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Mendix

Low-code application platform

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AcquiredPricing · PaidStable

What happened to Mendix?

Mendix was acquired by Siemens in 2018.

Siemens agreed in Aug 2018 to buy Mendix for about $730M. Mendix still operates as a Siemens business.

Source: mendix.com ↗Its AI Graveyard record →AI products shut down or acquired before 2021 →

The FalcoScan Intel PanelMendix · Coding
Data updated 2 November 2026
Opportunity
Moderate
Band
Saturation
Contested
Band
Wrapper risk
Low
Band
Momentum
Stable
Market trend

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The Brief

What Mendix does

Mendix is an agentic development and orchestration platform, part of Siemens, for building the workflows, agents and applications a hybrid workforce runs on. It is aimed at product owners, developers, architects and domain experts in sectors such as banking, manufacturing and retail. It generates apps and agents from a prompt, a requirements document or a coding agent with visual review of logic, connects events, systems and people into traceable processes, and adds permissions, guardrails, approvals and audit trails. It extends existing systems and deploys to public, private or air-gapped clouds with frontier, open source or private models. A Free plan costs $0, Standard starts at $1,090 a month for one app, and Premium is quoted.

How Mendix compares with its closest alternatives

4 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan; Mendix does not. Among the 3 that list a starting price, the cheapest is Boxes.dev at $19 a month and the median is $30. 4 of the 5 offer an API, as Mendix does. Mendix offers a web app. Of the alternatives, 4 offer a web app. Mendix was founded in 2005; Cosine Genie was founded in 2023. Mendix is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands; none of the 2 alternatives with a known headquarters is in the Netherlands. They are in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Market position · Coding

How Mendix compares in Coding

Mendix has moderate opportunity and sits in the bottom third of 501 live Coding tools on FalcoScan. Across Coding, the average opportunity score is 60.4 and the average saturation score 44.4. FalcoScan rates Mendix's own market position as contested. 154 of the 501 operating Coding tools have hot momentum, and FalcoScan has recorded 16 shutdowns in the category.

Mendix compared with its closest alternatives
ProductOpportunitySaturationPricingPricing fromFree planAPIPlatformsMomentum
MendixFounded 2005 · Amsterdam, NetherlandsModerateContestedPaid—NoYesWeb, APIStable
HopliteWilmington, United StatesModerateContestedFreemium$99/moYesYesWeb, API, Desktop, CLIStable
HyraxModerateContestedFreemium$30/moYesYesWeb, API, Self-hostedStable
Cosine GenieFounded 2023 · London, United KingdomModerateContestedPaid—NoNoWebRising
Boxes.devModerateContestedFreemium$19/moYesYesWeb, API, Mobile, DesktopStable
ByteAskModerateContestedFree—YesYesDesktop, CLI, Self-hostedStable

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What it ships with

Capabilities & who uses it

The capabilities Mendix exposes to builders and the verticals it currently serves.

AI Capabilities
Code GenerationAutomationReasoning
Industry Verticals
SaasEnterpriseManufacturing
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Questions

Mendix: common questions

How much does Mendix cost?

As of Oct 2026, Mendix has a Free plan at $0 a month, Standard starting at $1,090 a month for one app or $2,725 a month for unlimited apps, and Premium by quote.

Source: mendix.com ↗

Is Mendix still running?

Mendix was acquired by Siemens in 2018. Siemens agreed in Aug 2018 to buy Mendix for about $730M. Mendix still operates as a Siemens business.

Who acquired Mendix?

Siemens acquired Mendix in 2018 (mendix.com).

Source: mendix.com ↗

Is Mendix free?

No. Mendix is a paid product.

What are the best alternatives to Mendix?

The closest alternatives to Mendix that are still running, matched on the AI capabilities, uses and audience they share, are Hoplite, Hyrax, Cosine Genie, Boxes.dev, and ByteAsk.

Where is Mendix based?

Mendix is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Does Mendix have an API?

Yes. Mendix offers an API.

Who is Mendix for?

Mendix is built for enterprises and developers.

How do I sign in to Mendix?

Sign in on Mendix's own website, mendix.com. FalcoScan reviews Mendix but does not run its accounts, so logins, passwords and billing are handled by Mendix directly.

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