Bonitasoft vs Flowable
No clear leader: Flowable (47.5) and Bonitasoft (43.6) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for business process management. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Bonitasoft
A business process automation (BPA) platform that integrates BPMN visual process design with AI-assisted workflow generation, real-time process execution, and comprehensive audit trails. Offers deployment flexibility ranging from free open-source editions to enterprise-grade solutions with full governance, compliance, and support.
Flowable
A governed platform that deploys AI agents within rule-based workflows for high-stakes business processes, built on industry-standard process modeling languages with full auditability and compliance controls.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Bonitasoft
Free tier available. Paid plans (Ofelia Assistant/Workflow, Bonita Enterprise) custom pricing — contact for quotes.
- Bonita FreeFree
- Customizable user interfaces
- Collaboration and integration capabilities
- Document extraction, classification & routing (IDP)
- Role-based access control & SSO (SAML, OIDC)
- High availability & cluster deployment
- +2 more
- Ofelia AssistantContact sales
- Knowledge Agent to surface answers from internal knowledge base
- Execution Agent to trigger actions across connected systems
- Native Slack & Teams integration
- Governed responses with full traceability
- Role-based access control
- +3 more
- Ofelia WorkflowContact sales
- AI Workflow Builder with natural language process generation
- Workflow Agent with autonomous execution and human-in-the-loop checkpoints
- Process performance dashboards and analytics
- Powered by Bonita BPA engine with 15+ years enterprise reliability
- Version control & workflow history
- +3 more
- Bonita EnterpriseContact sales
- Bonita Fabric — BPA Studio, Process Designer, UI Builder
- Bonita Work Hub — unified task management interface
- Native AI Connectors (OpenAI, Mistral, Anthropic)
- Intelligent Document Processing — extraction, classification, routing
- SLA enforcement, escalation rules, comprehensive audit trail
- +6 more
Flowable
Free Community Edition. Enterprise plans by contact sales.
- Community EditionFree
- BPMN
- CMMN
- DMN
- Unlimited automation models
- Case PlatformContact sales
- BPMN, CMMN, DMN
- Users and RCPI packages
- High availability & scalability
- Enterprise security
- Low-code modeling
- +4 more
- Agentic Case PlatformContact sales
- All Case Platform features
- Agents at runtime
- Orchestrator AI agents
- Knowledge AI agents with RAG
- Document AI agents
- +9 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Keycloak
Bonitasoft
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Jira
- Salesforce
- SAP
- Confluence
- OpenAI
- Mistral
- Anthropic
- DocuSign
- Adobe Sign
- UIPath
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Active Directory
Flowable
- LDAP
- Spring
- GitHub
Bonitasoft or Flowable: which one depends on you
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