Agentic Index
Doctor Droid vs Sherlocks.ai (2026)
Two AI SRE agents with real free tiers, which is rare in this lane, differing on openness against memory. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Doctor Droid is MIT licensed and free to self host, with an investigation knowledge graph, PlayBooks automation and an AlertOps Slack bot for triage and root cause. Sherlocks correlates observability signals for incident response and outage prevention with institutional memory that accumulates, free for thirty investigations a month then from 500 dollars, documenting 9 of 14 against 10. Own the code, or let the system learn your environment.
On the Agentic Index production ops ranking, neither Doctor Droid nor Sherlocks.ai clears the bar, which asks for all five resolution loop capabilities documented in full. Doctor Droid does not document observability and auditability in full, nor human oversight and guardrails; Sherlocks.ai does not document observability and auditability in full. 10 of the 39 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. Doctor Droid and Sherlocks.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 Doctor Droid if
- MIT licensed and self hostable is a requirement rather than a preference.
- PlayBooks automation lets you encode what your team already knows how to do.
- You want no ceiling on investigation volume, which a free tier count imposes.
Choose Sherlocks.ai if
- Institutional memory is the value: the agent should know your systems better each month.
- Documented coverage is broader and outage prevention is in scope, not just response.
- Thirty free investigations a month is enough to prove it before you pay.
| At a glance | Doctor Droid | Sherlocks.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Category | SRE / DevOps agent | SRE / DevOps agent |
| Entry price | Open source (MIT) self-host free; cloud tier pricing not public | Free (30 investigations/mo); paid from $500/month |
| Free / trial | Free open-source (MIT) self-host + free Slack app | Free plan (30 investigations/mo, no card) + 1 month free on paid |
| Pricing confidence | public partial | public exact |
| Feature | D Doctor Droid |
S Sherlocks.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 | 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 |
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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 | Full / Explicit |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Partial | Full / Explicit |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Partial | Full / Explicit |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Partial | 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. |
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 | Full / Explicit |
| 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 | No / Not documented |
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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 | 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 | No / Not documented |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing | D Doctor Droid |
S Sherlocks.ai |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Open source (MIT) self-host free; cloud tier pricing not public | Free (30 investigations/mo); paid from $500/month |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, partial | Public, exact |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
— | — |
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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 |
Free tierTrial
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Free tierTrial
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Mixed | Self-serve |
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