Sistava vs OpenAI Frontier
Big Tech and Enterprise
Sistava vs OpenAI Frontier
OpenAI Frontier is built for large enterprises, with HP, Intuit, Oracle, State Farm, Thermo Fisher, and Uber named as launch customers. It requires custom contracts, Forward Deployed Engineers, and months of enterprise onboarding. Sistava delivers the same agent workforce concept but self-serve, instant, and accessible to businesses of any size without needing an OpenAI account team.
Profile
- Pricing
- Custom enterprise only. No public pricing. Fortune 500 focused. Contact sales.
- Founded
- Launched February 2026 (OpenAI founded 2015)
- Funding
- OpenAI: $180B+ raised, including a $122B round in early 2026 backed by Amazon ($50B), Nvidia ($30B), and SoftBank ($30B), at an $852B valuation.
- Focus
- Enterprise platform for building and managing AI agents at scale
Why Sistava
- Sistava is live in minutes with self-serve signup. Frontier requires contacting an enterprise sales team and getting approved for limited access.
- Sistava plans start at Free/$49/$99/$199/$399 per month. Frontier has zero public pricing, custom contracts only.
- Sistava offers a marketplace of ready-to-hire AI employees. Frontier agents are built by OpenAI, by your own team, or by third parties, which is real optionality; what it does not have is a consumer-style catalogue you hire from in minutes.
- Sistava is designed for 5-50 person teams. Frontier launch customers are HP, Intuit, Oracle, State Farm, Thermo Fisher, and Uber.
- Sistava includes task boards, file Drive, work journals, sprint cycles, and 7-Layer memory out of the box. Frontier provides infrastructure but no built-in productivity tools.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | OpenAI Frontier | Sistava |
|---|---|---|
| Fortune 500 enterprises | SMBs (5-50 employees) | |
| Months (enterprise onboarding) | Minutes (self-serve) | |
| Custom contracts only | Public: Free to $399/mo | |
| Built by OpenAI, your team, or third parties | Marketplace | |
| Handoff between agents, no documented subtask delegation | ✓ | |
| Shared business context | 7 layers | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| MCP support plus OpenAI-maintained Connectors | Thousands of native + MCP | |
| Not documented | ✓ | |
| Not documented | ✓ | |
| Enterprise IAM scoping | PII detection, approval gates | |
| Built-in tracing of generations, tool calls, and handoffs | ✓ | |
| Enterprise contracts | ✗ |