Celonis Process Mining Platform vs Cortado

Celonis Process Mining Platform helps companies examine end-to-end processes and identify opportunities for improvement. It combines process mining, AI, and process improvement knowledge while layering over existing systems, so organizations can analyze, improve, and monitor processes without replacing those systems. The Celonis Context Model creates a real-time digital twin of operations using process data, business knowledge, and intelligence. It supports root-cause analysis, predictions, recommendations, and scenario simulations. Data Core offers more than 100 prebuilt extractors for on-premises and cloud ERPs, CRMs, data warehouses, and other sources. The platform also connects with systems of record, data, AI and automation platforms, business apps, and custom apps. Celonis Marketplace offers prepackaged apps and solutions, and its Developer Center documents Process Intelligence APIs. The cloud platform supports web, Windows, and API access, with conformance checking, process monitoring, scheduled data refresh, task clustering, and automation opportunity identification. A free plan is listed; paid pricing is available on request and depends on the nature and scale of process mining needs.

Cortado is a free, open-source tool for interactive process discovery and process mining. It imports event logs in .xes format and initial process models in .ptml format. A variant explorer lets users inspect event logs visually and choose process behavior for discovery. Users can build an initial model from selected behavior, extend it with further behavior, and edit models manually while they are in progress. Discovered models can be exported as .ptml or .pnml files. Cortado supports temporal performance analysis both with a model and independently of one, and it supports conformance checking. The application combines an Angular frontend embedded in an Electron executable with a Python backend. Its repository lists the GPL-3.0 license. Standalone builds are listed for Windows 10/11, Linux, and macOS with Apple Silicon only. Help pages for selected functions are available in the tool, and the project invites questions and custom requests by email. The software metadata says administrator rights may be required to run it. The project identifies v1.12.1 as its latest release and gives the release date as June 25.