Convai vs Sanalabs

Convai lets you build 3D AI characters that talk, see, and act inside games, XR apps, and virtual worlds. You craft a character's personality, backstory, and knowledge in a browser studio, then deploy it through APIs and plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine. The same character can run on websites, mobile apps, VR headsets, and physical installations.

Most chatbot builders output text in a flat window. Convai focuses on embodied NPCs that need spatial awareness, lip sync, gesture animations, and real-time voice inside a 3D scene. That narrow engine-first approach trades a generic website widget for deep integrations with game engines, avatar systems, and multimodal perception.

Game developers, XR training teams, and brand marketers use Convai for role-playing NPCs, virtual brand reps, and training simulations. The free tier includes 100 interactions per month, and paid Indie Dev plans start at $22 per month on yearly billing with 3,000 monthly interactions.

Sana Labs builds enterprise AI tools for knowledge work and corporate learning under two products: Sana for AI agents across your company apps, and Sana Learn for training and onboarding. The Stockholm-based company now operates as part of Workday after its acquisition.

Where most enterprise AI vendors bolt a chatbot onto existing software, Sana connects to your company's documents, apps, and workflows so agents can find answers, generate reports, and automate multi-step processes. Sana Learn replaces a patchwork of LMS, LXP, and authoring tools with one platform that creates courses from PDFs and gives each learner a personal tutor.

The platform targets large organizations in financial services, law, manufacturing, and tech. Spotify, Polestar, and Foodora are among the customers cited on the site, with case studies reporting 10 hours saved per employee per week and course creation dropping from 3 weeks to 3 hours.