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Cognigy

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by Cognigy GmbH · www.cognigy.com

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Cognigy at a glance

Vendor
Cognigy GmbH
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026
Data hosting
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026
Free plan
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026
Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Cognigy 2.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. Cognigy is an AI-agent platform for contact centres on voice and chat from Cognigy GmbH of Düsseldorf. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 26 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 28 Oct 2026. all sources

Cognigy alternatives, European ones first →

Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The Skeptic

Weighted verdict

Has read "European AI" on a wrapper that sends every prompt to a US model, "agents" that are saved prompts, and "we never train on your data" with no word on the model provider behind it. Asks which model answers, where it runs, what it may do unsupervised, and what a thousand seats cost.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Skeptic

Panel median The Skeptic This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Skeptic
Data use, training & retention 1 of 5 1 of 5
Models & processing location 2 of 5 2 of 5
Admin, identity & access controls 2.5 of 5 2 of 5
Integrations, connectors & knowledge 4 of 5 4 of 5
Agent capabilities & guardrails 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
European sovereignty 2 of 5 2 of 5

Data use, training & retention

How this is scored

What happens to prompts, uploaded files, connected data and outputs: whether any of it trains a model (the vendor's or a model provider's), how long it is kept and where logs live, whether zero-retention is available, and whether a data processing agreement covers it.

0 — No statement on training or retention; the privacy policy is a website policy that does not cover the product.

3 — A general statement that business data is "not used for training", with no word on retention, on the model providers behind the product or on logs.

5 — Business data excluded from training by contract, retention periods stated for chats and files, and a DPA offered to business customers.

8 — No-training commitments stated for the vendor and every model provider it routes to, retention configurable by the admin (including deletion of chat history), zero-data-retention terms with the model providers named, and abuse-monitoring retention described.

10 — Data use fully accounted for: training, retention, logging and abuse monitoring stated per model provider, customer-controlled retention and deletion with an audit trail, outputs and connected data treated as customer data in the DPA, and an independent audit (SOC 2, ISO 27001 or ISO 42001) covering the product.

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The Skeptic

The privacy policy governs the websites, not the platform: it sets deletion periods for contact forms, analytics, trial data and the website support agent, and states that support-agent inputs shared with Azure OpenAI will not train the foundation models. For prompts, files and outputs inside Cognigy.AI itself we found no public information on training, retention, or a data processing agreement; the order-processing agreements described cover website service providers. 4

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Models & processing location

How this is scored

Which models sit behind the product and who runs them, where inference and storage happen, whether the customer can pin processing to the EU, choose or exclude model providers, bring its own model or key, or run the product in its own cloud or on premises.

0 — The models behind the product and the processing location are not stated.

3 — The model family is named, but where inference runs and through which provider (the model maker, a hyperscaler, the vendor) is unstated.

5 — Models and their providers named, with an EU processing option stated for storage and at least the default model.

8 — Each available model listed with provider and inference region, EU-only processing selectable by the admin and enforced across models, model providers excludable, and bring-your-own-key or own-cloud deployment documented.

10 — Processing fully under the customer's control and documented: EU-only or on-premises inference for every feature including agents and connectors, open-weight or self-hosted models supported, data flows per feature published, and a residency commitment in the contract rather than on a marketing page.

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The Skeptic

The model providers are named and selectable — OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Aleph Alpha through a central orchestration interface, with the stated ability to use the LLM of your choice. But we found no public information on where inference runs, whether processing can be pinned to the EU, or bring-your-own-key and own-cloud deployment. 6 8 9

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Admin, identity & access controls

How this is scored

What the IT department controls: SSO and SCIM provisioning, roles and groups, which models, agents and connectors each group may use, retrieval that respects the permissions of the source system, audit logs, usage reporting, and policies such as data-loss prevention — and whether reporting on staff use is scoped and documented.

0 — No admin features documented; accounts are individual sign-ups.

3 — A team workspace with an owner and member invitations, but no SSO, no roles and no audit log.

5 — SSO, admin and member roles, user management, and an admin view of usage.

8 — SAML/OIDC SSO with SCIM provisioning, group-based permissions for models, agents and connectors, retrieval that inherits source-system permissions, exportable audit logs, and usage analytics with documented scope.

10 — Governance a regulated company can operate: fine-grained policies (DLP, content filters, prompt and output logging rules), audit logs streamed to a SIEM, per-agent ownership and approval, usage reporting that can be aggregated or pseudonymised for works-council agreements, and every admin action logged.

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The Skeptic

A single features-page bullet promises SSO, role-based access control, end-to-end encryption and fine-grained data controls, and the documented analytics are conversation metrics such as containment and drop-off rather than staff-usage reporting. We found no public information on SCIM provisioning, group-level permissions over models, agents or connectors, audit logs, or data-loss prevention policies. 2 7

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Integrations, connectors & knowledge

How this is scored

How the product reaches company knowledge and systems: connectors to file stores, wikis, mail, CRM, ticketing and ERP, how fast and how completely they sync, the API, support for open protocols such as MCP, and how the assistant cites the sources it answers from.

0 — No integrations; users paste text or upload files one at a time.

3 — File upload and one or two connectors (for example a drive), with no API and no statement on sync or citations.

5 — A connector library covering the common file stores, wikis and collaboration tools, answers citing sources, and a documented API.

