Workday Illuminate
HR and finance agents on the Workday data model.
Full Workday Illuminate record →Head to head
Workday Illuminate (Workday) and Agentforce (Salesforce) both sit in Enterprise Platforms. Workday Illuminate is the cheaper entry point at Enterprise quoted. Agentforce shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (2 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Workday Illuminate Workday | Agentforce Salesforce |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Enterprise Platforms | Enterprise Platforms |
| Version | 2025 | Agentforce |
| Entry cost | Enterprise quoted | from $2/mo |
| Pricing tiers | — | Standard Conversation Rate $2 |
| Model stack | in-house + frontier | Agentforce · Claude · GPT-5 class · Salesforce Agentforce · Salesforce Agentforce Models · Salesforce AI Models · Salesforce Atlas Reasoning Engine · xGen |
| Context window | — | Model-dependent |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 0 | 2 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Agent System of Record, HR agents, Finance agents | Atlas reasoning engine, Data Cloud grounding, Agent Builder, Testing Center, MCP support, Agentforce Builder, Agentforce Voice, Agentforce Dev Tools |
HR and finance agents on the Workday data model.
Full Workday Illuminate record →Agentforce builds retrieval-grounded agents on Salesforce's Data Cloud, with an Atlas reasoning engine and per-conversation or flex-credit pricing.
Full Agentforce record →