Try our new research platform with insights from 80,000+ expert users

ABBYY Timeline vs Bizagi comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

ABBYY Timeline
Ranking in Process Mining
11th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Bizagi
Ranking in Process Mining
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
83
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Design (4th), Business Process Management (BPM) (5th), Process Automation (5th), Rapid Application Development Software (15th), Low-Code Development Platforms (10th), No-Code Development Platforms (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Process Mining category, the mindshare of ABBYY Timeline is 2.1%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Bizagi is 4.0%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Process Mining Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Bizagi4.0%
ABBYY Timeline2.1%
Other93.9%
Process Mining
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2093802 - PeerSpot reviewer
Optimizes business processes, is user-friendly and flexible
The software is user-friendly, flexible, and can be used with various data sources. It provides various reports and charts that help organizations to identify areas for improvement and optimize their processes. ABBYY Timeline is a great choice for business process analysts, process owners, and IT professionals who are looking for a tool to help them analyze and optimize their processes. The process flow/diagram is the most valuable feature, as it offers a helpful visual simulation that allows users to see what's happening in the grand scheme of things and then drill down into specific tasks and processes to see where the bottlenecks are. For those companies that look for the low-hanging fruit in terms of process automation and operational excellence, this is the tool you need to succeed.
Paparao Nadipineni - PeerSpot reviewer
Enables budget review efficiency with open source advantages and workflow orchestration
Definitely, right now, it is purely open source, and we don't have much community support. If they add a few more capabilities like AIML and DocGen AI, these features would be good. Reporting capabilities can be improved more, and community support should be increased. Otherwise, people cannot onboard that particular technology easily.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"ABBYY Timeline provides various reports and charts that help us identify areas for improvement and optimize our business processes."
"The product enables the users to automate the processes and provides a good user experience."
"The solution's simulation capabilities are the most valuable aspects."
"The user interface is pretty good."
"Bizagi has rich functionalities; compared to other BPMN tools, it has more features."
"The most valuable feature is the organizational modeling capability."
"The amount of control that this solution provides is great."
"I very much like the reusable rules and forms, and the way Bizagi controls the process flow. I also like the document generating system to generate PDFs and then .doc files with information gathered from a flow. At the end of a process, you can generate a document that can be printed."
"One of the features I like is that when drawing any task, when putting a task on the process model canvas, I can simply click on it and see the other task icons for that task. It's just one quick, simple, straightforward connectivity from task to task."
 

Cons

"There are a couple of new features available in Timeline that still need more time to mature."
"Its performance needs to be improved. The main thing is that it is limited, especially in terms of the response times. When the processes become a bit large, it is very awkward to work with the Bizagi modeler. When you have already modeled but start to rearrange, it is quite a bit of an effort to change the stuff. When you rearrange lanes or have new structures, it goes rather squiggly up and down and so on, which could be improved. The visual outputs of the DIREPs of the process models are pixelated and have a bad image quality. It is a PNG or JPEG, and you cannot export it as a PDF. When you have rather large processes, you should be able to arrange them hierarchically. Currently, it is not supported. If you use sub-processes and inflate a process, suddenly the arrangement is totally different, and although you know the process, you have to look where is it now. You need a good understanding of the levels of your processes before you start in Bizagi. It can have automatic support for optimal presentation. In BPM, you should have it from the top left to the bottom right. However, in most cases, people don't know how they should arrange it. Therefore, it would be nice to have a suggestion system for different arrangements to be able to better present the process."
"In business process mapping, you have pools and dark pools. I don't see that Bizagi differentiates between a regular pool and a dark pool."
"I'm not really satisfied with the reporting aspect."
"The technical support is not fast enough and should be improved."
"It would be helpful if they added some extra features in the next update."
"The gateway through which it connects with other vendors, specifically RPA vendors, is one aspect that could be improved."
"I would like to see more in terms of analytics and better reporting."
"Bizagi allows for automation, but it's very complicated."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"Some solutions are completely free. One would be the business process diagramming tool, the server beneath it, and the automation tool. You don't need to pay to map the business process, but you would need to when you want to execute any of the commands. So, basically, they lure you in with a free ride, and when you want to scale the solution, you'll have to pay for it."
"For the prices, we didn't try a negotiations about licensing or pricing, but if i can say a word about this, I find Bizagi prices to be well thought out."
"The modeling part of the software is free. Most of the time, it is used for this purpose."
"It is expensive."
"The modeler itself is free. For the whole BPM suite, there are other options that may be better."
"I was using the free version."
"We use the free version of the solution because the price is in dollars, making it expensive for where we are in Brazil."
"Pricing is good value for money."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Process Mining solutions are best for your needs.
867,349 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
7%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business43
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise35
 

Questions from the Community

Ask a question
Earn 20 points
How easy is it to migrate process flow charts (modeled using tools like Visio) into Bizagi?
I have been using Bizagi with a major project for a state government agency for about four years now. It is pretty straightforward to load in files that are BPMN 2.0 compliant. The option to load V...
What do you like most about Bizagi?
The natural notation is the best feature of Bizagi because it makes it compatible with other products.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bizagi?
Bizagi's pricing is very aggressive, and it was one of the reasons we chose it. It was less expensive than some of the other tools.
 

Comparisons

 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Information Not Available
adidas, Audi, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Post DHL & many more - 500+ customer globally.
Find out what your peers are saying about Celonis, Automation Anywhere, UiPath and others in Process Mining. Updated: August 2025.
867,349 professionals have used our research since 2012.