Cresta vs Yandex

Cresta — Application · Private · $1.6B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Yandex — Application · Public · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

Cresta Conversation Intelligence and Yandex SpeechSense do comparable work on customer support; Yandex'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.

5 of 9 capabilitiesShared product type

5 of 9 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, customer support, data analysis and 2 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldCrestaYandex
Size$1.6B valuationnot disclosed
Employees50836,991 Yandex has 73× more
Founded20171997 20 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAI agent, ApplicationAPI service, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersPalo Alto, USAKaliningrad, Russia

Capability overlap

Shared · 5

Agent orchestrationCustomer supportData analysisKnowledge retrievalVoice agent

Not verified for Yandex · 4

Education and tutoringEvaluation and observabilitySummarizationWorkflow automation

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

Not verified for Cresta · 13

Agentic codingCode generationCode reviewDocument extractionImage generationModel hostingModel inferenceModel trainingSpeech to textText generationText to speechTranslationSearch answers

Recorded for Yandex. 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.

Yandex

Application

Alice AIApplication

Yandex's consumer AI assistant and chat product, which answers questions with web search, analyses uploaded files, and generates text and images from Yandex's own generative models.

Yandex SpeechSenseApplication

Speech-analytics service that transcribes and analyses voice and text customer conversations to surface topics, sentiment and service-quality metrics.

No counterpart

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

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.

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

API service

Yandex SpeechKitAPI service

Speech recognition and speech synthesis API built on the technology behind the Alice assistant, used for voice assistants, call-centre automation and service-quality monitoring.

Yandex TranslateAPI service

Neural machine translation API supporting more than 100 languages, sold as a Yandex Cloud service.

Yandex Vision OCRAPI service

Computer-vision API that recognises and extracts text, tables, handwriting, document fields and licence plates from images and PDFs in 48 languages.

Developer tool

SourceCraft Code AssistantDeveloper tool

Yandex's AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, offering completion, chat, code review and an agent mode that carries out development tasks from natural-language instructions.

Platform

Yandex Cloud AI StudioPlatform

Yandex Cloud platform that serves Yandex's generative models (YandexGPT, YandexART, embeddings, classifiers) over an API, with fine-tuning, a model gallery and agent/assistant tooling.

Yandex DataSpherePlatform

End-to-end managed ML development environment with notebooks, distributed training jobs and one-click model deployment on elastically scaled CPU/GPU resources.