C3 AI
Enterprise agentic AI platform and industrial AI applications
Overview
C3 AI provides the C3 Agentic AI Platform, C3 AI Studio, C3 Code and C3 Generative AI plus about 20 prebuilt applications for reliability, supply chain, energy and anti-money-laundering, sold to large industrial, energy and defence organisations. Production pilots from $250,000 on AWS Marketplace.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 1 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Required with all options
- Overage $0.55 per unit
- Initial production deployment within up to six months
- Overage $0.55 per unit
- Extra webpages $1,500 per 100
- Extra queries $1,000 a month per 100,000
What you can produce with C3 AI
- C3 Agentic AI Platform
- C3 Code natural-language application builder
- C3 Generative AI enterprise search
- Prebuilt reliability, supply-chain and energy applications
- Anti-money-laundering application
C3 AI has an impressive roster of industrial and defence customers and a broad platform for building AI applications and agents on enterprise data, now including C3 Code for generating applications from descriptions. But its revenue fell by about a third in fiscal 2026 and is guided lower again, its founder has returned as chief executive, and it has very little business in Asia. Entry starts with six-figure pilots. Worth evaluating for large asset-heavy organisations with specific use cases; buyers should weigh the company's financial trajectory.
What we found
C3 AI sells enterprise AI software: the C3 Agentic AI Platform for building and running AI applications and agents on a company's own data; C3 AI Studio and C3 Code, which builds production applications from natural-language descriptions using autonomous agents; C3 Generative AI for enterprise search and question answering; and about 20 prebuilt applications for areas such as reliability, supply-chain optimisation, energy management and anti-money-laundering. Its applications are listed on the Azure, Google Cloud and AWS marketplaces, and it has alliances with McKinsey and with Baker Hughes, which resells it. Customers named on its site include Nucor, Dow, Koch, GSK, Con Edison, Duke Energy, Holcim, the US Air Force, NATO and the Royal Navy, and recent deals include Ford, Johnson & Johnson and the US Marine Corps.
C3.ai, Inc. was founded in January 2009 by Thomas Siebel and is based in Redwood City, California. Its business has shrunk: revenue fell to $250.3 million in the year to April 2026 from $389.1 million a year earlier, and it guides to $210 million to $240 million for the current year, though it reported positive free cash flow of $2.1 million and a 73% quarter-on-quarter rise in bookings in its latest quarter. Siebel stepped back as chief executive for health reasons and resumed the role in May 2026, with Stephen Ehikian as president, and a securities class action was dismissed in July 2026. Almost 90% of revenue comes from the United States, and Asia-Pacific revenue was under $1 million despite offices in Japan and Singapore.
Pricing starts with paid pilots on AWS Marketplace: $250,000 for a three-month C3 Generative AI production pilot and $500,000 for the Agentic AI Platform, after which customers pay monthly fees and consumption charges or sign multi-year commitments. C3 Agentic AI Websites costs $150,000 a year after a 30-day free trial.
Gartner Peer Insights shows only two ratings. It suits large industrial, energy and defence organisations prepared for a substantial investment.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
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