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Alternatives to Flowable
22 automation integration tools sit alongside Flowable in this directory. Below is what separates each from Flowable 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
- 15
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Flowable starts at
- Free
Why people look past Flowable
Nothing on the record flags a reason to move. Flowable has a free tier. People still switch over fit and workflow, and those are not things a catalogue entry can measure, which is what the comparisons below are for.
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 Flowable does not.
- Sold on a freemium model rather than quote.
- 4 tiers to Flowable's 2.
The work automation platform
- Publishes an entry price of Free, where Flowable does not.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Flowable's 2.
Programmatically author, schedule and monitor data workflows in Python
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee; managed services billed separately model rather than quote.
- 1 tier to Flowable's 2.
Managed Apache Flink and Debezium with credit-based pricing and a free tier
- Sold on a Per credit by task hour model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Flowable's 2.
Postgres-backed distributed task queue and workflow engine for Python, TypeScript and Go
- Publishes an entry price of $500/month, where Flowable does not.
- Sold on a Per month by task run count model rather than quote.
- 4 tiers to Flowable's 2.
Open source unified API and OAuth infrastructure for product integrations, licensed under Elastic License 2.0
- Publishes an entry price of $50/month, where Flowable does not.
- Sold on a Per connection per month model rather than quote.
- 4 tiers to Flowable's 2.
Every Flowable 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flowable (this page) | Free | Quote | 2 | |
| TemporalIf you need code-defined durable execution for microservices rather than BPMN process modelling | Free, then $100/month | Freemium | 4 | vs Flowable |
| NintexIf business users rather than Java developers should be building the processes | Free | Subscription | 3 | vs Flowable |
| Apache AirflowIf the orchestration is scheduled data pipelines rather than human and business processes | Free | Open source, no licence fee; managed services billed separately | 1 | vs Flowable |
| Decodable | Free | Per credit by task hour | 3 | vs Flowable |
| Hatchet | Free, then $500/month | Per month by task run count | 4 | vs Flowable |
| Nango | Free, then $50/month | Per connection per month | 4 | vs Flowable |
| Kogito | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Flowable |
| Meltano | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Flowable |
| jBPM | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Flowable |
| Activiti | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Flowable |
| Orkes | Free | Quote | 2 | vs Flowable |
| Prefect | Free, then $100/month | Freemium with per-user and usage-based tiers | 4 | vs Flowable |
| Dagster | Free, then $10/month | Free open-source core plus paid cloud platform | 4 | vs Flowable |
| Windmill | Free, then $120/month | Open-source | 2 | vs Flowable |
| Autonoly | Free, then $29/month | Freemium | 5 | vs Flowable |
| HighByte Intelligence Hub | $18500/year | Per site per year | 4 | vs Flowable |
| Cyclr | $1595/month | Per month by API call volume | 4 | vs Flowable |
| Alloy Automation | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Flowable |
| IBM MQ | $312/month | Per virtual processor core per month | 3 | vs Flowable |
| Camunda | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Flowable |
| Mage AI | $100/month | Usage-based cloud platform | 4 | vs Flowable |
| HighLevel | $97/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Flowable |
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 Flowable badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Flowable is most often brought in for an insurer automating claims handling where each case follows a different path and bpmn alone cannot express it, a bank embedding process orchestration inside an existing spring boot estate rather than buying a separate platform, a team leaving activiti or jbpm that wants the same api family with active commercial maintenance, a regulated organisation needing complete process history and decision table audit trails for supervisors. 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 Flowable is broadly right and the question is cost, the Flowable 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.
Flowable runs on linux, windows, docker, kubernetes, cloud. 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 Flowable alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Flowable?
- 22 other automation integration tools are listed in this directory, led by Temporal, Nintex, Apache Airflow, Decodable. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Flowable?
- 15 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Temporal, Nintex, Apache Airflow, Decodable, Hatchet.
- Is there a reason to switch away from Flowable?
- Nothing in the data flags one. Flowable has a free tier. Fit and workflow are the usual reasons to move, and those are not things this record can measure.
- What would I give up by switching from Flowable?
- Flowable is most often brought in for an insurer automating claims handling where each case follows a different path and bpmn alone cannot express it, a bank embedding process orchestration inside an existing spring boot estate rather than buying a separate platform, a team leaving activiti or jbpm that wants the same api family with active commercial maintenance, a regulated organisation needing complete process history and decision table audit trails for supervisors. 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 Flowable?
- Windmill is recorded with an open-source licence model.
- How were these Flowable 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 Flowable against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Flowable 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 Flowable. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.