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Pega

Also known as: Pegasystems, Pega Agentic Process Fabric, Pega Blueprint, Pega Infinity, Pega Predictable AI Agents, Pega GenAI, Pega Cloud for Government, PEGA

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Workflow and case management platform whose AI agents run as steps inside governed processes, orchestrated across systems by Agentic Process Fabric and callable over MCP. FedRAMP High authorized.

Pega is a workflow, case management and decisioning platform that puts its AI agents inside governed processes rather than beside them. Its stated approach splits the work: AI reasoning is used heavily at design time, where Pega Blueprint's design agents generate workflows from established best practices, and at run time agents find and follow those approved workflows rather than improvising a route through mission-critical work.

Agents appear in three places. An agent can be a step in a case lifecycle, picking up judgment-based work such as verifying customer documents when the case reaches it. Agentic Process Fabric sits above the applications as the orchestration layer, matching each task to the best-suited agent across Pega and third-party systems and showing every agent in one gateway.

And Pega's own pre-built agents, including a document agent that splits, categorizes and triages complex documents and an agentic assignment agent that pulls a person in by email, chat or phone when an approval or missing data is needed, shipped with Infinity 26 in July 2026. Pega Knowledge Buddy grounds answers in the customer's own content with attribution to the source, and Agent Tracer records every agent interaction, step, request and response.

The platform is open in both directions. Agents call external agents and tools over MCP and A2A, and since Infinity 26 customers invoke Pega agents and workflows from assistants such as Claude Cowork, ChatGPT and Office 365 Copilot, and build on Pega from coding tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex. The customer's architects choose among model providers across Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex. For legacy screens there is Pega's own robotic automation: Robot Studio captures the controls of Windows and web applications, and robots run attended on a desktop or unattended.

Security is documented in depth on the Pega Trust Center, which publishes a Pega Cloud SOC 2 Type 2 report, ISO 27001, 27017, 27018 and ISO 42001 certificates, HITRUST, PCI DSS, a DoD IL4 provisional authorization, IRAP and C5, and Pega Cloud for Government holds FedRAMP High Authority to Operate on AWS GovCloud. Infinity 26 runs on Pega Cloud or in the client's own managed cloud, with an EU Service Boundary for European data. AI usage under Infinity 26 is priced as a flat fee per resolved case rather than per token.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://www.pega.com

Category

Enterprise operations agent

Subcategory

Agent orchestration on a workflow and case management platform

Funding status

Public company, Pegasystems Inc, NASDAQ: PEGA, headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. Founded 1983 by Alan Trefler, who remains CEO.

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

enterprise workflow and case management automationorchestrating third party AI agents across enterprise systemscustomer service and customer engagement decisioninglegacy application modernizationgovernment and regulated industry process automation

Target customers

large enterprisegovernment agenciesfinancial serviceshealthcare payers and providerstelecommunications

Deployment options

Pega Cloud managed servicePega Cloud for Government on AWS GovCloudclient-managed cloud via Docker and Kubernetes on any cloudon-premise

Integrations

Agentic Process Fabric connects agents, applications, systems and data across Pega and third-party estates. The AI Agent rule and a Connect MCP rule let Pega agents use external agents and tools over MCP and A2A. Since Infinity 26, external AI assistants including Claude Cowork, ChatGPT and Office 365 Copilot can invoke Pega agents and workflows over MCP, coding tools including Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex connect to Pega Blueprint, Infinity Studio and Pega Platform, and Pega processes can be discovered and executed by authorized third-party agents built on Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, OpenAI and AWS AgentCore. Knowledge Buddy exposes answers through REST APIs and prebuilt widgets.

In practice

A bank lets employees invoke agents from chat or email while every action runs inside an approved, auditable workflow, so the agent cannot improvise its way through a regulated process.

A federal agency runs the platform in Pega Cloud for Government under FedRAMP High authorization, automating case work on sensitive data inside an authorized boundary.

An enterprise already running Claude or ChatGPT registers its Pega processes over MCP so those assistants can invoke governed workflows rather than having the process rebuilt on a new platform.

Agentic Index coverage score

13.5 / 14 capabilities · 96%

Integrations & Tool Calling Full

Agents reach outside systems and other agents through documented rule types. The AI Agent rule builds agents that execute workflows and integrate with third-party agents over MCP and A2A, and a Connect MCP rule points an agent or workflow at an external MCP server so its tools are used during case processing.

Sourcepega.com/insights/articles/introducing-pega-infinity-25-agentic-platform-enterprise-transformationread 2026-09-18

Workflow Orchestration Full

The orchestration layer is Pega Agentic Process Fabric: it analyzes the context of each task and connects it with the best-suited agent automatically, drawing on the full network of registered agents, and coordinates agents, applications, systems and data to get work done. Infinity 26, generally available since 14 July 2026, lets developers connect and orchestrate Pega and third-party AI agents inside governed workflows, and agents are placed as steps within multi-step case lifecycles rather than run as single tasks.

