C3 AI vs Databricks

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

The short answer

Databricks is the stronger AI pick in AI Agents: it has a visibility score of 3 versus 0.9 for C3 AI, and ranks ahead in 100% of the answers that name both.

Choose C3 AI if…

You need SOC 2 or FedRAMP or FedRAMP Moderate or FISMA or FIPS 140-2 or ITAR or HIPAA or PCI DSS Level 1 or DoD IL5 or DoD IL6 coverage
Enterprise-scale AI solutions

Choose Databricks if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (3 vs 0.9)
You need ISO 27001 or ISO 27017 or ISO 27018 or ISO 27701 or SOC 2 Type II coverage
You prefer a larger, established vendor (5,000+ employees)
Lakehouse architecture combining data warehousing with data lake flexibility

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	C3 AI	Databricks
Visibility score	0.9%	3%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in AI Agents	#59	#30
Share of voice	0.5%	0.9%
Mentions this run	3	6
Positive in AI answers	—	35%

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

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

C3 AI 0pp · Databricks 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Databricks leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

0.9%

3.7%

AI Mode

0.9%

Perplexity

0.9%

3.1%

C3 AIDatabricks

Head to head in AI answers

2 engine answers name both brands

0C3 AI ranked higher

2Databricks ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	C3 AI	Databricks
Which AI Agents vendors do analysts recommend?	ChatGPT	#23	#8
Which AI Agents vendors do analysts recommend?	Perplexity	#20	#2

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	C3 AI	Databricks
Deployment	The company says its platform runs across any infrastructure.	Available across all major cloud providers
Compliance	SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, FedRAMP, FedRAMP Moderate, FISMA, FIPS 140-2, ITAR, HIPAA, PCI DSS Level 1, DoD IL5, DoD IL6	ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 27701, SOC 1, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3
Support	Customer Support Portal, 24/7 support line in customer contract, Email support@c3.ai	Technical support on request, Technical documentation
Founded	2009	2013
Headquarters	Redwood City, California	San Francisco, CA
Employees	1,001–5,000	5,000+
Funding	IPO	Round at $60B valuation, including secondary sale
Best for	Large operators in defense and intelligence, maritime, manufacturing, federal government, oil and gas, utilities and healthcare.	Data engineering, data science, analytics and AI teams at startups and global enterprises