Flowable vs Luigi
Flowable
flowable.comLuigi
luigi.readthedocs.ioSide by side
| Figure | Flowable | Luigi |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $99/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 1 |
| Spec score · Workflow Orchestration Software | 9.1 (#2) | 7.8 (#23) |
| Integrations | The connector catalog lists 30 connectors, including Salesforce, SharePoint, ABBYY, GenAI, RPA Framework and Apache Camel. | The documentation describes task support for Hadoop, Hive, Pig, and Spark, plus HDFS and local file abstractions. |
| Security and compliance | Flowable's Trust Center lists SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, GDPR, and CCPA among its certifications and compliance items. | The opened documentation and project pages did not state security certifications or compliance claims. |
Plans
Flowable
- Community EditionFree
- Flowable Open SourceFree
- Flowable Platform$99 a month
- Agentic Case PlatformPriced on request
- Case PlatformPriced on request
In their own words
Luigi
Luigi is a free Python package for defining and coordinating batch-job pipelines, dependencies, workflow execution, and failures. Workflows and dependency graphs are specified in Python, and tasks can also trigger work outside Python. Its documentation describes task support for Hadoop, Hive, Pig, and Spark, plus HDFS and local file abstractions. Those abstractions make file operations atomic, helping avoid pipelines being left with partial data. The Luigi server includes a web interface for searching and filtering tasks and viewing dependency graphs. It also supports command-line integration and use from Python code. The documentation describes pipelines with thousands of tasks that may run for days or weeks, including Hadoop jobs, database transfers, and machine-learning algorithms. The package is self-hosted, with no registration wall. Install the latest stable version with `pip install luigi`; adding `[toml]` enables TOML-based configuration. Documentation lists Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, and 3.13 as tested versions. A mailing list is available for discussion and questions.