Camunda vs vCenter Orchestrator comparison

Camunda and VMware are both solutions in the Process Automation category. Camunda is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.3, while VMware is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.2. Camunda holds a 27.6% mindshare in PA, compared to VMware’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Camunda users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 9, 2025

vCenter Orchestrator and Camunda compete in the workflow automation and business process management category. vCenter Orchestrator has the upper hand in managing virtualized IT environments, while Camunda excels in flexible workflow design and BPMN capabilities.

Features: vCenter Orchestrator is known for virtualization, workflow automation, and integration, offering usability and management tools. Camunda offers strong BPMN capabilities, is open-source, and provides flexibility in workflow design, making it ideal for business process automation.

Room for Improvement: vCenter Orchestrator could improve integration with non-VMware products, reduce costs, and simplify workflows, with additional automation support needed. Camunda users suggest enhancing the user interface, improving native integrations, and providing better documentation and support for non-tech users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vCenter Orchestrator is often deployed on-premises with generally positive support but concerns about response time exist. Camunda offers cloud and hybrid deployment options, with mixed feedback on enterprise customer service and reliance on community support.

Pricing and ROI: vCenter Orchestrator's pricing is criticized for complexity and high cost, especially after Broadcom's acquisition, but it offers strong ROI for large environments. Camunda is praised for its cost-effective open-source version; however, its enterprise pricing can rise with usage. Camunda's ROI hinges on its enterprise scalability and flexibility.

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Categories and Ranking

Camunda

Ranking in Process Automation

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Design (1st), Business Process Management (BPM) (1st)

vCenter Orchestrator

Ranking in Process Automation

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Process Automation category, the mindshare of Camunda is 27.6%, up from 27.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vCenter Orchestrator is 0.2%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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FABIO NAGAO

Chief Technology Officer at Looplex SA

Reduces costs with hardware abstraction and simplifies scaling

There is an issue where, in some situations, I need to scale up by observing both CPU and memory usage of containers, yet under the current options available at Amazon, this is not possible. I have to choose between monitoring CPU or memory to scale my solution. Not every software is built for deployment as a container service, although the current architecture trend is changing this.

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David Villota

EMEA Hosting Engineer at Yanfeng Automotive

Provides automatic monitoring capabilities that save time for users

In my company's IT environment, we use the tool to deploy production environments for products, including live manufacturing systems. The product improves my company's IT automation processes since we can use fewer resources currently. In my company, we need to spend less time considering that vCenter Orchestrator monitors everything. In general, we don't have to be present in our company to do active monitoring. Automatic monitoring is available for everything with vCenter Orchestrator, so we have proactive alerts in our company. The most valuable feature of the product in streamlining our company's workflow stems from the fact that we need to spend fewer resources and less time in general. Our company can spend time on more effective tasks like working with the plans to improve processes and so on, instead of taking care of the systems. The benefits of the product's integration capabilities were useful for HPE. My company has HPE infrastructure, and we are keen to integrate everything into the host, VMware ESXi. It is really important to have an easy integration method that allows for everything to be installed easily in a matter of minutes. I was not involved in the product's setup process. My colleague took care of the product's setup process. From what I know, I can say that the product's setup phase was straightforward. Some custom setups were to be done manually in the tool, but everything was well documented. I recommend the product to those who plan to use it. One of the benefits of the product is that it is a low-cost and stable solution that offers a lot of resources. I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.

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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

"The interface and the number of connectors that they provide are the most valuable features. The support here, it's kind of okay. But the main thing is with the number of connectors and the UI, the user interface."

"Its flexibility stands out as the most valuable feature."

"Provides an easy way to integrate with the architectural environment."

"The platform's approach to BPMN modeling is straightforward and versatile, making it easy to adopt and use effectively."

"Camunda's most valuable feature is its ability to integrate with different products."

"It is open-source. It supports microservice orchestration. This is what we are really interested in. We can customize our products depending on the use cases."

"EC2 makes scaling horizontally incredibly easy, especially when working under the ECS service."

"Camunda's process diagram creation and deployment is very easy."

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"The hardware abstraction layer, being able to make the VMs portable when moving to a different platform or over a WAN."

"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."

"The product's initial setup phase was easy."

"Technical support is helpful."

"I am impressed with the tool's easiness to work with VMware solutions."

