bpmn.io vs Crismo

bpmn.io is a free collection of web tools and embeddable JavaScript components for viewing, annotating, and editing BPMN 2.0, CMMN, DMN, and forms. bpmn-js handles BPMN 2.0 diagrams and can create, embed, or extend them in a browser or application. dmn-js supports DMN 1.3 decision tables, literal expressions, and decision requirement diagrams. cmmn-js works with CMMN 1.1 diagrams in modern browsers. form-js provides visual construction of JSON-based forms and a viewer for embedding forms in webpages; its editor and viewer do not perform remote interaction. Toolkits are available as pre-built packages or source code, and bpmn-js can be installed through NPM. The license permits use, copying, modification, distribution, and sale, but rendered diagrams must retain the bpmn.io watermark. The separate demo is free but has no availability guarantee, stores submitted models unencrypted, and may delete them.

Crismo is an AI-native process platform for mapping, sharing, and improving business processes. Its editor supports BPMN 2.0 diagrams with a full BPMN palette, smart connectors, and instant validation. Users can describe a process in plain English or provide a meeting transcript for AI to structure as a diagram. The Crismo AI plan lists ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude integrations. Teams can model simultaneously, see live cursor presence, sync changes, comment, and review diagrams together. They can share view-only links or embed interactive diagrams in documents such as Notion and Confluence without requiring viewers to log in. Crismo says user-created content is hosted in EU data centers and encrypted at rest with AES-256; Teams and Enterprise add field-level encryption for diagrams, transcripts, and chat messages. Enterprise lists API access, webhooks, and on-premise deployment. The Individual plan is free forever and includes BPMN 2.0 modeling, versioning, and basic PNG and PDF exports.