Paragon vs. Prismatic
Engineering teams pick Paragon for a better developer experience, managed ingestion/sync, real-time integration actions, and more.
Trusted by 100+ fast-growing B2B SaaS companies
Trusted by 100+ fast-growing B2B SaaS companies
Trusted by leading B2B & AI SaaS engineering teams globally
Trusted by leading B2B & AI SaaS engineering teams globally
Trusted by leading B2B & AI SaaS engineering teams globally
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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Designed from product integrations from the ground up
Designed from product integrations from the ground up
Designed from product integrations from the ground up
Built for developers at any scale. Paragon not only supports every type of integration use case, but is also easier to use and fits into your software development lifecycle.
Built for developers at any scale. Paragon not only supports every type of integration use case, but is also easier to use and fits into your software development lifecycle.
Built for developers at any scale. Paragon not only supports every type of integration use case, but is also easier to use and fits into your software development lifecycle.
Integrations-as-code
Build interchangeably in code or low-code
Unlike Prismatic's approach, which forces customers to pick between a code-native approach or a low-code approach, Paragon keeps both our visual and code-based representation bidirectionally synced via Git.
Merge is just an API, which means your team still needs to orchestrate the integration logic, build in error-handling, and build the infrastructure to support concurrency.
Paragon provides a serverless workflow engine so your team can easily implementing the business logic, either in code (Paragraph) or with a visual workflow builder, without worrying about the plumbing.
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
But embedded iPaaS isn't enough
While embedded iPaaS is great for automation, it can't handle high volume ingestion or real-time use cases. That's where Paragon's product suite shines.
Fully managed ingestion pipelines
Ingest full replicas of your customers’ external data, without any of the plumbing. Perfect for AI applications and structured data ingestion use cases.
Normalized schema per category
Historical and incremental syncs
Fully managed 3rd-party pipelines
// Enable a new Managed Sync pipeline
POST https://managed-sync.useparagon.com/sync \
{
"integration":
"
Google Drive
",
"pipeline":
"
Files
",
"configuration": {
"frequency": "30m",
"folder_id": "Product Team",
}
}
But embedded iPaaS isn't enough
While embedded iPaaS is great for automation, it can't handle high volume ingestion or real-time use cases. That's where Paragon's product suite shines.
Fully managed ingestion pipelines
Ingest full replicas of your customers’ external data, without any of the plumbing. Perfect for AI applications and structured data ingestion use cases.
Normalized schema per category
Historical and incremental syncs
Fully managed 3rd-party pipelines
// Enable a new Managed Sync pipeline
POST https://managed-sync.useparagon.com/sync \
{
"integration":
"
Google Drive
",
"pipeline":
"
Files
",
"configuration": {
"frequency": "30m",
"folder_id": "Product Team",
}
}
But embedded iPaaS isn't enough
While embedded iPaaS is great for automation, it can't handle high volume ingestion or real-time use cases. That's where Paragon's product suite shines.
Fully managed ingestion pipelines
Ingest full replicas of your customers’ external data, without any of the plumbing. Perfect for AI applications and structured data ingestion use cases.
Normalized schema per category
Historical and incremental syncs
Fully managed 3rd-party pipelines
// Enable a new Managed Sync pipeline
POST https://managed-sync.useparagon.com/sync \
{
"integration":
"
Google Drive
",
"pipeline":
"
Files
",
"configuration": {
"frequency": "30m",
"folder_id": "Product Team",
}
}
Actions API
Make requests to users’ connected integrations in real-time without building authentication or working with the underlying 3rd-party endpoints.
Get action schema metadata
Extensible to any 3rd-party API
Hosted MCP for AI agent implementations
// Expose all available integration actions
GET https://actionkit.useparagon.com/actions \
Search for ticket
Add to sequence
Get file content
Create contact
Create record
Get users
Search for call
Add comment
Update record
Send message
Upload call
Update opportunity
Search record
Create contact
Update event
Execute SQL
Workflows
Build asynchronous, custom integration automations with any 3rd-party API in code or no code:
Managed 3rd-party triggers and actions
Version controlled in Git
Out-of-the-box release environments (Dev, Staging, Prod)
Permissions API
Easily enforce 3rd-party permissions in your RAG pipeline with a fully managed permissions graph API.
Syncs permissions up to every hour
Check if a user has access to retrieved context
Get all documents a user has access to
// Check a user’s permissions to the retrieved data
POST https://managed-sync.useparagon.com/permissions/check \
{
"object":
["
Q1_Roadmap.docx
","
Feature requests
","
Specs..
",".."]
"user":
"
bowie@customer.com
",
}
But embedded iPaaS isn't enough
While embedded iPaaS is great for automation, it can't handle high volume ingestion or real-time use cases. That's where Paragon's product suite shines.
Fully managed ingestion pipelines
Ingest full replicas of your customers’ external data, without any of the plumbing. Perfect for AI applications and structured data ingestion use cases.
