# ProcessMaker alternatives — Workflow Management As of 4 Nov 2026, the panel rates [n8n (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/n8n), [Frends (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/frends) and [Appian (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/appian) 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](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/n8n) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). - Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/processmaker/alternatives - ProcessMaker: https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/processmaker.md - Data as of: 2026-11-04 **AI-generated.** Ratings and verdicts are the opinion of a panel of AI judges, formed from public evidence against a published rubric — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Listed by panel rating (products the panel could not rate follow alphabetically); no placement is for sale. How lists are ordered: https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering ## European alternatives to ProcessMaker - [n8n](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/n8n) · EU-Made · panel rating 3.5/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU n8n is a workflow automation platform from n8n GmbH, Berlin, with a self-hosted edition next to n8n Cloud. - [Frends](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/frends) · EU-Made · panel rating 3/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages 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. - [Camunda](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/camunda) · EU-Made · panel rating 3/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-11-02 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. - [Simplifier](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/simplifier) · EU-Made · panel rating 3/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages Simplifier, a low-code workflow platform from Simplifier AG of Würzburg, earns persona-weighted verdicts between 5.1 and 5.8. - [FireStart](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/firestart) · EU-Made · panel rating 2.5/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages FireStart is a BPMN 2.0 workflow platform from FireStart GmbH in Linz, Austria. - [Axon Ivy](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/axon-ivy) · UK / wider Europe · panel rating 2/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages 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. - [Flowable](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/flowable) · UK / wider Europe · panel rating 2/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages 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. - [Synesty](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/synesty) · EU-Made · panel rating 2/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany 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. ## Other alternatives - [Appian](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/appian) · Rest of world · panel rating 3/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-01 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. - [Tray.ai](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/tray-ai) · Rest of world · panel rating 2.5/5 Tray.ai is an integration and automation platform from Tray.ai, Inc. - [Workato](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/workato) · Rest of world · panel rating 2.5/5 - [Zapier](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/zapier) · Rest of world · panel rating 2.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-13 Zapier is a no-code integration automation platform from Zapier, Inc., a Delaware corporation, billed per task. - [Kissflow](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/kissflow) · Rest of world · panel rating 2/5 Kissflow is a no-code workflow and low-code app platform from Kissflow Inc., Delaware, with development in Chennai, India. - [Make](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/make) · provenance unknown · panel rating 2/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-11-03 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. - [Process Street](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/process-street) · Rest of world · panel rating 2/5 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. - [Bonita](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/bonita) · provenance unknown · panel rating 2/5 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. - [Pipefy](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/pipefy) · Rest of world · panel rating 2/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-13 Pipefy, from Pipefy Inc., is a no-code workflow and request management cloud. - [Nintex](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/nintex) · Rest of world · panel rating 2/5 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. - [Bizagi](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/bizagi) · provenance unknown · panel rating 1.5/5 Bizagi is a workflow management product whose public record is strong on governance and thin on operations. - [Microsoft Power Automate](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/microsoft-power-automate) · Rest of world · panel rating 1.5/5 Power Automate is Microsoft's cloud workflow-automation service. - [AuraQuantic](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/auraquantic) · provenance unknown · panel rating 1.5/5 AuraQuantic is a no-code business process automation platform. - [Pega Platform](https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/pega-platform) · provenance unknown · panel rating 1/5 Pega Platform is a workflow management product from Pegasystems Inc., judged from its homepage and privacy-and-security page. Ratings are out of 5 (the panel's mean, half steps). --- Cite as: whats-best.ai, "ProcessMaker alternatives — Workflow Management", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-11-04. https://whats-best.ai/software/workflow-management/processmaker/alternatives