A detailed comparison

Edge Delta vs Cleric

How Edge Delta's AI Teammates compare with Cleric's agents, category by category

Last updated September 4, 2026

Edge Delta and Cleric approach AI incident response from different layers of the stack. Edge Delta is the immune system for your production: AI Teammates detect, investigate, and remediate incidents with evidence, approval-gated actions, verified fixes, and a memory of what happened last time. Cleric is an AI SRE that connects read-only to the tools you already run, checks production changes for regressions, investigates alerts, and keeps what it learns in Operational Memory.

Most of the table below follows from that layer difference. Cleric reasons from the outside, querying your tools through read-only APIs, starting from changes and alerts. Edge Delta's AI Teammates apply intelligence to every stage of the telemetry journey, detecting issues as data is produced, investigating and acting on it, verifying the fix, and remembering the incident in Production Memory, from source to backend and everything in between. On pricing the two are more alike than the rest of this compare set: both publish numbers and both start self-serve, with a flat monthly price on one side and credit metering on the other.

Cleric capability and pricing descriptions on this page come from Cleric's public site and pricing page, checked in August 2026 and linked at the bottom. If something has changed, tell us and we will update it.

Autonomy across the loop

How far each product runs on its own

Stage	Edge Delta	Cleric
DetectRecognizes a meaningful production issue.	●Autonomous	●Autonomous
InvestigateGathers and correlates evidence across systems.	●Autonomous	●Autonomous
ReasonForms a root cause backed by evidence.	●Autonomous	●Autonomous
ActTakes action or routes work to the right human.	◐Autonomous, human gated	◐Autonomous, human gated
VerifyChecks whether the fix actually worked.	●Autonomous	●Autonomous
LearnImproves the next incident from this one.	●Autonomous	●Autonomous

How an investigation starts

Investigations that can start before anyone is paged

	Edge Delta	Cleric
Trigger model	✓Teammates begin when learned baselines shift on live telemetry, often before anyone is paged; monitors and chat requests also start investigations	✓Watches production changes under real traffic and moves on regressions; alerts route in from your existing monitoring and Slack
Detection	✓Anomaly detection runs continuously on logs, metrics, traces, and events as they stream, not on a fixed polling interval	○Detection centers on deploys, changes, and incoming alerts; anomaly detection across the raw telemetry stream is not documented as of August 2026

Cleric starts from changes and alerts: it checks what each deploy does under real traffic and picks up alerts from the monitoring you already run.

Edge Delta owns the detection step itself: baselines are learned from your own traffic, so an investigation can begin before an alert or a deploy event exists at all.

Investigation and root cause

Root cause delivered with its evidence

	Edge Delta	Cleric
Method	✓Gathers and correlates evidence across telemetry, deployments, and change history, then delivers a root cause with the evidence attached	✓Forms hypotheses, runs real queries against connected tools in parallel, and shares findings with confidence tracking
System understanding	✓A Knowledge Graph of services, dependencies, deployments, teams, and incidents, built from live telemetry and queryable mid-investigation for an issue's blast radius, criticality, and owning team	✓Automatic service mapping plus Operational Memory built from deploys, investigations, and fixes

Both products run hypothesis-driven investigations and deliver conclusions with evidence. Cleric queries the tools it connects to and tracks confidence before sharing findings.

Edge Delta reasons over the live telemetry stream itself plus MCP-connected context, so the evidence does not depend on what a backend indexed.

Where the reasoning happens

Reasoning over live telemetry, across any backend

	Edge Delta	Cleric
Relationship to telemetry	✓Reasons over telemetry as it's produced, via pipelines deployed at the source, independent of any backend	○Reasons from the outside, querying observability tools, Kubernetes state, cloud APIs, and internal docs through read-only API integrations
Backend flexibility	✓Pipelines route to any destination, so the teammates work whether the backend is Datadog, Splunk, Elastic, or object storage	✓Connects to Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes, PagerDuty, and Slack, plus dev tools like GitHub, Linear, and Jira, through APIs with no agents to deploy
Cost of context	✓Context does not require full ingest into a backend; irrelevant data is filtered out before any bill	○Investigation depth depends on what you already pay to ingest, index, and retain in the tools it queries

Cleric connects read-only with nothing to deploy, and the trade is that it sees what your backends and APIs hold.

Edge Delta deploys pipelines at the telemetry source, which is what makes pre-alert detection and edge data reduction possible in the first place.

Taking action

Every action crosses an approval gate

	Edge Delta	Cleric
Action gating	✓Every write crosses an approval gate: chat actions are approved action by action, scheduled work runs pre-approved playbooks, and rollback paths are written before changes ship	✓Read-only by default; handles routine actions or hands off the production context needed for a safe fix

Both products default to caution. Cleric starts read-only, takes routine actions, and hands engineers the context for fixes it does not execute itself.

