Contextual AI vs Elastic

Contextual AI — Application · Private · $100M raised · 2 of 2 figures sourced  |  Elastic — Infrastructure · Public · $10.2B mkt cap · 4 of 4 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

FieldContextual AIElastic
Size$100M raised$10.2B mkt cap different basis
Employees—4,019
Founded20232012 11 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryApplicationInfrastructure
Stack layerAPI service, Agent platform, PlatformAgent platform, Application, Model API, Platform
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USAAmsterdam, Netherlands

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Agent orchestrationKnowledge retrievalVector searchWorkflow automation

Not verified for Elastic · 1

Document extraction

Recorded for Contextual AI. Elastic’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Contextual AI · 5

Data analysisEvaluation and observabilityModel hostingModel inferenceThreat detection and response

Recorded for Elastic. Contextual AI’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

Contextual AI

Agent platform

Agent ComposerAgent platform

Orchestration layer inside the Contextual AI Platform providing an enterprise-scale agent runtime, no-code agent/workflow builder and AI toolkit for multi-step reasoning and multi-tool orchestration over enterprise data.

Platform

Contextual AI PlatformPlatform

Builds and serves retrieval-augmented agents over an organisation's own documents.

Elastic

Agent platform

Elastic Agent BuilderAgent platform

A builder for custom AI agents that answer questions and take actions over data indexed in Elasticsearch, using configurable tools, skills and prompts.

Elastic WorkflowsAgent platform

An automation engine that runs both scripted steps and AI agents which reason through investigations and execute response actions against data in Elasticsearch.

Platform

Elastic AI AssistantPlatform

A conversational assistant embedded in Kibana that answers natural-language questions against a customer's own indexed data across Elastic's Observability, Security and Search solutions.

No counterpart

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

API service

Contextual AI RAG Component APIsAPI service

Parsing, reranking and grounded-generation endpoints sold individually for teams building their own retrieval stack.

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

Application

Elastic AI SOC EngineApplication

An AI security-operations layer that correlates alerts from a customer's existing security tools, prioritizes threats and guides response workflows without replacing their SIEM.

Elastic AIOpsApplication

GenAI- and ML-driven capability inside Elastic Observability that automatically detects, diagnoses and helps resolve operational issues, providing recommended actions for SREs.

Elastic LLM ObservabilityApplication

Monitoring capability inside Elastic Observability for generative-AI and agentic applications: performance, cost control, guardrail tracking and reliability for GenAI workloads.

Elastic SecurityApplication

Agentic security-operations platform unifying SIEM, XDR and native automation, with autonomous agents handling detection-to-response workflows and purpose-built AI skills for threat hunting, alert analysis and detection engineering; supports multiple LLMs including on-premises models.

Model API

Elastic Inference ServiceModel API

Hosted inference endpoint that runs Elastic-managed LLMs, the ELSER sparse-embedding model and third-party embedding models for ingest, search and chat without provisioning ML nodes in a customer's own Elasticsearch deployment.