Normalized schema per category
Historical and incremental syncs
Fully managed 3rd-party pipelines
// Enable a new Managed Sync pipeline
POST https://managed-sync.useparagon.com/sync \
{
"integration":
"
Google Drive
",
"pipeline":
"
Files
",
"configuration": {
"frequency": "30m",
"folder_id": "Product Team",
}
}
Here's a quick summary
Here's a quick summary
Prismatic
White-labeled / Custom UI
White-labeled / Custom UI
Managed authentication
Managed authentication
Synchronous (real-time) requests
Synchronous (real-time) requests
Fully managed ingestion pipelines
Fully managed ingestion pipelines
3rd-party permissions for RAG
3rd-party permissions for RAG
Integration tools for AI agents
Integration tools for AI agents
Allow your users to edit workflows
Allow your users to edit workflows
Bespoke workflows for specific users
Bespoke workflows for specific users
Two-way compatibility between code/no-code
Two-way compatibility between code/no-code
Build custom integrations
Build custom integrations
What our customers say
Ship integrations faster with an all-in-one platform that gives you the building blocks for every use case.
“We have a use case with Jira that we were able to enable in our product within less than an hour, I would even say minutes.”
Nuno Borges
VP of Engineering at Appsmith
“We have a use case with Jira that we were able to enable in our product within less than an hour, I would even say minutes.”
Nuno Borges
VP of Engineering at Appsmith
“We have a use case with Jira that we were able to enable in our product within less than an hour, I would even say minutes.”
Nuno Borges
VP of Engineering at Appsmith
We've engaged with tons of tech companies. Paragon has the best onboarding of any company we've seen.
Rob Bailey
COO at CrewAI
We've engaged with tons of tech companies. Paragon has the best onboarding of any company we've seen.
Rob Bailey
COO at CrewAI
We've engaged with tons of tech companies. Paragon has the best onboarding of any company we've seen.
Rob Bailey
COO at CrewAI
It was seamless and easy to replace our legacy Salesforce and HubSpot integrations using Paragon. We were able to get rid of two codebases and have integrations that just work.
Paul Jones
VP of Engineering, Crystal Knows
It was seamless and easy to replace our legacy Salesforce and HubSpot integrations using Paragon. We were able to get rid of two codebases and have integrations that just work.
Paul Jones
VP of Engineering, Crystal Knows
It was seamless and easy to replace our legacy Salesforce and HubSpot integrations using Paragon. We were able to get rid of two codebases and have integrations that just work.
Paul Jones
VP of Engineering, Crystal Knows
“Integrations are a critical part of our journey and commitment towards producing enterprise-grade AI with users’ external context, and partnering with Paragon has enabled us to launch integrations like Google Drive and Sharepoint much faster.”
Saahil
Sr. Software Engineer at You.com
“Integrations are a critical part of our journey and commitment towards producing enterprise-grade AI with users’ external context, and partnering with Paragon has enabled us to launch integrations like Google Drive and Sharepoint much faster.”
Saahil
Sr. Software Engineer at You.com
“Integrations are a critical part of our journey and commitment towards producing enterprise-grade AI with users’ external context, and partnering with Paragon has enabled us to launch integrations like Google Drive and Sharepoint much faster.”
Saahil
Sr. Software Engineer at You.com
Super developer friendly. Within 2 weeks we launched our integrations to Salesforce, HubSpot, and Slack.
Raphael Allstadt
CEO of tl;dv
Super developer friendly. Within 2 weeks we launched our integrations to Salesforce, HubSpot, and Slack.
Raphael Allstadt
CEO of tl;dv
Super developer friendly. Within 2 weeks we launched our integrations to Salesforce, HubSpot, and Slack.
Raphael Allstadt
CEO of tl;dv
“We would have had to hire a dedicated team of engineers - building this out internally would have taken at least half a year. With Paragon, one engineer knocked out multiple integrations within a few weeks.”
Chris Lu
CTO & Co-founder of Copy.ai
“We would have had to hire a dedicated team of engineers - building this out internally would have taken at least half a year. With Paragon, one engineer knocked out multiple integrations within a few weeks.”
Chris Lu
CTO & Co-founder of Copy.ai
“We would have had to hire a dedicated team of engineers - building this out internally would have taken at least half a year. With Paragon, one engineer knocked out multiple integrations within a few weeks.”
Chris Lu
CTO & Co-founder of Copy.ai
What our customers say
Ship integrations faster with an all-in-one platform that gives you the building blocks for every use case.
“We have a use case with Jira that we were able to enable in our product within less than an hour, I would even say minutes.”
Nuno Borges
VP of Engineering at Appsmith
“We have a use case with Jira that we were able to enable in our product within less than an hour, I would even say minutes.”
Nuno Borges
VP of Engineering at Appsmith
We've engaged with tons of tech companies. Paragon has the best onboarding of any company we've seen.
Rob Bailey
COO at CrewAI
We've engaged with tons of tech companies. Paragon has the best onboarding of any company we've seen.
Rob Bailey
COO at CrewAI
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