Appian vs Mastra

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

The short answer

Mastra is the stronger AI pick in AI Agents: it has a visibility score of 1.2 versus 0.3 for Appian, and ranks ahead in 0% 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 Mastra if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (1.2 vs 0.3)
AI answers describe it more positively (100% vs 38% positive)
Flat tiers pricing suits your budget better than per seat
Type-safe, production-grade application code

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	Appian	Mastra
Visibility score	0.3%	1.2%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in AI Agents	#71	#56
Share of voice	0.1%	0.5%
Mentions this run	1	3
Positive in AI answers	38%	100%

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

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

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

Engine by engine

Mastra leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

AI Mode

1.7%

Perplexity

0.9%

1.9%

AppianMastra

Head to head in AI answers

1 engine answers name both brands

1Appian ranked higher

0Mastra ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	Appian	Mastra
Compare the leading AI Agents platforms	Perplexity	#18	#22

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	Appian	Mastra
Pricing model	Per seat	Flat tiers
Entry price	Contact sales	Free; paid from $250 / mo
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Deployment	Appian Cloud, with a separate Government Cloud for federal customers, plus self-managed and hybrid options	Self-hosted on any Node.js-compatible environment, or hosted on Mastra Cloud and Mastra Platform.
Compliance	SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, FedRAMP Moderate, FedRAMP High, DISA IL5 provisional authorization	—
Support	Appian Customer Success program, Appian Guarantee for first app delivery in 8 weeks or less	Shared Slack support channel (Enterprise), Dedicated support engineer (Enterprise), SLA support 8-5 Monday-Friday, 8am-6pm PST
Founded	1999	2024
Headquarters	McLean, Virginia	San Francisco
Employees	1,001–5,000	11–50
Funding	IPO on Nasdaq (APPN) at $12 per share · $85M raised	Series A · $35M raised
Best for	Large enterprises and government bodies running complex, document-intensive, high-volume processes that depend on operational context	Developers and teams building AI agents in TypeScript and JavaScript