Agentic Index
Pelico vs Polymr (2026)
Both put agents on manufacturing operations and they sit at opposite ends of the order, at 8 and 9 of 14. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Pelico is execution orchestration, anticipating material coverage risk across multi level BOMs and multi plant networks, recommending recovery actions and keeping teams aligned in real time when the plan breaks. Polymr works upstream of that as a supervised agent platform, reading customer RFQs, drawings, BOMs and supplier documents to build costed quotations, run supplier sourcing and stage purchase orders and ERP updates for approval, across the ERP, email and spreadsheets a manufacturer already runs. Polymr documents more of the matrix; Pelico owns the harder problem once production is already late.
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Pelico and Polymr 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 Pelico if
- Disruption response is the problem and simulating recovery before committing is the capability.
- Multi level BOMs across a multi plant network is the complexity you are managing.
- You want a modular platform you can expand rather than an ERP workflow layer.
Choose Polymr if
- ERP writebacks staged for review, with your team approving anything that creates a commitment.
- The work lives in RFQs, drawings, BOMs and supplier email rather than in a system of record.
- Embedding into existing ERP workflows beats introducing another platform.
| At a glance | Pelico | Polymr |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Enterprise operations agent | Enterprise operations agent |
| Entry price | Not public as figures. Pelico is a modular SaaS platform priced by connected sites, users, and data volume, available on AWS Marketplace with multi site pricing for large rollouts. | No public pricing; book a demo |
| Free / trial | Book a demo or engage via AWS Marketplace. | None documented |
| Pricing confidence | public partial | contact only |
| Feature | P Pelico |
P Polymr |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Partial |
| 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. |
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. |
Partial | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | P Pelico |
P Polymr |
|---|---|---|
|
Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Not public as figures. Pelico is a modular SaaS platform priced by connected sites, users, and data volume, available on AWS Marketplace with multi site pricing for large rollouts. | No public pricing; book a demo |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, partial | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
Modular platform priced by connected sites, users, and data volume. | — |
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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 tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Mixed | Sales call |
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