Camunda vs F5 BIG-IQ comparison

Camunda and F5 are both solutions in the Process Automation category. Camunda is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.4, while F5 is ranked #27 with an average rating of 7.3. Camunda holds a 15.7% mindshare in PA, compared to F5’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Camunda users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of F5 users who would recommend it.

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75% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

Camunda and F5 BIG-IQ compete in process automation and network management, respectively. Camunda has the upper hand in business process automation due to its strong support for BPMN, DMN, and CMMN standards, while F5 BIG-IQ excels in network management with its centralized control of BIG-IP devices.

Features: Camunda supports BPMN, DMN, and CMMN standards and offers flexibility in customizing processes. It includes process automation, integration capabilities, and a REST API. Camunda is cost-effective with strong open-source community support and enterprise-level features like process instance history and heatmap analysis. F5 BIG-IQ focuses on network management, offering centralized control of BIG-IP devices, load balancing, and security through WAF. It is well-suited for infrastructure networking and management.

Room for Improvement: Camunda could enhance its interfaces and forms designer and offer better support beyond Java. Expanding documentation for seamless integration is suggested. F5 BIG-IQ would benefit from GUI improvements and simplified management processes, providing more deployment options, especially in high availability environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Camunda supports deployment on private, public, and hybrid clouds with extensive community support, though professional support can be inconsistent. F5 BIG-IQ is primarily on-premises, offering robust technical support with strong engineering team involvement. Camunda's customer support is collaborative, while F5 BIG-IQ's is direct and centralized.

Pricing and ROI: Camunda's open-source version offers a cost-effective solution, attractive for businesses leveraging enterprise features, though enterprise support can be costly with high process instance counts. It reduces development time and operational costs. F5 BIG-IQ provides a budget-friendly solution with a simpler pricing structure and good ROI for robust network management needs.

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Categories and Ranking

Camunda

Ranking in Process Automation

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Design (1st), Business Process Management (BPM) (1st), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (3rd), AI Software Development (2nd), AI Customer Support (61st), AI IT Support (4th)

F5 BIG-IQ

Ranking in Process Automation

27th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Process Automation category, the mindshare of Camunda is 15.7%, down from 28.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of F5 BIG-IQ is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Process Automation Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Camunda	15.7%
F5 BIG-IQ	0.8%
Other	83.5%

Process Automation

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CristianoGomes

Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Supports long-running asynchronous processes effectively but has not evolved much in recent years

I think Camunda is focusing too much on the SaaS offering right now and not much on improving and developing the product itself. I did not see any innovations on that aspect, especially for the open-source version. I was making some tests recently and the tool seemed pretty much the same as it was three or four years ago. Since they made the move to cloud deployment in a more SaaS-oriented way, they do not invest too much in the community version. To be honest, it did not change much from the Activiti initial version. Activiti was pretty much what Camunda is today. They invested a lot on Zeebe and made it the engine for their SaaS cloud version. Camunda itself, the embedded engine, did not evolve too much. They could invest more on that.

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Bikale Kassu

Manager for Implementation and Administration at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Has faced challenges with visibility and technical support but allows centralized management of multiple sites

The configuration part is complex for F5 BIG-IQ. The simplicity and visibility part needs improvement. The dashboard, especially the analytics part, needs to be more simple and presentable. For the security part, it is difficult to present to our management, so we have to capture it and prepare manual reporting options rather than getting them directly from the system. The automation part in F5 BIG-IQ is limited; we are still using it only for load balancing for some services. We haven't integrated it with our Accesso or implemented any automation options. The setup process for F5 BIG-IQ would rate a five 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

"Camunda BPM allows us to have a BPM bot with our own UI, and that's what we liked most about Camunda."

"It is quite easy to build a simple process without any knowledge of programming."

"We are documenting all of the processors and VPN. Then we are sharing it with our business users."

"The flexibility is great."

"Having knowledge of the BPM and monitoring process has proven to be very beneficial, as I am currently engaged in documenting processes for Clientele."

"Overall, the solution has been very solid."

"The UI is very user-friendly compared to other products. The native, vanilla UI is very interesting and intuitive to use. It's user-friendly when it comes to modernizing a business process."

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

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"The product is excellent."

"F5 BIG-IQ reduces the propensity for error."

"The best aspect of the solution is that we can have everything integrated with a rather large capacity in order to personalize and configure specific rules."

"We mainly use F5 BIG-IQ to protect our web-based applications, such as our email and website, so we use it as a web-based application firewall for those services."

"It is quite good in a large environment where I have multiple devices; it is easy to manage the devices."

"F5 BIG-IQ has always provided us with great support."

"There is a lot less risk involved in having applications available on the Internet."

"This solution is one of the finest in the industry."

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Cons

"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."

"The latency of API could be decreased."

"I would like to see the forms engine available in the open-source version of this solution."

"The support definitely can be improved. Apart from that, the language should be extendable to other platforms. If I want to write, I'll run a different platform, like Python code on top of it, or COBOL code on top of it, and it should support those languages."

