Agentic Index
Cyara vs Hamming AI (2026)
Both test conversational agents by talking to them, at 6 and 5.5 of 14. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Hamming simulates thousands of test calls and monitors production calls with more than fifty voice specific metrics, all plans through sales with free demos to start. Cyara is the established CX assurance platform that added agentic testing and governance, using AI test agents to test other agents across voice and digital channels with AI Trust modules catching compliance, bias and hallucination risk before customers do. Hamming is the specialist on voice quality; Cyara brings an assurance practice enterprises already recognize.
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Cyara and Hamming AI 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 Cyara if
- Digital channels alongside voice are in scope, not just the phone.
- Compliance, bias and hallucination checks are what your risk function will ask for.
- An established assurance vendor is easier to justify than a specialist startup.
Choose Hamming AI if
- Voice is the product and fifty plus voice specific metrics is the depth you need.
- Simulating thousands of calls before launch is the specific capability you are buying.
- Free demos let you hear the difference before committing to anything.
| At a glance | Cyara | Hamming AI |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Agent infrastructure | Agent infrastructure |
| Entry price | No public pricing; enterprise contracts are quoted through sales | All plans contact sales · free demos to start |
| Free / trial | No free tier or trial is documented on retrieved pages | Free interactive demos and signup at app.hamming.ai; Retell customers get 100 free test calls. No published free tier. |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | contact only |
| Feature | C Cyara |
H Hamming AI |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Partial |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
Partial | No / Not documented |
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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. |
No / Not documented | 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. |
Partial | Partial |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Partial | Partial |
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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 | Partial |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
Partial | 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. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| 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 Cyara |
H Hamming AI |
|---|---|---|
|
Entry price Lowest public entry point |
No public pricing; enterprise contracts are quoted through sales | All plans contact sales · free demos to start |
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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 channels, agents tested, or usage | Usage based, scaling with test and monitored call volume; exact rates not publicly disclosed |
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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 tierTrial
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Sales call |
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