Cisco vs Cognigy

Cisco — Hardware · Public · $433.3B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Cognigy — Application · Acquired

Relationship

Cisco IQ and Cognigy Agent Copilot do comparable work on customer support; Cognigy is acquired, with no independent scale.

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

6 of 17 capabilitiesShared product type

6 of 17 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, customer support, data analysis and 3 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldCiscoCognigy
Size$433.3B mkt capnot disclosed
Employees86,200—
Founded1984—
StatusPublicAcquired
CategoryHardwareApplication
Stack layerAI agent, Application, HardwareAgent platform, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersSan Jose, USADüsseldorf, Germany

Capability overlap

Shared · 6

Agent orchestrationCustomer supportData analysisEvaluation and observabilityVoice agentWorkflow automation

Not verified for Cognigy · 11

Accelerator siliconAI compute hardwareData securityGuardrails and safetyInterconnectModel inferenceModel trainingServer systemsSpeech to textSummarizationThreat detection and response

Recorded for Cisco. Cognigy’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Cisco · 1

Knowledge retrieval

Recorded for Cognigy. Cisco’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Cisco

Application

AI Assistant for Webex Contact CenterApplication

AI assistant for contact-centre agents and supervisors that produces call and transfer summaries, live transcription, suggested chat replies, topic analytics, automatic CSAT scoring and agent burnout signals.

Cisco AI CanvasApplication

AgenticOps workspace where teams and AI agents collaborate to investigate, correlate and resolve issues across domains: natural-language querying, multi-step agent workflows, shared real-time visibility, and native Cisco plus third-party tool integration via Cloud Control Studio.

Cisco AI DefenseApplication

End-to-end AI security product that discovers an organisation's AI assets, red-teams models and applications for vulnerabilities, and enforces runtime guardrails against prompt injection and data leakage.

Cisco IQApplication

Agentic support intelligence delivered inside Cisco Support and Professional Services — 'the delivery vehicle for everything Cisco Support and Professional Services knows about your environment, made continuously available before you ask for it' — generally available as SaaS since April 2026 and included with existing support contracts.

Webex AI Workforce Engagement ManagementApplication

AI-native workforce engagement suite for contact centres that forecasts demand and optimises shifts, uses NLP and LLMs to evaluate 100 percent of human and AI agent interactions (AI Quality Management), and runs performance coaching and AI-led onboarding simulations.

Cognigy

Application

Cognigy AI Agent StudioApplication

The build surface where Cognigy's AI agents are designed, configured and released.

Cognigy Agent CopilotApplication

Assists human agents with contextual information, next-best-action suggestions and real-time guidance during customer interactions.

Cognigy InsightsApplication

Analytics over conversations across every channel, for measuring how the agents are actually performing.

Cognigy Knowledge AIApplication

Turns a company's own documents into answers its agents can give, rather than scripted replies.

Cognigy Live AgentApplication

The human-side workspace: an omnichannel console where staff pick up conversations the AI agents hand over.

Cognigy Voice GatewayApplication

Carries Cognigy's agents onto the phone channel with low-latency, lifelike speech.

Cognigy xAppsApplication

Adds visual, app-like steps inside a voice or chat conversation, so a caller can complete a form mid-call.

No counterpart

Cisco sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Cognigy yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

AI agent

Webex AI AgentAI agent

Autonomous customer-service AI agent that handles inquiries conversationally across voice, SMS, email, chat and messaging apps and escalates to a human agent with context when it cannot resolve.

Hardware

Cisco AI PODsHardware

Pre-validated modular AI infrastructure bundles that combine Cisco UCS servers, NVIDIA GPUs, Nexus 9000 400G/800G switching and management software into single orderable stacks for AI inferencing, training and fine-tuning.

Cisco AI PODs for CollaborationHardware

Turnkey on-premises AI appliance that runs real-time speech transcription for Cisco collaboration deployments locally, for customers with data-sovereignty requirements that rule out cloud AI services.

Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AIHardware

Cloud-managed full-stack AI cluster sold as hardware plus software plus service, packaging Cisco 6000 and N9300 series switches on an 800GbE back-end fabric, UCS servers with NVIDIA H200 GPUs and BlueField DPUs, optional VAST storage and NVIDIA AI Enterprise under the Hyperfabric cloud controller.

Cisco Silicon OneHardware

Unified programmable networking-silicon architecture for AI, hyperscale, data-centre, service-provider and enterprise routing/switching, spanning five series (G/P/E/K/A) of chip families.

Cognigy sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Cisco yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Agent platform

Cognigy.AIAgent platform

Platform for building customer-service AI agents and putting them on every channel: Knowledge AI grounds them in a company's own material, Agent Copilot assists the human, Voice Gateway carries them onto the phone, and Insights reports what they did.

Developer tool

Cognigy AI Agent EvaluationDeveloper tool

Simulates conversations and evaluates AI-agent performance before production deployment.

Platform

Cognigy AI Ops CenterPlatform

Monitors and assures production AI-agent operations for enterprises running Cognigy.AI agents.