Agentic Index
Relevance AI vs Wand AI (2026)
Relevance AI and Wand both sell the AI workforce vision with opposite go to market motions: Relevance is self serve, with Pro at 19 dollars a month billed annually, a template marketplace and bring your own model keys, letting business teams build their own agent workforce, while Wand is enterprise quoted, scoped from single process automation up to entire divisions across hosted, private cloud, and on premises deployment. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Teams building their own agents bottom up start on Relevance today; enterprises commissioning an agentic workforce top down with deployment control engage Wand.
On the Agentic Index self hosted platform ranking, Relevance AI clears the bar and Wand AI does not. Relevance AI documents both containment capabilities in full; Wand AI does not document model flexibility and routing in full. 171 of the 554 platforms it grades clear it. See the self hosted platform ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Relevance AI and Wand 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 955 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Relevance AI if
- Self serve building on published plans is how your team adopts.
- A template marketplace shortcuts your first agent deployments.
- Nineteen dollars a month with your own model keys fits the budget.
Choose Wand AI if
- A scoped enterprise engagement across divisions is the actual project.
- Private cloud or on premises deployment is required.
- Executive sponsored transformation fits a quoted platform.
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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. |
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Relevance AIIntegrations & Tool Calling Agents call tools built in a no code tool builder and connect to a catalog of more than 2,000 integrations, and an MCP client lets them use tools from outside MCP servers. Sourcerelevanceai.com/pricingread 2026-09-27 |
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Wand AIIntegrations & Tool Calling Agents are said to work across systems, tools and departments, and an Agent Economy layer gives them access to external tools, data, services and other agents. Wand names no connector, specific system or integration mechanism. SourceWand AI, wand.ai/product-page and wand.airead 2026-10-06 |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
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Relevance AIWorkflow Orchestration Workforces connect several agents and tools on a canvas with conditions on the edges between them, agents can hand work to subagents, and the tool builder supports looping and branching steps. Sourcerelevanceai.com/docs/build/workforces/workforce-features/approvals-and-escalations.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Wand AIWorkflow Orchestration Multi agent, multi human workflows run from a command center, an Agent Network is where agents execute and coordinate, Process Automation carries end to end workflows scoped by humans, and Division Automation runs a business division's work through coordinated agents. Collab is where people and agents communicate, coordinate and manage day to day work. SourceWand AI, wand.ai/product-pageread 2026-10-06 |
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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. |
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Relevance AITriggers & Channel Coverage Scheduled triggers let an agent act on its own on a recurring schedule or send messages at set future times, and agents also start from integration events, custom webhooks, an API trigger and tools used as triggers. Sourcerelevanceai.com/docs/build/agents/build-your-agent/agent-triggers/scheduled-triggers.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Wand AITriggers & Channel Coverage Process management is autonomous, and agents work without constant oversight. People direct agents in the Collab workspace, where they communicate and coordinate day to day work. Wand names no schedule, event, webhook or channel mechanism that starts work. SourceWand AI, wand.ai/hubfs/Website/files/llms.txt and wand.ai/product-pageread 2026-10-06 |
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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. |
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Relevance AIKnowledge Grounding & RAG Knowledge sets are built from uploads (CSV, PDF, Excel, JSON, audio), website extraction, manual entry, and syncs from Google Drive, SharePoint and Notion, and an agent either takes the whole set in its prompt or searches it by retrieval with relevance thresholds. Sourcerelevanceai.com/docs/build/knowledge/create-knowledge.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Wand AIKnowledge Grounding & RAG The acquisition of Accern brings real time data infrastructure over billions of structured and unstructured data points for agents to extract and aggregate context from. The Agent Economy layer also gives agents access to outside data. Wand does not say how a customer's own knowledge is indexed and retrieved. SourceWand AI, the Accern acquisition post on wand.ai and wand.ai/product-pageread 2026-10-06 |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
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Relevance AIMemory & State Persistence Long term memory lets an agent remember information across different conversations through save to memory and delete from memory tools, alongside short term memory that holds extracted fields for one conversation. Sourcerelevanceai.com/docs/build/agents/build-your-agent/memory.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Wand AIMemory & State Persistence Agents learn team dynamics and preferences over time, retrain on outcomes through the Agent University engine and learn from humans. Wand names no memory store and gives no scope, lifetime or way to delete one. SourceWand AI, wand.ai/hubfs/Website/files/llms.txt and wand.ai/product-pageread 2026-10-06 |
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
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Relevance AIHuman Oversight & Guardrails Approval settings are configured per edge, so a sensitive tool can require approval while routine ones run automatically; in approval required mode the agent drafts its action and waits, and a reviewer approves, rejects or adds guidance from the task view. A let agent decide mode and escalations also exist. Sourcerelevanceai.com/docs/build/workforces/workforce-features/approvals-and-escalations.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Wand AIHuman Oversight & Guardrails Agents escalate edge cases to humans based on confidence levels, the control panel sets autonomy levels, budgets and policy guardrails, and Agent Management, an oversight layer, enforces rules, budgets and outcomes. People scope the workflows that Process Automation hands to agents. Wand names no step where a person approves an action before it runs. SourceWand AI, the Meet Wand post on wand.ai and wand.ai/product-pageread 2026-10-06 |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
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Relevance AISecurity, Identity & Governance Relevance AI offers role based access control, SSO and SAML, directory sync, audit logs, PII masking and encryption at rest, and states SOC 2 Type II compliance. SSO, RBAC and audit logs sit on the Enterprise plan. A trust center at trust.relevanceai.com carries the report list. Sourcerelevanceai.com/enterpriseread 2026-09-27 |
