AWS Step Functions vs Bizagi Modeler

AWS Step Functions is a cloud workflow service for coordinating AWS services and HTTPS endpoints, including SaaS applications. Workflows are state machines written in Amazon States Language, with Workflow Studio providing a visual designer. Definitions can branch, run steps in parallel, set timeouts, retry failures, and handle errors with try/catch or rollback patterns. Service integrations connect to over 200 AWS services, while AWS SDK integrations can invoke over 9,000 API actions. HTTPS endpoint integration connects directly to HTTP-based services. Distributed Map can process large datasets, including Amazon S3 data, with up to 10,000 parallel child executions in one Map Run. Execution history, CloudWatch Logs, and AWS X-Ray support review and tracing. Standard executions can run for up to one year; Express executions can run for up to five minutes. Task, state, or execution input and output is limited to 256 KiB. A Free Tier plan is listed at free indefinitely; Standard and Express plans bill usage.

Bizagi Modeler is a business process modeling tool for creating, documenting, simulating, publishing, and sharing processes with BPMN. It supports BPMN process diagrams and value chain diagrams, and can import Microsoft Visio, XPDL, Bizagi, XML, and BPMN files. Documentation can be exported to formats including PDF, Word, Excel, web, SharePoint, and Wiki. The free plan includes process simulation and what-if scenarios, unlimited processes and models, and one user, with local storage. Enterprise adds comments on diagrams and shapes, an activity stream, unlimited editors and contributors, and a cloud repository with storage defined according to customer needs. Enterprise customers can choose a data location from ten data centers across the United States, Europe, and Asia. The maker says its cloud service encrypts network traffic and is monitored around the clock by its Cloud Operations team. Bizagi Modeler runs on the web and Windows. Plans are free or Enterprise with pricing on request; Bizagi also provides a user guide, video tutorials, and a community for questions and issue reports.