Mendix, by Siemens, is an enterprise low-code platform: visual models, microflows, and the Maia AI, for business and IT teams. Luna Park is a visual IDE for full-stack web apps, compiled to Vue and Node.js code you host anywhere, at a fixed price.
At a glance
Both build apps with visual logic. The main differences: audience, pricing, and code export.
| Luna Park | Mendix | |
|---|---|---|
| Made for | Teams and independent builders | Enterprise business and IT teams |
| Logic | Visual scripting graphs, compiled to JavaScript | Microflows and nanoflows, run by the Mendix runtime |
| Output | Vue, Node.js, PostgreSQL | Mendix runtime (Java), React client (source) |
| Code export | Vue + Node.js source (Pro) | Mendix model package (source) |
| Hosting | Anywhere Managed hosting in late 2026 | Cloud, private, on-premises (source) |
| Pricing | Free, or Pro at €25/month or €300 once | From €918/month per app (source) |
| Governance | Basic | Enterprise-grade |
| Platforms | Web PWA Desktop Android iOS | Web PWA Android iOS |
Example: a waitlist form
Visitors enter their name, email, and favorite ride, and get a ticket number.
Luna Park
- Place the fields and a button, each field bound to a variable.
- On click, a graph sends the variables to a backend route and shows the ticket.
- The route inserts a row in the
Waitlisttable and returns its id.
Mendix
- Add a
WaitlistEntryentity with an auto-number attribute. - Create a page with a data view on a new entry.
- Call a microflow on save: validate, commit, show a confirmation page.
- The page displays the ticket number.
Code export
Mendix exports a model package, which runs on Mendix. Luna Park compiles every project to plain Vue and Node.js, which you download with Pro and run without Luna Park.
Other differences
- Pricing. Mendix bills per app and per user, from €918/month for one app. Luna Park has one fixed license, whatever the number of apps or users.
- Scale of the organization. Mendix brings governance, long-term support releases, and SAP integration for large companies. Luna Park targets teams that want to move fast and keep standard code.
- Mobile. Mendix builds offline-first native apps with React Native. Luna Park's mobile apps run the web frontend in a native shell.
Which one to choose?
Luna Park
- You want a fixed price for all your apps.
- You want standard code you can run without the vendor.
- You are a team, not an enterprise IT department.
Mendix
- You need enterprise governance and support.
- You run on SAP or need private, sovereign cloud.
- You need offline-first native mobile apps.
Before switching
- Luna Park has no enterprise governance suite or SLAs today.
- Until managed hosting launches in late 2026, you host the backend.
Based on Mendix as of October 2026. See mendix.com for current features and prices.
