Head to head

Leena AI vs Workativ

Same facts, side by side: starting price, free tier, MCP, API and what each one is actually built for.

Leena AI

Sales-quoted

HR chatbot and help-desk deflection for employee questions and tickets. Pricing is sales-quoted.

Where Leena AI fits

  • HR ops teams with high ticket volume
  • Global employers that need 24/7 policy answers
  • Companies on Workday, SAP, or BambooHR
  • IT/HR pairs looking for one employee assistant

Workativ

$99/mo

Workativ is an AI help desk for HR and IT questions that live in Slack or Microsoft Teams. The AI-agent pricing page starts at Starter $99 per month (200 chat sessions, 1 agent). Business is $349 per month. Yearly billing saves 15 percent.

Where Workativ fits

  • SMB and mid-market HR or IT teams that want a Slack or Teams agent at $99/mo
  • Companies that will grow into Business at $349/mo for 500 sessions and 2 agents
  • Teams that prefer session caps over per-employee billing
  • Ops leaders who need live-agent handoff without standing up ServiceNow

At a glance

DetailLeena AIWorkativ
Starting priceSales-quoted$99/mo
Free tier–No–No
MCP server–No–No
Public API–No–No
Listed underHR help deskHR help desk
Capterra4.5 from 13 reviewsNot enough reviews

Where they pull apart

Leena AI

Stands out: An HR-trained assistant that sits on your policies and HCM so employees are not emailing people-ops for password and leave questions.

Watch out: Quote-only. Garbage-in policies produce garbage answers. Confirm which HCM (Workday, SAP, BambooHR, ADP) is a supported connector before you demo.

Not the right fit for

  • Companies with no written policies to index
  • SMBs that can still answer Slack by hand
  • Buyers who need a public per-employee price

Workativ

Stands out: Session-based pricing with no per-user fees, so the whole company can talk to the agent. Starter is a published $99/mo proof-of-concept SKU, unusual in this category.

Watch out: Starter caps you at 200 AI chat sessions, 1 agent, 2 actions, 1 live agent, and 30 days of data retention. Business lifts that to 500 sessions, 2 agents, 5 actions, and 3 live agents. Enterprise is custom.

Not the right fit for

  • Enterprises that need a quote-only HRSD suite on top of Workday
  • Buyers who need unlimited sessions on the cheapest card

Pros and cons

Leena AI

  • HR-specific assistant, not a generic GPT wrapper
  • Broad HCM and collaboration connectors
  • 24/7 deflection for repetitive people-ops questions
  • Sales-quoted only
  • Answer quality depends on the knowledge you give it
  • Not an HRIS

Workativ

  • Published Starter at $99/mo with no per-user fee
  • Business at $349/mo is still a flat session SKU rather than PEPM
  • Slack and Teams deployment without buying a full ITSM
  • 200 sessions on Starter will not cover a busy 500-person HR inbox
  • Capterra has only 4 reviews
  • Enterprise connectors and extra sessions leave the public table

What each one costs

Leena AI

Sales-quoted

Sales-quoted. No public rate card on the vendor site. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 12 Sep 2026

Workativ

$99/mo

Starter is $99 per month for 200 AI chat sessions, 1 AI agent, 2 actions, and 1 live agent. Business is $349 per month for 500 sessions, 2 agents, 5 actions, and 3 live agents. Yearly billing saves 15 percent. Enterprise is custom. Pricing is session-based with no per-user fees. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 19 Sep 2026

Common questions

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Neither carries a free tier on our listing.

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Editorial listings, never paid rankings. Prices checked 12 Sep 2026. Confirm current terms on the vendor site. Spot an error?