# Cortex vs Roadie

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Roadie

| Attribute | Cortex | Roadie |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 47.1 (56% (medium)) | 58.2 (75% (high)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A platform for building and managing AI software factories, with focus on production AI operations and governance. It is indexed under Internal Developer Platforms.","source":"https://www.cortex.io","question":"What is Cortex?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Cortex does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.cortex.io/pricing","question":"How much does Cortex cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Cortex. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.cortex.io/pricing","question":"What platforms does Cortex support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Cortex, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://www.cortex.io/pricing","question":"Can Cortex be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and ISO 27001 for Cortex. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Cortex not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.cortex.io/security","question":"What security certifications does Cortex have?","confidence":0.48}]` | `[{"answer":"Repository collection featuring plugins, software templates, and technical documentation examples for the Backstage platform, maintained as open-source projects It is indexed under Internal Developer Platforms.","source":"https://roadie.io","question":"What is Roadie?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Roadie is a paid product; published pricing starts at $24 per developer per month. It is sold across 3 plans (Developer Portal - Teams, Developer Portal - Growth and Context - Enterprise Context). There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://roadie.io/pricing/","question":"How much does Roadie cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Roadie. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://roadie.io/pricing/","question":"What platforms does Roadie support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Roadie, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://roadie.io/pricing/","question":"Can Roadie be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 6 integrations for Roadie, including GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Azure DevOps, Slack and MS Teams. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://roadie.io/pricing/","question":"What does Roadie integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 for Roadie. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Roadie not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://roadie.io/pricing/","question":"What security certifications does Roadie have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Roadie is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the United Kingdom. The vendor is headquartered in Ireland.","source":"https://roadie.io/pricing/","question":"Where is Roadie available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Platform that helps engineering teams manage AI agents, enforce development standards, maintain compliance, and provide self-service golden paths for developers and automated systems to ship faster with less risk | Roadie integrates data from development tools, infrastructure, and production systems to create a dynamic, queryable graph of your services, teams, and dependencies. It provides centralized context and unified search across documentation, APIs, and tooling. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"cloud","rbac_sso":true,"api_access":true,"scorecards":true,"scaffolding":true,"provisioning":true,"platform_shape":"portal","plugin_ecosystem":true,"software_catalog":true,"integration_breadth":"Cloud platforms, CI/CD, security tools, observability platforms, ticketing syste","self_service_actions":true}` | `{"hosting":"cloud","rbac_sso":true,"tech_docs":true,"api_access":true,"scorecards":true,"scaffolding":true,"provisioning":false,"platform_shape":"both","plugin_ecosystem":true,"software_catalog":true,"integration_breadth":"Source control (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps), observability (logs, m","self_service_actions":true,"workload_abstraction":false}` |
| integrations.count | 50 | 20 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"Backstage"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Okta"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"New Relic"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"ArgoCD"},{"name":"CircleCI"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Snyk"},{"name":"Semgrep"},{"name":"SonarQube"},{"name":"Azure Active Directory"},{"name":"Entra ID"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Checkmarx"},{"name":"Veracode"},{"name":"Wiz"},{"name":"FireHydrant"},{"name":"Incident.io"},{"name":"OpsGenie"},{"name":"Rootly"},{"name":"Azure Resources"},{"name":"Google Cloud"},{"name":"Humanitec"},{"name":"Coralogix"},{"name":"Dynatrace"},{"name":"Instana"},{"name":"Rollbar"},{"name":"Sentry"},{"name":"Splunk Observability Cloud"},{"name":"Sumo Logic"},{"name":"BambooHR"},{"name":"ClickUp"},{"name":"Workday"},{"name":"LaunchDarkly"},{"name":"Apiiro"},{"name":"Codecov"},{"name":"Mend"},{"name":"ServiceNow Cloud Observability"},{"name":"Syntasso Kratix Enterprise"},{"name":"Google Observability Cloud"}]` | `[{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitHub Cloud"},{"name":"GitHub on-prem"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"GitLab Cloud"},{"name":"GitLab on-prem"},{"name":"BitBucket"},{"name":"BitBucket Cloud"},{"name":"BitBucket Server"},{"name":"Azure DevOps"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"MS Teams"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"PagerDuty","native":true,"category":"incident_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Dynatrace","native":true,"category":"observability","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Wiz","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Crossplane","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Kratix","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Rootly","native":true,"category":"incident_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Confluence","native":true,"category":"documentation","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"OpenAPI","native":true,"category":"api_specs","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AsyncAPI","native":true,"category":"api_specs","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"GraphQL","native":true,"category":"api_specs","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"gRPC","native":true,"category":"api_specs","direction":"inbound"}]` |
| market.availability | - | `{"hqCountry":"IE","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"quote","summary":"Custom per-seat pricing. Contact sales for a quote.","sourceUrl":"https://www.cortex.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-07T13:53:28.352Z"}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Teams","summary":"$24/developer/month, 50-150 developers","features":["Backstage software catalog","Automatic Backstage upgrades","TechDocs & API specs","Self-service automation templates","75+ open-source plugins","Single sign-on","RAG AI & MCP Server Access"],"minSeats":50,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"developer","amount":24,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For teams wanting a developer portal with manageable setup","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Growth","summary":"Custom pricing for 100+ developers","features":["Everything in Teams, plus:","SLA","Slack & MS Teams support","Custom, private Backstage plugins","REST API access","Advanced search","Secure on-prem connection","Usage analytics dashboard","Custom RBAC"],"minSeats":100,"commitment":"monthly","description":"For established engineering organizations requiring comprehensive support and advanced features","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise Context","summary":"Custom pricing per organization","features":["Integration-powered data store","100s of pre-built data sources","Custom, private data sources","Relationship building","Crafted context bundles","Permissioned access for Agents","MCP Servers"],"description":"Standalone or bundled Context Graph service","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Scorecards"}],"summary":"From $24/developer/month for Teams plan. Custom pricing for Growth and Enterprise plans.","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://roadie.io/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T11:14:59.504Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"developer","amount":24,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | no |
| pricing.model | quote | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":24,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO/IEC 27001:2022","status":"active"}]` | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.cortex.io/solutions/compliance-audits | - |

## Capabilities (Internal Developer Platforms)

| Capability | Cortex | Roadie |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Portal vs orchestrator | Portal | Both |
| Software / service catalog | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-service actions / golden paths | ✓ | ✓ |
| Templated service scaffolding | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Governance** |  |  |
| Production-readiness scorecards | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Orchestration** |  |  |
| Workload spec / infra abstraction | - | ✗ |
| Drives infra provisioning | ✓ | ✗ |
| **Extensibility** |  |  |
| Plugin / extension ecosystem | ✓ | ✓ |
| Public API / webhooks | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Integration** |  |  |
| Cloud/CI/K8s/observability breadth | Cloud platforms, CI/CD, security tools, observability platforms, ticketing syste | Source control (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps), observability (logs, m |
| **Security** |  |  |
| RBAC + SSO/SAML/SCIM | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Docs** |  |  |
| Integrated tech docs | - | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud only |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T12:28:02.672Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*