Mendix
Build, run and orchestrate the agents and apps your hybrid workforce depends on, with enterprise governance built in.
By Mendix (Siemens) · HQ Rotterdam, Netherlands · 4.3/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Enterprises standardising application delivery on a governed low-code platform (Siemens alone runs 1,000+ Mendix apps)
- Building and orchestrating AI agents alongside human workflows with central governance and audit trails
- Legacy modernisation, process orchestration and replacing spreadsheet-driven processes
- Teams that need flexible deployment: public cloud, private cloud, Azure, SAP BTP or air-gapped on-prem
- Regulated organisations needing SOC 1/2/3 Type 2 reporting and regional data residency
Ideal size: 50–5,000+ people · Enterprise or scale-up with central IT governance and an app portfolio
Not for
- Small teams wanting a cheap, code-first framework — pricing is per app and per user at enterprise tiers
- Buyers who need AI or compute costs published publicly; both are quote-based
- Companies wanting a fully managed SaaS with infrastructure included in the licence price
- Pure BI/analytics, CAD/BIM tooling or off-the-shelf vertical SaaS needs
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
Free tier same day; weeks to first production app
~30 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$32,700/yr
Starts at $13,080 · Per-app subscription with per-user pricing: Free, Standard (One App from $1,090/mo; Unlimited Apps from $2,725/mo), Premium quoted. Cloud compute not included.
Implementation Friction
3/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Free: unlimited users, no charge for developers or anonymous users; paid plans priced on apps and user volume, price per user falls as volume grows.
Add-on costs
- Cloud compute/hosting is not included in Standard and Premium licence prices
- Dedicated cloud, Mendix on Azure, on Kubernetes, on SAP BTP, on StackIT and on Server are additional cost
- 24/7 support and 99.95% uptime require the Premium plan
Company & support
Who is behind Mendix, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- 2005 · 21 yrs in business
- Headquarters
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailNot listed
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsPaid plans
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsNot listed
- Dedicated account managerNot listed
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- 24/7
- Response time
- Mendix publishes an SLA; uptime guarantee 99.5% (Standard) / 99.95% (Premium); no support response time stated.
Support is excluded from the Free plan; Standard covers 9 AM–5 PM, Premium 24/7. Tickets run through Zendesk and are stored in the EU; support staff cannot access application data without explicit customer approval.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Mendix sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Mendix
- Perk
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Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Mendix ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Maia, Mendix's agentic AI, plans and executes multi-step development tasks from requirements to deployment and generates visual models. The platform also supports deploying custom AI/ML models and orchestrating agents with central governance, audit trails and human-in-the-loop controls.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Not recorded — ask the vendor
- Runs on
- Not recorded
- AI pricing
- Not recorded
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Bring your own key
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Mendix is a Siemens-owned enterprise low-code platform for building, deploying and governing business applications, now extended with agentic AI (Maia) across the delivery lifecycle. It offers a free tier, Standard plans from $1,090/month per app, and premium tiers for mission-critical systems, with deployment on Mendix Cloud, private cloud, Azure, SAP BTP or on-prem. Type 2 SOC 1/2/3 reporting, regional data residency and encryption underpin enterprise governance.
Frequently asked questions
What does Mendix cost for a mid-market enterprise?
There is a free tier with unlimited users for prototypes and small apps. Paid plans are sold per app tier: Standard starts at $1,090/month for a One App plan or $2,725/month for Unlimited Apps, and Premium is quoted for mission-critical core systems. Cloud compute resources are not included in Standard and Premium licence prices, and dedicated cloud, Azure, Kubernetes or SAP BTP deployments cost extra. Price per user falls as user volume grows.
How long until we have an application in production?
A free deployment environment is available immediately and includes unlimited users, so prototypes can be live on day one. Most enterprises reach a first production app in weeks; the delay is organisational (security review, deployment-model choice, governance set-up) rather than technical, since there is no framework build-out. Portfolio-wide governance and reuse typically follow in the first quarter.
Is Mendix secure and compliant enough for regulated workloads?
Mendix Cloud encrypts data at rest and in transit, provides role-based access control out of the box, and lets customers pin data residency to regions including EU (Frankfurt, Dublin), UK, US East, US West, Canada, Australia, Japan and Singapore. Mendix holds Type 2 SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3 assurance reports plus ISAE 3000 and ISAE 3402, and runs a vulnerability disclosure programme through HackerOne.
What AI does Mendix provide, and is it priced separately?
Mendix embeds agentic AI in the delivery cycle through Maia, which plans and executes multi-step development tasks and generates visual models, and it supports building and orchestrating AI agents with central governance and audit trails. The platform is model-agnostic: you can bring your own LLM, including frontier, open-source or private models. The public pricing page does not list a separate AI charge, so confirm AI and compute costs with sales.
Can we deploy Mendix in our own cloud or on-premises?
Yes. Options include Mendix Cloud, Mendix Cloud Dedicated, Mendix for Private Cloud on Kubernetes (Azure, AWS, Google, Red Hat OpenShift), Mendix on Azure, Mendix on SAP BTP, Mendix on StackIT, Mendix on Server for Windows or Linux, and Mendix Cloud for US Government on AWS GovCloud. Compute costs sit outside the licence price.
What support is included in each plan?
The Free plan has no product support. Standard includes a 9 AM to 5 PM support plan with a 99.5% uptime guarantee; Premium adds 24/7 support and 99.95% uptime. Support tickets are raised through the Mendix portal and stored in the EU, and support staff cannot access application data without explicit customer approval.