Start Process Smart service Vs User Input task

These are different things entirely (apples versus oranges!). What is the context for your question?

Hi snehalathac0001, As Stewart , these two are entirely different things and have different uses. I would strongly recommend you to go through appian documentation and Appian academy courses to understand about Appian objects and their uses.

https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/22.1/

https://community.appian.com/learn/courses/p/developer

Let me help you get started perhaps:

• the 'Start Process smart service' is a 'smart service' (i.e. a node in an Appian process model) that starts an instance of a process model
• the 'User input task' is also a 'smart service' that creates a task for a User to provide some input
• a 'User input task' always has to be in a process model
• not all process models have 'User input tasks'

Thank you so much for the reply, I am a beginner in appian, and my manager asked me the question and was unable to answer it. The question was in context of memory management.