Automic Automation vs Windmill

Automic Automation is a workload orchestration platform for hybrid environments spanning mainframes, cloud-native systems, and microservices. It provides centralized control, self-service workflows, dependencies, event triggers, and cross-platform execution. SLA features track critical paths, forecast bottlenecks, and monitor workflow risks. Agentic AI Jobs can perform dynamic remediation or data routing within Automic object definitions. The platform supports a Bring Your Own Model architecture and works as both a Model Context Protocol client and server for external large language models. Broadcom’s Automation Marketplace lists hundreds of pre-built plugins and connectors, including ServiceNow, Oracle, SAP, Google Cloud, and AWS. SAP integrations cover BTP, BOBI, DI, and IBP, with SAP Integration & Certification Center certifications. Deployment options are on-premises, cloud-native Kubernetes containers, or managed Automic SaaS. SaaS provides on-premises feature parity, automatic updates, and no infrastructure to manage. Role-based access control, encryption, and audit trails are described. Pricing is on request; AI Edition licensing is by node count.

Windmill is an open-source workflow engine and developer platform for building endpoints, workflows and user interfaces. It is aimed at teams making internal software across engineering, data, sales, support and marketing. Scripts can be written in TypeScript, Python, Go, PHP, Bash, C#, SQL, Rust, Ruby and R, among other languages. Windmill combines a script editor, low-code flow builder, and low-code, React or Svelte app builders. Scripts and flows can be triggered by webhooks, schedules, HTTP routes, queues or an open API. Its Hub lists more than 200 resource types, including GitHub, Slack, AWS, BigQuery and PostgreSQL; users can also define custom resource types with schemas. Local development through the CLI and Git sync support version control and deployment workflows. Self-hosting is supported. The free and open-source plan is free and includes three workspaces, 50 users, 10 GiB of workspace object storage and 100 guest app users per 30 days. Enterprise is $120 a month and includes a month-long trial. Enterprise features include granular permissions, RBAC, secret management, OAuth, SSO and audit logs.