Decisions vs Flowable (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Flowable grades higher than Decisions: 2.0 against 1.8 out of 4.0.
Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Decisions grades higher on features and ease of use. Flowable grades higher on the free plan. They get the same grade on value for money and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Decisions
Rules engine and process orchestration platform for enterprises
Paid
Flowable
Case and process platform with governed AI agents, on open standards
Paid
Which one is for you
Pick Decisions if
- Fits if you are an insurer or bank that changes rating and approval rules often
- Works for enterprise IT teams that want governance around AI agents and legacy systems
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want to see a price first, since only a demo is offered
- Not for you if you are a small team, because it is built for complex enterprise operations
- Watch out: no free plan or trial is listed, and which deployment options exist was not confirmed
Pick Flowable if
- Fits if you have Java developers who need an embeddable process engine
- Makes sense if you're a bank, insurer or agency running audited case-based work
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if nobody on your team writes Java
- Not for you if you need a published price, because the site gives no plan list
- Watch out: the free trial page said it was offline for upgrades
- Tight if you want the case platform for free, as that is a separate commercial product
How we grade them
| 1.8GPADecisionsWeak | 2.0GPAFlowableFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CNo price is published; the pricing page only offers a demo. | CNo price on record, so we can't place it. The open-source engines are free and the platform is a separate commercial product. |
| Free plan and trial | FNo free plan and no trial is listed anywhere on record. | BThe open-source engines and Flowable Design are free to use. The trial page said it was offline for upgrades. |
| Features | BRules engine, process automation, agent orchestration and process intelligence. The listing shows no gap in the core work, though deployment options were not confirmed. | CBPMN, CMMN and DMN for audited case work. The Agentic Case Platform is a separate paid product. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. Business and IT staff design rules and flows together, which takes setup. | DNo store rating on record. It's built by Java developers, with Spring as the listed integration. |
| Platforms and integrations | CWeb only on record, and the listing names no integrations. | CWeb only on the listing, with Spring as the one named integration. |
| Best for | a rules engine for insurers and banks | BPMN and case engines for Java teams |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Decisions and Flowable. How we grade
Where they differ
- Flowable is open source, according to its own site.
- Decisions also covers no-code.
- Flowable also covers diagrams and case management.
In commonWebWorkflow automationAI agents
At a glance
| Decisions | Flowable | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| Starts at | Not published | Not published |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Decisions | Flowable |
| Price read from | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| Checked | Nov 13, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Decisions
- No prices are published; the pricing page only offers a demo.
- It is aimed at complex enterprise operations rather than small teams.
- Platform detail pages on the vendor's site were thin, so supported deployment options were not confirmed.
Flowable
- No prices are published for the platform, and the site gives no plan list.
- A free trial is advertised on the homepage, but the trial page currently says it is offline for upgrades.
- The open-source engines and Flowable Design are free to use; the Agentic Case Platform is a separate commercial product.
Key features
Decisions
- Enterprise rules engine
- Design, test and automate business rules on a visual canvas; the vendor says rules drive every workflow step.
- Process automation
- Workflow orchestration across systems, covering long-running processes, approvals and exceptions.
- Agentic orchestration
- Visual tools to design actions for first-party and third-party AI agents, with a rules engine to govern their decisions.
- Process intelligence
- Visibility into operations and into what AI-driven steps did, for accountability.
- Industry use cases
- Published examples for insurance rating and quoting, subrogation prediction, financial services, higher education and healthcare.
- Integrations
- A dedicated integrations area for connecting the platform to existing enterprise systems.
Flowable
- Process, case and rules engines
- Open-source engines execute BPMN processes, CMMN cases and DMN decisions, and expose Java and REST APIs for application code.
- Governed AI agents
- Agents run inside policy-bound workflows, with capability limits enforced at runtime and people involved for sign-off where it matters.
- Audit trail and observability
- Every decision and action is logged so it can be traced, and agents are monitored in real time.
- Case management
- Long-running cases support dynamic routing and escalation, aimed at exceptions that fixed process flows handle poorly.
- Low-code application building
- Drag-and-drop design with expression builders, database and REST integrations, content management and fine-grained permissions.
- Embedded or hosted engines
- The engines can run embedded in a Java application, with Spring, or as a service on a server, cluster or cloud.
Plans
Decisions
Pricing could not be confirmed. See decisions.com.
Flowable
Pricing could not be confirmed. See flowable.com.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Decisions or Flowable?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Decisions has no price we could confirm, and Flowable has no price we could confirm.
Which has a free plan, Decisions or Flowable?
As of Nov 13, 2026, neither Decisions nor Flowable has a free plan.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.