Comparison · App and agent builders
Curiosity and Mendix
Model each application, or describe it
Curiosity builds tools on your connected records; Mendix is a low code platform for building applications.
Your data · your environment
Who each tool is for
Different problems, honestly stated
Curiosity
For industrial and regulated teams whose knowledge sits in engineering systems and structured records, where the answer depends on how those records connect, and where the deployment has to run on their own infrastructure.
Mendix
A low code application platform owned by Siemens, used to build enterprise and industrial applications with visual modeling, deployable in the cloud, a private cloud or on premises. Teams model the data and logic of each application.
How Curiosity compares
Where the boundary falls
Mendix gives a development team full control over a long-lived application. Studio is for the many smaller tools that never make the backlog: describe it, and it is built on records that are already connected and permissioned.
Grounded, not guessed
A tool Studio builds runs on the graph, so every figure it shows traces back to a record in a source system.
Your permissions, inherited
A generated tool cannot show a user anything the source system would not already show them, down to the individual record.
From prompt to production
The tool ships to real users with an audit trail, not as a prototype someone has to rebuild before it goes live.
Runs on your infrastructure
On premises or in your private cloud, with the language model you choose.
Side by side
Feature comparison
The same five questions, answered for both.
Deployment
Cloud or self-hosted, ready to use
Cloud, private cloud or on premises
Data model
Managed context layer and knowledge graph
Modeled application data
Industrial fit
Built for industrial and enterprise teams
Enterprise and industrial apps
Data reach
70+ systems connected, and yours through a connector you write
Connectors per application
Residency
EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure
Configurable
Customization
What your team can change
Your own code, interface, data model and configuration. Mendix as its own documentation described it in October 2026. Where it says Not available, the vendor documents no such capability.
Your own code
C# endpoints, AI tools and tasks, compiled in Studio
Microflows, Java actions and JavaScript actions
Your own interface
Your own front end in C#, deployed from git
Page editor, pluggable React widgets, native mobile
Data model
Typed node and edge schemas you define
Domain model entities, attributes and associations
Configuration as code
Every change committed to git, pushed to your remote
Git based Team Server, commits and merges in Studio
APIs and SDKs
REST API, C# and Python library, connector SDK
Published REST and OData, Platform and Model SDKs
AI integration
What AI can build and reach
Whether AI can build on it, who reviews the result, and which models it runs. Mendix as its own documentation described it in October 2026.
AI that builds
Sudo drafts endpoints, tools, schemas and screens
Maia Make generates domain models, pages, microflows
Review before it applies
Every change a diff a person approves, in a sandbox
Changes listed in Studio Pro, undo per document
Model choice
Any major provider, or an OpenAI compatible endpoint
Mendix Cloud GenAI, OpenAI, Foundry, Mistral, Gemini, Bedrock
Models on your servers
Open weights on your servers, or air gapped
Local open weights via Ollama and OpenAI connector
Assistant permissions
Built in tools search as the user, per record
MCP tools run as an authenticated app user
Agent protocols
MCP server and an OpenAI compatible API
MCP client and server modules, Studio Pro MCP server
At Airbus, we developed the next generation of customer support AI assistance tools with Curiosity, enhancing our technical support’s ability to access and navigate vast data from multiple sources, including millions of documents.
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