Edge Delta puts the gate at the center: every write is approved, auditable, and revocable, with a rollback path written before any change ships.

Verification and learning

Fixes verified by telemetry, incidents remembered

	Edge Delta	Cleric
Post-fix verification	✓Fixes are verified against before-and-after telemetry, and regressions are flagged	✓Verifies fixes against the live environment and confirms recovery, per Cleric's site
Memory across incidents	✓Every incident is recorded in Production Memory, so the next investigation starts with organizational context	✓Operational Memory compounds: deploys, investigations, and fixes accumulate, and investigation history is retained

This is the closest category in the comparison: both products verify fixes and both retain memory. The difference is the substrate. Cleric confirms recovery through the tools it queries.

Edge Delta verifies against before-and-after telemetry, with regression flagging as a documented step of its loop.

Coverage across teams

One production context for every team

	Edge Delta	Cleric
Agent lineup	✓SRE, Security Engineer, Software Engineer, and Work Tracker teammates work from one shared Production Context	○Agents center on production changes, alert investigation, and regression fixes, with custom agents on paid tiers; security engineering coverage is not positioned as of August 2026

Cleric's agents focus on the change-and-incident workflow, with custom agents available on its paid plans.

Edge Delta spreads one shared Production Context across SRE, security, and software engineering teammates, so an incident's findings follow the work wherever it goes next.

Pricing

Two public prices with different meters

	Edge Delta	Cleric
Getting started	✓Free 14-day trial with full access to teammates, connectors, and evaluations; no credit card required	✓Free evaluation with 500 credits and no time limit; Starter, Team, and Pro plans sign up self-serve
Published pricing	✓Unlimited investigations, agents, connectors, and inference on Pro, starting at $20 per month, billed monthly with no annual commitment	✓Credit-metered plans: Starter $100, Team $600, and Pro $2,000 per month for 100, 600, and 2,000 credits; unused credits roll over one month, up to twice the allocation

Both vendors publish pricing and both offer a self-serve start. The meters differ: Edge Delta charges a flat monthly price with unlimited investigations, while Cleric meters usage in credits, with plans from $100 to $2,000 per month. Both sides of this table come from the vendors' public pricing pages, August 2026.

When each one is the right choice

Choose Edge Delta when

You want issues surfaced and investigated before a page goes out, from baselines learned on your own traffic
Telemetry bills matter: relevant data is kept and the rest is filtered out before any backend charges for it
You need security and software engineering coverage alongside SRE, all working from one shared Production Context
You want a flat price with unlimited investigations: a free 14-day trial, then from $20 per month

Choose Cleric when

Checking every production change for regressions is the coverage you care about most
You want read-only API integrations with nothing deployed into your clusters
A Slack-first investigation workflow is where your team already works
Credit-metered pricing fits how you budget usage

Frequently asked questions

Is Cleric an AI SRE?

Yes. Cleric is an AI SRE that connects read-only to the tools you already run, checks production changes for regressions, investigates alerts with hypothesis testing, verifies fixes, and retains what it learns in Operational Memory. Edge Delta applies intelligence across the telemetry journey: its teammates detect from learned baselines before alerts fire, act through approval gates, verify fixes against before-and-after telemetry, and record every incident in Production Memory.

What is the main difference between Edge Delta and Cleric?

Both work with the stack you already run; the difference is the layer. Cleric queries your observability tools, Kubernetes state, cloud APIs, and docs from the outside through read-only integrations, and its detection centers on deploys, changes, and incoming alerts. Edge Delta applies intelligence across the telemetry journey, so reasoning starts before data is indexed anywhere, and detection comes from baselines the system learned from your traffic. Both products verify fixes and retain memory, which makes them closer on the back half of the loop than most pairs in this category.

How does pricing compare between Edge Delta and Cleric?

Both publish pricing and both offer self-serve starts. Edge Delta charges a flat price: a free 14-day trial with no credit card, then the Pro plan starting at $20 per month with unlimited investigations, agents, and connectors, billed monthly with no annual commitment. Cleric meters usage in credits: a free evaluation with 500 credits and no time limit, then Starter at $100, Team at $600, and Pro at $2,000 per month for 100, 600, and 2,000 monthly credits, with rollover up to twice the allocation. Figures come from both vendors' public pricing pages, August 2026.

Do Edge Delta or Cleric replace my observability stack?

Neither one requires ripping out your existing backend. Cleric reads from the tools you keep through APIs, with no agents to deploy. Edge Delta deploys pipelines upstream that route to whatever backend you already keep, so nothing is replaced, only added; many teams also use those pipelines to cut what the backend ingests, which lowers that bill.

Sources: cleric.ai, Cleric pricing, and Edge Delta pricing, retrieved August 2026. Cleric is a trademark of Agentik, Inc. (dba Cleric).

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