspecting what was retrieved and why is the difference between a knowledge base a team can operate and one they have to trust. MULTIPLE KNOWLEDGE BASES PER WORKSPACE are supported for different purposes or departments, and tag-based filtering scopes retrieval within one, so a single corpus can serve several agents with different views of it. The vendor's own framing on the product page is that data stored semantically in Sim is THE MEMORY YOUR AGENTS REASON OVER; that is grounding and is graded here, with agent state graded separately on Mem, and the record keeps the two distinct. |
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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
Stands at F, and the July self-flag is resolved. That basis noted THE MEMORY PAGE ITSELF WAS NOT OPENED IN THIS PASS SO CROSS SESSION SEMANTICS ARE GRADED FROM THE SURROUNDING DOCUMENTATION. The Agent block documentation settles it in one sentence. THE DECIDING LINE: MEMORY REQUIRES A CONVERSATION ID TO PERSIST ACROSS RUNS. Persisting across runs is the ruled Full condition, stated by the vendor, with the mechanism named. That is the exact question the July pass left open. FOUR MEMORY MODES ARE DOCUMENTED AS AGENT CONFIGURATION rather than as an integration a customer wires: NONE where each request is independent, CONVERSATION holding full history keyed by a conversation ID, SLIDING WINDOW BY MESSAGES keeping the N most recent, and SLIDING WINDOW BY TOKENS keeping messages up to a token limit. Offering the retention policy as a first-class setting is unusual in this lane, where memory is normally on or absent; here a builder chooses how much history persists and pays for it in context accordingly. THE ACCUMULATION LIMB IS SERVED BY MEM0, documented as enabling agents to MAINTAIN PERSISTENT MEMORY ACROSS WORKFLOW EXECUTIONS, RECALL PAST CONVERSATIONS, REMEMBER USER PREFERENCES, AND BUILD UPON PREVIOUS INTERACTIONS, with add, semantic search and retrieve operations. Zep ships alongside as a second external memory option. SO BOTH LIMBS ARE PRESENT BY DIFFERENT ROUTES: native session-keyed persistence configurable per agent, and accumulating long-term memory through integrations. Tables hold durable structured rows workflows read and write, and Variables carry in-run state, so the platform distinguishes three kinds of state cleanly rather than conflating them. WORTH RECORDING FOR CONSISTENCY: this is the third record today crediting Mem0, after autogpt and joget. In each case it is credited as a documented first-class primitive the customer wires, which the 31 August ruling permits explicitly. |
| 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 |
Partial
Stands at P. The July basis carried an explicit instruction, RECHECK BEFORE ANY UPGRADE, and this pass performed that recheck and found nothing new. Recording the negative result so the next reviewer does not repeat it. WHAT WAS SEARCHED: sim.ai, docs.sim.ai and the enterprise documentation, anchored on trust centre, SOC 2 and compliance terms. No trust centre, no report request path, no named audit firm, no observation period and no compliance page was found. The SOC 2 and HIPAA claims remain confined to the ai4.sim.ai marketing microsite with type unspecified. The July grade and reasoning stand unchanged. THE CONTROL HALF IS THE STRONGEST OF ANY PARTIAL IN THIS LANE, which is what makes the cell frustrating rather than weak. SAML 2.0 and OIDC single sign-on across Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace and ADFS. Workspace roles and permission groups enforced at execution time rather than only in the interface. Secrets management. Organisation-wide audit logs. Configurable data retention. Session policies and verified domains. And data drains continuously exporting logs to a customer-owned S3 bucket. THAT LAST ONE IS A GENUINE DIFFERENTIATOR and worth carrying: a customer's security team can pipe activity into their own SIEM rather than reading the vendor's dashboard, which is the form of auditability that survives a vendor outage or a contract ending. WHY IT STILL SITS AT PARTIAL. The bar is a conjunction: an attestation or certification alongside a named control. The controls half is met several times over; the attestation half is asserted on a marketing microsite and nowhere else. Under the hedge ladder that is the asserted-with-no-report rung, the same position as agentx today, and one rung below aigensei's SOC 2-aligned only in that a type is claimed rather than alignment. ONE STRUCTURAL POINT IN THE VENDOR'S FAVOUR, recorded but not credited: the platform is open source under Apache 2.0 and self-hostable, so a customer can inspect the code and run it inside their own controls. That is a different kind of assurance from an attestation and it is graded on Dep and Ext, not here. |
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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 | Full / Explicit |
| 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 |
Full / Explicit
Stands at F and the provider list is broader than the July basis recorded, now taken from the Agent block reference rather than summarised. THIRTEEN PROVIDERS ARE NAMED IN THE BLOCK DOCUMENTATION: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, DeepSeek, Groq, Cerebras, AZURE OPENAI, AZURE ANTHROPIC, GOOGLE VERTEX AI, AWS BEDROCK, OpenRouter, and local models through Ollama or VLLM. Selection is per Agent block from a model combobox where the builder can type or select any supported model. THE THREE HYPERSCALER ROUTES ARE THE ENTRIES THAT MATTER MOST and were not in the July list. Azure OpenAI, Azure Anthropic, Vertex AI and Bedrock let a customer consume frontier models through a cloud contract they already hold, under their existing data processing terms and commit spend. For a regulated buyer that is frequently the only permitted route to a given model, and a platform that omits it forces a procurement conversation that has already been had. THE ECONOMICS ARE DOCUMENTED AND UNUSUALLY CLEAN: bring your own key bills at base provider pricing WITH NO MARKUP, while hosted keys carry a 1.1x multiplier, and local models through Ollama or VLLM incur no API cost at all. Publishing the exact spread between routes lets a customer decide on cost rather than guess, and no-markup BYOK means the platform takes nothing on inference. THE GOVERNANCE LAYER IS THE PART FEW COMPETITORS HAVE: enterprise permission groups restrict WHICH PROVIDERS ARE ALLOWED, enforced at execution time and not only in the interface. So an organisation can permit Bedrock and forbid direct OpenAI across every agent its teams build, which is model choice bounded by policy rather than left to each builder. Combined with the fully offline self-hosted path credited on Dep, a customer can run the platform and its models entirely inside their own infrastructure. |
