4 categories · Named, not rankedAppian
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Process mining | IT operations and endpoint | 2% | 15 of 61 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Apromore at 19% | |
| Robotic process automation | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 43 of 68 | 33% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Power Automate at 51% | |
| Intelligent document processing | Data platform | 0% | 73 of 89 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Nanonets at 32% | |
| Workflow orchestration | Data platform | 0% | 60 of 79 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Prefect at 21% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Appian across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Appian - Offers a free Community Edition and custom pricing for larger organizations.” Llama 4 Maverick · Process mining · budget prompt · first choice
“Low-code platforms; end-to-end process apps.” Grok 4.20 · Process mining · comparative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Often oversold; may not deliver true AI-driven document understanding; legacy approaches struggle with unstructured data” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Document processing · negative prompt · soft negative
“Appian's RPA offering is overshadowed by its broader BPA/LCAP suite... debugging requires more technical expertise” Muse Glimmer 30B · RPA · negative prompt · soft negative
“Low-code process orchestration with broad process coverage; higher price point.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Orchestration · scale prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Appian, over the 40 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Appian was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 37 of the 40 answers that named Appian and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ninety-seven of the ninety-seven domain citations in answers naming Appian came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
appian.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Appian takes 2% of first choices and Apromore takes 19%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 18,100 a month (“appian”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1,363 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 46,589 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 6,548 · 461 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 9,919
- Paid Google search
- 1 searches its ads show for, about 0 clicks and $0 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 40 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 37 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 2,256 | undated | GRC | ||
| News or press | 377 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 229 | undated | |||
| Case study | 135 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 127 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 124 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 49 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 24 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 19 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 7 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page appian.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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The company
Appian is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI automation for critical processes
- For
- enterprise organizations and business/tech leaders
- Price stated
- Compare pricing and plans. appian.com
- Free plan or trial
- Try Appian for free. appian.com
- Certifications
- HIPAAFedRAMPSOC1SOC2SOC3
- Hosting
- AWSAzureGoogleon-premises
- Customers named
- AONUS Air ForceNatWestTelusPwCTowerbankRyderUS Marine Corps
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations
What Appian's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: appian.com, trust.appian.com, appian.com/products/pricing. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Appian's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Appian, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Appian by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Appian is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Appian, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.