Prismatic leads in satisfaction for embedded iPaaS!
Compare Prismatic to Cyclr
On this page, we explain how Prismatic compares to Cyclr so you’ll have the facts you need to decide on an embedded iPaaS.
Unlike Cyclr, Prismatic:
- Provides non-devs and devs with first-class integration tools
- Supports creating custom connectors for any API
- Provides detailed integration insights for your customers
- Comes with scalable and predictable pricing
What are the differences between Prismatic and Cyclr?
Prismatic's embedded iPaaS is a purpose-built, cloud-native B2B SaaS integration platform best suited for SaaS teams that need to create everything from simple to highly complex integrations. It provides a first-class UX for non-devs (via the low-code designer) and devs (via code-native integrations).
Cyclr’s embedded iPaaS is an integration platform best suited for smaller SaaS companies who will only ever need integrations that can be assembled from the platform's available connectors. Cyclr only provides the low-code builder for integrations, with no option to create custom code within an integration or to build entire integrations in code. In addition, Cyclr does not allow your customers to build one-off integrations using an embedded designer.
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| Low-code integration builder | |||
| Embedded integration marketplace | |||
| Pre-built connector library | |||
| Integration workflow designer for end users | |||
| Handles complex integration scenarios | |||
| Granular versioning control of integrations and their connectors | |||
| External log streaming | |||
| Complete customer management console environment | |||
| SDK, CLI, and flexible dev tools | |||
| 100% of application functionality available through API | |||
| Designed to fit into existing CI/CD workflows | |||
- Low-code integration builder
- Embedded integration marketplace
- Pre-built connector library
- Integration workflow designer for end users
- Handles complex integration scenarios
- Granular versioning control of integrations and their connectors
- External log streaming
- Complete customer management console environment
- SDK, CLI, and flexible dev tools
- 100% of application functionality available through API
- Designed to fit into existing CI/CD workflows
- Low-code integration builder
- Embedded integration marketplace
- Pre-built connector library
- Integration workflow designer for end users
- Handles complex integration scenarios
- Granular versioning control of integrations and their connectors
- External log streaming
- Complete customer management console environment
- SDK, CLI, and flexible dev tools
- 100% of application functionality available through API
- Designed to fit into existing CI/CD workflows
Prismatic beautifully supports the model we wanted: technical support staff configure new instances of known integrations; software engineers get involved when there's something new; support staff can monitor what's happening day-to-day. Meanwhile, we can focus engineering cycles on adding value for our customers.
With Prismatic, we're able to deliver integrations in far less time while streamlining our engineering effort. Prismatic has given us the ability to more widely build integrations across our teams. It has also allowed our customer-facing teams to handle customer-specific deployment.
Prismatic has been a game-changer for our team. The platform's intuitive low-code builder, marketplace and robust monitoring capabilities allow us to deliver complex integrations faster and more reliably than ever before. Whether quickly wiring up an integration using pre-built components or developing custom logic, Prismatic gives us the flexibility we need.
We probably save 95% of engineering time, we've deployed far more integrations than we would have without Prismatic. Everyone gets it; everyone understands that we can integrate wherever we need to, and that's quite a powerful thing.
The speed to market, the development costs, the ease of usability, the variety of integrations, the ability to customize it, and then also make a seamless marketplace. It's the whole package. Prismatic has changed the game, certainly 100% for us.
We've been able to see a roughly 50% increase in new customer acquisition simply by that factor of reducing time on our maintenance. My development team can now focus on new integrations and new automations.
After evaluating numerous embedded iPaaS vendors, Prismatic emerged as the clear leader for scaling customer integrations. Their comprehensive toolset not only enables access to diverse data sources but empowers our customers to build, deploy, and manage their own integrations with confidence.
Prismatic has enabled FMX to be efficient, consistent, and reliable in our integrations with third party systems. Prismatic has quickly become the clear choice for all facets of our integration strategy, including the migration of current integrations from previous solutions. We are pleased to mention our partnership with Prismatic when discussing system integration with prospects, customers, and other solution providers.