"The product's integration is good, it works well with other programs and solutions."

"It is very stable. I have been using vCenter Orchestrator from version three now to six plus."

"vCenter Orchestrator's best features are the workflows, integration with third-party applications, and the workflow library."

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Cons

"The solution's pricing and scalability could be improved."

"The support offered by the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"It lacks some preset features and configurations which would make it more plug-and-play for customers."

"I would say that Camunda should actually focus on small cases as well. There's a lot of space out there, for small businesses. If they can, they should cater to them."

"We have faced problems with the performance."

"There should be a multi-tenant solution for the platform where it supports multiple organizations on one platform instead of having to spin up multiple clusters for each organization. There should be an easy way to integrate different departments into one platform without having to operate multiple platforms. The operations should be easier with the enterprise solution. It should not create more overhead for the operations people."

"Lacking in forms visualization."

"Probably one area I look forward to has to do with AI and how Camunda sees the AI angle on workflow."

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"It is practically difficult at this stage to really comment on the improvisations of V central. But more tech events and PoC cases would help the EA to design better solutions and utilization."

"Many times, customers' licenses are not used because the client is not aware of the features and the product benefits. When somebody is buying a product, they just do a default configuration."

"Using this solution requires a lot of experience."

"The custom workflows are very difficult and confusing."

"The interface could be improved to bring greater user-friendliness and ease of use."

"This solution needs to have more built-in workflows."

"It could be integrated with third-party hypervisors."

"I would like to see, from within the Web Console, being able to define the project and custom templates per user; almost like how CloudSpec has approached the solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"When compared with the proprietary products, the pricing costs are much less, even though it is an enterprise edition."

"Licensing costs are anywhere from $80,000 to $100,000 USD per year."

"Generally, the price could be better, as well as the licensing fees."

"Camunda has a free service as well as a commercial service. We are using the free service."

"Camunda's pricing is good."

"We're using the free version. We used the Enterprise version for some time. If I compare free versus what we paid at that time, the Enterprise version costs a lot. For the additional functionality that we got with the Enterprise version, it was too costly."

"There were some features that were only available in the paid version."

"Cheaper licensing and resources than competitors"

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"Our licensing is on a yearly basis. We pay for the license and then we pay the support every year."

"This solution is expensive and the licensing is more attractive for Haveri."

"The product is expensive."

"vCenter Orchestrator is a very expensive solution."

"We renew the solution's license every one or two years."

"The licensing module is somewhat complex. Calculating the cost is complicated. Many of our clients are unclear about the billing system and the traffic metering."

"vCenter Orchestrator could be more affordable."

"My company needs to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

23%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Government

12%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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...

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Which do you prefer - Appian or Camunda Platform?

Appian is fast when building simple to medium solutions. This solution offers simple drag-and-drop functionality with easy plug-and-play options. The initial setup was seamless and very easy to imp...

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Which would you choose - Camunda Platform or Apache Airflow?

Camunda Platform allows for visual demonstration and presentation of business process flows. The flexible Java-based option was a big win for us and allows for the integration of microservices very...

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What do you like most about vCenter Orchestrator?

The stability of the product is very good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for vCenter Orchestrator?

We're running a low-profile budget. This is not our main focus on investment technology, so we're trying to reduce costs due to the change from perpetual to subscription licenses.

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What needs improvement with vCenter Orchestrator?

After the change from perpetual licensing to subscriptions, the cost model changed. We are considering alternatives since we lost the perpetual aspect, and support is changing.

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Overview

Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome complexity and increase efficiency. A common visual language enables seamless collaboration between business and IT teams to design, automate, and improve end-to-end processes with the required speed, scale, and resilience to remain competitive. Hundreds of enterprises such as Atlassian, ING, and Vodafone orchestrate business-critical processes with Camunda to accelerate digital transformation. To learn more visit camunda.com.

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VMware vCenter Orchestrator simplifies the automation of complex IT tasks and integrates with VMware vCloud Suite components to adapt and extend service delivery and operational management, effectively working with existing infrastructure, tools and processes.

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24 Hour Fitness, Accruent, AT&T Inc., Atlassian, CSS Insurance, Deutsche Telekom, Generali, Provinzial NordWest Insurance Services, Swisscom AG, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, VHV Group, Zalando

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