Comparison of Business Process Model and Notation modeling tools

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

General

Name	Creator	Platform / OS	BPMN Version	Features				Diagramme example	First Release	Latest Release	Open source	Software license
				Model processes	Execute processes	Monitor processes	Other
Activiti	Alfresco Software, Inc. and the Activiti developer community	Cross-platform (Java-based and SaaS)	2.0				Modeler, Simulation, Execution. Data elements are not supported. Limited supported formats (read/saved internally in BPMN format without exporting capabilities).		2010-05-17^[1]	2016-01-29^[2]		Apache License 2.0^[3]
ActiveVOS	Informatica	Cross-platform (Java-based)	2.0						2005	2014		Proprietary
ADONIS (software)	BOC Information Technologies Consulting AG	Windows	2.0						1995	2015		Proprietary / Freeware (requires registration)
Alfresco Process Services	Alfresco Software, Inc.	Cross-platform (Java-based and SaaS)	2.0						2017	2018-06-14		Subscription. Price based on number of users, computing power and support levels.
ARIS Express	Software AG	Windows (and Linux, Mac unofficially)	2.0						2009-07-28	2017-06-29		Freeware (registration needed)
BiZZdesign Architect	BiZZdesign	Windows	2.0				Integrate with ArchiMate, User collaboration, Support for Collaboration diagrams, BPMN 2.0 XML Export & Import,		2012	2014		Proprietary
Bonita BPM	Bonitasoft	Windows, Linux, Mac	2.0				Supports several formats (read: BPMN, jBPM, Bonita, XPDL; write: Bonita, BPMN2, PNG, JPG, GIF, PDF, BMP, SVG).		2001	2022-02-24^[4]		GNU GPL^[5]
Borland Together	Borland	Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris								2009-07-04		Proprietary/Shareware
Camunda Platform	Camunda GmbH	Cross-platform	2.0				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	2022-04-12^[6]		Apache License 2.0
Enterprise Architect	Sparx Systems	Windows, Linux, Mac	2.0						2000	2019-01		Proprietary^[7]
Flowable Modeler	Flowable and the Flowable community	Cross-platform	2.0					Flowable BPMN model snippet	2017-10-13^[8]	2021-12-28^[9]		Apache License 2.0^[10]
IBM BlueWorks Live	IBM	Cloud (browser based)	2.0									Proprietary
IBM Rational System Architect	IBM	Enterprise Architecture tool	2.0+							2014, September		Proprietary
Imixs-BPMN	Imixs	Cross-platform	2.0						2015	2017^[11]		GNU GPL
jBPM	Red Hat	Cross-platform	2.0						2010-12-13	2022-06-10		Apache License 2.0
LucidChart	Lucid Software Inc	Cross-platform (browser based)	2.0						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	Windows, Linux, Mac	2.0						2007-09-24	2014-06-02		Proprietary/Shareware
Microsoft Visio 2013	Microsoft	Windows	2.0				Read: MS Visio. Write: MS Visio, EMF, PDF.			2021		Proprietary
Modelio	Modeliosoft (SOFTEAM Group)	Windows, Linux, Mac	2.0				Includes BPMN, UML, ArchiMate SysML, Java round trip code generation, documentation, TOGAF, XSD, WSDL.		2009	2022-03-23^[12]		GNU GPL^[13]
OmniGraffle	Omni Group	Mac							2001	2021		Proprietary
Software Ideas Modeler	Dusan Rodina	Windows, Linux	2.0						2009-Aug	2017-Jan		Proprietary
yEd	yWorks	Windows, Mac, Linux/Unix	2.0						2013-03	2022-04-05		Freeware
Name	Creator	Platform / OS	BPMN Version	Features					First Release	Latest Release	Open source	Software license