Prismatic beautifully supports the model we wanted: technical support staff configure new instances of known integrations; software engineers get involved when there's something new; support staff can monitor what's happening day-to-day. Meanwhile, we can focus engineering cycles on adding value for our customers.
With Prismatic, we're able to deliver integrations in far less time while streamlining our engineering effort. Prismatic has given us the ability to more widely build integrations across our teams. It has also allowed our customer-facing teams to handle customer-specific deployment.
Prismatic has been a game-changer for our team. The platform's intuitive low-code builder, marketplace and robust monitoring capabilities allow us to deliver complex integrations faster and more reliably than ever before. Whether quickly wiring up an integration using pre-built components or developing custom logic, Prismatic gives us the flexibility we need.
We probably save 95% of engineering time, we've deployed far more integrations than we would have without Prismatic. Everyone gets it; everyone understands that we can integrate wherever we need to, and that's quite a powerful thing.
The speed to market, the development costs, the ease of usability, the variety of integrations, the ability to customize it, and then also make a seamless marketplace. It's the whole package. Prismatic has changed the game, certainly 100% for us.
We've been able to see a roughly 50% increase in new customer acquisition simply by that factor of reducing time on our maintenance. My development team can now focus on new integrations and new automations.
After evaluating numerous embedded iPaaS vendors, Prismatic emerged as the clear leader for scaling customer integrations. Their comprehensive toolset not only enables access to diverse data sources but empowers our customers to build, deploy, and manage their own integrations with confidence.
Prismatic has enabled FMX to be efficient, consistent, and reliable in our integrations with third party systems. Prismatic has quickly become the clear choice for all facets of our integration strategy, including the migration of current integrations from previous solutions. We are pleased to mention our partnership with Prismatic when discussing system integration with prospects, customers, and other solution providers.
Prismatic beautifully supports the model we wanted: technical support staff configure new instances of known integrations; software engineers get involved when there's something new; support staff can monitor what's happening day-to-day. Meanwhile, we can focus engineering cycles on adding value for our customers.
With Prismatic, we're able to deliver integrations in far less time while streamlining our engineering effort. Prismatic has given us the ability to more widely build integrations across our teams. It has also allowed our customer-facing teams to handle customer-specific deployment.
Prismatic has been a game-changer for our team. The platform's intuitive low-code builder, marketplace and robust monitoring capabilities allow us to deliver complex integrations faster and more reliably than ever before. Whether quickly wiring up an integration using pre-built components or developing custom logic, Prismatic gives us the flexibility we need.
We probably save 95% of engineering time, we've deployed far more integrations than we would have without Prismatic. Everyone gets it; everyone understands that we can integrate wherever we need to, and that's quite a powerful thing.
The speed to market, the development costs, the ease of usability, the variety of integrations, the ability to customize it, and then also make a seamless marketplace. It's the whole package. Prismatic has changed the game, certainly 100% for us.
We've been able to see a roughly 50% increase in new customer acquisition simply by that factor of reducing time on our maintenance. My development team can now focus on new integrations and new automations.
After evaluating numerous embedded iPaaS vendors, Prismatic emerged as the clear leader for scaling customer integrations. Their comprehensive toolset not only enables access to diverse data sources but empowers our customers to build, deploy, and manage their own integrations with confidence.
Prismatic has enabled FMX to be efficient, consistent, and reliable in our integrations with third party systems. Prismatic has quickly become the clear choice for all facets of our integration strategy, including the migration of current integrations from previous solutions. We are pleased to mention our partnership with Prismatic when discussing system integration with prospects, customers, and other solution providers.
Easy to use and scales to complexity
Prismatic includes a powerful, easy-to-use, low-code designer for your non-devs to quickly build integrations using pre-built connectors plus the custom connectors your devs create with Prismatic's software development kit (SDK) to connect with all types of APIs and systems that don't have APIs.
For the ultimate flexibility in building integrations, your devs can build integrations entirely in code, with Prismatic's code-native experience, using their favorite IDEs. You can build a single integration and configure it to work for all your customers.
