Lorikeet vs Sierra AI (2026)
Comparing Lorikeet and Sierra AI? 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 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
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 Lorikeet
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 Sierra AI
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| What it is | AI concierge for high-stakes support in fintech, healthcare, and marketplaces that follows your procedures exactly. | AI agent mirrors the nuances of human communication, ensuring seamless and organic customer service interactions while improving customer satisfaction. |
| Pricing | Per resolution · $2,100/mo + $0.99/resolution | Per resolution · Custom |
| Est. monthly cost | $5,070/mo $2,100/mo + $0.99 per resolution; Start plan, paid annually; voice resolutions $1.50 | No published price to estimate |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Categories | AI Agents & Chatbots Enterprise | AI Agents & Chatbots Enterprise Voice & Phone AI |
| Channels | ||
| Chat | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | |
| Voice | ✓ | ✓ |
| SMS | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | |
| Compliance (vendor-claimed) | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| HIPAA | ✓ | ✓ |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | ✓ |
| PCI DSS | — | ✓ |
| FedRAMP | — | ✓ |
| ISO 42001 | — | ✓ |
| EU AI Act | — | ✓ |
| Data residency | US (custom residency on Signature plan) | Not verified |
| Languages | Not verified | 59 languages |
| What the AI can do | ||
| Takes actions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hands off to a human | ✓ | ✓ |
| Choice of LLM | Not verified | — |
| Buying | ||
| Free trial | Free trial (length not stated) | Not verified |
| How you buy | Self-serve signup | Not verified |
| Minimum commitment | Billed annually | — |
| Company | Independent, venture-backed | Independent, venture-backed |
| Works with | Zendesk Intercom Salesforce HubSpot Front Help Scout Kustomer Slack Genesys Cloud Amazon Connect Twilio Five9 Talkdesk Stripe | Salesforce Zendesk Shopify Twilio Stripe Snowflake |
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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 Lorikeet or Sierra AI?
Choose Lorikeet if
Best for: Fintech, healthcare and marketplace companies where a wrong answer costs real money and want an agent that follows their procedures step by step across chat, email, voice, SMS and WhatsApp, with published outcome-based pricing, a trial, a self-serve start and SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR and ISO 27001 coverage.
- you prefer its particular feature set and integrations
Look elsewhere if you are a small team: the Start plan is $2,100 a month plus $0.99 per resolution, billed annually, which is a real floor. Residency is US unless you are on the Signature plan.
Choose Sierra AI if
Best for: Large brands that want one branded agent deployed across chat, voice, email, SMS and WhatsApp, with voice agents that can take a payment mid-call, outcome-based pricing, 59 languages and the broadest compliance list in the directory including FedRAMP, ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act.
- you need voice and phone AI
- you need a vendor that publicly claims PCI DSS, FedRAMP, and ISO 42001
Look elsewhere if you are not an enterprise: Sierra sells multi-year contracts by quote with no trial or self-serve start, and its verified facts do not include a stated data residency.
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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About Sierra AI
Sierra builds conversational AI agents for the enterprise, and it arrived with about as much star power as a startup can carry. It was founded in 2023 by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, and if those names ring a bell it is because Taylor co-created Google Maps, served as CTO of Facebook and co-CEO of Salesforce, and currently chairs the board of OpenAI, while Bavor spent eighteen years at Google leading its virtual and augmented reality work. Company lore says the whole thing was hatched over a grilled branzino lunch in Palo Alto.
The product lives up to the pedigree. From a single build, Sierra deploys a branded agent across chat, voice, email, SMS, and even ChatGPT, following your policies, adopting your brand's voice, and escalating gracefully when a conversation gets thorny. Its voice agents are a standout: they hold natural, low-latency conversations, read sentiment, and can even take a credit card or ACH payment over the phone in one uninterrupted call, with no clumsy handoff to a separate system.
Under the hood sits Agent OS, a platform for building, testing, and supervising agents, with tooling to run voice simulations and rehearse behavior before anything reaches a real customer. Pricing is outcome-based, tied to conversations or successful resolutions and wrapped in multi-year enterprise contracts, so Sierra is aimed at large brands rather than weekend experimenters. Reported customers include SoFi, Ramp, and Brex, and the company says its agents already serve a meaningful slice of the Fortune 50.
Sierra's fundraising has kept pace with its towering ambition, vaulting the company into the rarefied tier of the most valuable AI startups in barely two years. For enterprises that want polished, on-brand agents across every channel and are willing to invest the time and budget to do it properly, Sierra is a genuine marquee choice.
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