Bizagi Modeler vs Open-BPMN

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.

Open-BPMN is a free, open modeling platform for creating and maintaining business process models based on BPMN 2.0. Its editor displays diagrams and lets users create, modify, and remove BPMN elements. The project presents it for business analysts designing top-level processes and for architects and developers modeling technical processing logic. It uses the Eclipse Public License and states that there are no license costs. Open-BPMN can run in Visual Studio Code, Eclipse IDE, Eclipse Theia, and standalone web applications. Projects can adapt the editor’s behavior and appearance using BPMN 2.0 extensions or Eclipse GLSP. The Java metamodel can generate models programmatically and import or export .bpmn files; lossless SVG export is available depending on the tooling platform. Documentation covers running it as a Docker web application and deploying it in Kubernetes. The VS Code extension requires Java 17 or higher. The project directs users to its GitHub discussion forum for questions and bug reports.