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jBPM pricing
jBPM publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the automation integration tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, jBPM pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
jBPM plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| jBPM | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where jBPM stops being free
jBPM, Free
- Apache 2.0 licence with no usage restrictions
- Full BPMN engine, human tasks and Drools integration
- Community support via Apache KIE mailing lists
- Commercial support available separately from IBM
No paid tier on record
jBPM lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full jBPM feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- BPMN 2.0 execution
- Drools integration
- Human task service
- Kogito compilation
- Process designer
- Timers and signals
- REST and Java APIs
- Case management
People bring jBPM in for a java organisation already running jbpm 7 that needs to decide between the apache kie line, kogito or migration away, a team that wants bpmn processes and drools business rules executing in one runtime without integrating two products, a government or banking system with long-running processes needing durable timers and full audit history at no licence cost, a quarkus estate adopting kogito to run compiled processes with container-appropriate startup times. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to jBPM are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Automation Integration
Too few automation integration tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| jBPM (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| HighByte Intelligence Hub | $18500/year | Per site per year | - | vs jBPM |
| Cyclr | $1595/month | Per month by API call volume | - | vs jBPM |
| Alloy Automation | On request | quote | - | vs jBPM |
| Nango | Free, then $50/month | Per connection per month | - | vs jBPM |
| Meltano | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs jBPM |
| Decodable | Free | Per credit by task hour | - | vs jBPM |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the jBPM badges page.
Before you pay for jBPM
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
jBPM runs on linux, windows, docker, kubernetes, and is published by Apache Software Foundation of Wilmington, Delaware, United States. The full record is on the jBPM review, and the rest of the category is under best automation integration tools.
jBPM pricing questions
- How much does jBPM cost?
- jBPM publishes a single tier, jBPM, at Free.
- Does jBPM have a free plan?
- Yes. The jBPM tier costs nothing and covers apache 2.0 licence with no usage restrictions, full bpmn engine, human tasks and drools integration, community support via apache kie mailing lists.
- Which automation integration tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 automation integration tools listed alongside jBPM have a free tier: Nango, Meltano, Decodable, Kogito.
- What am I actually paying for with jBPM?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a java organisation already running jbpm 7 that needs to decide between the apache kie line, kogito or migration away, a team that wants bpmn processes and drools business rules executing in one runtime without integrating two products, a government or banking system with long-running processes needing durable timers and full audit history at no licence cost.
- Does jBPM charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these jBPM prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare jBPM against before paying?
- The closest automation integration tools in this directory are HighByte Intelligence Hub, Cyclr, Alloy Automation, Nango. Each has a side-by-side comparison with jBPM covering price, platforms and features.