Agentic Index

Newgen vs Pega (2026)

Newgen and Pega sell process and case management suites to banks and insurers with AI agents built in, and each ships ready made industry agents. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.

Pega runs agents at workflow steps, orchestrates them with Agentic Process Fabric, lets architects choose models across Azure OpenAI, Bedrock and Vertex, records each interaction in Agent Tracer and automates legacy screens with Robot Studio. Newgen pairs process automation with content services and customer communications, ships agents for credit decisioning, underwriting, claims and trade finance, retrieves over its own repository and runs on its own fine tuned models, on AWS, Azure or on premises. Pega is the deeper case management platform, with model choice and FedRAMP High through Pega Cloud for Government. Newgen puts lending and claims agents inside a suite that also runs content and communications.

This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Newgen and Pega 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 1,006 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded

Choose Newgen if

  • Agents should work from the content repository, capture and communications in one suite.
  • Prebuilt credit decisioning and trade finance agents are a priority.
  • Plans with stated user and API limits help with early sizing.
  • Marvin should classify and route incoming email into workflows.

Choose Pega if

  • Architects should pick the model provider across Azure OpenAI, Bedrock and Vertex.
  • Your agency or regulator requires FedRAMP High.
  • AI assistants such as Claude or ChatGPT should call your agents over MCP.
Feature
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Action & orchestration

Integrations & Tool Calling

Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools.

Workflow Orchestration

Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps.

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.

Knowledge & context

Knowledge Grounding & RAG

Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers.

Memory & State Persistence

Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer.

Control & trust

Human Oversight & Guardrails

Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls.

Security, Identity & Governance

RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy.

Observability & Auditability

Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior.

Deployment & Data Residency

Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting.

Solution readiness

Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs

Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value.

Platform extensibility

Model Flexibility & Routing

Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys.

APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility

Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems.

Testing, Debugging & Optimization

Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment.

Specialist automation

Browser & Computer Use

Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone.

Pricing snapshot

Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.

Pricing
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Entry price

Lowest public entry point

Free trial for evaluation · Professional and Enterprise plans quoted through sales Contact sales. Pega Blueprint is free with a Pega user ID, and AI usage is a flat fee per resolved case that is not published.

Pricing confidence

How public the numbers are

Contact only Contact only

Billing

Primary billing axis

users, with storage and monthly API call allowances by plan Enterprise license with no published price. Under Infinity 26, AI usage is billed as a flat fee per resolved case.

Variable cost

Workload / overage exposure

Medium variable cost Medium variable cost

Free tier / trial

Try before you buy

No free tierTrial
Free tierTrial

Buying motion

Self-serve vs sales call

Sales call Sales call

Newgen shows plan limits but no prices, and Pega sells through enterprise licensing.

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