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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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Review summaries and opinions

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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) (20th), Process Automation (16th)

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 October 2025, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of Bonita is 4.0%, down from 4.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Visual Paradigm is 5.1%, down from 6.7% 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	5.1%
Bonita	4.0%
Other	90.9%

Business Process Design

Featured Reviews

Mohamed Guermazi

Technical Director / Project Manager at I-way

The user interface is easy to use, and the product performs well, but the dashboard and the monitoring features are limited

We use the product to design workflows. We model and install them on the server. We use the Community edition The modeling features are easy. The performance of the tool is good. The user interface is easy to use. I have used the product for complex processes and sub-processes successfully. The…

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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

"The user interface is easy to use."

"The solution is easy to use."

"We use the tool to validate and give access to the users. It is for access management."

"Process automation with Bonita BPM is really easy."

"Its user-friendliness, along with the availability of comprehensive and clear documentation on the website is the most valuable."

"It is a great product that is powerful in developing applications."

"Compared to other products on the market, Bonita presents a pretty acceptable level of robustness."

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

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

"The most valuable feature of Visual Paradigm is the ability to design form flows, add libraries, create organizational charts, and connect them all together."

"It is a scalable solution since it can be used at an individual level as well as for enterprise-sized businesses."

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

"What I found most valuable in Visual Paradigm is diagramming. I had a great user experience as diagramming in the tool is easy and convenient, even for complex diagrams or models. Visual Paradigm is the perfect tool for me, and I prefer it over Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect. Visual Paradigm is better for collaboration if you consider, for example, versioning, so this is another valuable tool feature that's simple and embedded in the solution. In Visual Paradigm, it's also easy to set up the project with team members and collaborate, and it's also a pro of the tool."

"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."

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

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Cons

"I have run into a lot of problems because there is not enough documentation."

"The community edition has limited module functionality. If they could release some of the functionality that's available in the enterprise edition that would be helpful to those learning to use the solution."

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

"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."

"Installation could be made easier."

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

"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."

"Bonita can improve by offering more flexibility. The developer does not receive the code of the application to modify it. Most of the other solutions I have used allow the developers to change or improve the code that is generated."

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"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."

"In terms of room for improvement in Visual Paradigm, I tried looking for one. I'm pleased with the tool, but it would be great if you could integrate Visual Paradigm with more tools. For example, when moving from Visual Paradigm to another tool, such as Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, the process could be improved a bit. Still, I wonder if it's not limited by the standards Visual Paradigm follows, such as XMI files. It could be connected to limitations related to the standards rather than a tool limitation. When you move projects from Visual Paradigm into Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect via XMI files, you lose all your notes from the elements, so this is an area for improvement in Visual Paradigm. TOGAF support is an additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of Visual Paradigm. I'd also like the tool to have ArchiMate support. If both TOGAF and ArchiMate could be supported in Visual Paradigm and made part of a lower level of licensing or cheaper licensing models, that would be best for me."

"There are some connectivity issues that crop up rarely when used with SQL Server."

"The solution can be heavy on resource usage."

"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."

"Visual Paradigm can improve by having better process mining tools and model integration."

"The product can always get better as the industry changes."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product's pricing is acceptable. Pricing is yearly."

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

"I believe this is a very good financial choice."

"have installed the image of Bonita BPM on Amazon AWS and there is just one option to use and pay for."

"The Enterprise edition is very expensive."

"The Community Edition comes free of charge."

"We are using the Community Version, which can be used free of charge."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Visual Paradigm has two models available. One of them is the educational edition, and another is the business edition. For my personal usage, I use the educational version mostly. In a project, my customers have to purchase a license."

"Visual Paradigm's pricing is not expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

11%

Educational Organization

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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