# Kognitos review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Business process automation written in plain English Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Kognitos is an automation platform where business teams describe a process in plain English and the platform runs it. It targets finance, banking, healthcare and supply chain work such as invoices and reconciliations, and pauses to ask a person when it meets an exception. - **Category:** AI Agents - **Made by:** Kognitos (since 2020) - **Website:** https://www.kognitos.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you need a published price, as paid use is quoted by sales. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Kognitos has a free plan, and paid plans start at Free workspace; paid use is consumption-based and quoted by sales. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** A free workspace where you can sign up, write automations in plain English and run them. The FAQ states no limits. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free workspace | $0 | Sign up, build automations in plain English and run them without a paid engagement. The FAQ does not state usage limits. | | Enterprise | Custom | Consumption-based: priced by transactions processed and agent complexity, with annual or multi-year contracts, quoted by sales. | Read from https://www.kognitos.com/faq on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Kognitos before buying. ## Key features - **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. ## Good for - Finance and operations teams automating invoice and reconciliation work - Enterprises replacing screen-scraping RPA bots that break when applications change ## Worth knowing - 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Kognitos lets you write business automations in plain English and run them, with a free workspace to start. Paid use is consumption-based and quoted by sales, the free workspace's limits are not stated, and the vendor sells mainly on annual or multi-year contracts. - **Value for money: C.** Paid pricing is quoted by sales and priced by transactions and agent complexity, so there is no figure to compare with the category. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free workspace lets you write and run automations, but the FAQ states no limits, so we can't say where it stops. - **Features: C.** English-as-code automation, exception handling and prebuilt AI employees. The listing shows enterprise system connections but no published usage caps. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and you learn how to describe processes and connect SAP, Oracle or NetSuite. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with connections to SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Workday and Salesforce. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Kognitos's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI agents - Kognitos's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 36 of the 101 other AI agents we grade, and level with 24. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 20 of 101) and worst on features (C, above 1). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-agents ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Kognitos you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: A builder that other people can use without writing code. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, Salesforce **Tags:** AI agents, Workflow automation, No-code, AI features ## Alternatives - [UiPath](https://toolgpa.com/tools/uipath): Enterprise platform for RPA, AI agents and process orchestration. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kognitos-vs-uipath) - [Automation Anywhere](https://toolgpa.com/tools/automation-anywhere): RPA and agentic process automation for enterprises. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-kognitos) - [Workato](https://toolgpa.com/tools/workato): Enterprise integration and automation platform with AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kognitos-vs-workato) - [Maisa](https://toolgpa.com/tools/maisa): Digital Workers for regulated industries, built in Maisa Studio. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kognitos-vs-maisa) - [Sema4.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sema4-ai): Governed workspace for enterprise agents, projects and workflows. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kognitos-vs-sema4-ai) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.kognitos.com/faq - https://www.kognitos.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/kognitos Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).