LightOn vs ServiceNow

LightOn — Foundation Models · Public · $29.6M mkt cap · 3 of 3 figures sourced  |  ServiceNow — Application · Public · $130.1B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

LightOn API and ServiceNow Document Intelligence do comparable work on document extraction; larger scale (public).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scale

3 of 5 capabilities — Shares document extraction, knowledge retrieval and text generation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Larger scale — ServiceNow: $130.1B market cap, against LightOn's $29.6M market cap.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldLightOnServiceNow
Market cap$29.6M$130.1B ServiceNow has 4396× more
Employees4029,187 ServiceNow has 730× more
Founded20162003 13 yrs earlier
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryFoundation ModelsApplication
Stack layerAPI service, ApplicationAI agent, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersParis, FranceSanta Clara, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Document extractionKnowledge retrievalText generation

Not verified for ServiceNow · 2

SummarizationVector search

Recorded for LightOn. ServiceNow’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for LightOn · 11

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingCode generationCustomer supportData analysisData securityEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyVoice agentSearch answersWorkflow automation

Recorded for ServiceNow. LightOn’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

LightOn

Application

LightOn EnterpriseApplication

Chat interface deployed inside an organisation that answers from its own documents, hosted in the EU.

ServiceNow

Application

AI SearchApplication

ServiceNow's generative-AI and semantic search layer, surfacing answers from knowledge articles, FAQs and platform data across portals, mobile apps and Virtual Agent.

ServiceNow Action FabricApplication

Lets any AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or custom) execute governed ServiceNow actions headlessly through MCP and A2A protocols, applying ServiceNow's own workflow guardrails to third-party agent calls.

ServiceNow Document IntelligenceApplication

AI document-processing app that extracts information from PDFs and scanned documents and classifies multi-page documents by user-defined type, with human-in-the-loop feedback for variable documents.

ServiceNow OttoApplication

An AI assistant that unifies Now Assist, Moveworks and AI Experience into one voice, chat and text interface for completing work across ServiceNow-connected systems.

ServiceNow Predictive IntelligenceApplication

Built-in machine-learning layer that classifies and routes incidents/cases, generates smart recommendations, detects major incidents and predicts resolution times across Now Platform workflows.

No counterpart

LightOn sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for ServiceNow yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

LightOn APIAPI service

Retrieval API with parse, extract and retrieve endpoints for building document-grounded applications.

ServiceNow sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for LightOn yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

AI agent

AI AgentsAI agent

Autonomous agents that execute IT, HR and customer service workflows on the Now Platform.

Build AgentAI agent

Creates and updates ServiceNow applications from natural-language prompts (ServiceNow's vibe-coding / app-building agent).

Developer tool

AI Agent StudioDeveloper tool

ServiceNow's tool for building and testing enterprise AI agents on the Now Platform.

Platform

AI Control TowerPlatform

Governance layer that inventories every AI agent, model and MCP server in an estate and monitors what they do.