C3 AI vs Pega

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 0.6 for Pega, and ranks ahead in 100% of the answers that name both.

Choose C3 AI if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (0.9 vs 0.6)
You need SOC 1 or SOC 2 or SOC 3 or FedRAMP Moderate or FISMA or FIPS 140-2 or ITAR or PCI DSS Level 1 or DoD IL5 or DoD IL6 coverage
Enterprise-scale AI solutions

Choose Pega if…

You need SOC 1 Type II or SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 or ISO 42001 or ISO 22301:2019 or ISO 9001 or CSA or PCI DSS or Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus or HITRUST or GDPR or IRAP coverage
You prefer a larger, established vendor (5,000+ employees)
Strong fit for workflow automation, RPA, case management, and decisioning
Named among leading low-code vendors in analyst evaluations

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	C3 AI	Pega
Visibility score	0.9%	0.6%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in AI Agents	#59	#68
Share of voice	0.5%	0.2%
Mentions this run	3	2
Positive in AI answers	—	20%

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

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

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

Engine by engine

C3 AI leads on 2 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

0.9%

1.9%

AI Mode

0.9%

Perplexity

0.9%

C3 AIPega

Head to head in AI answers

1 engine answers name both brands

1C3 AI ranked higher

0Pega ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	C3 AI	Pega
Which AI Agents vendors do analysts recommend?	ChatGPT	#23	#24

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	C3 AI	Pega
Deployment	The company says its platform runs across any infrastructure.	Cloud (Pega Cloud, fully managed SaaS)
Integrations	—	200+
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 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, ISO 22301:2019, ISO 9001, CSA, PCI DSS, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus, HITRUST, GDPR, FedRAMP, HIPAA, IRAP
Support	Customer Support Portal, 24/7 support line in customer contract, Email support@c3.ai	—
Founded	2009	1983
Headquarters	Redwood City, California	Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Employees	1,001–5,000	5,000+
Funding	IPO	IPO
Best for	Large operators in defense and intelligence, maritime, manufacturing, federal government, oil and gas, utilities and healthcare.	Large enterprises in regulated industries that need governed workflow automation and decisioning