Kognitos vs Maisa (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Kognitos if

• Fits if you run finance or operations processes and want them written down in plain English
• Makes sense if you want to try a free workspace before any contract

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you need a published price, as paid use is quoted by sales
• Watch out: the free workspace's limits are not stated on the pages read
• Tight if you want short terms, since contracts are annual or multi-year and shorter terms are for pilots
• Watch out: the security claims on the page, such as SOC 2 and HIPAA, are the vendor's own

Pick Maisa if

• Fits if you are in a regulated industry and want the vendor to do the first build
• Makes sense if you need agent runs you can trace afterwards

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want self-serve, as the vendor builds the first use cases with you
• Not for you if you want a published price, because none is shown
• Watch out: the cost, accuracy and speed figures on the site are the vendor's own, from named customer stories
• Watch out: no integrations are listed, so ask what it connects to

Kognitos

• Paid pricing is not published. The FAQ describes consumption-based pricing, and a quote comes from the sales team.
• The vendor offers enterprise contracts with annual and multi-year terms; shorter terms are mentioned only for pilots and mid-market.
• Security claims such as SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR readiness come from the vendor's own FAQ.
• The free workspace's limits are not stated on the pages read.

Maisa

• No prices are published; the site offers a demo request only, so pricing is recorded as unverified.
• The vendor builds the first use cases with the customer, so it is a services-led deployment rather than a self-serve sign-up.
• Cost, accuracy and speed figures on the site are the vendor's own and come from named customer stories.

Kognitos

English as Code

Automations are written as plain-English instructions rather than code or screen-scraping bots, so business users can build and maintain them.

Exception handling

When an agent meets an exception it pauses, a person answers in plain English, and the run resumes from where it stopped. The vendor says the answer is kept for next time.

Deterministic execution

The vendor says agents follow the process as defined and log each decision, and it describes the engine as neurosymbolic rather than a pure language-model agent.

Prebuilt AI Employees and apps

The navigation lists 61 AI Employee roles and more than 100 apps, with solutions for finance, banking, healthcare and manufacturing.

Enterprise system connections

The FAQ says Kognitos connects to SAP and more than 200 other enterprise systems, including Oracle, NetSuite, Workday and Salesforce.

Maisa

Maisa Studio

Business teams describe the task, the data to use and the goal in natural language, connect systems, test a run before go-live and monitor runs in production.

Process definition

A worker is defined once with its objective, business rules, controls and exceptions, then runs the process across existing systems, including legacy ones.

Run traces

Every step is recorded, which the vendor says makes runs reproducible and audit ready.

Owned small models

The vendor says each worker's traces can train a small model the customer owns, which it says cuts cost per run; a customer case cites 14x lower cost per job.

Guided rollout

Maisa describes a 1-3-6 method: a first workflow version in one week, a live pilot by week three and production by week six.

Kognitos

• Free workspace$0

  Sign up, build automations in plain English and run them without a paid engagement. The FAQ does not state usage limits.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Consumption-based: priced by transactions processed and agent complexity, with annual or multi-year contracts, quoted by sales.

Maisa

Pricing could not be confirmed. See maisa.ai.