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C3 AI vs Gupshup comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

C3 AI
Ranking in AI Customer Experience Personalization
20th
Ranking in AI Sales & Marketing
13th
Average Rating
7.2
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
AI Data Analysis (20th), AI Content Creation (12th), AI Procurement & Supply Chain (4th)
Gupshup
Ranking in AI Customer Experience Personalization
7th
Ranking in AI Sales & Marketing
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Customer Communications Management (CCM) (2nd), Conversation Intelligence Software (3rd), AI Customer Support (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the AI Customer Experience Personalization category, the mindshare of C3 AI is 1.0%. The mindshare of Gupshup is 0.9%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Customer Experience Personalization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Gupshup0.9%
C3 AI1.0%
Other98.1%
AI Customer Experience Personalization
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2795349 - PeerSpot reviewer
Group Head of Data Strategy & Enterprise Governance at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
Struggled to justify enterprise adoption but have valued broader developer accessibility
If I could change or add anything to improve C3 AI, I would suggest making it not just an AI platform, but a data and AI combined platform, as bringing in data management elements, governance, and cloud features is critical. The real AI and modeling represent only 20 percent of what is needed; there is over 80 percent in the rest of the world that should be addressed. Given Tom Siebel's deep understanding of corporate work and his network, integrating C3 AI with other ERP solutions such as Oracle, SAP, or Microsoft is essential. If C3 AI can be an enterprise platform, embedding more data elements and ensuring seamless integration with other ERP solutions would significantly enhance its capabilities and attractiveness. If someone told me that they have SAP, and C3 AI can seamlessly integrate the data and perform action calls between SAP, allowing me to operate on C3 AI as I would on SAP, that would be a killer feature for me. I would suggest avoiding traditional licensing sales as it is too expensive; the starting price is too high. Considering a subscription model or a pay-per-use model is the best business structure for AI or data solution vendors. The pay-per-use model benefits usage, as the more you use, the more successful you become with the platform.
Sanket Dofe - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Wynisco
Partner program has reduced messaging costs and now supports reliable, large scale communication
I believe Gupshup could improve in several areas. Since our partnership involves working at scale for multiple WhatsApp Business API numbers over their infrastructure, I noticed that Gupshup also provides WhatsApp Business API for single consumers, which I saw on their website and documentation. They charge additionally per message or template message on top of the actual WhatsApp Business APIs messaging rate. For example, sending a WhatsApp marketing template costs around $1.50, and Gupshup adds their own service fee per message, around 20 to 30 cents. For a single consumer working at scale and sending thousands of messages daily, this can become concerning. They should implement a solution where it could be a one-off payment instead of per message payment, allowing single consumers to leverage their service better. What would make it a 10? A better engineering team that solves problems and knows the ins and outs instead of just doing patch fixes would be ideal for me. Being a tech-focused person, I believe the system we rely on should be totally reliable and the people working on it should be reliable as well.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"In the first phase alone, there was approximately $90 million in savings, which reduced about 5% of inventory."
"I have noticed improvements in efficiency, reduced downtime, and time saved for my team, as it is quite integrated through the source ML pipeline to report to general customer UI, functioning as one platform that takes care of everything, thus improving efficiency, optimization, and increasing project deliverables."
"The biggest strength of C3 AI is how much it handles in one platform: data integration, model deployment, governance, monitoring, and application development."
"One of the best features C3 AI offers is that you do not need to learn Python or any specific machine learning programming language; you can use C3 AI with JavaScript."
"Gupshup has positively impacted my organization by helping me achieve a lower customer acquisition cost than another BSP."
"Gupshup has positively impacted my organization by helping me increase the user base from an existing point of view from zero to 0.6x in a span of three months."
"I believe Gupshup is one of the best services that I have used for sending notifications, and I totally trust it."
"Gupshup has positively impacted my organization in multiple ways, significantly impacting the bottom line and providing an overall return through the WhatsApp automation report showing around 398 percent on investment over a three-year period."
"At BookMyShow, I typically achieved delivery rates above 95%, read rates between 60 to 80%, and click-through rates noticeably higher than other comparable tools."
"We have achieved a 97 to 98 percent successful delivery rate for business-critical OTPs and transactional notifications."
"Gupshup has impacted my organization very positively; it is a good platform, very reliable, and this is the first platform that we have used where we did not feel any need to switch over to any competitor because Gupshup is everything it markets itself to be."
"Gupshup is doing a good job in terms of accuracy and reliability, and they can keep doing so."
 

Cons

"We even failed to open any doors for C3 AI; there are no smaller wins, learning opportunities, or process improvements, even if the main goals were not met."
"C3 AI can feel very enterprise-heavy. For smaller teams, it may feel excessive."
"The reason I chose eight out of ten is that as a user of C3 AI, I found the operational aspect not easy to understand; it is a bit tricky, and you should have more core knowledge to navigate C3 AI."
"However, I sometimes hear from colleagues that hallucination is an issue."
"Gupshup can be improved in terms of the UI and the design of the particular model."
"I think their customer support needs to be improved as they have a very slow response time and lack local support, especially in Indonesia."
"The main thing the support team should do is give immediate resolution, not take a day or two or three days."
"I would appreciate more granular error code documentation for edge case API delivery failures, deeper out-of-the-box integration with cloud monitoring tools such as AWS CloudWatch or DataDog for native metric scraping, and a more responsive administrative console when querying massive historical message logs."
"I think Gupshup could be improved with online support or WhatsApp support so that we can talk directly with an agent, instead of working only by email."
"Gupshup could be improved by adding more selection of templates."
"My feedback regarding Gupshup is that during the DLT setting of IDs in the SMS and WhatsApp section, whatever is written in the portal has to be precise."
"I remember that I was trying to get the webhooks about account information, and I had trouble finding in the documentation how I could receive webhooks about the account, such as when we have an account that could be blocked or when the limit of messages might be erased."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
28%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Energy/Utilities Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
22%
Construction Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
11%
University
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise3
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for C3 AI?
The pricing for C3 AI was quite high compared to other smaller AI platforms and open-source alternatives we had explored. Initially, we were cautious due to the significant investment involved.
What needs improvement with C3 AI?
C3 AI can feel very enterprise-heavy. For smaller teams, it may feel excessive. Some workflows also feel more complex than they need to be. Overall, it is a good product, but the platform can feel ...
What is your primary use case for C3 AI?
I have been using C3 AI for roughly eight to ten months as part of a small engineering team working on operational analytics. We primarily use it for predictive maintenance and some newer generativ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Gupshup?
Regarding my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing, I am just the developer. I am not involved with all of these processes. Our BA might know that. So, I am not the right person to ans...
What needs improvement with Gupshup?
Nothing directly comes to mind about how Gupshup can be improved because for my use case it was the perfect solution and not all of our apps have chatbots integrated into them. For the ones in whic...
What is your primary use case for Gupshup?
I typically use Gupshup for the quick connect chatbot tool they have. I just have to drag and drop the conversations in order to make a whole flow of a conversation and depending on that I can take...
 

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Find out what your peers are saying about C3 AI vs. Gupshup and other solutions. Updated: June 2026.
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