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Alternatives to Activiti
22 automation integration tools sit alongside Activiti in this directory. Below is what separates each from Activiti on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 22
- With a free tier
- 14
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Activiti starts at
- Free
Why people look past Activiti
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Activiti entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is only one tier
Activiti publishes a single plan, Activiti at Free. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Durable execution platform for fault-tolerant workflows.
- Publishes an entry price of $100/month, where Activiti does not.
- Sold on a freemium model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
- 4 tiers to Activiti's 1.
The enterprise platform for AI & search visibility
- No free tier, where Activiti has one.
- Sold on a usage-based model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
The fair-code workflow automation tool
- Publishes an entry price of €20/month, where Activiti does not.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
- 4 tiers to Activiti's 1.
Managed Apache Flink and Debezium with credit-based pricing and a free tier
- Sold on a Per credit by task hour model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
- 3 tiers to Activiti's 1.
Postgres-backed distributed task queue and workflow engine for Python, TypeScript and Go
- Publishes an entry price of $500/month, where Activiti does not.
- Sold on a Per month by task run count model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
- 4 tiers to Activiti's 1.
Open source unified API and OAuth infrastructure for product integrations, licensed under Elastic License 2.0
- Publishes an entry price of $50/month, where Activiti does not.
- Sold on a Per connection per month model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
- 4 tiers to Activiti's 1.
Every Activiti alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activiti (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | |
| TemporalTemporal if durable code-defined workflows suit better than modelled BPMN processes. | Free, then $100/month | Freemium | 4 | vs Activiti |
| ConductorConductor for language-agnostic orchestration with an active community and its own UI. | On request | Usage-based | - | vs Activiti |
| n8nn8n if the requirement is visual integration automation rather than an embeddable Java BPMN engine. | Free, then €20/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Activiti |
| Decodable | Free | Per credit by task hour | 3 | vs Activiti |
| Hatchet | Free, then $500/month | Per month by task run count | 4 | vs Activiti |
| Nango | Free, then $50/month | Per connection per month | 4 | vs Activiti |
| Kogito | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Activiti |
| Flowable | Free | Quote | 2 | vs Activiti |
| Meltano | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Activiti |
| jBPM | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Activiti |
| Orkes | Free | Quote | 2 | vs Activiti |
| Prefect | Free, then $100/month | Freemium with per-user and usage-based tiers | 4 | vs Activiti |
| Dagster | Free, then $10/month | Free open-source core plus paid cloud platform | 4 | vs Activiti |
| Windmill | Free, then $120/month | Open-source | 2 | vs Activiti |
| Autonoly | Free, then $29/month | Freemium | 5 | vs Activiti |
| HighByte Intelligence Hub | $18500/year | Per site per year | 4 | vs Activiti |
| Cyclr | $1595/month | Per month by API call volume | 4 | vs Activiti |
| Alloy Automation | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Activiti |
| IBM MQ | $312/month | Per virtual processor core per month | 3 | vs Activiti |
| Camunda | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Activiti |
| Mage AI | $100/month | Usage-based cloud platform | 4 | vs Activiti |
| HighLevel | $97/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Activiti |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Activiti badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Activiti is most often brought in for an alfresco or hyland content services deployment where activiti is already the embedded workflow engine, a java application that needs to embed a bpmn engine as a library under a permissive licence, an organisation that has ruled out camunda 8 on licence grounds and needs an apache 2.0 alternative, document-centric approval workflows where the process engine sits inside the content management stack rather than beside it. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Activiti is broadly right and the question is cost, the Activiti pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Automation Integration category lists everything the directory holds, and best automation integration tools ranks them.
Activiti runs on linux, windows, docker, kubernetes. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Activiti alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Activiti?
- 22 other automation integration tools are listed in this directory, led by Temporal, Conductor, n8n, Decodable. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Activiti?
- 14 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Temporal, n8n, Decodable, Hatchet, Nango.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Activiti?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Activiti?
- Activiti is most often brought in for an alfresco or hyland content services deployment where activiti is already the embedded workflow engine, a java application that needs to embed a bpmn engine as a library under a permissive licence, an organisation that has ruled out camunda 8 on licence grounds and needs an apache 2.0 alternative, document-centric approval workflows where the process engine sits inside the content management stack rather than beside it. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Activiti?
- Windmill is recorded with an open-source licence model.
- How were these Activiti alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Automation Integration, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Activiti against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Activiti covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every automation integration tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Automation Integration category, 22 tools beside Activiti. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.