Palantir vs ServiceNow

Palantir — Application · Public · $426.5B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  ServiceNow — Application · Public · $130.1B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

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

Aligned comparison

FieldPalantirServiceNow
Market cap$426.5B$130.1B ServiceNow has 3.3× smaller
Employees4,40129,187 ServiceNow has 6.6× more
Founded20032003 match
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerInfrastructure service, PlatformAI agent, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersAventura, USASanta Clara, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Agent orchestrationData analysisData securityWorkflow automation

Not verified for ServiceNow · 1

Industrial automation

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

Not verified for Palantir · 10

Agentic codingCode generationCustomer supportDocument extractionEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyKnowledge retrievalText generationVoice agentSearch answers

Recorded for ServiceNow. Palantir’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

Palantir

Platform

FoundryPlatform

Data integration and operations platform used to model, analyse and act on enterprise data.

GothamPlatform

Data platform for defence and intelligence users, covering investigation, targeting and mission planning.

Palantir AIPPlatform

Layer for building and running language-model workflows and agents against data held in Foundry and Gotham.

Palantir Warp SpeedPlatform

Manufacturing operating system built on Palantir's ontology and AIP that unifies engineering, production planning and supply-chain data into real-time operational workflows.

ServiceNow

Platform

AI Control TowerPlatform

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

No counterpart

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

Infrastructure service

Palantir ApolloInfrastructure service

Continuous deployment and operations platform that pushes and manages software -- including Palantir's own AI platforms -- across multi-cloud, hybrid, private-SaaS, air-gapped and edge environments, encoding SLAs, constraints and security policy so releases and rollbacks run autonomously.

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

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.

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.