Flowable is an agentic case platform that coordinates people, systems, and AI agents around cases and processes.
Alternatives to Workflow Engine
Inngest orchestrates asynchronous code as durable functions for event-driven workflows, background jobs, and agents.
Windmill is an open-source workflow engine and developer platform for building endpoints, workflows and user interfaces.
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Flyte
Flyte is a durable AI runtime for workloads involving training, serving, and agents.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted8.0Free plan - 5

Kestra
Kestra is a declarative platform for creating, running, and governing workflows across an organization.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinuxmacOS7.9Free plan - 6

ActiveBatch
ActiveBatch is a workload automation and enterprise job scheduling platform for coordinating IT and business processes.
AndroidiOSWebAPI7.6$10,000 one-time - 7

Camunda
Camunda is a business-process orchestration platform for coordinating people, AI agents, systems, and devices across end-to-end workflows.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.6Free plan - 8

Google Cloud Workflows
Google Cloud Workflows is a managed cloud platform for coordinating Google Cloud services, custom services, and HTTP APIs in an order you define.
Free planWebAPI7.5From $0.01 a month - 9
Apache DolphinScheduler
Apache DolphinScheduler is a free, open-source platform for designing and coordinating data workflows.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted7.3Free plan - 10

Argo Workflows
Argo Workflows is a free, open-source engine for orchestrating container-based jobs on Kubernetes.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.0Free plan - 11

Bonita
Bonita BPM is an enterprise platform for building governed process applications and coordinating mission-critical operations.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.0Free plan - 12
Prefect
Prefect is a workflow orchestration platform for data, machine learning, and agent workflows written in Python.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.9From $100 a month - 13

Restate
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.8From $75 a month - 14

Temporal
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.8From $500 a month - 15
Trigger.dev
Trigger.dev is an open source platform for building AI agents and workflows in TypeScript, available through a web service, API, or self-hosted deployment.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.8From $10 a month - 16

Keboola
Keboola is a unified AI and data platform for creating and orchestrating pipelines, then using the resulting data for analytics and integrations.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.7Free plan - 17

Apache Airflow
Apache Airflow is a platform for authoring, scheduling, and monitoring workflows defined in Python.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.6Free plan - 18

Bizagi Modeler
Bizagi Modeler lets users create, document, simulate, publish, and share business processes using BPMN.
Free planWebWindows6.6Free plan - 19

Dagster
Dagster is a data-aware orchestrator for building, running, and monitoring data pipelines and assets.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.6 - 20

jBPM
jBPM is a free, open-source toolkit for automating business processes, tasks, decisions, and rules.
Free planWebAPIExtensionLinux6.6Free plan - 21

Hatchet
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.4Free plan - 22
SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management by OpenText
AndroidiOSWebLinux6.4 - 23

BMC Control-M
BMC Control-M is application and data orchestration software with SaaS, self-hosted, or hybrid deployment options listed for Enterprise.
AndroidiOSWeb6.3From $2,400 a month - 24

Appian Case Management
AndroidiOSWeb6.2 - 25

AWS Step Functions
AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service for coordinating AWS services and HTTPS endpoints, including SaaS applications.
Free planWebAPI6.2Free plan - 26

Conductor
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.2Free plan - 27
Luigi
Luigi is a free Python package for building batch-job pipelines and managing task dependencies, workflow execution, and failures.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.2Free plan - 28
Azkaban
Azkaban is a free, open-source batch workflow scheduler for self-hosted deployments.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.1 - 29

Cadence
Cadence is an open-source workflow engine for building fault-tolerant, stateful distributed applications.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.1Free plan - 30
YAWL
YAWL is a free, open-source system for modeling and running business processes.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.1Free plan

