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Azure Automation vs Camunda comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Automation
Ranking in Process Automation
22nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Camunda
Ranking in Process Automation
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
90
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Design (1st), Business Process Management (BPM) (1st), AI Orchestration Frameworks (3rd), Agentic Automation (5th), AI Agent Builders (9th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Process Automation category, the mindshare of Azure Automation is 1.1%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Camunda is 10.0%, down from 21.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Process Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Camunda10.0%
Azure Automation1.1%
Other88.9%
Process Automation
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1017936 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Database / Data Management Expert at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Automation has reduced manual work and supports efficient customer-focused development
Any solution has room for improvement, and this one is no exception.In future updates, I believe more AI functionality could be added to Azure Automation, as AI is becoming increasingly prevalent across all solutions. Sometimes when integrating with third-party tools, we cannot find the proper API and must perform manual work, which requires additional development on our end. We encounter these issues occasionally.
PV
Workflow orchestration has supported complex enforcement processes and improves human task integration
Areas that have room for improvement in Camunda include the user interface. We moved from Camunda 7 to Camunda 8, and previously we had Camunda 7 Cockpit, and now we have Operate. The UI of Operate is less user-friendly. It may be a little more modern, but it is less user-friendly, so some insights are missed. The UI could be improved. Another topic is something that should have been recently solved in Camunda 8, but in Camunda 7, we had a case management system based on Camunda, and we had our own identifiers in our system. It was easier in Camunda 7 to link these identifications, the business identification to the process identification, and in Camunda 8, this was not implemented until the 8.10 release. We really missed that feature, as it made it very difficult to embed and especially for debugging. The combination with the new Operate instead of Camunda 7 Cockpit made it difficult to find specific running processes. The maintenance of Camunda is somewhat complex. Recently, we had to move from 8.8 to 8.9 or 8.10, and everything was broken, which cost us a lot of time to repair and revert. The complexity is particularly evident because of the architectural changes Camunda made when moving from Camunda 7 to Camunda 8. It took about three years to make Camunda 8 mature, and sometimes it seems they realized they made a wrong decision by switching to a completely different approach. It is not just a matter of pushing a button and installing it; it has a bigger impact than expected, which is indeed one of the downsides we recently faced. The ability to observe and control processes at runtime, related to Operate, rates at a six in my assessment, so that could definitely be improved.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Azure Automation brings many benefits to my company and my customers' companies because many jobs can be converted automatically through an AI agent to complete tasks."
"The best features of Azure Automation help us automate tasks for the customer and eliminate a significant amount of manual work."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Automation is the scripting."
"The most valuable part of Azure Automation is that it is a platform providing features that can be custom-used, with very wide functionalities, and the user-friendly nature and available technology can be simply applied to different technologies."
"Even in the community versions the product is very stable and with excellent scalability results."
"The headless nature of the Camunda Platform is something that has helped us to build our own logic and platforms on it."
"Having knowledge of the BPM and monitoring process has proven to be very beneficial, as I am currently engaged in documenting processes for Clientele."
"The best features of Camunda are the design time and run time aspects, as you can visualize the whole process and then integrate your network SMEs or allow business design and developers to collaborate on the workflow."
"It is an absolutely stable solution."
"I would definitely recommend the solution to anyone."
"Camunda is very capable of running complex orchestrations and end-to-end business processes, and the lending use case is somewhat complex, yet Camunda made it very easy and handy to implement."
"When I compare it with other BPM tools, like IBM, it is great, open source, and free when you use the community version."
 

Cons

"Technical support could be improved."
"Deployment with Azure Automation can be challenging at times, though sometimes it is very easy."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved."
"Sometimes when integrating with third-party tools, we cannot find the proper API and must perform manual work, which requires additional development on our end."
"Camunda needs to improve its user interface for low-code development and provide more user interface options beyond the basic workflow."
"The business model could be easier to understand."
"While it's very scalable, it would be great if auto-scaling capabilities were added to it... one area that really could help out would be to have dynamic resizing of the cluster. Right now, you have to do capacity planning."
"When trying to design rule tables the solutions graphical user interface could improve, it could be more user friendly."
"We had to do a lot of tweaking; it hasn't been stable from the beginning, but with some effort, it can become stable."
"The latest feature is Process OS. The idea is very good, but it still needs more elaboration on how it operates and how it will help the business and technical aspects."
"It is hard to say if this solution is scalable. We've contacted their support team on this, and sometimes it takes very long to get an answer from them."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We use a community version."
"We are using the open-source version of this solution."
"The most attractive feature of the product is that it is open source."
"Compared to other software, Camunda Platform is quite cost-effective."
"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."
"The evaluation of my customers on pricing is that it is reasonable."
"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."
"The open-source version of the product is free to use."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Media Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business48
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise39
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Azure Automation?
Any solution has room for improvement, and this one is no exception.In future updates, I believe more AI functionality could be added to Azure Automation, as AI is becoming increasingly prevalent a...
What is your primary use case for Azure Automation?
Azure Automation is typically used for development for the customer. I develop based on requirements rather than for myself.
What advice do you have for others considering Azure Automation?
I cannot identify the weak points of Azure Automation, as I am a director rather than a developer.I do not use Runbooks with Azure Automation. With only one year of experience and a small requireme...
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...
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...
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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Sample Customers

1. Adobe 2. BMW 3. Coca-Cola 4. General Electric 5. Johnson & Johnson 6. NBCUniversal 7. Pfizer 8. Samsung 9. Siemens 10. Toyota 11. Verizon 12. 3M 13. Accenture 14. Airbus 15. Allianz 16. American Express 17. AT&T 18. Bank of America 19. Boeing 20. Cisco 21. Dell 22. ExxonMobil 23. Ford 24. General Motors 25. IBM 26. Intel 27. JPMorgan Chase 28. Microsoft (self-use) 29. Nestle 30. Procter & Gamble 31. Shell 32. Walmart
24 Hour Fitness, AT&T Inc., Atlassian, Autodesk, Barclays, BNP Paribas, CapitalOne, Commerzbank AG, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, Gainsight, Generali, Goldman Sachs, Provinzial, NatWest Group, Panasonic, R-Kom, Swisscom AG, VHV Group, Warner Music, WellPoint, Zalando
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