8 — Connectors to file stores, wikis, mail, CRM and ticketing with incremental sync, custom connectors or MCP support, an API and webhooks for embedding assistants and agents in other tools, and source citations on every grounded answer.

10 — The product sits in the company's systems: read and write connectors with documented scopes, MCP servers and clients, contact-centre or telephony integration where relevant, a knowledge layer that can be audited and corrected, and the data, agents and configuration exportable when the customer leaves.

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The Skeptic

This is documented in detail: prebuilt connections to CRM, ticketing, payments and 100+ more systems, a documented REST API with full platform coverage, a developer CLI into CI/CD, and full MCP client support with automatic schema updates and per-node tool allow- and deny-lists. Knowledge AI traces every generated answer back to its source with configurable output with or without citations; we found no public information on sync cadence or export of data and agents when a customer leaves. 2 8 9

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Agent capabilities & guardrails

How this is scored

What an agent can actually do and where it stops: multi-step tasks, tool use and actions in other systems, scheduling and triggers, human approval before consequential actions, run logs, evaluation and testing before release, and the limits the vendor states rather than hides.

0 — No agents; the product is a chat window, whatever the marketing says.

3 — Saved prompts or custom assistants with instructions and files, but no actions in other systems and no run history.

5 — Agents that call tools or APIs and run multi-step tasks, built without code, with a log of each run.

8 — Agents that act in connected systems with scoped permissions, human approval configurable per action, triggers and schedules, test and evaluation tooling before release, and documented limits and failure handling.

10 — Agents a business can put in production and account for: versioning and staged rollout, evaluation against test sets, monitoring of quality and cost per agent, handover to a human with full context, every action attributable to the agent and the person who deployed it, and the vendor's own statement of what agents must not be trusted with.

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The Skeptic

The evaluation story is unusually strong and honest: synthetic customers with personas, missions and success criteria, simulations on demand, on schedule and as regression tests, automatic scoring with full transcripts, mocked third-party failures, and version comparison before production. Agents act in connected systems with tool filtering per node, but we found no public information on human approval before consequential actions or on triggers that run agents unattended. 9 10 11

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Who the contracting entity and the parent company are, where customer data is hosted, and who the subprocessors are — model providers above all, then hosting, search, telephony and email. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; for an AI product the model provider is a subprocessor, so a European interface over a non-European model counts as such.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors (including model providers) unnamed.

3 — A privacy policy exists, but hosting location is unstated or non-EU and the model providers behind the product are not named as subprocessors.

5 — EU hosting stated and an EU contracting entity, but prompts reach non-EU model providers or other subprocessors without a stated safeguard or EU region.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, every subprocessor listed with its location including model providers, EU inference available, and a DPA offered.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, entity, hosting and model processing, every subprocessor European or optional, data export and deletion documented, and a security or certification statement published rather than implied.

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The Skeptic

Cognigy GmbH of Düsseldorf is the GDPR controller with the North Rhine-Westphalia authority as regulator, yet the site brands the product NiCE Cognigy and consent forms reference NiCE. We found no public information on where customer data is hosted, and the providers named for model orchestration — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google among them — are not named as subprocessors; the subprocessors listed are website tools such as Google Analytics, Zendesk and ZoomInfo, with Standard Contractual Clauses stated only for HubSpot. 3 4 6 11

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a company can compute the real annual cost from public pages alone: price per seat, per agent, per conversation or per usage unit, what is included in each tier, usage limits and overage, which models, connectors or agents cost extra, minimum seats and term.

0 — No public prices at all; every customer is a sales call.

3 — A starting price or "from" figure exists, but usage limits, included models and what scales the cost are unclear.

5 — Prices per tier are public with the main inclusions, but usage limits, overage, agent runs or enterprise features (SSO, audit logs, EU processing) are unpriced or "on request".

8 — Every tier priced publicly with seat or usage units, usage limits and overage rates, add-ons listed, minimum seats and term stated.

10 — Complete price computability: annual cost derivable for a given number of seats, agents or conversations, with every usage rate, model surcharge, add-on and support tier and the cancellation and data-return terms published.

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The Skeptic

We found no public prices on any captured page: no per-seat, per-conversation or per-agent figures, no tiers and no usage limits. The only pricing-adjacent facts are an instant free trial and a "See a demo" invitation, so the annual cost for a given number of seats or conversations is not computable from what is published. 4 10

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Ownership Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data residency Not determined — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined — uncited Report an error

Questions about Cognigy

Is Cognigy European?

Partly. whats-best.ai classifies Cognigy as EU origin, foreign-owned.

Where does Cognigy store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026.

Does Cognigy have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Cognigy?

As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates Langdock (4/5), Dust (3.5/5) and Unique AI (3.5/5) highest among the other 15 AI Agents & Assistants products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Langdock (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Cognigy alternatives.

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What we left out

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Sources (11)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.cognigy.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Features page (AI Agent Studio) www.cognigy.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Legal notice www.cognigy.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Privacy policy www.cognigy.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Models & processing location — found from sitemap www.cognigy.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Models & processing location — found from sitemap www.cognigy.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Admin, identity & access controls — found from sitemap www.cognigy.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Integrations, connectors & knowledge — found from sitemap www.cognigy.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Integrations, connectors & knowledge — found from sitemap www.cognigy.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Agent capabilities & guardrails — found from sitemap www.cognigy.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Agent capabilities & guardrails — found from sitemap www.cognigy.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →