This article provides acomparison of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) tools.
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] | 2025-08-22[2] | | Apache-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 withArchiMate, 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[10] | | 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 |  | 2013-08-31 | 2025-10-07[11] | | Apache License 2.0 | ||||
| Enterprise Architect | Sparx Systems | | | | | 2000 | 2024-09-27[12] | | Proprietary[13] | |||||||
| Flowable Modeler | Flowable and the Flowable community | | | | |  | 2017-10-13[14] | 2024-01-17[15] | | Apache License 2.0[16] | ||||||
| IBM Blueworks Live | IBM | | | | | Freemium | ||||||||||
| System Architect | IBM =>UNICOM Global | | Enterprise Architecture tool | 2024[17] | | Proprietary | ||||||||||
| Imixs-BPMN | Imixs | | | |  | 2015 | 2024-08-03[18] | | GNU GPL | |||||||
| jBPM | Red Hat | | | | | | 2010-12-13 | 2023-07-19[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[20] | | Proprietary/Shareware | |||||||||
| Microsoft Visio | Microsoft | | | | | Read: MS Visio, Write: MS Visio, EMF, PDF. |  | 2024[21] | | Proprietary | ||||||
| Modelio | Modeliosoft (SOFTEAM Group) | | | Includes BPMN, UML, ArchiMate SysML, Java round trip code generation, documentation, TOGAF, XSD, WSDL. |  | 2009 | 2022-03-23[22] | | GNU GPL[23] | |||||||
| OmniGraffle | Omni Group | | | 2001 | 2021 | | Proprietary | |||||||||
| PragmaDev Process | PragmaDev | | | | | | Step by step execution[24] as well as stochastic simulation based on BPSim[25]. |  | Nov 13, 2019[26] | Nov 18, 2025[27] | | Freemium | ||||
| Software Ideas Modeler | Dusan Rodina | | | | 2009-Aug | 2024-Aug[28] | | 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 | |||||||