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ProcessMaker alternatives
As of 4 Nov 2026, the panel rates n8n (3.5/5), Frends (3/5) and Appian (3/5) highest among the other 22 Workflow Management products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is n8n (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
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European alternatives to ProcessMaker
European by provenance (EU-made, EU origin with foreign ownership, or UK and wider Europe). Data hosting is stated only where the vendor’s own pages prove it.
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n8n
EU-MadePanel rating
n8n is a workflow automation platform from n8n GmbH, Berlin, with a self-hosted edition next to n8n Cloud.
- Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU
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Frends
EU-MadePanel rating
Frends — a hybrid integration and process automation platform from Finnish vendor Frends Technology Oy — scores highest on integrations and connectors, clustering at 7-8, and on governance and audit at a flat 7, with hosting and portability behind at 7-8.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Camunda
EU-MadePanel rating
Camunda, a workflow management platform from Camunda Services GmbH of Berlin, is strongest on process design at a uniform 7, integrations and connectors at 7 to 8, and hosting and portability at 7 to 8.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 2 Nov 2026
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Simplifier
EU-MadePanel rating
Simplifier, a low-code workflow platform from Simplifier AG of Würzburg, earns persona-weighted verdicts between 5.1 and 5.8.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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FireStart
EU-MadePanel rating
FireStart is a BPMN 2.0 workflow platform from FireStart GmbH in Linz, Austria.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Axon Ivy
UK / wider EuropePanel rating
Axon Ivy, a BPM and process automation platform from Axon Ivy AG of Zug, Switzerland, offered self-hosted or cloud, scores best on connectors and process building.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Flowable
UK / wider EuropePanel rating
Flowable is an open-source BPMN, CMMN and DMN workflow engine with an enterprise platform, documented case management with dynamic routing and escalation, and a catalogue of thirty connectors across six categories.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Synesty
EU-MadePanel rating
Synesty presents itself as a no-code integration platform for moving mass data between shops, marketplaces and ERP systems, and the bench scored it as that.
- Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany
Other alternatives
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Appian
Rest of worldPanel rating
Appian's strongest showing is hosting and portability, where scores run 6–7 on the strength of a self-managed Kubernetes edition validated on AKS, Amazon EKS, OpenShift, GKE, vSphere and bare metal, a customer-provided relational database, and a documented migration tool from server-based installs.
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 1 Oct 2026
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Tray.ai
Rest of worldPanel rating
Tray.ai is an integration and automation platform from Tray.ai, Inc.
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Workato
Rest of worldPanel rating
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Zapier
Rest of worldPanel rating
Zapier is a no-code integration automation platform from Zapier, Inc., a Delaware corporation, billed per task.
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 13 Oct 2026
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Kissflow
Rest of worldPanel rating
Kissflow is a no-code workflow and low-code app platform from Kissflow Inc., Delaware, with development in Chennai, India.
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Make
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Make, a workflow-management product, earns its highest scores on integrations and connectors, 6 to 8: a SAP ECC agent with 35 purchase, material and sales-order actions maintained by Make itself, an Enterprise-only on-premises agent for Windows Server, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and Red Hat, and over a thousand external services.
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 3 Nov 2026
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Process Street
Rest of worldPanel rating
Process Street, a workflow management platform from San Francisco's Process Street, Inc., turns SOPs and policies into workflows with tasks, forms, rules, approvals and audit-ready history.
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Bonita
Provenance unknownPanel rating
The bench scores Bonita strongest at process design, clustering at 6-7: the captured clinical use-case page documents BPMN 2.0 modelling with deviation paths, escalation rules and approval chains, plus a rules engine encoding protocol requirements and decision criteria per trial phase.
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Pipefy
Rest of worldPanel rating
Pipefy, from Pipefy Inc., is a no-code workflow and request management cloud.
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 13 Oct 2026
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Nintex
Rest of worldPanel rating
Nintex's workflow platform scored strongest on integrations and connectors, 4 to 5, and hosting and portability, 4 to 6: the captured pages document on-premises, private-cloud and managed deployment for Nintex Automation K2 (5.9.1), dozens of built-in Connectors, SAP via Nintex RPA or partner Theobald's ECS Core, and Salesforce.
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Bizagi
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Bizagi is a workflow management product whose public record is strong on governance and thin on operations.
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Microsoft Power Automate
Rest of worldPanel rating
Power Automate is Microsoft's cloud workflow-automation service.
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AuraQuantic
Provenance unknownPanel rating
AuraQuantic is a no-code business process automation platform.
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Pega Platform
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Pega Platform is a workflow management product from Pegasystems Inc., judged from its homepage and privacy-and-security page.