Paragon vs. Prismatic
Product and engineering teams pick Paragon for a better developer experience, scale, and the ability to centralize all integration use cases into a single platform.
Why engineering teams pick Paragon over Prismatic
Architecturally, Prismatic's is designed for solutions teams to build embedded customer-specific automations, while Paragon has been designed for product teams to ship reliable, version controlled, and code-reviewed product integrations.
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Pick Prismatic if:
You only need low-volume, asynchronous automation use cases
You primarily want solutions engineering to build integrations that can be deployed to specific customers
You want to embed the Prismatic workflow builder into your product for your users to configure
Pick Paragon if:
You need to support all integration use cases, including high volume data ingestion and synchronous requests
You want your team to be able to author integrations interchangeably between code and low-code
You want to self-host the integration platform, or forward deploy your product to your customers' infra
Use case coverage
Support every use case - not just automations
ActionKit API for synchronous requests
Durable workflow engine to handle high volume sync
MCP server for AI agent tool calling
Integrations-as-code
Build interchangeably in code or low-code
Version control, code review, and collaborate on integrations
Bi-directionally synced with your git repository
CLI for managing your Paragon project programatically
Maintain observability benefits of a visual workflow construct
Deployment
Deploy and test integrations like core product features
With Prismatic, integrations are deployed to end-user as separate instances. This introduces risk as your users will have different versions of the same integration, making version control impossible.
With Paragon, deploy integrations like any other product feature - version control changes and test thoroughly with dedicated QA and production environments, all backed by Git.
Separate Development, Staging, and Production environments
Diff that highlights changes between versions
Warnings that highlight potential breaking changes being introduced
API Coverage
Easy to use custom integration builder
Paragon enables you to much more easily spin up your own connectors for any integration we don’t support in our catalog, vs. Prismatic’s custom components SDK.
Build a custom connector in under 5 minutes
Fully managed authentication for any 3rd party API
Supports all 3rd party API endpoints and webhooks
Hosting options
On-premise deployment options
If you sell to enterprise customers, Prismatic won't be able to support your scale and help you satisfy your customers' data residency requirements.
That's why Paragon offers both cloud and self-hosted deployment options, to fit your security and scale requirements.
Deploy Paragon on-premise in your own infrastructure
Supports AWS, GCP, and Azure
Maximize throughput with enterprise-ready workflow engine.
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A summary
Prismatic
Only if you give up workflow builder functionality
Build your own field mapper
Asynchronous only
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