C3 AI vs Dify

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

The short answer

Dify is the stronger AI pick in AI Agents: it has a visibility score of 5.2 versus 0.9 for C3 AI, and ranks ahead in 100% of the answers that name both.

Choose C3 AI if…

You need SOC 1 or SOC 2 or SOC 3 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 Dify if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (5.2 vs 0.9)
You need a self-hosted or on-premises option
You need SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001:2022 or GDPR coverage
Self-hosting and strong data control

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	C3 AI	Dify
Visibility score	0.9%	5.2%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in AI Agents	#59	#22
Share of voice	0.5%	1.5%
Mentions this run	3	11
Positive in AI answers	—	27%

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

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

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

Engine by engine

Dify leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

0.9%

9.8%

AI Mode

0.9%

Perplexity

0.9%

3.9%

C3 AIDify

Head to head in AI answers

1 engine answers name both brands

0C3 AI ranked higher

1Dify ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	C3 AI	Dify
Which AI Agents vendors do analysts recommend?	ChatGPT	#23	#17

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	C3 AI	Dify
Pricing model	—	Flat tiers
Entry price	—	Free; paid from $590 / mo
Free plan	—	Yes
Deployment	The company says its platform runs across any infrastructure.	Dify Cloud, customer VPC, or self-hosted (Docker, Kubernetes via Helm chart)
Compliance	SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, FedRAMP, FedRAMP Moderate, FISMA, FIPS 140-2, ITAR, HIPAA, PCI DSS Level 1, DoD IL5, DoD IL6	SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, GDPR
Support	Customer Support Portal, 24/7 support line in customer contract, Email support@c3.ai	Community Discord and forum support, Dedicated CSM and 24/7 support on Enterprise, Professional technical support on Enterprise
Founded	2009	2023
Headquarters	Redwood City, California	—
Employees	1,001–5,000	—
Funding	IPO	Series Pre-A
Best for	Large operators in defense and intelligence, maritime, manufacturing, federal government, oil and gas, utilities and healthcare.	Enterprise teams and developers who need to take AI agents and workflows from prototype to production, including organizations that require private deployment, security review and audit.