Prismatic leads in satisfaction for embedded iPaaS!
Compare Prismatic to N8N
On this page, we explain how Prismatic compares to N8N so you’ll have the facts you need to decide on an embedded iPaaS.
Unlike N8N, Prismatic:
- Is purpose-built from day one for embedded iPaaS
- Includes built-in monitoring and management tools
- Provides both low-code and code-native building options
- Supports the inclusion of whatever custom code is needed for an integration
What are the differences between Prismatic and N8N?
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).
N8N's embedded iPaaS is a B2B SaaS integration platform best suited for companies that want to assemble simpler integrations on a open-source back-end. All development is done via a low-code designer. The platform does not support full-on code-native development, substantially limiting how devs can solve more complicated integration scenarios.
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| Low-code integration designer | |||
| Pre-built connector library | |||
| Embedded integration marketplace | |||
| Custom connector SDK | Full Node.js environment | ||
| Purpose-built for customer-facing integrations | |||
- Low-code integration designer
- Pre-built connector library
- Embedded integration marketplace
- Custom connector SDKFull Node.js environment
- Purpose-built for customer-facing integrations
- Low-code integration designer
- Pre-built connector library
- Embedded integration marketplace
- Custom connector SDK
- Purpose-built for customer-facing integrations
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.
Prismatic is purpose-built for B2B SaaS
Prismatic has been wholly focused on B2B SaaS integrations since it was founded. Everything the platform provides, from the low-code and code-native flexibility to ensuring that end-users have unparalleled access to detailed integration status info, has grown out of an understanding that building, deploying, and managing B2B SaaS integrations is fundamentally different than doing those same tasks for integrations that exist within the enterprise.
In comparison, N8N's embedded platform makes the most sense for internal automation workflows. It does not have the multi-tenant deployment capabilities or the customer configuration and monitoring tools that are essential to managing B2B SaaS integrations at scale.
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| Pre-built connector library | |||
| Multi-tenant deployment | |||
| Configuration and monitoring tools | |||
- Pre-built connector library
- Multi-tenant deployment
- Configuration and monitoring tools
- Pre-built connector library
- Multi-tenant deployment
- Configuration and monitoring tools
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Prismatic offers low-code and code-native
Prismatic enables devs to use the same custom connector SDK that Prismatic uses internally to build connectors from your SaaS product to any app your customers use, regardless of their vertical.
Prismatic's code-native integration building experience is no less powerful. Devs can use their favorite IDEs with the code-native integrations SDK to build entire integrations in code.
N8N relies on a low-code approach to building integrations. As such, it operates like a typical workflow builder (allowing users to drag-and-drop actions to create integration workflows). These users can take advantage of a large API connector library, but with connectors of unknown quality (because they can be sourced by anyone). In addition, N8N does not provide proper code-native development or the ability to add any needed code to a project.
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| Low-code builder | |||
| Custom code | Use any npm package or other library | ||
| Code-native integrations | |||
- Low-code builder
- Custom codeUse any npm package or other library
- Code-native integrations
- Low-code builder
- Custom code
- Code-native integrations
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.
N8N does not provide logging and alerting/monitoring tools for your customers, nor does it provide other features which are necessary to provide a first-class customer UX.
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What users say about Prismatic and N8N
Prismatic gets high marks for usability and relationships for embedded iPaaS. Customers also regularly praise Prismatic for its support and product flexibility.
N8N customers praise the ease of building integrations, but they also point out issues with a steep learning curve and missing or sub-par features.
For more details from G2 on how Prismatic compares to N8N 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.
N8N is 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 best suited for SaaS teams that must create highly configurable, reusable integrations for the full range of real-world integration complexity.
N8N's embedded iPaaS isn't the best choice for B2B SaaS companies because of the platform's lack of tooling for B2B SaaS admins and end users. In addition, the platform does not provide a code-native integration experience, forcing your teams to build everything with the low-code designer. However, N8N does have a large number of connectors available to build integrations among common apps.
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