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Price from$99/moFree
Free planYesYes
Free trialYes—
Open sourceYes—
WebYesYes
LinuxYesYes
iOSYes—
AndroidYes—
APIYesYes
Self-hostedYesYes
Plans published51
Spec score · Workflow Orchestration Software9.1 (#2)7.8 (#23)
IntegrationsThe 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 complianceFlowable'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.

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  • Community EditionFree
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  • Flowable Platform$99 a month
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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.

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