Cisco vs Haptik

Cisco — Hardware · Public · $433.3B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Haptik — Application · Acquired · $112M raised · 3 of 3 figures sourced

Relationship

Cisco IQ and Smart Agent Chat do comparable work on customer support; Haptik 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.

4 of 17 capabilitiesShared product type

4 of 17 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, customer support, evaluation and observability and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship AI agent and application.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldCiscoHaptik
Size$433.3B mkt cap$112M raised different basis
Employees86,200200 Haptik has 431× fewer
Founded19842013 29 yrs later
StatusPublicAcquired
CategoryHardwareApplication
Stack layerAI agent, Application, HardwareAI agent, Agent platform, Application
HeadquartersSan Jose, USAMumbai, India

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Agent orchestrationCustomer supportEvaluation and observabilityVoice agent

Not verified for Haptik · 13

Accelerator siliconAI compute hardwareData analysisData securityGuardrails and safetyInterconnectModel inferenceModel trainingServer systemsSpeech to textSummarizationThreat detection and responseWorkflow automation

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

Not verified for Cisco · 1

Sales outreach

Recorded for Haptik. 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.

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.

Haptik

Application

AI Agent BuilderApplication

No/low-code studio for building custom AI agents deployed across web, chat and voice, with model choice (GPT, Llama, Claude), 100+ integrations and grounded guardrails.

Haptik Agent AnalyticsApplication

Analyzes customer-service conversations and human/AI agent performance.

InteraktApplication

WhatsApp business messaging tool for small retailers, sold separately from the enterprise platform.

Smart Agent ChatApplication

Assists human support agents with contextual AI suggestions during live chat conversations.

AI agent

Voice AI AgentsAI agent

AI-powered voice agents automating inbound/outbound calling for lead qualification, recommendations, bookings and support in 100+ languages, without traditional IVR.

No counterpart

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

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.

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

Agent platform

ContaktAgent platform

Customer-service platform running AI agents alongside human agents across a company's support channels.

HaptikAgent platform

Builds conversational assistants for customer support and commerce across chat and messaging channels.