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| Pre-built connector library | |||
| Custom connectors | Custom connectors for REST, SOAP, XML, GraphQL and other APIs | OpenAPI converter or fill out a form to map the API to Cyclr component | |
| Code-native integrations | Devs can write whatever is needed | ||
| External code | Any npm package or code from another depository | ||
- Pre-built connector library
- Custom connectorsCustom connectors for REST, SOAP, XML, GraphQL and other APIs
- Code-native integrationsDevs can write whatever is needed
- External codeAny npm package or code from another depository
- Pre-built connector library
- Custom connectorsOpenAPI converter or fill out a form to map the API to Cyclr component
- Code-native integrations
- External code
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Dev-friendly tools and processes
Your integration devs should be comfortable using the tools an embedded iPaaS provides to build integrations. Ideally, they should actually enjoy using those tools. They should also be able to use those tools to build integrations for every single integration scenario that comes up.
Let’s see how Prismatic and Cyclr stack up.
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| Constraints | No constraints other than coding language | Low-code designer only | |
| Coding language | Devs code in TypeScript | Low-code designer only | |
| Pre-built code | Leverage pre-built functionality or write connections and more from scratch | Low-code designer only | |
| CI/CD process | Manage code via GitHub, etc. | ||
- ConstraintsNo constraints other than coding language
- Coding languageDevs code in TypeScript
- Pre-built codeLeverage pre-built functionality or write connections and more from scratch
- CI/CD processManage code via GitHub, etc.
- ConstraintsLow-code designer only
- Coding languageLow-code designer only
- Pre-built codeLow-code designer only
- CI/CD process
Let your customers serve themselves
Prismatic is focused on providing an unmatched UX for your B2B SaaS team and your customers. This is shown in the configuration wizard through integration activation, logging, and alerting all the way to the embedded workflow designer.
Prismatic ensures that your available integrations are not black boxes to your customers. Customers can view integration logs and set up alerts/monitoring to keep them abreast of status changes – without contacting support.
In addition, your customers can use the embedded workflow designer to build those one-off, custom integrations that make sense for them, but wouldn’t be of value for your team to build.
Cyclr does not provide logging and alerting/monitoring tools for your customers, nor does it allow you to embed a low-code designer for your customers to build one-of-a-kind integrations.
Pricing for Prismatic vs Cyclr
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| Pricing tiers | Includes three tiers: Pro, Scale, & Enterprise | Includes three tiers (Pro, Growth, and Scale). It also has plans for Startup, Self-Hosted Enterprise, and Managed Hosted Enterprise (but these have highly variable pricing). | |
| Pricing fees | Monthly fee, with additional costs for specific functionality, and a cost per integration + customer (aka instance). | Monthly fee in addition to a one-time onboarding fee. | |
| Pricing benefits/drawbacks | Lets you quickly determine how your costs will grow as customers and integrations increase. | Standard tiers include monthly limits on API calls and connectors. These limits can cause users to try to build simpler/less powerful integrations in an effort to manage costs by reducing API calls and the overall number of connectors. | |
- Pricing tiersIncludes three tiers: Pro, Scale, & Enterprise
- Pricing feesMonthly fee, with additional costs for specific functionality, and a cost per integration + customer (aka instance).
- Pricing benefits/drawbacksLets you quickly determine how your costs will grow as customers and integrations increase.
- Pricing tiersIncludes three tiers (Pro, Growth, and Scale). It also has plans for Startup, Self-Hosted Enterprise, and Managed Hosted Enterprise (but these have highly variable pricing).
- Pricing feesMonthly fee in addition to a one-time onboarding fee.
- Pricing benefits/drawbacksStandard tiers include monthly limits on API calls and connectors. These limits can cause users to try to build simpler/less powerful integrations in an effort to manage costs by reducing API calls and the overall number of connectors.
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What users say about Prismatic and Cyclr
Prismatic gets high marks for usability and relationships for embedded iPaaS. Customers also regularly praise Prismatic for its support and product flexibility.
Cyclr users praise the ease of building simple integrations and the quality of support, but they also speak to a poor UX and steep learning curve.
For more details from G2 on how Prismatic compares to Cyclr and other embedded iPaaS, check out the most current quarterly G2 Grid Report.
