Balto vs EvaluAgent (2026)
Comparing Balto and EvaluAgent? Both are Contact Center & CCaaS and Voice & Phone AI tools in the directory, which is why buyers put them on the same shortlist. Below is a side-by-side look at pricing and an estimated monthly bill, channels, compliance claims, and integrations, plus 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 |
 Balto
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 EvaluAgent
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| What it is | Real-time guidance for contact center agents: the right thing to say, on every call. | Contact center QA platform that auto-scores every conversation across channels, with published per-seat pricing and per-conversation QA for AI agents. |
| Pricing | Paid · Custom | Paid · $35/user/mo |
| Est. monthly cost | No published price to estimate | $350/mo $35 per seat/mo |
| Founded | 2017 | 2012 |
| Categories | Agent Assist & Copilots Contact Center & CCaaS Voice & Phone AI | Contact Center & CCaaS QA & Conversation Analytics Voice & Phone AI |
| Channels | ||
| Chat | — | ✓ |
| — | ✓ | |
| Voice | ✓ | ✓ |
| Social | — | ✓ |
| Compliance (vendor-claimed) | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| HIPAA | — | ✓ |
| GDPR | — | ✓ |
| ISO 27001 | — | ✓ |
| Data residency | Not verified | US, EU |
| Languages | 20 languages | Transcription in major European, Asian and Latin American languages |
| What the AI can do | ||
| Takes actions | Not verified | Not verified |
| Hands off to a human | ✓ | Not verified |
| Choice of LLM | Not verified | Not verified |
| Buying | ||
| Free trial | Not verified | Not verified |
| How you buy | Not verified | Sales-led (demo first) |
| Minimum commitment | — | — |
| Company | Independent, venture-backed | Independent, venture-backed |
| Works with | Five9 Genesys Cloud NICE CXone RingCentral 8x8 Salesforce Convoso | Zendesk Intercom Salesforce HubSpot Freshdesk Kustomer Zoho Genesys Cloud NICE CXone Five9 Talkdesk Amazon Connect RingCentral Zoom Contact Center Aircall Puzzel Assembled Peopleware (Injixo) |
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Estimates assume 5,000 conversations a month, 60% handled by AI and 10 agent seats, at each vendor's published list price (the cost calculator's model); treat them as a floor, not a quote. Compliance rows are what vendors publicly claim, and “Not verified” means we have not confirmed that fact yet, not that the tool lacks it.
Choose Balto or EvaluAgent?
Choose Balto if
Best for: Voice contact centers in collections, insurance, healthcare and home services where specific sentences are required on every call and want real-time guidance, live compliance alerts and 100 percent QA scoring layered onto Five9, Genesys, NICE CXone, RingCentral or 8x8.
- you need agent-assist copilots for human reps
Look elsewhere if your support runs on chat and email: Balto is voice-only. It also publishes no pricing, so budget for a sales cycle.
Choose EvaluAgent if
Best for: Contact centers that want every conversation scored automatically instead of a sampled few, at a published $35 per user per month, with transcription included, QA for AI agents priced per conversation, US or EU hosting and SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR and ISO 27001 coverage, on any of 16 major help desk and CCaaS platforms, with Assembled and Injixo workforce management sync.
- you need QA scoring and conversation analytics
- you need Chat, Email, and Social coverage
- you need a vendor that publicly claims HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001
Look elsewhere if you are looking for an AI agent that talks to customers: EvaluAgent evaluates conversations, human or AI, and does not hold them. There is no free trial.
About Balto
Balto puts the right words on the agent's screen while the call is still happening. Founded in 2017 in St. Louis by Marc Bernstein and Chris Kontes, it pioneered real-time guidance for contact centers: dynamic checklists, objection responses, and compliance language that appear mid-conversation, exactly when needed, rather than in a coaching session three weeks later. In industries like collections, insurance, healthcare, and home services, where certain sentences are legally required and certain mistakes are expensive, that immediacy is the whole product.
The platform has grown around that core into real-time QA that scores every call as it happens, AI coaching that spots which behaviors need work, live compliance monitoring with manager alerts, and Togo, Balto's voice AI agents for the repetitive calls, like scheduling and account verification, that never needed a human. It integrates with the major contact-center platforms, including Five9, Genesys Cloud, NICE CXone, RingCentral, and 8x8.
Balto raised a $37.5 million Series B led by Stripes in 2021, with RingCentral's venture arm participating, bringing total funding to roughly $52 million, and remains one of the flagship companies of the St. Louis tech scene, with customers like Humana, GEHA, Nelnet, NewRez, and Staples Canada. Pricing is quote-based; there is no public price list.
Choose Balto when what is said on live calls carries real regulatory or revenue weight. Pure digital-support teams will find better fits elsewhere in this directory, but if your operation runs on phone conversations where compliance phrasing and in-the-moment guidance decide outcomes, Balto's real-time focus is still the sharpest in the category.
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About EvaluAgent
EvaluAgent is quality assurance and performance improvement software for contact centers. Its AutoQM engine automatically scores every conversation across voice, email, and chat instead of the tiny samples manual QA allows, with voice transcription built in, custom scorecards, and coaching workflows that route findings back to agents. A conversation intelligence tier adds intent detection, summarization, sentiment analytics, and predictive metrics, and a newer product line applies the same independent quality scoring to AI agents, priced per conversation rather than per seat.
The company was founded in 2012 in Middlesbrough in the north of England by Jaime Scott, Alex Richards, and Michelle Dinsmore, and built steadily for a decade before taking outside growth capital: a $20 million round in June 2023 from PeakSpan Capital, covered by TechCrunch as a bet that evaluating agents, human or otherwise, becomes more important as automation spreads. It remains one of the more prominent UK-grown players in the QA space.
Pricing is refreshingly public for this category. AutoQM starts at $35 per user per month, the AutoQM plus Conversation Intelligence bundle starts at $65 per user per month, and QA for AI agents starts at $0.05 per conversation, or $0.13 with conversation intelligence included. Volume discounts apply, AI agent pricing sits on top of a seat tier, and larger deployments still end in a custom quote, but you can budget from the website, which few competitors allow.
Choose EvaluAgent if you run a voice-heavy or omnichannel contact center, want QA plus coaching in one system, and appreciate a vendor that publishes numbers. It is a strong fit for UK and European operations and for teams starting to QA their chatbots. Look elsewhere if you want a free tier for a tiny team, or if you need a platform that also mines every conversation for churn and product signals, as Rippit (formerly MaestroQA) now does.
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