Cisco vs Krisp

Cisco — Hardware · Public · $433.3B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Krisp — Application · Private · 1 of 1 figure sourced

Relationship

Cisco IQ and Krisp Agent Assist do comparable work on customer support; Krisp's scale not recorded.

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 customer support, data analysis, speech to text and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldCiscoKrisp
Size$433.3B mkt capnot disclosed
Employees86,200—
Founded19842017 33 yrs later
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryHardwareApplication
Stack layerAI agent, Application, HardwareApplication, Developer tool
HeadquartersSan Jose, USABerkeley, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Customer supportData analysisSpeech to textSummarization

Not verified for Krisp · 13

Accelerator siliconAgent orchestrationAI compute hardwareData securityEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyInterconnectModel inferenceModel trainingServer systemsThreat detection and responseVoice agentWorkflow automation

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

Not verified for Cisco · 5

Audio editingMeeting notesSynthetic media detectionTranslationVoice conversion

Recorded for Krisp. 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.

Krisp

Application

KrispApplication

Voice AI between the microphone and the call: noise, echo and cross-talk removal, an AI note-taker that writes summaries and updates the CRM across 16 languages, and live accent conversion — sold to individuals, to call centres per agent, and to developers as an SDK.

Krisp Accent ConversionApplication

Converts speaker accents in real time while preserving speaker identity.

Krisp Agent AssistApplication

Assists contact-center agents with real-time answers, summaries and coaching.

Krisp Call Center AIApplication

Real-time voice AI layer for contact centers, integrating with major CCaaS/UCaaS platforms (Vonage, RingCentral, Genesys, Amazon Connect and others) without requiring telephony integration.

Krisp Speech AnalyticsApplication

Scores calls and monitors compliance using speech analytics.

Krisp Voice SecurityApplication

Detects synthetic callers and voice fraud in contact-center calls.

Krisp Voice TranslationApplication

Translates contact-center speech in real time.

No counterpart

Cisco sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Krisp 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.

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

Developer tool

Krisp Voice Isolation SDKDeveloper tool

Licensable SDK that isolates voice in real time within third-party developer audio pipelines.

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