Keylane vs Korint (2026)
This is a choice between an established core that insurers migrate onto and a newer platform that runs beside the systems they already have. Keylane, headquartered in Utrecht, runs Axon for property and casualty insurers across the Benelux, DACH, the Nordics and the UK and reports more than 550 customers. In October 2026 it launched Keylane Automate, so insurers can build and govern their own AI agents on the core's data with models they choose. Korint, a Paris company founded in 2022, sells modules for policy administration, distribution, pricing and claims that go live one at a time beside an incumbent back office, and its own agents read documents, handle servicing tasks and score claims for document fraud. Keylane's evidence is long migrations: Unigarant cut product launches from two years to two months. Korint's is speed: WTW launched an assistance product in 10 weeks. Keylane reports ISAE 3402 Type 2 assurance and positions Automate against the EU AI Act, while Korint maps its controls to DORA in its trust center. Neither names the models behind its own AI.
- A large P&C core is being replaced. Keylane has delivered more than 25 P&C core migrations, Univé's among them with more than a million policyholders, and Belfius moved its Axon estate into Keylane's private cloud.
- In house teams will build the agents. Automate offers a no code builder, governed API and MCP access to the core, and a free choice of models.
- Life and pension business sits beside general insurance. Plexus covers life and pensions from the same supplier as Axon.
- Supervisors will ask how AI is governed. Keylane positions Automate against the EU AI Act's high risk class for life and health pricing, logs every decision with its data, model and workflow, and reports ISAE 3402 Type 2 assurance.
- Speed matters more than a full replacement. Korint's modules go live one at a time beside your back office, and WTW launched an assistance product in 10 weeks.
- The buyer is an MGA or delegated broker. Korint presents its controls and immutable event log as evidence for winning full delegations, an audience Keylane does not address.
- AI should work on day one rather than be built. Korint's own agents read documents, handle cancellations and endorsements, and score claims for document fraud.
- The business writes in France. Korint builds in French vehicle registries and broking data exchange, a market Keylane does not name among its own.
This comparison is published by AI FinTech Index, an independent research platform that publishes independent ratings of AI vendors for financial services. Keylane and Korint are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI FinTech Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| Keylane | Korint | |
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| Primary category | Insurance AI | Insurance AI |
| Founded | Not published | 2022 |
| Headquarters | Utrecht, Netherlands | Paris, France |
| Website | keylane.com | www.korint.io |
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The short version of each
Keylane
Keylane, headquartered in Utrecht, runs Axon for property and casualty insurers and Plexus for life and pensions, with more than 550 customers and more than 37 million policies across the Benelux, DACH, the Nordics and the UK. Axon traces every underwriting decision to the rules behind it and settles routine claims straight through, and SiteView adds digital claims journeys beside any core. Keylane Automate, launched in October 2026, lets insurers build and govern their own AI agents on core data with models they choose. Belfius, Debeka and Unigarant are clients.
Source: AI FinTech Index, 2026
Korint
Korint, founded in Paris in 2022, sells core insurance modules that go live one at a time beside an existing back office or together as a full core, for European property and casualty insurers, MGAs and delegated brokers. Engine prices from its own versioned rate tables or calls an insurer's actuarial engine in real time, and Korint's own agents read documents, carry out servicing tasks within a client set scope and score claims for document fraud. It runs on AWS in Ireland and Paris and lists a $10,000 a month Standard Plan on AWS Marketplace.
Source: AI FinTech Index, 2026
Common questions
Which suits a French insurer, Keylane or Korint?
According to the AI FinTech Index, Korint is the closer fit for a French insurer: French vehicle registries and broking data exchange are built in, and its named customers work in France. Keylane's offices and customers sit in the Benelux, DACH, the Nordics and the UK, and France is not among its named markets.
Does Keylane or Korint let AI act on policies without a person?
Keylane leaves the boundary to the client: teams add review, confidence, editing and approval steps where they want them, and an agent acting outside its mandate can be stopped. Korint's servicing agents act inside a scope the client defines, with human validation where required, and claims thresholds decide which files a handler validates. Graded by AI FinTech Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified October 12, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How long have Keylane's and Korint's AI tools been in use?
Keylane Automate launched in October 2026, and Keylane's chief executive describes moving it from lighthouse projects to repeatable production workflows as a goal for the year ahead. Korint's agents and claims fraud scoring are part of its current platform, though it publishes no accuracy figures for them. Graded by AI FinTech Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified October 12, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Where do Keylane and Korint keep data?
Keylane runs its own sovereign cloud on European infrastructure and does not name the provider beneath it. Korint runs on AWS in Ireland and Paris. Neither describes an on premises option. Graded by AI FinTech Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified October 12, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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Korint's own site names Guidewire, Duck Creek and Sapiens as the long standing alternatives to its platform, not Keylane. Keylane's chief executive frames production scale for Automate as a goal for the coming year, so its AI is far newer than its core.