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Alternatives to Nintex Workflow Automation

The tools Specifiction weighs against Nintex Workflow Automation, from its list of workflow orchestration software, each with its plans, platforms and spec score.

  1. 01 ActiveBatch

    ActiveBatch suits IT teams coordinating complex scheduled or event-triggered workflows across on-premises and cloud environments.

    Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    9.3 Visit Specs
  2. 02 Flowable
    From $99/mo Free plan Open source Web · Linux · iOS · Android
    9.1 Visit Specs
  3. 03 Flyte

    It suits teams running AI training, serving or agent workflows that need retries, dynamic execution and self-hosted deployment.

    From $950/mo Free plan Open source Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted
    9.0 Visit Specs
  4. 04 Inngest

    Inngest suits developers building event-driven workflows, background jobs, or agents who need durable execution and observability.

    From $99/mo Free plan Open source Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    9.0 Visit Specs
  5. 05 Apache DolphinScheduler

    It suits teams building self-hosted data workflows that need visual design, code-based definitions, scheduling, and execution observability.

    Free plan Open source Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted
    8.9 Visit Specs
  6. 06 Camunda
    Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    8.8 Visit Specs
  7. 07 Google Cloud Workflows

    It suits teams coordinating cloud services, batch jobs, or business and IT processes.

    From $0.01/mo Free plan Web · API
    8.8 Visit Specs
  8. 08 Apache Airflow

    Airflow suits teams with scheduled batch workflows they want to define in Python and operate through a web interface.

    Free plan Web · macOS · Linux · API
    8.6 Visit Specs
  9. 09 Argo Workflows

    Argo Workflows suits teams running containerized pipelines, batch jobs, infrastructure automation, or CI/CD on Kubernetes.

    Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    8.6 Visit Specs
  10. 10 Kestra

    Kestra suits teams coordinating workflows across services, languages, and environments.

    Free plan Open source Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    8.6 Visit Specs
  11. 11 Windmill

    Windmill suits development teams building internal tools, workflows and endpoints with scripts or low-code builders.

    From $120/mo Free plan Open source Web · Windows · Linux · API
    8.6 Visit Specs
  12. 12 Bonita
    Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    8.4 Visit Specs
  13. 13 Dagster

    Dagster suits teams building and operating data pipelines that need lineage, quality checks and execution visibility.

    From $10/mo Free trial Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted
    8.3 Visit Specs
  14. 14 Bizagi Modeler

    It suits people documenting or simulating business processes with BPMN, including teams that need process diagrams published to web or SharePoint.

    Free plan Web · Windows
    8.0 Visit Specs
  15. 15 Cadence
    Free plan Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted
    8.0 Visit Specs
  16. 16 Hatchet

    Hatchet suits developers building AI agents, highly parallel workloads, or mission-critical workflows.

    Free plan Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted
    8.0 Visit Specs
  17. 17 jBPM

    jBPM may suit Java teams building business-process services that need BPMN execution, human tasks, decisions and durable workflows.

    Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    8.0 Visit Specs
  18. 18 Restate

    It suits developers building services, workflows, and AI agents that need resumable execution and operational controls.

    From $75/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted
    8.0 Visit Specs
  19. 19 AWS Step Functions

    It suits teams orchestrating data processing, machine learning, microservices, or IT and security automation in AWS.

    Free plan Web · API
    7.9 Visit Specs
  20. 20 dagster-slurm
    Free plan macOS · Linux · API · Self-hosted
    7.9 Visit Specs
  21. 21 Keboola

    Keboola suits teams building data pipelines for analytics and integrations, including those needing connectors, transformations, governance, or cloud deployment choices.

    From $0.14/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.9 Visit Specs
  22. 22 Prefect

    Prefect suits Python-based data, machine-learning and agent teams that need scheduling, retries and execution visibility.

    From $100/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.9 Visit Specs
  23. 23 Luigi

    Luigi suits Python users coordinating long-running batch workflows with defined dependencies.

    Free plan Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted
    7.8 Visit Specs
  24. 24 Temporal

    Temporal suits developers building workflows that need to survive failures or run for extended periods.

    From $50/mo Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    7.8 Visit Specs
  25. 25 Workflow Engine

    It suits .NET teams that need to embed business workflows in an application and host them on-premises or in their own cloud.

    From $666.67/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    7.8 Visit Specs
  26. 26 Azkaban
    Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
    7.7 Visit Specs
  27. 27 Conductor

    Conductor is aimed at developers who build workers and tasks in a programming language.

    Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.7 Visit Specs
  28. 28 Trigger.dev

    It suits developers building long-running TypeScript or Python workflows, AI agents, and scheduled tasks.

    From $10/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.7 Visit Specs
  29. 29 YAWL
    Free plan Windows · macOS · Linux · API
    7.4 Visit Specs
  30. 30 Appian Case Management
    Web · iOS · Android
    7.3 Visit Specs

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