Sourcepega.com/technology/agentic-process-fabricread 2026-09-18

Knowledge Grounding & RAG Full

Pega Knowledge Buddy grounds answers in the customer's own content. It ingests existing knowledge bases, connects to existing content storage or builds libraries in Pega Knowledge Management, and analyzes each new piece of content as it is added so the library stays current without retraining. Answers reach employee-facing Pega applications and collaboration channels, and through REST APIs and prebuilt widgets, with transparent attribution to the source content, and access rights control who can see what.

Sourcepega.com/products/genai-knowledge-buddyread 2026-09-18

Human Oversight & Guardrails Full

A person is brought in when a decision needs one. The agentic assignment agent reaches an employee or customer when additional data or approvals are needed to complete a request and pulls them in by email, chat or telephony without manual outreach.

Sourcepega.com/about/news/press-releases/pega-powers-ai-agents-reliably-drive-mission-critical-workread 2026-09-18

Security, Identity & Governance Full

The Pega Trust Center publishes its attestations with the documents behind them: a Pega Cloud SOC 2 Type 2 report and SOC 1, a corporate ISO 27001 certificate, ISO 27017 and 27018, a Pega Cloud ISO 42001 certificate for AI management, a HITRUST certification letter, a PCI DSS attestation of compliance, a FedRAMP authorization package, a DoD IL4 provisional authorization, IRAP, C5 and Cyber Essentials Plus.

Pega Cloud for Government holds FedRAMP High Authority to Operate, announced by Pega on 19 March 2025. The customer-facing controls are client-based access control rules that define where and how customer data is stored and accessed, and access-rights controls over who can reach knowledge content.

Sourcepega.com/trustread 2026-09-18

Observability & Auditability Full

Agent Tracer records every agent interaction, step, request and response, so what an agent did can be inspected step by step, and Pega's orchestration audits agent interactions across the process lifecycle. The GenAI layer is observable in its own right, with usage tracking of request and token volume and audit trails for compliance, and Agentic Process Fabric shows every agent in one gateway. The behavior on the record is the agent's.

Sourcepega.com/insights/articles/introducing-pega-infinity-25-agentic-platform-enterprise-transformationread 2026-09-18

Memory & State Persistence Partial

Within a session, conversation state carries as Pega's agents converse with customers and employees in self-service and assisted channels, and every agent working a case is given the full context of that case. The case, though, is the business record itself: deleting what the agent drew on would delete the work item, so it is the application's data model rather than a memory the agent keeps. No memory layer with its own scope and lifetime, separate from the case record, is documented, and nothing describes memories being reviewed, edited, deleted or scoped by user, team or workspace.

Sourcepega.com/technology/agentic-process-fabricread 2026-09-18

Deployment & Data Residency Full

Infinity 26 is available through Pega Cloud or in the client's own managed cloud, which is a named customer environment option. Pega Cloud for Government runs on AWS GovCloud for United States public-sector workloads, and the Pega EU Service Boundary gives organizations in Europe control over where their data lives, who can access it and how it is managed.

Sourcepega.com/about/news/press-releases/pega-infinity-26-now-available-deliver-predictable-outcomes-predictableread 2026-09-18

Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Full

Pega ships customer-adoptable packaged assets that each do their own job. The document agent, a pre-built agent delivered with Infinity 26, analyzes complex documents, splitting, categorizing, scoring and triaging them for further processing, with a chat feature for asking questions about PDFs and images.

Pega Customer Engagement Studio is an agent-powered workspace that takes marketers from brief to live personalized campaigns, and Pega's packaged applications, among them Customer Service, Customer Decision Hub and Sales Automation, arrive with ready-made workflows the buyer adopts and extends.

Sourcepega.com/about/news/press-releases/pega-powers-ai-agents-reliably-drive-mission-critical-workread 2026-09-18

Triggers & Channel Coverage Full

Work reaches Pega's agents without a person asking for it. An agent is placed as a step in a case workflow and runs when the case reaches that step: Pega states that at each workflow step it can invoke agents to automate manual work, the Agent Step hands judgment-based work such as verifying customer documents to an agent, and GenAI rules added as steps in a case lifecycle are invoked during case processing. The workflow reaching the step is the event that wakes the agent; the conversational side runs through self-service chat, email and voice.

Sourcepega.com/about/news/press-releases/pega-powers-ai-agents-reliably-drive-mission-critical-workread 2026-09-18

Model Flexibility & Routing Full

The choice of model sits with the customer's own architects. Pega describes its GenAI layer as provider agnostic at the model layer, across Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex, and names selecting the right LLM provider, weighing cost, performance and compliance, as a design decision the customer's lead system architect makes. In AI Designer the builder runs GenAI rules with different model settings and compares outputs across models before choosing. That is customer control of the model rather than vendor-side routing.

