Kore.ai vs Lorikeet (2026)

Comparing Kore.ai and Lorikeet? Both are AI Agents & Chatbots and Enterprise tools in the directory, which is why buyers put them on the same shortlist. Below is a side-by-side look at how they price, what they integrate with, and when each is the better fit, so you can pick on the facts rather than either vendor's own sales page.

At a glance

Attribute Kore.ai Lorikeet
Pricing Paid · Custom Per resolution · $1,500/mo + $0.95/resolution
Founded 2014 2023
Categories AI Agents & Chatbots Enterprise Voice & Phone AI AI Agents & Chatbots Enterprise
Integrations Genesys Amazon Connect Salesforce ServiceNow Twilio Zendesk Zendesk Intercom Salesforce Twilio Flex Front Stripe

Choose Kore.ai or Lorikeet?

Choose Kore.ai if

  • you need voice and phone AI
  • you prefer a flat subscription to usage-based billing

Choose Lorikeet if

  • you would rather pay per resolved ticket than per seat

About Kore.ai

Kore.ai is an enterprise platform for building and orchestrating AI agents, with customer experience as one of its flagship uses. Teams design agents using no-code visual tools or pro-code SDKs, deploy them across web chat, messaging, voice, and contact-center channels, and manage them with the security and analytics a large organization demands. Its agentic contact-center suite spans intelligent self-service, AI-powered routing, and real-time agent assist, and a growing set of prebuilt vertical apps for banking, healthcare, retail, HR, and IT gives buyers a running start instead of a blank canvas.

The scale here is the headline. Kore.ai says its platform automates more than a billion interactions a year and has delivered over a billion dollars in cumulative customer cost savings, and it has been named a leader in independent analyst evaluations of conversational AI and cognitive search. Its newer generative application platform, GALE, and an AI-first agent platform push the product deeper into the agentic era.

There is a nice against-the-grain story to the company, too. Kore.ai was founded in 2014 by serial entrepreneur Raj Koneru, whose resume includes four earlier companies, and it grew up not in Silicon Valley but in Orlando, Florida, only later opening a West Coast office. It has raised well over four hundred million dollars across its rounds, including a 2026 growth investment, and became a launch partner for Microsoft's agent ecosystem while earning agentic credentials with AWS.

Big names like AT&T, Coca-Cola, and Airbus are among the hundreds of Global 2000 enterprises it serves, and pricing is entirely custom, scaled to the sessions, seats, and add-ons a given deployment needs. For large organizations that want a single, proven platform to build and run both customer-facing and employee-facing agents across every channel, without stitching together half a dozen point tools, Kore.ai is a serious heavyweight worth putting on the shortlist and taking for a proper test drive.

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About Lorikeet

Lorikeet builds AI agents for companies where a wrong answer costs real money, or worse. Founded in Sydney in mid-2023 by Steve Hind, formerly of Stripe, and Jamie Hall, a former Google AI engineer, it deliberately courts the customers most vendors disclaim: fintechs, healthcare companies, and marketplaces whose support conversations involve moving money and medical questions. Its answer to that risk is workflow-first design. The agent follows your standard operating procedures step by step, takes real actions through integrations, and escalates precisely where the procedure says to, rather than improvising when a conversation gets unusual.

The platform pairs the customer-facing Concierge agent, which keeps a memory of each customer, with a Coach agent that scores tickets, and orchestrates multi-agent workflows across voice, chat, and email. Customers include Airwallex, Linktree, Eucalyptus, Magic Eden, and Flex, and the investor story is remarkable for a two-year-old company: a $35 million Series A led by QED in 2025 brought funding past $75 million, with backing from all three of Australia's biggest venture firms plus Canva's co-founders, reportedly the first startup since Canva to manage that.

Pricing is published, rare at this tier, and outcome-based with a twist: Start is $1,500 a month plus $0.95 per resolution, Scale is $4,000 plus $0.80, there are no implementation fees, and you can refuse to pay for resolutions you are unhappy with.

Choose Lorikeet when your support is high-stakes and process-bound: if your team works from runbooks and a compliance officer reviews the transcripts, an agent built to follow procedures exactly is worth paying for. Teams with simple FAQ queues will find cheaper fits elsewhere.

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