Agentic Index
Galileo vs Patronus AI (2026)
Choose Galileo for a platform approach to evaluation, observability, and guardrails with its Luna models, and choose Patronus AI for research grade failure detection embedded through an API. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Galileo starts at 100 dollars a month billed yearly with a free tier, while Patronus runs pay as you go at roughly 10 to 20 dollars per 1,000 API calls with 5 dollars in free credits. Galileo is now owned by Cisco, and its documentation says it became Splunk Agent Observability on 7 August 2026, while galileo.ai still sells the Galileo plans quoted here. Galileo suits teams standardizing on one evaluation platform; Patronus suits teams embedding hallucination and safety checks into existing pipelines.
On the Agentic Index agent infrastructure ranking, Galileo clears the bar and Patronus AI does not. Galileo documents all five production contract capabilities in full; Patronus AI does not document security and identity governance in full, nor model flexibility and routing. 34 of the 186 vendors in the lane clear it. See the agent infrastructure ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Galileo and Patronus 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 956 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Galileo if
- You want evaluation, observability, and guardrails consolidated in one platform
- A subscription with a free tier is easier to budget than per call metering
- Automated insight and root cause analysis across eval runs saves review time
Choose Patronus AI if
- You are embedding hallucination detection into your own pipeline via API
- Research grade judge models on specific failure modes are the differentiator you need
- Pay as you go aligns cost to actual evaluation volume
| At a glance | Galileo | Patronus AI |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Agent infrastructure | Agent infrastructure |
| Entry price | From $100/mo billed yearly · free tier | Developer free · API from $10 per 1,000 evaluator calls |
| Free / trial | Free tier: 5,000 traces/month, unlimited users, unlimited custom evals, no card | Developer plan free with no credit card, and $10 in free API credits |
| Pricing confidence | public exact | public exact |
| Feature | G Galileo |
P Patronus 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. |
Partial | Partial |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
No / Not documented | 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. |
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. |
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. |
Full / Explicit | Unknown / Unspecified |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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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. |
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. |
Full / Explicit | Unknown / Unspecified |
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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. |
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 | G Galileo |
P Patronus AI |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
From $100/mo billed yearly · free tier | Developer free · API from $10 per 1,000 evaluator calls |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, exact | Public, exact |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
Monthly traces within subscription tiers; Pro pricing scales with trace volume | Pay as you go per evaluator API call, priced by evaluator size, plus a charge per evaluation explanation; platform features free on the Developer plan within limits; Enterprise custom |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | High variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
Free tier
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Free tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Self-serve | Mixed |
Galileo is owned by Cisco. Its documentation says it became Splunk Agent Observability on 7 August 2026 and points customers who joined after that date to Splunk's documentation. galileo.ai still sells the Galileo plans quoted on this page.
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