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Comparison of Business Process Model and Notation modeling tools

This article provides a comparison of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) tools.

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This article provides a comparison of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) tools.

General

Note: all tools do support BPMN Version 2.0.

Name Developer UI Platform / OS
Cloud / SAAS
 Features Diagram example First Release Latest Release
Open source
 Software license
Java UI
Windows native
MacOS native
Linux native
Browser based
Model processes
Execute processes
Monitor processes
 Other
Activiti Alfresco Software, Inc. and the Activiti developer community Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Modeler, Simulation, Execution. Data elements are not supported. Limited supported formats (read/saved internally in BPMN format without exporting capabilities).
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 2010-05-171 2026-03-052 Yes Apache-2.03
ActiveVOS Informatica Yes Yes Yes Yes 2005 2014 No Proprietary
ADONIS BPM Suite BOC Group Yes Yes Yes Yes Modeler, Simulation, Analysis 1995 20224 No Proprietary / Freeware (requires registration)
Alfresco Process Services Alfresco Software, Inc. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2017 2024-03-115 No Subscription. Price based on number of users, computing power and support levels.
OpenText AppWorks OpenText Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2021 (at least)6 2024 No Subscription.
ARIS Express Software AG Yes ? ? Yes
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 2009-07-28 2024-06-247 No Freeware (registration needed)
BiZZdesign Architect BiZZdesign Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Integrate with ArchiMate, User collaboration, Support for Collaboration diagrams, BPMN 2.0 XML Export & Import, 2012 2014 (standalone)
Current year (web) 		No Proprietary
Bonita BPM Bonitasoft Yes Yes Yes Supports several formats (read: BPMN, jBPM, Bonita, XPDL; write: Bonita, BPMN2, PNG, JPG, GIF, PDF, BMP, SVG).
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 2001 2024-06-258 Yes GNU GPL9
Together TogetherSoft => Borland => Micro Focus Yes Yes 2013-11-2810 No Proprietary/Shareware
Camunda Platform Camunda GmbH Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2.0 import and export, support for DMN 1.3, collaborative BPMN & DMN editing, REST & Java APIs, OpenAPI documentation, orchestration of RPA bots, reporting on processes executed by Camunda or by an external tool
Camunda Platform BPMN model snippet source ↗
 2013-08-31 2025-10-0711 Yes Apache License 2.0
Enterprise Architect Sparx Systems Yes Yes Yes Yes 2000 2024-09-2712 No Proprietary13
Flowable Modeler Flowable and the Flowable community Yes Yes Yes Yes
Flowable BPMN model snippet source ↗
 2017-10-1314 2024-01-1715 Yes Apache License 2.016
Fluxnova FINOS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
  1. BPMN 2.0 support
  2. DMN support
  3. BPMN & DMN Modeler
  4. REST & Java APIs w/ OpenAPI documentation
  5. RPA orchestration
  6. UI for monitoring and support
 2025-11-17 17 2025-11-17 18 Yes Apache License 2.0
IBM Blueworks Live IBM Yes Yes Yes No Freemium
System Architect IBM => UNICOM Global Yes Enterprise Architecture tool 202419 No Proprietary
Imixs-BPMN Imixs Yes Yes Yes
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 2015 2024-08-0320 Yes GNU GPL
jBPM Red Hat Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2010-12-13 2023-07-1921 Yes Apache License 2.0
LucidChart Lucid Software Inc Yes ? Yes 2011 updated twice a month No Proprietary - 14-day free trial on team accounts / Free professional accounts for educators and students / Free version
MagicDraw No Magic Yes Yes 2007-09-24 202422 No Proprietary/Shareware
Microsoft Visio Microsoft Yes Yes Yes Yes Read: MS Visio, Write: MS Visio, EMF, PDF.
source ↗
 202423 No Proprietary
Modelio Modeliosoft (SOFTEAM Group) Yes Yes Includes BPMN, UML, ArchiMate SysML, Java round trip code generation, documentation, TOGAF, XSD, WSDL.
source ↗
 2009 2022-03-2324 Yes GNU GPL25
OmniGraffle Omni Group Yes Yes 2001 2021 No Proprietary
PragmaDev Process PragmaDev Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Step by step execution26 as well as stochastic simulation based on BPSim27.
PragmaDev Process BPMN and BPSim editor window source ↗
 Nov 13, 201928 Nov 18, 202529 No Freemium
Software Ideas Modeler Dusan Rodina Yes Yes Yes 2009-Aug 2024-Aug30 No Proprietary
yEd yWorks Yes Yes 2013-03 2024 No Freeware
Name Developer UI Platform / OS
Cloud / SAAS
 Features Diagram example First Release Latest Release
Open source
 Software license
References

References

  1. Alfresco. "Alfresco launches Activiti BPMN 2.0 Business Process Engine". Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  2. "Release 9.0.0". 5 March 2026. Retrieved 4 April 2026.
  3. "Activiti User Guide v.6.0". Retrieved 1 June 2025.
  4. "Release history - version 16, 2022".
  5. "Alfresco Community Edition 23.2 Release Notes". 11 March 2024.
  6. "What's new in OpenText AppWorks". 25 July 2024.
  7. "Enhancing User Experience with the Redesigned ARIS Process Mining Interface - SR26".
  8. "Bonita BPM 2024.2 | Bonitasoft | Open Source Workflow & BPM software". www.bonitasoft.com. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  9. Bonitasoft. "Download BPM Software And Documentation". Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  10. "MicroFocus - Together 12.6 Release Notes".
  11. "8.8 Release notes".
  12. "Enterprise Architect 16.1 - Build 1628".
  13. Sparx System's Enterprise Architect. "Enterprise Architect End User License Agreement (EULA)". Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  14. Flowable. "Flowable 5.22.0 release". Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  15. Flowable. "Flowable 7.0.1 release". GitHub. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  16. Flowable. "Flowable Source Code". GitHub. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  17. https://github.com/finos/fluxnova-bpm-platform/releases/tag/v1.0.0
  18. https://github.com/finos/fluxnova-bpm-platform/releases
  19. "System Architect® 11.4.11.2 Released".
  20. Imixs-BPMN. "Release imixs-workflow-6.0.7". GitHub. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
  21. "Release 7.74.1". 19 July 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  22. "2024x Refresh1 Version News - No Magic products".
  23. "Visio for the web: FAQ".
  24. "Modelio 341 - Modelio 4.1 - Modelio Community Forge". forge.modelio.org. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
  25. Modelio. "About Mmodelio / License". Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  26. "Automatic Verification of BPMN Models" (PDF). 10th European Congress on Embedded Real Time Software and Systems (ERTS 2020).
  27. Brumbulli, Mihal; Gaudin, Emmanuel (5 October 2025). "Optimizing Industrial Operations through Business Process Formalization". 2025 ACM/IEEE 28th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C). pp. 394–399. doi:10.1109/MODELS-C68889.2025.00058. ISBN 979-8-3315-7990-6.
  28. "PragmaDev Process introduction press release" (PDF). www.pragmadev.com. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  29. "PragmaDev Process V3.4 press release" (PDF). www.pragmadev.com. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  30. "Software Ideas current version: 14.65, released: August 19, 2024". Retrieved 2024-09-06.