"The user interface needs improvement. It should be more tailored to the end-user and offer a better user experience design over the user interface itself."

"We're trying to put the people from the business to do it. We are using APIs, and we have open APIs to define our APIs and the request-response that each call requires and sends. So, to base the mapping on that, there was nothing to help. I know that with some tools, such as Oracle tools, you can see the input and expected output. With drag and drop, you can take one property from the left and drag it to the right, and it does all the mapping itself, but that's not the case with Camunda. So, for me, this is something that can be improved."

"Community support is basically what I'm looking for."

"It's costly and not accessible for small enterprises or startups. It would be great if Camunda offered a tier plan for smaller companies."

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"I would like the product to be cheaper."

"Sometimes the solution does not work."

"A bug caused me to lose all the configuration."

"For stability, F5 BIG-IQ rates a two or three because currently we are integrating it with our third party as a port forwarding service. We created many VIPs, but on average, weekly, we lose three to five connections, making the troubleshooting part a headache for us."

"I had trouble with high availability deployment in my environment."

"Integration with VAS is something that they need to work on."

"I had trouble with high availability deployment in my environment."

"F5 BIG-IQ should improve by being a complete certificate management solution because currently, it is only for Venafi."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have an annual subscription to this solution."

"The product's price depends on the number of processes that need to be automated or where the orchestration part needs to be used. The product is affordable for medium and large enterprises."

"It is good for a startup. When we started, its price was fair, but the way we are using it to orchestrate microservices makes it expensive. When you are growing as a company, you would have more microservices, and you would have more users. There is an exponential effect when you are growing in terms of the number of conditions, processes, and users because they bill you per process. So, the price was increasing very quickly for us, and it was very difficult."

"I think Camunda BPM can improve their licensing costs. It isn't easy to find clients with Camunda BPM licenses mainly because it's quite expensive."

"There is an open-source version available, that in its core features (workflow and decision engine, modeler) is exactly the same as in the enterprise version."

"Camunda is much cheaper."

"It is less cost-prohibitive than other solutions on the market. This solution was in our price range."

"There is a bit of scope for improvement in how the licensing and pricing are done. They are based on the number of processing instances you execute on the cluster... but on the self-hosted mode, the pricing model should be customized."

More Camunda pricing and cost advice

"There is only one licensing fee for F5 BIG-IQ and everything is included in the price."

"F5 BIG-IQ is a cheap solution."

"Users have to pay an annual subscription fee for the solution's iSeries."

"I would like the product to be cheaper."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

Marketing Services Firm

12%

Comms Service Provider

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	43
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	29

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F5 BIG-IQ?

From the pricing perspective, F5 BIG-IQ rates an eight out of ten as it's reasonably priced.

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What needs improvement with F5 BIG-IQ?

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What is your primary use case for F5 BIG-IQ?

Currently for WAF, we are moving to another device, F5. We are not using Imperva. F5 BIG-IQ is the Web Application Firewall we're currently using, but regarding the Imperva products, now we are flo...

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Overview

Camunda revolutionizes process orchestration by enabling seamless automation and integration with AI, human tasks, and existing systems while ensuring security and governance.

Built for collaboration between business and IT, Camunda empowers organizations to manage complexity, boost efficiency, and maintain competitive advantage. With a clientele of over 700 top organizations like Atlassian, ING, and Vodafone, Camunda is a trusted partner in designing, orchestrating, automating, and refining critical business processes to accelerate digital transformation. Its open-source nature, ease of use, and REST API integration make it a versatile choice for various needs.

What are Camunda's key features?

Lightweight Architecture: Offers streamlined and efficient process management.
Scalability: Supports growth and complexity in operations.
Flexibility with BPMN, CMMN, and DMN Standards: Ensures adaptability to different process modeling needs.
Open-Source: Encourages customization and user-specific enhancements.
Graphical Process Modeling: Intuitive interface for designing and automating processes.

What benefits or ROI should users look for?

Enhanced Efficiency: Streamlines processes for optimized performance.
Seamless Integration: Ensures smooth workflow across different systems.
Improved Collaboration: Facilitates effective cooperation between business and IT.
Customizability: Adapts to specific user requirements and system environments.

In banking, Camunda automates processes and manages transactions, while in telecommunications, it optimizes service orders. Governmental and public sectors benefit from workflow automation. Organizations often use either the enterprise edition or the open-source version to create APIs and manage business rules effectively.

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F5® BIG-IQ® Centralized Management provides a unified point of visibility and control for the entire F5 portfolio, ensuring administrators remain aware on the pulse of F5 devices, modules, and licenses and enabling them to deliver optimal application availability, performance, and security.

BIG-IQ manages policies,licenses, SSL certificates, BIG-IP images, and configurations for F5 appliances and for the following BIG-IP moduals across hardware and virtual editions:

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM)
F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall™ (WAF)
BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager™ (AFM)
F5 SSL Orchestrator®
F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender®
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager® (APM)
F5 Secure Web Gateway Services
BIG-IP DNS

Sample Customers

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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