AppianSerious AI. Built on Process.

CrewAIThe Enterprise Agent Build & Runtime for the work your business runs on

Comparison · AI Agents · weekly run Nov 3

Appian vs CrewAI

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

CrewAI is the stronger AI pick in AI Agents: it has a visibility score of 17.5 versus 0.3 for Appian, and ranks ahead in 50% of the answers that name both.

Choose Appian if…

You need SOC 1 or SOC 2 or SOC 3 or ISO 27001 or HIPAA or PCI DSS or FedRAMP Moderate or FedRAMP High or DISA IL5 provisional authorization coverage
You prefer a larger, established vendor (1,001–5,000 employees)
Per seat pricing suits your budget better than flat tiers
heavy-duty workflow automation and process orchestration

Choose CrewAI if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (17.5 vs 0.3)
AI answers describe it more positively (43% vs 38% positive)
You need a self-hosted or on-premises option
You need SOC 2 Type II coverage

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	Appian	CrewAI
Visibility score	0.3%	17.5%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in AI Agents	#71	#7
Share of voice	0.1%	4.9%
Mentions this run	1	30
Positive in AI answers	38%	43%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

Appian 0pp · CrewAI 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

CrewAI leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

15%

AI Mode

27.6%

Perplexity

0.9%

10%

AppianCrewAI

Head to head in AI answers

2 engine answers name both brands

1Appian ranked higher

1CrewAI ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	Appian	CrewAI
Compare the leading AI Agents platforms	Perplexity	#18	#9
Is Appian a good AI agent platform?	ChatGPT	#1	#6

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	Appian	CrewAI
Pricing model	Per seat	Flat tiers
Entry price	Contact sales	Contact sales
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Deployment	Appian Cloud, with a separate Government Cloud for federal customers, plus self-managed and hybrid options	CrewAI cloud, customer VPC on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, or fully on-premises (AMP Factory).
Integrations	—	1000+
Compliance	SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, FedRAMP Moderate, FedRAMP High, DISA IL5 provisional authorization	SOC 2 Type II
Support	Appian Customer Success program, Appian Guarantee for first app delivery in 8 weeks or less	Community forum, Dedicated support with Slack/Teams channel, Support contact, On-site support
Founded	1999	—
Headquarters	McLean, Virginia	San Francisco, CA
Employees	1,001–5,000	11–50
Funding	IPO on Nasdaq (APPN) at $12 per share · $85M raised	Series B
Best for	Large enterprises and government bodies running complex, document-intensive, high-volume processes that depend on operational context	Enabling business and technical teams to build agents while giving platform teams the control to govern them.