Plivo vs Duckie

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Plivo

GrowthCommunications Technology

Cloud Communications Platform

Plivo is a cloud communications platform providing voice and SMS APIs for developers and enterprises, with global carrier connectivity and a no-code contact center product.

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Plivo is a cloud communications platform headquartered in San Francisco with engineering operations in Bangalore, India, that was founded in 2011 by Venky Balasubramanian and Michael Ricordeau to provide developers and enterprises with voice and SMS APIs built on globally distributed carrier infrastructure. Plivo raised $37 million in funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and has operated profitably for much of its existence — an unusual distinction among communications infrastructure companies that have historically burned significant capital building carrier relationships and network coverage. The company serves thousands of customers across e-commerce, healthcare, financial services, and on-demand services with programmable communications infrastructure for OTP delivery, appointment reminders, two-way SMS, IVR systems, and voice conferencing.

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Duckie

EmergingInfrastructure

IT Operations

SF YC W24 AI support agent builder at 80% resolution time reduction and 71% ticket deflection; $500K from a16z/Greylock/YC/Netflix competing with Intercom Fin for customer support AI workflow automation.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D25
Category Rank
#18 of 68
AI Consensus
59%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
33
Perplexity
19
Gemini
36

About

Duckie is a San Francisco-based AI customer support platform — backed by Y Combinator (W24) with $500,000 in funding from Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, KungHo Fund, Netflix, and 5 additional investors — providing customer support teams with an AI agent builder that translates existing support processes and workflows into predictable, reliable AI automation, achieving 80% reduction in resolution time and 71% ticket deflection for deployed teams. Founded in 2023 and targeting customer support leaders at growth-stage software companies, Duckie enables support teams to deploy AI agents in minutes without engineering dependency.

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