Custral vs Day.ai
An agent platform for go-to-market teams: agents read your calls and email and produce finished work, priced by the agent rather than the seat.
Day.ai
Best as agents on top of the stack you already run.
Custral
Best when you want one system for the whole customer lifecycle, sales through success, instead of a stack of tools and bills.
Why teams pick Custral over Day.ai.
The system of record, not a layer on top
Day.ai's agents sit on top of your stack. Stella works inside Custral's records, so what it does is saved where your team already works.
StellaCustom objects & fieldsInbox, dialer and docs included
Day.ai has no native inbox, dialer, docs or dashboards. Custral has all four on the same records.
Unified inboxBuilt-in dialerDashboardsPriced by seat, not by agent
Day.ai's bill grows with every agent deployed. Custral is one per-seat price, and Stella is part of every plan.
StellaAsk for insights
Line by line.
Records & CRM✓ IncludedAdd-on or tiered
Custom objects, fields and pipelines on one shared set of records.
Works across your customer data, but sits on top of a CRM rather than being one.
Communications✓ IncludedAdd-on or tiered
One inbox for email, SMS and website chat, threaded on the record.
Strong outbound sending; not a shared inbox for inbound conversations.
Voice✓ IncludedSeparate tool
A built-in dialer with call recording, transcripts and an AI notetaker.
Not a calling tool. Voice stays in your dialer.
AI teammate✓ IncludedNative
Stella, your AI teammate: ask about your workspace, draft work, or build it by describing it.
Agents that research, enrich and draft are the whole product.
Workflows✓ IncludedNative
Automations across every object: routing, follow-ups, updates and sequences.
Deep automation, for prospecting and outbound specifically.
Docs✓ IncludedSeparate tool
Collaborative docs, notes and whiteboards on the records they describe.
No native collaborative docs.
Reporting✓ IncludedAdd-on or tiered
Dashboards and saved views over your records, with no bolt-on BI tool.
Campaign and enrichment analytics rather than company-wide reporting.
Extensibility✓ IncludedNative
An open API, your own blocks and widgets inside the product, and webhooks.
Built to be wired into the rest of your stack. That is the point of it.
Pricing model✓ IncludedSeparate tool
One per-seat price, from $39 billed annually ($49 monthly). Plans differ by usage limits; API access starts on Growth.
Priced by credits, usage or agents rather than seats, which is harder to forecast.
Setup✓ IncludedAdd-on or tiered
Import a CSV, or start from a blueprint that sets up your objects, pages and views.
Quick to connect, with a real learning curve before it pays off.
We'd rather win outright, so “Native” credits a real strength of Day.ai. The other two labels describe how a capability is typically obtained, not any one plan.
Where Day.ai shines, and where it stops.
Where it's strong
- Agents work from the whole customer history, not one record
- Priced per agent rather than per person, which suits small teams
- Finished work to approve, rather than another dashboard
- A free tier and no long-term contract
Where teams hit its limits
- An agent layer for GTM, not a system of record for the company
- No native inbox, dialer, docs or dashboards
- Pre-sale scope; onboarding, support and delivery live elsewhere
- Costs track agent count, which grows as more people want their own
Worth weighing before you switch
Day.ai and Custral share the premise: the AI should see everything, not one field at a time.
The difference is where the data lives. Day.ai sits on top of your stack; Stella works inside the system of record.
Happy with your CRM and want agents on top? Day.ai is the lighter-touch answer.
What it costs.
Day.ai
Turbo, billed monthly. 20% off annual.
Checked against their published pricing in September 2026. Prices change, so verify before you decide.
Every tier, and what to budget
Free, then $24/month (Turbo), $60/month (Professional), and $200/month (Executive) per agent, billed monthly with 20% off annual. Priced by agent deployed, not per team member.
Per-agent pricing is attractive for a small team. Check what it costs once every rep wants their own.
Custral
Starter, billed annually ($49 monthly).
Stella is included and runs on your plan's monthly credits. Plans differ by usage limits; API access starts on Growth.
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