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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Bonita and Visual Paradigm are competitive products in the BPM and modeling software category. Bonita stands out for its robust integration and flexible workflow solutions, while Visual Paradigm edges ahead with comprehensive modeling tools and extensive diagram support.

Features: Bonita offers seamless process automation, open-source flexibility, and a strong community, making it adaptable for diverse business requirements. Visual Paradigm features extensive UML, BPMN, and ERD tools, appealing to developers involved in complex projects.

Room for Improvement: Bonita could enhance its interface for even greater user-friendliness and provide more advanced modeling tools. Additionally, improving scalability and enterprise integration capabilities would be beneficial. Visual Paradigm could improve by offering a more straightforward deployment process, reducing overall complexity, and enhancing its open-source offerings.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bonita provides a straightforward deployment with open-source accessibility and customization options, backed by active community support. Visual Paradigm offers extensive customer service with a deployment model tailored for enterprises, emphasizing structured approaches to modeling needs.

Pricing and ROI: Bonita presents a lower initial setup cost due to its open-source nature, promising quick ROI for budget-sensitive businesses. Visual Paradigm, with a higher initial investment, offers substantial long-term ROI potential, suited for businesses seeking advanced modeling and design features.

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Bonita vs. Visual Paradigm

September 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Bonita

Ranking in Business Process Design

11th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Management (BPM) (17th), Process Automation (15th)

Visual Paradigm

Ranking in Business Process Design

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of Bonita is 4.1%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Visual Paradigm is 5.3%, down from 6.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Design Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Visual Paradigm	5.3%
Bonita	4.1%
Other	90.6%

Business Process Design

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Paparao Nadipineni

Architect at Evoke

A simple and lightweight college course automation system with third-party integrations

The initial setup is straightforward and can be completed with the environment within an hour. First, take the latest from the git repository and check the git code to the monitor studio and a bar file, a deployable Bonita archive file. Then, take that process to the Bonita server, running at runtime on another server. Finally, deploy and enable it by selecting the proper organization.

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Angie Ibrahim Eissa

Founder & Managing Partner at BBL

A software application designed for software development teams to model business information systems and manage development processes

Setting up Visual Paradigm is easy. There's hardly any configuration needed, unlike some other tools. You just choose your method and diagram type, and you're good to go. As for improvements, integrating project management features with diagrams could be better. Viewing outputs could also be smoother, especially when working with multiple files.Deployment is quick and painless. It practically takes no time at all to set up. And because I also teach at the university, I use Visual Paradigm for my classes and case studies. It's easy to switch between products, and my students have no trouble using it on their own.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Flexible and drag-and-drop type of UI is very valuable. The integrations are also very good. You can build workflows very quickly, which is my favorite activity. By using the GUI, you can build the entire mechanism, notifications, and all this kind of stuff."

"Process automation with Bonita BPM is really easy."

"The solution is stable. Even the older versions are stable."

"One of the most valuable features is you can create without coding, it is a low code platform."

"Bonita is simple and lightweight and is flexible to integrate with third-party systems. The UI is now flexible, whereas it was previously rigid. Any technology can be used as a frontend, including ReactJS, Angular, and others."

"The most valuable features of Bonita are the connectors, detailed documentation, and web applications. The documentation was useful because it is how I learned how to use it."

"The user interface is easy to use."

"Development of forms and flows."

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"What I like best about Visual Paradigm is its simple GUI, especially since I'm a new user. In my two years of experience with this tool, I didn't find it complex because I was able to learn how to use it via YouTube videos. Visual Paradigm is enough for me. I also find the bridging feature in the tool valuable."

"The solution is stable. It hasn't crashed, stopped or caused any issues in any way."

"The most valuable feature of the Visual Paradigm that I use is process modeling. Additionally, the solution has a complete set of features."

"It is easy and intuitive to use, not excessively rigid, and quite flexible."

"The Visual Paradigm business process forms for designing we good. There was not a lot of configuration for the process diagram."

"I find it very user-friendly for my purposes, which is creating business process models that I can publish as HTML pages. It has worked flawlessly for my project, and my clients are able to utilize it as an internal web portal for their process documentation and other needs."

"Visual Paradigm is simple and easy to use."

"Some of the most valuable features of this process modeling tool are process simulation and process animation."

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Cons

"Automation in vacation of a human resources replacement would be a good improvement in the product."

"It is missing some important features that other products have."

"The dashboard has limited features."

"It would be nice to have a wizard to help walk through the development process and create a backbone."

"The interface is advanced and quite good, but it could improve."