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Wand AISecurity, Identity & Governance A SOC 2 Type II examination is in progress, so no attestation is complete yet, and Wand describes itself as GDPR ready. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit, staff sign in with SSO and MFA, access follows least privilege with role based control, and access is reviewed at least quarterly. Role based controls also keep people in command of the agents, and SOC 2 report requests go to Wand's security team. SourceWand AI, wand.ai/trust_security and the Meet Wand post on wand.airead 2026-10-06 |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
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Relevance AIObservability & Auditability Execution traces cover agent invocations, individual LLM calls, workforce runs and condition evaluations, and audit logs cover creation, publishing, deletion and permission changes; on the Enterprise plan both stream to the customer's S3 for OTEL backends. A tasks view shows every agent and workforce run with errors and pending approvals, and views of run cost and outcomes sit alongside it. Sourcerelevanceai.com/docs/enterprise/streaming-events.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Wand AIObservability & Auditability The product has built in dashboards, decision tracking and agent accountability, and the control panel, the hub for governance, visibility and control, shows live performance data, costs and goals. Wand does not say what is recorded about an agent's actions and reasoning, or how it can be reviewed later. SourceWand AI, wand.ai/product-pageread 2026-10-06 |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
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Relevance AIDeployment & Data Residency An organization picks its region at signup from three named regions, US (N. Virginia), EU (London) and AU (Sydney), and the region cannot be changed afterward without support. The service is hosted SaaS, and Relevance AI does not describe a self hosted or VPC option. Sourcerelevanceai.com/docs/admin/project-management/ids.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Wand AIDeployment & Data Residency Deployment is offered on premises, in a private cloud or hosted, and the hosted service runs in a primary US region with additional regions across Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas over multiple availability zones. Production runs on a major public cloud provider, and disaster recovery uses a secondary region. SourceWand AI, wand.ai/trust_security and /product-pageread 2026-10-06 |
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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. |
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Relevance AIPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs A marketplace carries agents and tools from Relevance staff and verified builders, free or paid, that can be cloned into a project and customized, alongside agent and tool templates and curated multi agent systems such as a BDR agent sold through sales. Sourcerelevanceai.com/docs/get-started/marketplace/introduction.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Wand AIPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs The platform autonomously assembles and trains agents to fill performance gaps, through Agent University, which trains, retrains and creates agents itself. No catalog of named ready made agents is published. SourceWand AI, wand.ai/hubfs/Website/files/llms.txt and wand.ai/product-pageread 2026-10-06 |
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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. |
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Relevance AIModel Flexibility & Routing Each agent picks its model from several providers, including Anthropic Claude, OpenAI and Gemini, and can set a backup model, recommended from a different provider, that retries a failed task once. LLM integrations cover OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Azure and OpenRouter. Sourcerelevanceai.com/docs/build/agents/build-your-agent/agent-settings/language-model.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Wand AIModel Flexibility & Routing Wand does not say which models power its agents, and no model provider or customer model choice is named. Agent University trains and retrains the agents on outcomes, but the underlying models stay unnamed. SourceWand AI, the Meet Wand post on wand.ai and wand.ai/product-pageread 2026-10-06 |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
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Relevance AIAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility A TypeScript SDK, @relevanceai/sdk, runs agents, tasks, messages and workforces with streaming, an API trigger covers other languages, and an MCP server at mcp.relevanceai.com gives MCP clients OAuth access to a project's agents, tools and knowledge. Sourcerelevanceai.com/docs/sdk/introduction.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Wand AIAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility No API, SDK, MCP server or developer documentation for Wand's platform is published. Its interoperability is about agents reaching other systems through the Agent Economy layer, not outside systems calling Wand. SourceWand AI, wand.ai/product-page and wand.airead 2026-10-06 |
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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. |
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Relevance AITesting, Debugging & Optimization Test sets hold tests that simulate users and are scored by reusable checks, so versions can be compared on the same tests; publishing can require chosen test sets to pass at a minimum rate and block on failure, and monitor dashboards score live tasks against the same criteria with sampling and trend charts. Agent evaluations sit on the Enterprise plan. Sourcerelevanceai.com/docs/build/agents/evals/introduction.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Wand AITesting, Debugging & Optimization Performance benchmarking, live performance data and agents that retrain on outcomes are part of the platform. Agent University is a continuous learning engine that trains, retrains and creates agents. Wand names no evaluation harness, test set or release gate for agent changes. SourceWand AI, wand.ai/product-page and wand.ai/hubfs/Website/files/llms.txtread 2026-10-06 |
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
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Relevance AIBrowser & Computer Use Browser steps (click, type, scroll by natural language or selector) run through Airtop, a separately sold browser engine that needs the customer's own Airtop account and API key. Relevance AI does not describe a browser or computer use agent of its own. Sourcerelevanceai.com/docs/build/tools/tool-steps/airtop-browser-automation/page-interaction.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Wand AIBrowser & Computer Use Wand names no browser or computer use capability in the product. Agents reach outside tools, data and services through the Agent Economy layer instead. SourceWand AI, wand.ai/product-pageread 2026-10-06 |
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Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Pro at $19 a month billed annually or $29 monthly, Team at $234 a month billed annually or $349 monthly, and Enterprise at custom pricing. | Not public; enterprise platform quoted through sales, scoped from single process automation up to entire divisions |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, partial | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
A plan subscription with two meters. Actions count each tool run, and Vendor Credits pay model and tool costs at provider rates with no markup. | enterprise agreement, believed scoped to agents, processes automated, and deployment model |
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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 tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Self-serve | Sales call |
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