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

A side-by-side comparison of Cadenya and Supernova — 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.

Paid

An encrypted Iceberg data lake with a built-in engine and MCP endpoint, so Claude and Codex can query every tool your company uses.

MCP Endpoint for Claude and Codex: Point any MCP-speaking assistant at mcp.supernova.ai/mcp and every synced table becomes queryable in natural language.
Encrypted Iceberg Lake: Open Apache Iceberg tables in object storage with table-level encryption, so the data stays in a portable open format you control.
Zero-Copy Connections: Any engine that speaks Iceberg can read the lake directly, avoiding a second copy of your warehouse.
Time Travel: Every table retains version history, so you can query the state of your data as of any earlier point.
Built-In Frontier Models: Ask a question or describe a dashboard in plain language and Supernova generates the models and visualisations without a data team.
TypeSQL: Schema-aware SQL that autocompletes across joins and type-checks before execution, catching errors the way a typed language would.
Single-Binary CLI: One command-line tool connects sources, runs queries, tails live table changes and registers the MCP endpoint with Claude Desktop, from a laptop or CI.
Git-Backed Dashboards: Models and dashboards are readable and writable through Git, putting analytics artefacts under normal version control.

Conversational Revenue Analysis: Ask Claude which customers churned last quarter and why, with the answer computed over live Stripe and HubSpot tables.
Warehouse Cost Reduction: Replace a multi-vendor pipeline-plus-warehouse stack with one usage-billed platform, which the vendor illustrates as $5,640/mo dropping to $540/mo for a hardware company.
Dashboards Without a Data Team: Describe the dashboard you want in a sentence and have the models and charts generated for you.
AI-Native Data Access Layer: Give internal agents a governed, encrypted single endpoint for company data instead of per-tool API integrations.
Auditing Historical State: Use table version history to reconstruct what the numbers looked like before a pricing or schema change.
CI-Driven Data Workflows: Drive connections, queries and change tailing from pipelines using the single CLI binary.