Sourceacademy.pega.com/node/103571read 2026-09-18

APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Full

The platform is callable from outside at both design and run time. Since Infinity 26, generally available from 14 July 2026, customers invoke Pega agents and workflows from AI assistants including Claude Cowork, ChatGPT and Office 365 Copilot over MCP, and connect coding tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex to Pega Blueprint, Pega Infinity Studio and Pega Platform over MCP to build applications.

Sourcepega.com/about/news/press-releases/pega-infinity-26-now-available-deliver-predictable-outcomes-predictableread 2026-09-18

Testing, Debugging & Optimization Full

Changes are tested before they reach production. Pega uses AI to generate scenario tests for a customer's workflows, including the agent steps inside them, and the tests run directly in Pega or export to third-party testing tools. For the AI components themselves, GenAI rules are prompt-tuned and unit tested in the AI Designer playground to confirm responses meet business expectations before deployment.

Sourcepega.com/insights/articles/introducing-pega-infinity-25-agentic-platform-enterprise-transformationread 2026-09-18

Browser & Computer Use Full

Pega ships its own robotic automation that operates real application interfaces. In Pega Robot Studio, developers interrogate Windows and web applications by dragging a target over the specific control an automation needs, such as the user name field, password field and login button of an application's sign-in screen, and build the automation on the captured controls.

Match rules decide whether a captured control is still available to an automation, Pega states those rules may change when an application or web page updates, and the interrogation form flags any control it can no longer match. Pega Robot Manager runs these robots attended on a user's desktop or unattended, and Robotics Autopilot builds an automation from a plain-English task description.

Sourceacademy.pega.com/node/15241read 2026-09-18

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Recent platform changes

2026-10-01·Observability / auditabilityPartially Verified

Patch release 25.1.4 of Pega Platform adds agent testing and evaluation. Teams record reference conversations as test cases, group them into suites and run evaluation plans that score responses on measures such as tool selection and staying in scope, with results in a new AI Evaluation Portal.

Bears on: Observability / auditability

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View all 1 change for Pega →Tracked since Oct 2026 · Verified from public vendor sources

Pricing

Contact sales; Pega Blueprint available free with a Pega user ID

enterprise license, not publicly priced; AI usage billed as a flat fee per resolved case under Infinity 26

Free tierTrial available

Included quota

Not disclosed publicly.

What is public

The unit of account for AI usage (a flat fee per resolved case, not per token, under Infinity 26) and that Pega Blueprint is free with a Pega user ID. No list prices, tiers or fee levels are published.

Billing mechanics

Sold through direct enterprise sales with custom terms. Under Infinity 26, generally available from 14 July 2026, AI usage is priced as a flat fee per resolved case rather than per token; the fee is not published.

Cost watchouts

Enterprise workflow platform licensing in this category typically carries implementation and systems integrator cost well beyond the license itself, and Pega deployments are historically large and long lived. Pega Cloud for Government is restricted to United States federal, state, local and tribal agencies and is not available elsewhere. Running the platform client managed shifts substantial infrastructure, Kubernetes and upgrade burden onto the customer.

Variable cost rationale

Pega publishes the unit of account for AI usage, a flat fee per resolved case rather than per token, which takes token volume out of the bill. Cost still scales with case volume, the fee is not published, and the platform license and implementation are scoped per deal around application count, user population and deployment model, so a buyer cannot forecast the total from vendor pages.

Additional watchouts

Treat the free Blueprint tier as design layer only. It generates workflows; running them as governed agents in production is the licensed product.

Sales call required

Yes, required for paid access

Free / trial

Pega Blueprint free with a Pega user ID

Commercial notes

Pegasystems is a public company (NASDAQ: PEGA), so aggregate revenue and margin are visible in filings even though customer level pricing is not. That makes it easier to sanity check commercial scale here than for the private vendors it competes with.

Key ambiguities

Pega has published how AI usage is metered under Infinity 26 (per resolved case) but not what a resolved case costs or how resolution is counted, so the predictable-cost claim has a unit behind it and no rate. The AI Token Cost Calculator estimates savings against token-based models rather than quoting a price.

Missing data

List prices, the per-resolved-case fee, tier structure, and how a resolved case is counted.

Agentic Index verified 2026-09-18

Alternatives to Pega

The closest documented capability profiles to Pega among enterprise operations agents tracked by Agentic Index, ordered by similarity on the same 14 point evidence the rankings use. No vendor pays for placement.

  • Appian14.0 / 14Fuller documented coverage on Memory & State Persistence
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  • ServiceNow14.0 / 14Fuller documented coverage on Memory & State Persistence
  • Tungsten Automation13.0 / 14A lighter documented profile than Pega
  • UiPath14.0 / 14Fuller documented coverage on Memory & State Persistence
  • Writer13.0 / 14A lighter documented profile than Pega

Similarity is computed from each vendor's Agentic Index coverage score evidence, axis by axis, not from the totals. How this evidence is graded

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