Is Activiti or Stitch better?

Neither clearly leads. Activiti starts at Free and Stitch at $100/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Activiti or Stitch?

Activiti has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Activiti and $100/month for Stitch.

Does Activiti or Stitch run on more platforms?

Activiti runs on Linux, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes. Stitch runs on Web, Cloud.

Can I use Activiti for free?

Yes. Activiti has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Stitch starts at $100/month.

What is Activiti best used for?

Activiti is most often used 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. Of those, an alfresco or hyland content services deployment where activiti is already the embedded workflow engine and a java application that needs to embed a bpmn engine as a library under a permissive licence are not what Stitch is typically brought in for.

What can Activiti do that Stitch cannot?

Activiti covers BPMN 2.0 engine, Activiti Cloud, Modeler, Java and REST APIs. Stitch covers Data replication, Schema detection, Data transformation, Real-time sync.

Automation Integration · head to head

Activiti vs Stitch

Activiti

Automation Integration

Apache 2.0 BPMN engine under Hyland, from which Flowable and Camunda were forked

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

Stitch

Automation Integration

Simple, powerful ETL built for data teams

From: $100/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Only Activiti has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
Each has a real cost: Activiti the last stable release was 8.2.0 in January 2024, and while release candidate builds continue, a two-year gap between stable versions is a real risk signal for a production dependency.; Stitch the Standard plan allows a single destination, so loading the same data into two warehouses requires the $1,500 a month Advanced plan
They diverge on capability: Activiti covers BPMN 2.0 engine, Stitch covers Data replication.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Activiti and Stitch actually diverge.

Attributes where Activiti and Stitch differ
Attribute	Activiti	Stitch
Starting price	Free	$100/month
Pricing model	Open source, no licence fee	usage-based
Free tier	Yes	No
Platforms	Linux, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes	Web, Cloud
Founded	Unknown	2014

Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated), category (Automation Integration).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Activiti

BPMN 2.0 engine
Activiti Cloud
Modeler
Java and REST APIs
Pluggable persistence
Identity integration

Only in Stitch

Data replication
Schema detection
Data transformation
Real-time sync
Monitoring
Error handling
Incremental updates
200+ connectors

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Activiti

An Alfresco or Hyland content services deployment where Activiti is already the embedded workflow enginenot Stitch
A Java application that needs to embed a BPMN engine as a library under a permissive licencenot Stitch
An organisation that has ruled out Camunda 8 on licence grounds and needs an Apache 2.0 alternativenot Stitch
Document-centric approval workflows where the process engine sits inside the content management stack rather than beside itnot Stitch

Stitch

Data integration and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)not Activiti
Data pipeline managementnot Activiti
Cloud data warehouse loadingnot Activiti
Real-time data synchronizationnot Activiti

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Activiti

The last stable release was 8.2.0 in January 2024, and while release candidate builds continue, a two-year gap between stable versions is a real risk signal for a production dependency.
Both Camunda and Flowable forked away and took large parts of the contributor base with them, so the community, tutorials and third-party tooling around Activiti are much thinner than around either fork.
Commercial support is only realistically available by buying Hyland Alfresco subscriptions, so there is no way to pay for Activiti support on its own.
Activiti Cloud imposes a distributed architecture of several Spring Boot services plus Keycloak, which is heavy for teams who simply wanted an embeddable engine.
Documentation is dated and partly split between old Alfresco sites and Hyland Connect, and the transition between Activiti 6, 7 and 8 architectures makes much of the older material actively misleading.

Stitch

The Standard plan allows a single destination, so loading the same data into two warehouses requires the $1,500 a month Advanced plan
The Advanced and Premium plans are billed annually only
The jump from Standard to Advanced is from $100 a month to $1,500
Standard is limited to 10 sources and 5 users
HIPAA support and private connectivity options such as VPN, AWS PrivateLink and VPC peering are excluded from Standard
Published prices are US only, with international pricing available on request

Pricing, plan by plan

Activiti

Free

ActivitiFree
- Apache 2.0 licence
- Embeddable Java library or Activiti Cloud services
- No usage limits

Stitch

$100/month

Standard$100/month
- 5-300 million rows per month (configurable)
- 1 destination
- 10 standard sources
Advanced$1500/month
- 100 million rows per month
- 3 destinations
- Unlimited enterprise sources
Premium$3000/month
- 1 billion rows per month
- 5 destinations
- Unlimited enterprise sources

Which should you pick?

Choose Activiti if

You need bpmn 2.0 engine.
You want to start without paying.
You work on Linux, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes.
You also want activiti cloud.

Activiti review

Choose Stitch if

You need data replication.
You work on Web, Cloud.
You also want schema detection.

Stitch review

Questions people ask

Is Activiti or Stitch better?: Neither clearly leads. Activiti starts at Free and Stitch at $100/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Activiti or Stitch?: Activiti has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Activiti and $100/month for Stitch.
Does Activiti or Stitch run on more platforms?: Activiti runs on Linux, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes. Stitch runs on Web, Cloud.
Can I use Activiti for free?: Yes. Activiti has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Stitch starts at $100/month.
What is Activiti best used for?: Activiti is most often used 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. Of those, an alfresco or hyland content services deployment where activiti is already the embedded workflow engine and a java application that needs to embed a bpmn engine as a library under a permissive licence are not what Stitch is typically brought in for.
What can Activiti do that Stitch cannot?: Activiti covers BPMN 2.0 engine, Activiti Cloud, Modeler, Java and REST APIs. Stitch covers Data replication, Schema detection, Data transformation, Real-time sync.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Activiti: Is Activiti still maintained?

Yes, Hyland continues to publish builds, but the last stable release was 8.2.0 in January 2024.

Stitch: How much does Stitch cost?

Stitch's usage-based pricing starts at $100/month for the Standard plan. Advanced tier is $1,500/month (annual billing), and Premium is $3,000/month (annual billing). Pricing is based on rows per month and data destinations.

Source

Activiti: What is its relationship to Camunda and Flowable?

Both are forks of Activiti: Camunda in 2013 and Flowable in 2016, when core developers left Alfresco.

Stitch: Does Stitch offer a free trial?

Yes, Stitch provides a 14-day free trial with no credit card required.

Source

Activiti: What licence is it?

Apache 2.0, which distinguishes it from Camunda 8’s source-available licence.

Stitch: How many rows can I process with each Stitch plan?

Standard plan is configurable from 5 to 300 million rows per month. Advanced includes 100 million rows per month. Premium includes 1 billion rows per month. Additional rows are available for customization.

Source

Activiti: Should I choose Activiti for a new project?

Only if the Apache licence or an existing Alfresco deployment is decisive. Flowable and Camunda have far larger ecosystems.

Stitch: Is Stitch pricing available outside the US?

Stitch publishes pricing for US customers only. International pricing requires contacting Stitch sales directly.

Source

Activiti vs Stitch

Activiti

Stitch

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Activiti

Only in Stitch

What people use each for

Activiti

Stitch

Where each one falls short

Activiti

Stitch

Pricing, plan by plan

Activiti

Stitch

Which should you pick?

Choose Activiti if

Choose Stitch if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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