Cadenya vs Speko: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

A side-by-side comparison of Cadenya and Speko — features, pricing, and ideal use cases — to help you decide which AI tool fits your workflow.

Cadenya

Paid

A managed agent runtime that layers your tools, agents and objectives so teams can test agent behavior safely and iterate fast.

Unified Tool Layer: Connect MCP servers, OpenAPI specs and existing endpoints once, and expose them to every agent through a single managed interface.
Model-Agnostic Variations: Set a default model and run canary variations on other providers side by side to compare behaviors before promoting a change.
Progressive Tool Discovery: Tool schemas stay out of the context window until an agent asks for them, with configurable max tools per search, search hints and a rerank threshold, so every request gets smaller.
Live Token Metering: Track cost as it accrues across loops, active variations, memory entries and widgets, so usage is visible rather than discovered on the invoice.
Webhooks and SSE Streaming: Push agent events — assistant messages, tool results, approval requests, sub-agent spawns, compaction, timeouts — into your own apps in real time.
Memory Layers: Attach stored documents such as playbooks and policy sets to an agent so its guidance persists across objectives.
Outcome Feedback Scoring: Collect scored comments on each objective, attributed to the variation and model that produced it, to see which behaviors actually work.
Embeddable Widgets: Drop an agent experience into any frontend as a widget rather than building the conversational surface yourself.

Operational Exception Handling: Run an agent that detects stalled shipments or orders and reroutes them through your dispatch API within policy.
Safe Model Migration: Evaluate a new frontier model as a canary variation against live objectives before switching the default.
Wrapping Existing APIs: Turn internal OpenAPI endpoints into agent-callable tools without rewriting the services behind them.
Embedding Agent Chat in a Product: Ship a conversational agent surface into an existing frontend using widgets instead of building it in-house.
Cost Control at Scale: Use progressive discovery and live metering to keep context size and per-loop cost down as agent traffic grows.
Agent Quality Review: Compare scored feedback across variations to understand which prompt or model changes improved real outcomes.

Freemium

A router for voice AI that benchmarks 56 speech and language models language by language, then routes each session to the one that wins.

Language-by-Language Benchmarks: 56 speech and language models measured across ten languages, exposing that a model topping the English table may have no published rank anywhere else.
Cost-Versus-Accuracy Charts: Word error rate plotted against dollars per minute for each pipeline stage — STT, LLM, TTS and speech-to-speech — so a model choice is a priced trade-off, not a guess.
Managed Router: A hosted, provider-neutral data plane at router.speko.dev that selects the winning model per session using the measurements and fails over before a response is returned.
Typed Contracts: Public OpenAPI and AsyncAPI specifications for the Router, so integrations are generated rather than hand-rolled against an undocumented endpoint.
Open Gateway Runtime: A customer-side runtime with native LiveKit and Pipecat services offering provider-direct streaming and local BYOK credentials, keeping your vendor relationships intact.
Drop-In Framework Integration: Swap STT, LLM and TTS in a LiveKit AgentSession for Speko equivalents with credential_source="auto" and model="auto" and get routing without restructuring the agent.
MCP Server: Point Claude Code or Cursor at mcp.speko.ai to query models, voices and benchmark data from inside a coding agent.
Two Pricing Paths: Either add 5% on top of a provider's published rate while routing your own spend, or take the bundled Speko infrastructure rate of $0.09 per minute across all three legs.

Multilingual Voice Products: Ship a voice agent to non-English markets and route each language to the model that actually performs best there.
Vendor Selection Research: Use the published benchmarks to decide which STT or TTS provider to sign with before committing to a contract.
Voice Cost Optimization: Trade a small accuracy delta for a large cost reduction by picking a model at the right point on the WER-versus-price curve.
Failover and Reliability: Keep voice sessions alive through a provider outage with pre-response failover across the routed model pool.
LiveKit or Pipecat Migration: Add measured routing to an existing agent stack by swapping in Gateway services rather than rewriting the pipeline.
Agent-Assisted Model Research: Query the benchmark data from Claude or Cursor over MCP while writing the voice integration.