Agentic Index
Fin vs Kore.ai (2026)
Both are at the top of the category and they represent the two dominant models, at 11 and 13 of 14. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Fin is the productized agent at 0.99 per resolution, grounded in your knowledge with simulation testing and multichannel support, ready quickly. Kore is the builder's platform with 200 plus templates, 300 plus integrations and voice plus chat, free to about 5,000 requests monthly then pay as you go. Buy an agent, or buy the toolkit to build several, and the honest question is whether you have the team to use a platform.
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Fin and Kore.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 Fin if
- You want a working agent quickly, not a platform to staff and maintain.
- Per resolution pricing means cost tracks value from the first day.
- Simulation based testing before going live is the risk control you need.
Choose Kore.ai if
- Documented coverage is marginally deeper and integration breadth is your constraint.
- A free tier lets your team prove the approach before spending anything.
- You have the team to build, and templates beat a fixed product.
| At a glance | Fin | Kore.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Customer support agent | Customer support agent |
| Entry price | $0.99 per outcome | Free tier (~5,000 requests/mo) · Standard pay-as-you-go $0.20/conversation ($100 min, $500 signup credits) · Enterprise custom (session-based) |
| Free / trial | 14-day free trial | — |
| Pricing confidence | public exact | public partial |
| Feature | F Fin |
K Kore.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. |
Partial | 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. |
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 | Full / Explicit |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Partial | 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 | 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 | Full / Explicit |
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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 | F Fin |
K Kore.ai |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
$0.99 per outcome | Free tier (~5,000 requests/mo) · Standard pay-as-you-go $0.20/conversation ($100 min, $500 signup credits) · Enterprise custom (session-based) |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, exact | Public, partial |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
outcomes | hybrid |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
High variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
No free tierTrial
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Free tierTrial
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Mixed | Mixed |
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