Cresta vs Haptik

Cresta — Application · Private · $1.6B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Haptik — Application · Acquired · $112M raised · 3 of 3 figures sourced

Relationship

Knowledge Agent and Smart Agent Chat do comparable work on customer support; both also serve buyers who need to handle customer support conversations; 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 9 capabilitiesShared product type

4 of 9 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

FieldCrestaHaptik
Size$1.6B valuation$112M raised different basis
Employees508200 Haptik has 2.5× fewer
Founded20172013 4 yrs earlier
StatusPrivateAcquired
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAI agent, ApplicationAI agent, Agent platform, Application
HeadquartersPalo Alto, USAMumbai, India

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Agent orchestrationCustomer supportEvaluation and observabilityVoice agent

Not verified for Haptik · 5

Data analysisEducation and tutoringKnowledge retrievalSummarizationWorkflow automation

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

Not verified for Cresta · 1

Sales outreach

Recorded for Haptik. Cresta’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

Cresta

Application

AI AnalystApplication

Conversational research tool: poses natural-language questions over customer interaction data and returns evidence-grounded charts, comparisons and written answers.

AI ReceptionistApplication

Automated 24/7 phone-answering system for small businesses that captures leads, books/reschedules appointments, answers questions and routes calls.

Agent Operations CenterApplication

A supervision surface for a contact centre running both people and AI agents, giving real-time oversight and guidance across the two.

Automation DiscoveryApplication

Identifies which customer conversations are automation candidates, assigns a readiness score by volume/complexity/resolution rate, and exports discovered flows into Cresta's AI Agent Builder.

Cresta Agent AssistApplication

Real-time AI that listens to live contact-center conversations and surfaces behavioral coaching, source-backed answers and after-call summaries directly inside an agent's existing tools.

Cresta Conversation IntelligenceApplication

Analyzes 100% of customer conversations across human and AI agents to surface behavioral drivers of CSAT, handle time and revenue, combining Cresta Insights, Quality Management and Coach.

Cresta OperaApplication

The no-code AI workflow engine that powers every Cresta product ('Opera GenAI Intents, Opera Workflows, Opera Analyzer'), letting contact-center teams configure and continuously optimize AI without writing code.

Knowledge AgentApplication

Continuously listens during customer interactions and surfaces precise answers in real time, grounded in conversation and on-screen context (account status, order history), guiding agents through complex workflows.

Synthetic CustomersApplication

Analyzes conversation data to generate realistic customer personas, ranked by traffic volume and traced to source conversations, for AI-agent testing, human-agent training and voice-of-customer simulation.

Training SimulatorApplication

Lets contact-center agents practice against AI-simulated customers built from real conversations, for onboarding, continuous skill development and targeted coaching.

AI agent

Cresta AI AgentAI agent

Cresta's autonomous contact-centre agent, handling customer conversations end to end rather than coaching a human through them.

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

Haptik sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Cresta 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.