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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. |
No / Not documented |
Full / Explicit
Stands at F, and the July self-flag is resolved. That basis recorded honestly that THE EVALUATOR PAGE ITSELF WAS NOT OPENED IN THIS PASS SO DEPTH IS GRADED FROM ITS FIRST CLASS PLACEMENT IN THE BLOCK SET. The page is now open and the depth holds up. WHAT THE BLOCK ACTUALLY DOES: it USES AI TO SCORE AND ASSESS CONTENT QUALITY AGAINST CUSTOM METRICS, where the customer defines each metric with a name, a description and a numeric range, the documented examples being accuracy, clarity and relevance on one-to-five scales. THE SCHEMA ENFORCEMENT IS THE DETAIL THAT MAKES IT AN INSTRUMENT RATHER THAN A PROMPT. The Evaluator GENERATES A JSON SCHEMA RESPONSE FORMAT BASED ON YOUR METRICS AND ENFORCES STRICT MODE, SO THE LLM IS CONSTRAINED TO RETURN ONLY THE EXPECTED METRIC SCORES AS NUMBERS, NO EXTRA TEXT OR EXPLANATIONS. Numbers rather than prose is what makes a score comparable at all, and it is the difference between this and the model-as-judge pattern held at Partial on snaplogic. THE COMPARISON LIMB IS DOCUMENTED EXPLICITLY: the block is described as suited to QUALITY CONTROL, A/B TESTING, and one of its named use cases is A/B TESTING CONTENT, COMPARE MULTIPLE AI-GENERATED RESPONSES. The guidance also states CONNECT WITH AGENT BLOCKS: USE EVALUATOR BLOCKS TO ASSESS AGENT BLOCK OUTPUTS AND CREATE FEEDBACK LOOPS, so the subject being scored is the agent's own behaviour on the customer's own work, which is exactly what the ruled bar asks. A WORKED PATTERN IS PUBLISHED: Agent generates, Evaluator scores, Condition checks a threshold, then publish or revise. That is a quality gate with a readable numeric result driving control flow. THE HONEST LIMIT, and it is why this is not the strongest Eval cell in the index: comparison is between candidate outputs within a run, not across agent versions over time. No retained test set, stored expected outputs or regression run history is documented, which is what agentx has and this does not. Debugging is separately strong through block-by-block run traces, knowledge base retrieval debugging and per-run cost. |
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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
P>F, and this is a consistency correction rather than new evidence. The July basis found the capability and then withheld Full on a bar that does not exist. ITS REASONING, VERBATIM: the browser engine is AN INTEGRATED THIRD PARTY RATHER THAN SIM'S OWN, SO THE CAPABILITY IS DELIVERED BUT NOT FIRST PARTY. That test appears nowhere in the axis definition, which asks whether an agent operates software the vendor does not control because no programmatic interface exists. It asks what the customer can do, not who wrote the driver. THE INDEX DOES NOT APPLY THAT BAR ANYWHERE ELSE, which is what makes it an invented one. Model cells credit vendors for OpenAI and Anthropic models they did not build. Know cells credited joget and autogpt for Pinecone integration. Mem cells credit Mem0 across three records including this one. Penalising a third-party engine only on Comp would single out one axis for a rule the other thirteen do not carry. THE DECIDING PRECEDENT IS FROM EARLIER TODAY AND IS THE SAME ENGINE. autogpt moved N>F on a Stagehand Blocks section in its documentation, Stagehand being Browserbase's framework built on act, extract and observe. Sim ships FIRST CLASS BROWSER USE AND STAGEHAND INTEGRATIONS in its tools catalogue, with Apify and Bright Data alongside. Same engine, same integration shape, same product category, reviewed the same day. Grading them differently would have been indefensible. WHAT THE CUSTOMER ACTUALLY RECEIVES is the test that matters: a workflow block that drives a real browser against an interface with no API, composable beside the other thousand integrations. Browser Use and Stagehand both perform navigation and action rather than retrieval alone, which is the line held against scraping on ai-library, pickaxe and joget this session. Recorded for the lane: fifth genuine Comp positive in Agent builder, after sema4-ai, kalcend, integrail and autogpt, and the second resting on Stagehand. |
Pricing snapshot
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
$30 per user per month, all features included, published on Coworker's own pricing page. A free trial is offered with an upgrade path; an Enterprise tier is priced on application. | $25/mo (Pro, 5,000 credits) |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, partial | Public, exact |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
Per user per month on a standard tier at $30 with all features included, plus an Enterprise tier priced on application. Enterprise entitlements are enumerated rather than the price: custom credit allocation, all connectors plus custom ones for internal systems, Customer Intelligence, OM1/OM2 organizational memory, 90-day meeting retention, SSO, custom SLAs, implementation services and a dedicated Customer Success Manager. | credits |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Low variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
No free tierTrial
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Free tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Mixed | Mixed |
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