Cisco vs UiPath

Cisco — Hardware · Public · $433.3B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  UiPath — Application · Public · $7.2B mkt cap · 5 of 5 figures sourced

Relationship

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

Aligned comparison

FieldCiscoUiPath
Market cap$433.3B$7.2B UiPath has 60× smaller
Employees86,2003,981 UiPath has 22× fewer
Founded19842005 21 yrs later
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryHardwareApplication
Stack layerAI agent, Application, HardwareAgent platform, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersSan Jose, USANew York, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 5

Agent orchestrationData analysisModel inferenceModel trainingWorkflow automation

Not verified for UiPath · 12

Accelerator siliconAI compute hardwareCustomer supportData securityEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyInterconnectServer systemsSpeech to textSummarizationThreat detection and responseVoice agent

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

Not verified for Cisco · 2

Agentic codingDocument extraction

Recorded for UiPath. 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.

UiPath

Application

UiPath AutopilotApplication

Assistant that builds and runs automations from natural-language instructions inside the UiPath platform.

UiPath Communications MiningApplication

Extracts intent, sentiment and context data from messages and communications, part of the UiPath IXP platform.

UiPath Document UnderstandingApplication

Extracts and interprets data from documents using AI, part of the UiPath IXP platform.

UiPath IXPApplication

Intelligent Xtraction & Processing: classifies documents and communications of any layout, extracts and validates the fields, and hands the result to UiPath's agents and workflows as automation-ready data.

UiPath Maestro CaseApplication

Case-management capability of UiPath Maestro for document-heavy cases combining agents and people.

UiPath Maestro FlowApplication

Orchestrates AI agents and deterministic workflows together within UiPath Maestro.

UiPath Process IntelligenceApplication

Discovers and analyzes business processes to find automation opportunities.

UiPath ScreenPlayApplication

Executes interface automations from natural-language instructions.

No counterpart

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

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

Agent platform

UiPath MaestroAgent platform

Orchestrates agents, robots and people across a business process from one model of that process.

Developer tool

UiPath AI CenterDeveloper tool

Embeds machine-learning models into UiPath automations, with cloud or on-premises deployment and a 60-day free trial.

UiPath Test CloudDeveloper tool

Creates, executes and manages software tests with AI, for both automations and applications.

Platform

UiPath PlatformPlatform

Automation platform combining robotic process automation, orchestration and AI agents over enterprise workflows.