Rating and pricing
Turning risk factors into premium. The technical actuarial workflow of building generalised linear models, running them against a portfolio, and deploying the rate filings that set what each policyholder pays.
The three rungs
An actuarial team building GLMs in SAS or R, Excel pivots for validation, mainframe or PAS deployment of the resulting rate tables. Rate changes move on a six- to twelve-month cycle; filings go to the state DOI by hand.
Cloud SaaS and classical ML; tools founded roughly 1995 – 2015.
Built around deep learning or LLMs from day one; tools founded mostly post-2015.
Earnix modernised the layer in the 2000s with a real-time pricing engine that carriers deploy alongside their PAS. Akur8, founded 2018, moves the category to AI-native: machine-learning models automate what an actuary used to do by hand, with interpretability and regulatory-filing outputs built in. Guidewire invested in Akur8 at the Series C, a structural signal of where the modern-rung incumbent sees the next generation going.
Ranked comparison
- 16/2080%
Data and analytics platform serving 99% of US personal auto and home insurers with loss history, prior policy verification, motor vehicle records, and underwriting intelligence across auto, home, commercial, and life lines.
- traction
- 2/5
- maturity
- 5/5
- coverage
- 4/5
- recognition
- 5/5
- 14/2070%
AI-native actuarial pricing and reserving platform. Machine-learning models automate the GLM pipeline actuaries used to build in SAS or R, with interpretability and regulatory-filing outputs shipped in the product. $120M Series C at a $400M valuation in September 2024.
- traction
- 5/5
- maturity
- 3/5
- coverage
- 4/5
- recognition
- 2/5
- 10/1567%
Smartphone and IoT telematics platform that measures driver behavior, reconstructs crashes, and feeds real-time risk scoring into auto insurance underwriting and claims workflows.
- traction
- 4/5
- maturity
- 5/5
- coverage
- 1/5
- recognition
- n/a
- 9/1560%
Real-time rating, pricing, and dynamic decisioning platform for insurers and banks. Deployed alongside Guidewire PolicyCenter and other PAS systems to externalise pricing logic from the core policy system. The modern-rung incumbent in rating-and-pricing.
- traction
- 3/5
- maturity
- n/a
- coverage
- 4/5
- recognition
- 2/5
- 12/2060%
AI-native pricing decision platform for specialty and London Market (re)insurance. Its hx Renew product lets actuaries and underwriters build, deploy, and iterate pricing models in code, then hand a usable interface to the underwriting floor.
- traction
- 3/5
- maturity
- 3/5
- coverage
- 3/5
- recognition
- 3/5
- 8/1553%
End-to-end actuarial pricing, modeling, and underwriting workbench. Includes Emblem (predictive modeling), Radar Base (scenario analysis), Radar Live (real-time rate deployment), and Radar Workbench (commercial underwriting portal). Used in P&C (auto, home, commercial) by major carriers. Launched as modern successor to legacy actuarial workflows; Radar 5 (2025) adds generative AI.
- traction
- 2/5
- maturity
- n/a
- coverage
- 4/5
- recognition
- 2/5
- 7/1547%
Allstate-owned data platform that turns driving behavior data into scores and targeting tools sold to auto insurers, car makers, and retail networks.
- traction
- 2/5
- maturity
- 4/5
- coverage
- 1/5
- recognition
- n/a
- 9/2045%
Paris-headquartered parametric MGA and underwriting-tech group writing climate, natural-catastrophe, cyber, and emerging-risk policies on behalf of tier-one carriers, with index-based payouts designed to settle within weeks.
- traction
- 1/5
- maturity
- 3/5
- coverage
- 3/5
- recognition
- 2/5
- 8/2040%
Cyber MGA and attack-surface risk platform that automates underwriting via real-time threat intelligence and proprietary loss data, issuing policies without human underwriters.
- traction
- 2/5
- maturity
- 3/5
- coverage
- 1/5
- recognition
- 2/5