Cresta vs Sama

Cresta — Application · Private · $1.6B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Sama — Infrastructure · Private · 1 of 1 figure 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

FieldCrestaSama
Size$1.6B valuationnot disclosed
Employees508—
Founded20172008 9 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryApplicationInfrastructure
Stack layerAI agent, ApplicationData service, Platform
HeadquartersPalo Alto, USASan Francisco, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Data analysisEvaluation and observabilityWorkflow automation

Not verified for Sama · 6

Agent orchestrationCustomer supportEducation and tutoringKnowledge retrievalSummarizationVoice agent

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

Not verified for Cresta · 2

Data labellingGuardrails and safety

Recorded for Sama. 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

No shared stack layer with the other side.

Sama

No shared stack layer with the other side.

No counterpart

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

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.

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

Platform

Sama PlatformPlatform

Sama's data annotation and validation platform, combining annotation tooling, SamaAssure quality assurance, SamaHub project management and reporting, and SamaIQ analytics, with a REST API and CLI for pipeline integration.

Data service

Sama AnnotateData service

Sama Annotate is Sama's enterprise data annotation offering, delivering image, video and 3D point cloud labeling through a full-time in-house annotation workforce working on the Sama Platform, with CLI and API access for automated data workflows.

Sama CurateData service

Sama Curate is a data curation offering that uses filtering and curation algorithms to suggest which assets in a raw dataset should be labeled, so teams annotate only the data most likely to improve an ML model.

Sama GenAIData service

Sama GenAI supplies human-generated training and evaluation data for foundation models, covering model validation and fact checking, instruction following, preference ranking, image and video captioning, creative writing, synthetic data creation and RAG evaluation.

Sama ValidateData service

Sama Validate is a managed human-in-the-loop service in which trained reviewers inspect and correct a customer's model predictions across image, video and 3D point cloud data and report where the model performs well or poorly.