Appian vs Formstack
No clear leader: Formstack (51.6) and Appian (48.2) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for workflow forms. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Appian
A platform designed for enterprises to automate complex business processes, integrate disparate systems, and rapidly develop mission-critical applications through visual development tools and AI-powered automation.
Formstack
Formstack enables users to build digital forms, automate document creation workflows, and integrate with business applications—allowing non-technical users to generate contracts, reports, and other documents by automatically populating them with collected data.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Appian
Subscription per user per month with three tiers. Free Community Edition available for personal development.
- Standard-
- Low-code process and application development
- Single data source in Data Fabric
- Cloud Database
- One portal per app
- Mobile Apps
- +2 more
- Advanced-
- Multiple data sources
- Document record types
- Dynamic query scaling
- Unlimited portals
- AI Skills with email and document classification
- +2 more
- Premium-
- Unlimited rows per record type
- Transparent data encryption for synced record types
- Offline Experiences
- CSS Profiles
- Autoscale for Process
- +2 more
Formstack
From $83/month (annual) or $99/month (monthly). 14-day free trial.
- Forms$83/month when billed annually
- 1 builder user
- Storage
- Data collection forms
- Forms$99/month
- 1 builder user
- Storage
- Data collection forms
- Suite$250/month when billed annually
- 3 builder users
- Unlimited document deliveries
- Unlimited eSignatures
- Document generation
- Signature collection
- +1 more
- Suite$299/month
- 3 builder users
- Unlimited document deliveries
- Unlimited eSignatures
- Document generation
- Signature collection
- +1 more
- Salesforce SolutionsContact sales
- Salesforce-native forms
- Document generation
- Electronic signature collection
- Experience Cloud integration
- Salesforce Shield compatible
- +3 more
- Enterprise SolutionsContact sales
- Dedicated Customer Success Manager
- SSO and advanced security
- Custom SLAs
- Unlimited users and submissions
- API access
- +2 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Salesforce
- DocuSign
- Xero
Appian
- Microsoft SharePoint
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Microsoft Dynamics
- SAP
- Oracle
- NetSuite
- Box
- Workday
- SuccessFactors
- QuickBooks
- Snowflake
- Apache Kafka
Formstack
- Airtable
- Zapier
- Slack
- Nutshell
- TrackVia
- Clio
- Formidable
- Smartsheet
- Knack
- ZOHO Creator
- Harvest
- Freshbooks
- Typeform
- WordPress
- Buffer
Appian or Formstack: which one depends on you
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