"Bonita must add a rule engine. We are a 360-degree partner of Bonita. We can integrate with any kind of rule engine. We have a dashboard related to engine performance, but getting a configurable dashboard for the Buildium or transactional data will add value."

"The main issue with Bonita is that the workspace crashes sometimes."

"I should be able to park the tasks that are within a process in a kind of container, and dynamically, a super admin should be able to connect these processes. This kind of feature might be helpful."

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"Visual Paradigm is much better now. But each project has its own challenges, which is why I'm exploring different tools for my new projects. For instance, designing reports can be tough, especially with the costly intervention of professional services from vendors."

"From time to time, we experience some troubles when we work as teams."

"It's still early for me to comment since I've only been using it for two months, but the responsiveness when diagramming needs to be improved."

"There is room for improvement in the licensing model. I would suggest implementing country-specific pricing, as many other products in India do. This would make Visual Paradigm more affordable and accessible."

"The solution is not user-friendly. It uses a lot of memory and CPU. You have to have a good computer to use it."

"The solution could be more compatible with other products in the future."

"More flexibility when choosing the type of diagram would be nice."

"The user interface is not easy to navigate, so it should be made easier."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is not cheaper, not costlier; it is reasonable. Bonita’s license is very flexible, with options to meet the needs of different customers and clients. Previously, it was less flexible, but now, many different licensing options are available."

"I am using the free version of Bonita."

"The price is fair for what we are using the solution for."

"You pay an annual fee and can have an unlimited number of processes and users."

"The Enterprise edition is very expensive."

"Price to service ratio with Bonita BPM is good."

"The Community Edition comes free of charge."

"Licensing cost for the Enterprise edition comes out to be around 40,000 a year. There is also a Community edition, which is free. Some customers can go for the Community edition, but some of them require the Enterprise edition. Big companies go for the Enterprise edition, which comes with a lot of additional features such as a mobile app."

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"Visual Paradigm costs $99 per license. I chose the cheapest option from the pricing list."

"You can move between the tiers from month to month so you are not restricted to one pricing model."

"In terms of pricing, I find Visual Paradigm's subscription services reasonable, especially for the modern and standard editions. However, the premium products can be a bit pricey, especially considering our location in the Middle East. Currently, paying around a hundred dollars per user translates to almost six hundred Egyptian pounds, which can add up. For enterprise licensing, I think the perpetual license option could be more affordable. If it were cheaper, say around five hundred dollars, I would have invested in multiple perpetual licenses long ago. Sometimes, to manage costs, we share accounts among team members or switch access on and off for certain members who aren't actively working on projects. As for additional costs, there are charges for cloud services, which I'm considering because I've already exceeded the free capacity."

"This is an open-sourced solution, it is free to use."

"Over the years I've seen an increase in price, and it makes it difficult for a single person company, like me, to decide whether to extend the license."

"I rate Visual Paradigm's pricing a five out of ten."

"This product is fairly cheap, but if you want more complex features, e.g. integration with other products, it does require an additional cost."

"Compared to other solutions such as IBM Rational which is expensive, This solution is priced low."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Educational Organization

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

How does Bonita compare with Camunda Platform?

One of the things we like best about Bonita is that you can create without coding - it is a low-code platform. With Bonita, you can build the entire mechanism using the GUI, it’s that simple. You c...

What do you like most about Bonita?

The user interface is easy to use.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bonita?

The Enterprise edition is very expensive.

What do you like most about Visual Paradigm?

The solution is the best application for data modeling. It helps to architect business processes. Its best features are pricing and functionality.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Visual Paradigm?

I purchased Visual Paradigm on my own, and it was competitively priced, so I was fine with the pricing.

What needs improvement with Visual Paradigm?

The product can always get better as the industry changes, however, I didn't necessarily feel it was lacking for what I did with it.

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Overview

Bonitasoft helps innovative companies worldwide deliver better digital user experiences for customers and employees. The extensible and open Bonita application platform unleashes the full potential of multidisciplinary development teams to create Living Apps: applications that allow continuous and incremental improvement, connecting tailored user interfaces with reliable back-office operations.

Bonitasoft

Visual Paradigm is a UML tool. The tool is designed for a wide range of users including software engineers, system analysts, business analysts and system architects, or for anyone who is interested in reliably building large-scale software systems using an object-oriented approach. In addition, Visual Paradigm supports the latest standards of UML notation.

Sample Customers

With more than 1000 customers in 75 countries, and its ecosystem of more than 120,000 members, Bonitasoft is the largest provider of open-source Business Process Management, Low-code and Digital Transformation software worldwide.

Adobe, Apple, at&t, Caterpillar, Intel, NASA, Nokia, Toyota