Agentic Index
Seek AI vs Zenlytic (2026)
Seek AI and Zenlytic both answer business questions over the enterprise warehouse, and their trajectories diverged in 2025 and 2026: Seek was acquired by IBM in June 2025 and is expected to sit within IBM's data and watsonx portfolio, delivered as a Snowflake Native App, managed service, or embedded agent with enterprise contact based pricing, while Zenlytic stayed independent, priced by queries sent to the warehouse per active user, and opened self serve signup for teams up to ten in May 2026 alongside enterprise plans. Zenlytic is the accessible independent bet; Seek makes sense inside an IBM aligned data strategy.
| At a glance | Seek AI | Zenlytic |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Data analyst agent | Data analyst agent |
| Entry price | Custom enterprise (contact sales) | Self-serve for teams up to 10; enterprise custom |
| Free / trial | — | — |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | public partial |
| Feature |
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Seek AI
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| 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. |
Partial | 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. |
Partial | 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. |
Partial | 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 | Partial |
| 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 | Partial |
| 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. |
Partial | No / Not documented |
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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 | Partial |
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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 |
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Seek AI
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Zenlytic
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Custom enterprise (contact sales) | Self-serve for teams up to 10; enterprise custom |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Public — partial |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
— | — |
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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 |
— | — |
Choose Seek AI if
- Your organization is standardizing on IBM's data and AI portfolio.
- Snowflake Native App delivery matches your warehouse architecture.
- An embedded agent inside your own products is part of the plan.
Choose Zenlytic if
- Self serve signup for a team of ten lets you start this week.
- Query based pricing tied to real usage fits how you want to pay.
- An independent vendor avoids portfolio integration uncertainty.
IBM acquired Seek AI in June 2025; commercial terms and roadmap may be set at the IBM portfolio level. Confirm the current buying path with IBM or Seek.