Sistava vs Relay.app
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Sistava vs Relay.app
Relay.app is a workflow automation tool that chains AI actions (summarization, extraction, translation) with human approval steps across 100+ app integrations. While Relay requires you to design every workflow step by step, Sistava gives you pre-built AI employees that already know how to do the job, with thousands of integrations, team hierarchy, and durable execution built in.
Profile
- Pricing
- Free (200 steps), then Professional $38/mo ($19/mo billed annually), Team $138/mo ($69/mo billed annually). Enterprise custom.
- Founded
- 2021, San Francisco
- Funding
- $40M+ total raised (a $35M growth round on top of the earlier Khosla Ventures and a16z-led seed)
- Focus
- AI-powered workflow automation with human-in-the-loop approvals
Why Sistava
- Sistava ships pre-built AI employees ready to work. Relay requires you to manually build every workflow from scratch.
- Sistava supports multi-agent teams with leader delegation and sprint cycles. Relay offers flat, single-agent workflows.
- Sistava connects to thousands of apps and custom MCP servers. Relay has approximately 100 app integrations.
- Sistava retains memory across conversations and tasks (graph + episodic). Relay workflows are stateless with limited persistence.
- Sistava runs on Temporal with full execution inspection. Relay uses simple linear step-based automation.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Relay.app | Sistava |
|---|---|---|
| Build workflows step by step | Hire pre-built employees | |
| Predefined AI steps | Autonomous with guardrails | |
| Single-user workflows | Multi-agent hierarchy | |
| Stateless | Persistent (graph + episodic) | |
| ~100 | Thousands of native | |
| Human-in-the-loop steps | Approval gates, PII detection | |
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| Basic run logs | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | |
| $19/mo billed annually ($38/mo monthly) | $49/mo |