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Azul Zulu vs Kore.ai comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Azul Zulu
Ranking in AI Customer Experience Personalization
24th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Application Infrastructure (11th), AI Content Creation (11th)
Kore.ai
Ranking in AI Customer Experience Personalization
8th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
AI Agent Builders (7th), AI Security (7th), AI Customer Support (2nd), AI IT Support (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the AI Customer Experience Personalization category, the mindshare of Azul Zulu is 1.0%, down from 16.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Kore.ai is 1.1%, down from 8.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Customer Experience Personalization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Kore.ai1.1%
Azul Zulu1.0%
Other97.9%
AI Customer Experience Personalization
 

Featured Reviews

BasilJiji - PeerSpot reviewer
System engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Standardized our Java estate and have reduced licensing costs while maintaining strong support
Azul Zulu's ability to allow us to standardize our Java estate on a single and well-supported platform stands out as one of its best features. This standardization simplifies our compliance audits and ensures all our applications receive timely security updates.Azul Zulu positively impacts our organization by providing a platform that allows us to standardize Java on a well-supported platform. Without the high cost associated with other proprietary vendors, Azul Zulu provides an excellent platform for running our applications.
Judin Augustin - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Data Scientist at Guide House
Automation has reduced large call centers and provides real-time outbound support for patients
Kore.ai is a low-code platform, and you do not necessarily have to be an expert in artificial intelligence or generative AI to use this platform. However, if you have that experience, it will be a valuable add-on. The main advantage is that it has almost every kind of plugin available to use, whether for live agents or if you want to use it as a call center. You have real-time capabilities and the most useful plugins available, with almost every kind of model available with configurations. We can configure the ML models and train them. The platform is very user-friendly with explanatory features and a great UI. One significant feature is the live testing platform with Kore.ai. When you are creating a workflow, you have an interactive, real-time testing platform that reflects every change you make. This makes it easy to debug errors or add new features. Additionally, Kore.ai has many different tools and platforms that cater to different needs, whether for a call center, normal workflow, or machine learning workflow, which is really useful. Because of Kore.ai, it was much easier than creating something manually. A low-code platform always helps, and when that platform has this much capability, it provides far more value than manual development. It was particularly helpful for our team that we could create a POC and get that project into production. Kore.ai helped our team build a generative AI outbound calling chatbot, and it truly helped our customers. If you have a hospital with a thousand employees in a call center, you might consider outsourcing. However, with Kore.ai's outbound calling capabilities, you can eliminate the outsourcing part. You do not need a thousand call center employees. You can accomplish this through automation with just one or two employees if people need to switch to agents. This represented a significant cost reduction.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We've had no issues with stability."
"We achieved specific outcomes from using Azul Zulu by reducing our Java licensing and support costs by approximately 70% when compared to our previous Oracle contract."
"Because of Kore.ai, it was much easier than creating something manually, and when that platform has this much capability, it provides far more value than manual development."
"The best feature of Kore.ai is that it is a cost-saving tool because when we use IVR, we have to assign agents at the backend, but using Kore.ai, we can automate all of those functions."
"Compared to other tools, Kore.ai provides a well-organized chatbot experience that others do not offer."
"It impacted my organization by helping us move into being AI-native, and it helped a lot to show other clients that we have worked in AI."
"Kore.ai helped us integrate a lot through documentation and trial and error, making it straightforward to integrate overall, resulting in a very good experience for first-timers."
"Kore.ai is outstanding compared to other AI agent platforms such as Copilot Studio due to the centralized nature and integration of different apps within a single platform."
"Kore.ai offers many valuable features, particularly its extensive array of connectors, allowing easy integration with various ERP systems and the straightforward implementation of webhooks and APIs."
"Kore.ai has positively impacted my organization by simplifying the process of responding to emails and streamlining the workflow, saving me considerable time."
 

Cons

"Improvements for Azul Zulu could include more automated tools for unused code visibility integrated directly into the standard portal to help further optimize our cloud footprints."
"It needs a better update daemon. At this time the process is manual and could be an issue on multiple desktop deployments."
"Kore.ai can be improved by enhancing their documentation, which is currently a bit disorganized."
"In support, the team is not the greatest, but it works."
"In my experience, Kore.ai is not stable."
"Customer support is okay, I guess. We get what we want from them whenever there is an issue or something, but sometimes when we had issues, it was delayed a lot."
"The two points I deduct relate to the integrations, which were not as extensive as I initially expected."
"I choose 7.5 out of 10 for Kore.ai because a few things already need to be improved, one of which I have mentioned."
"One thing I have learned is the unpredictability of LLMs and how buggy Kore.ai is as a software."
"I rated Kore.ai eight out of ten because of the potential for these additional improvements."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
29%
Construction Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Retailer
8%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Construction Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise14
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Azul Zulu?
Improvements for Azul Zulu could include more automated tools for unused code visibility integrated directly into the standard portal to help further optimize our cloud footprints. The other core J...
What is your primary use case for Azul Zulu?
Azul Zulu serves as our primary Java runtime, providing a stable, 100% open-source, and certified solution for our production microservices. We utilize it to ensure cross-platform compatibility acr...
What advice do you have for others considering Azul Zulu?
My advice for others looking into using Azul Zulu is to perform a pilot migration with one non-critical application first. You will likely find that it is truly a drop-in replacement, which will gi...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kore.ai?
The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing of Kore.ai is that the price is low, and the licensing is also not costly.
What needs improvement with Kore.ai?
I do not have much to add regarding how Kore.ai can be improved since it has been a long time since we last used it. There are other platforms that offer more features, but those come at a higher p...
What is your primary use case for Kore.ai?
In my past organization, I used Kore.ai for one of the projects over a period of approximately six to eight months. Our main use case for Kore.ai involved building a Gen AI plus conversational AI p...
 

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Microsoft, Kyocera, OKI, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, Voya Financial
Leading banks & Enterprise Companies
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