Is Activiti or UiPath better?

Neither clearly leads. Activiti starts at Free and UiPath at $25/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Activiti or UiPath?

Activiti has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Activiti and $25/month for UiPath.

Does Activiti or UiPath run on more platforms?

Activiti runs on Linux, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes. UiPath runs on Desktop, Web.

Can I use Activiti for free?

Yes. Activiti has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. UiPath starts at $25/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 UiPath is typically brought in for.

What can Activiti do that UiPath cannot?

Activiti covers BPMN 2.0 engine, Activiti Cloud, Modeler, Java and REST APIs. UiPath covers Desktop RPA, Cloud RPA, Process mining, Task mining.

Automation Integration · head to head

Activiti vs UiPath

Activiti

Automation Integration

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

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

UiPath

Automation Integration

The leading platform for business process automation

From: $25/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.; UiPath the Basic plan from $25 per month caps the tenant at 5 Basic users, 5 Plus users, 1 Pro user and 2 unattended robots
They diverge on capability: Activiti covers BPMN 2.0 engine, UiPath covers Desktop RPA.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Activiti and UiPath actually diverge.

Attributes where Activiti and UiPath differ
Attribute	Activiti	UiPath
Starting price	Free	$25/month
Pricing model	Open source, no licence fee	subscription
Free tier	Yes	No
Platforms	Linux, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes	Desktop, Web
Founded	Unknown	2005

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 UiPath

Desktop RPA
Cloud RPA
Process mining
Task mining
AI capabilities
Monitoring
Analytics
500+ 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 UiPath
A Java application that needs to embed a BPMN engine as a library under a permissive licencenot UiPath
An organisation that has ruled out Camunda 8 on licence grounds and needs an Apache 2.0 alternativenot UiPath
Document-centric approval workflows where the process engine sits inside the content management stack rather than beside itnot UiPath

UiPath

Robotic process automation and business automationnot Activiti
Enterprise-wide deployment and process optimizationnot Activiti
UI automation and intelligent document processingnot Activiti
Large-scale automation programs with custom requirementsnot 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.

UiPath

The Basic plan from $25 per month caps the tenant at 5 Basic users, 5 Plus users, 1 Pro user and 2 unattended robots
Basic tenants are hosted only in the European region
Only the Basic tier carries a published price; Standard and Enterprise require contacting sales
Self healing automation, process simulation, Elastic Robot Orchestration, bring your own encryption keys and dedicated deployments are Enterprise only
Agent capability is limited on Basic and requires Standard or Enterprise
Extra unattended robots are purchased separately on top of the plan

Pricing, plan by plan

Activiti

Free

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

UiPath

$25/month

Automation Cloud Basic$25/month
- Build and run basic personal automations
- Limited scale
- 99.9% service uptime
Automation Cloud Standard$null/month
- Enterprise automation capabilities
- Document classification and extraction at scale
- No limits to scale
Automation Cloud Enterprise$null/month
- Self-healing UI automation
- Process optimization and simulation
- Infrastructure automation
Test Cloud Standard$null/month
- Contact Sales for pricing

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 UiPath if

You need desktop rpa.
You work on Desktop, Web.
You also want cloud rpa.

UiPath review

Questions people ask

Is Activiti or UiPath better?: Neither clearly leads. Activiti starts at Free and UiPath at $25/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Activiti or UiPath?: Activiti has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Activiti and $25/month for UiPath.
Does Activiti or UiPath run on more platforms?: Activiti runs on Linux, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes. UiPath runs on Desktop, Web.
Can I use Activiti for free?: Yes. Activiti has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. UiPath starts at $25/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 UiPath is typically brought in for.
What can Activiti do that UiPath cannot?: Activiti covers BPMN 2.0 engine, Activiti Cloud, Modeler, Java and REST APIs. UiPath covers Desktop RPA, Cloud RPA, Process mining, Task mining.

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.

UiPath: How much does UiPath cost?

UiPath Automation Cloud Basic starts at $25/month for individuals and small teams. Standard and Enterprise tiers require contacting sales for custom pricing based on organizational needs.

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.

UiPath: What are the limitations of UiPath's Basic tier?

The Basic tier at $25/month is limited to building and running basic personal automations at limited scale, with European region hosting only and bronze-level support. Standard and Enterprise tiers remove these limits.

Source

Activiti: What licence is it?

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

UiPath: Does UiPath charge for users and robots separately?

UiPath's pricing tiers include base costs, but users, robots, and agents may require additional purchases beyond the tier pricing, depending on organizational requirements.

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.

Activiti vs UiPath

Activiti

UiPath

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Activiti

Only in UiPath

What people use each for

Activiti

UiPath

Where each one falls short

Activiti

UiPath

Pricing, plan by plan

Activiti

UiPath

Which should you pick?

Choose Activiti if

Choose UiPath if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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