C3 AI vs H2O.ai

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

The short answer

C3 AI is the stronger AI pick in AI Agents: it has a visibility score of 0.9 versus 0.4 for H2O.ai, and ranks ahead in 0% of the answers that name both.

Choose C3 AI if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (0.9 vs 0.4)
You need SOC 1 or SOC 2 or SOC 3 or FedRAMP or FedRAMP Moderate or FISMA or FIPS 140-2 or ITAR or PCI DSS Level 1 or DoD IL5 or DoD IL6 coverage
You prefer a larger, established vendor (1,001–5,000 employees)
Enterprise-scale AI solutions

Choose H2O.ai if…

You need SOC 2 Type II or FedRAMP High coverage
Explainable, open-source-driven predictive and agentic tooling
Go-to platform for automated machine learning (AutoML)
Robust enterprise modeling and rapid deployment

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	C3 AI	H2O.ai
Visibility score	0.9%	0.4%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in AI Agents	#59	#70
Share of voice	0.5%	0.2%
Mentions this run	3	1
Positive in AI answers	—	29%

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

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

C3 AI 0pp · H2O.ai 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

C3 AI leads on 2 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

0.9%

AI Mode

0.9%

1.1%

Perplexity

0.9%

C3 AIH2O.ai

Head to head in AI answers

1 engine answers name both brands

0C3 AI ranked higher

1H2O.ai ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	C3 AI	H2O.ai
Official website of the top AI agent platform vendors	AI Mode	#8	#7

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	C3 AI	H2O.ai
Deployment	The company says its platform runs across any infrastructure.	On-premises, fully air-gapped, private cloud, or public cloud
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, HIPAA, FedRAMP High
Support	Customer Support Portal, 24/7 support line in customer contract, Email support@c3.ai	Forward Deployed Engineers embedded on-site
Founded	2009	2012
Headquarters	Redwood City, California	Mountain View, California, United States
Employees	1,001–5,000	201–500
Funding	IPO	Series E · $250M raised
Best for	Large operators in defense and intelligence, maritime, manufacturing, federal government, oil and gas, utilities and healthcare.	Regulated enterprises and public-sector agencies that need predictive, generative and agentic AI on their own infrastructure, including air-gapped deployments.