Comparison of Business Process Model and Notation modeling tools

Main article: Business Process Model and Notation

This article provides a comparison of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) tools.

General

Note: all tools do support BPMN Version 2.0.

Name	Developer	UI Platform / OS					Cloud / SAAS	Features				Diagram example	First Release	Latest Release	Open source	Software license
		Java UI	Windows native	MacOS native	Linux native	Browser based		Model processes	Execute processes	Monitor processes	Other
Activiti	Alfresco Software, Inc. and the Activiti developer community										Modeler, Simulation, Execution. Data elements are not supported. Limited supported formats (read/saved internally in BPMN format without exporting capabilities).		2010-05-17 [1]	2024-01-22 [2]		Apache License 2.0 [3]
ActiveVOS	Informatica												2005	2014		Proprietary
ADONIS BPM Suite	BOC Group										Modeler, Simulation, Analysis		1995	2022 [4]		Proprietary / Freeware (requires registration)
Alfresco Process Services	Alfresco Software, Inc.												2017	2024-03-11 [5]		Subscription. Price based on number of users, computing power and support levels.
OpenText AppWorks	OpenText												2021 (at least) [6]	2024		Subscription.
ARIS Express	Software AG			?	?								2009-07-28	2024-06-24 [7]		Freeware (registration needed)
BiZZdesign Architect	BiZZdesign										Integrate with ArchiMate, User collaboration, Support for Collaboration diagrams, BPMN 2.0 XML Export & Import,		2012	2014 (standalone) Current year (web)		Proprietary
Bonita BPM	Bonitasoft										Supports several formats (read: BPMN, jBPM, Bonita, XPDL; write: Bonita, BPMN2, PNG, JPG, GIF, PDF, BMP, SVG).		2001	2024-06-25 [8]		GNU GPL [9]
Together	TogetherSoft => Borland => Micro Focus													2013-11-28		Proprietary/Shareware
Camunda Platform	Camunda GmbH										2.0 import and export, support for DMN 1.3, collaborative BPMN & DMN editing, REST & Java APIs, OpenAPI documentation, orchestration of RPA bots, reporting on processes executed by Camunda or by an external tool	Camunda Platform BPMN model snippet	2013-08-31	2024-11-01 [10]		Apache License 2.0
Enterprise Architect	Sparx Systems												2000	2024-09-27 [11]		Proprietary [12]
Flowable Modeler	Flowable and the Flowable community											Flowable BPMN model snippet	2017-10-13 [13]	2024-01-17 [14]		Apache License 2.0 [15]
IBM Blueworks Live	IBM															Freemium
System Architect	IBM => UNICOM Global										Enterprise Architecture tool			2024 [16]		Proprietary
Imixs-BPMN	Imixs												2015	2024-08-03 [17]		GNU GPL
jBPM	Red Hat												2010-12-13	2023-07-19		Apache License 2.0
LucidChart	Lucid Software Inc						?						2011	updated twice a month		Proprietary - 14-day free trial on team accounts / Free professional accounts for educators and students / Free version
MagicDraw	No Magic												2007-09-24	2024 [18]		Proprietary/Shareware
Microsoft Visio	Microsoft										Read: MS Visio, Write: MS Visio, EMF, PDF.			2024 [19]		Proprietary
Modelio	Modeliosoft (SOFTEAM Group)										Includes BPMN, UML, ArchiMate SysML, Java round trip code generation, documentation, TOGAF, XSD, WSDL.		2009	2022-03-23 [20]		GNU GPL [21]
OmniGraffle	Omni Group												2001	2021		Proprietary
Software Ideas Modeler	Dusan Rodina												2009-Aug	2024-Aug [22]		Proprietary
yEd	yWorks												2013-03	2024		Freeware
Name	Developer	UI Platform / OS					Cloud / SAAS	Features				Diagram example	First Release	Latest Release	Open source	Software license

References

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4. "Release history - version 16, 2022".
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6. "What's new in OpenText AppWorks". 25 July 2024.
7. "Enhancing User Experience with the Redesigned ARIS Process Mining Interface - SR26".
8. "Bonita BPM 2024.2 | Bonitasoft | Open Source Workflow & BPM software". www.bonitasoft.com. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
9. Bonitasoft. "Download BPM Software And Documentation" . Retrieved 24 April 2017.
10. Camunda. "Camunda Platform 8.6+gen3 Release". GitHub . Retrieved 15 June 2022.
11. "Enterprise Architect 16.1 - Build 1628".
12. Sparx System's Enterprise Architect. "Enterprise Architect End User License Agreement (EULA)" . Retrieved 18 September 2013.
13. Flowable. "Flowable 5.22.0 release" . Retrieved 20 July 2018.
14. Flowable. "Flowable 7.0.1 release". GitHub . Retrieved 5 September 2024.
15. Flowable. "Flowable Source Code". GitHub . Retrieved 20 July 2018.
16. "System Architect® 11.4.11.2 Released".
17. Imixs-BPMN. "Release imixs-workflow-6.0.7". GitHub . Retrieved 2024-09-05.
18. "2024x Refresh1 Version News - No Magic products".
19. "Visio for the web: FAQ".
20. "Modelio 341 - Modelio 4.1 - Modelio Community Forge". forge.modelio.org. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
21. Modelio. "About Mmodelio / License" . Retrieved 7 August 2015.
22. "Software Ideas current version: 14.65, released: August 19, 2024" . Retrieved 2024-09-06.