"Being a lifelong engineer for high-scale applications, it's hard to relinquish the desire to build everything myself. Prismatic has created an incredibly powerful and flexible platform, built off scalable technologies, so you don't have to."
"Prismatic has been a joy to work with as a developer. The tool itself is clearly organized and offers a flexible outlook on code structure easily adaptable to a wide variety of integrations and use cases."
"I found Prismatic to be very straight forward to use and easy to code for. The team has a wealth of knowledge and made it easy to support what we were aiming for. The documentation is extensive and covers many use cases, giving step by step instructions or general solutions to common integration problems."
"Since using this platform for a few years I can still say it's amazing! The recent release of code native has also elevated our ability to craft exactly the integrations we want and was very exciting for our engineers. The integrations our team builds can be very complex, which code native allows us to build to."
"Prismatic is easy to use and supports a wide variety of integrations and most of these can be written with little or no coding knowledge, the documentation is very good and the highlight of all is the support team, they are very knowledgeable and they always answer the questions to the point and in the simplest way possible."
"Being a lifelong engineer for high-scale applications, it's hard to relinquish the desire to build everything myself. Prismatic has created an incredibly powerful and flexible platform, built off scalable technologies, so you don't have to."
"Prismatic has been a joy to work with as a developer. The tool itself is clearly organized and offers a flexible outlook on code structure easily adaptable to a wide variety of integrations and use cases."
"I found Prismatic to be very straight forward to use and easy to code for. The team has a wealth of knowledge and made it easy to support what we were aiming for. The documentation is extensive and covers many use cases, giving step by step instructions or general solutions to common integration problems."
"Since using this platform for a few years I can still say it's amazing! The recent release of code native has also elevated our ability to craft exactly the integrations we want and was very exciting for our engineers. The integrations our team builds can be very complex, which code native allows us to build to."
"Prismatic is easy to use and supports a wide variety of integrations and most of these can be written with little or no coding knowledge, the documentation is very good and the highlight of all is the support team, they are very knowledgeable and they always answer the questions to the point and in the simplest way possible."
"Being a lifelong engineer for high-scale applications, it's hard to relinquish the desire to build everything myself. Prismatic has created an incredibly powerful and flexible platform, built off scalable technologies, so you don't have to."
"Prismatic has been a joy to work with as a developer. The tool itself is clearly organized and offers a flexible outlook on code structure easily adaptable to a wide variety of integrations and use cases."
"I found Prismatic to be very straight forward to use and easy to code for. The team has a wealth of knowledge and made it easy to support what we were aiming for. The documentation is extensive and covers many use cases, giving step by step instructions or general solutions to common integration problems."
"Since using this platform for a few years I can still say it's amazing! The recent release of code native has also elevated our ability to craft exactly the integrations we want and was very exciting for our engineers. The integrations our team builds can be very complex, which code native allows us to build to."
"Prismatic is easy to use and supports a wide variety of integrations and most of these can be written with little or no coding knowledge, the documentation is very good and the highlight of all is the support team, they are very knowledgeable and they always answer the questions to the point and in the simplest way possible."
Security & Compliance
Prismatic is SOC 2 certified and compliant with GDPR, HIPAA, and CJIS. Prismatic is currently in the process of FedRAMP authorization.
Cyclr is also SOC 2 certified and compliant with GDPR.
GDPR compliance is required for companies doing business in Europe. HIPAA compliance covers the exchange of health-related data in the US. CJIS compliance is needed for companies doing public safety business with Federal, State, and Local governments. FedRAMP authorization allows cloud service providers to do business with the federal government in the US.
Wrapping up
Prismatic's embedded iPaaS is a purpose-built, cloud-native B2B SaaS integration platform that supports the full range of integrations SaaS teams that must create – from those that can be assembled by non-devs using the low-code designer (including custom configurations and multiple flows) to the unlimited flexibility provided by letting devs write integrations completely in code.
Cyclr’s offering is much more limited, particularly with reference to its inability to incorporate non-standard APIs and niche apps in integrations. Therefore, it is best suited for smaller SaaS companies that will only need integrations that can be assembled from the platform's available connectors.
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