Bizagi vs Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect comparison

Bizagi and Sparx Systems are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. Bizagi is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.4, while Sparx Systems is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.0. Bizagi holds a 10.3% mindshare in BPD, compared to Sparx Systems’s 8.0% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Bizagi users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Sparx Systems users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Bizagi and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect compete in the business process management and enterprise architecture space. Based on the evaluation, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect appears to have an upper hand due to its comprehensive suite and support for various standards.

Features: Bizagi offers intuitive modeling and process automation, ideal for teams without extensive technical backgrounds, with notable features including rapid development, BPMN 2.0 compliance, and integration capabilities. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect provides a comprehensive suite that covers UML and BPMN, suitable for detailed enterprise architecture and modeling, with strong simulation abilities and support for TOGAF and ArchiMate.

Room for Improvement: Bizagi needs improvement in stability and support speed, as well as in handling large projects and better integration with RPA tools. It also lacks comprehensive case management. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect faces challenges with usability due to its steep learning curve, along with the need for better reporting functions and a more intuitive interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bizagi supports on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid deployments, offering flexibility but receiving mixed reviews on customer service due to slow response times unless paid support is utilized. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect offers similar deployment options and receives high satisfaction for its technical support, although access can initially be challenging.

Pricing and ROI: Bizagi offers a free modeler with tiered pricing for advanced features, though some users are concerned about its costs. It delivers good ROI through process automation. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect presents competitive pricing with significant value for its comprehensive functionality, allowing modular pricing to tailor investments, making it economically feasible for extensive enterprise modeling.

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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

Bizagi

Ranking in Business Process Design

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Management (BPM) (9th), Process Automation (8th), Rapid Application Development Software (16th), Low-Code Development Platforms (11th), No-Code Development Platforms (5th), Process Mining (7th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (13th)

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Ranking in Business Process Design

5th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Architecture Management (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of Bizagi is 10.3%, up from 10.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is 8.0%, down from 11.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Design Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Bizagi	10.3%
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect	8.0%
Other	81.7%

Business Process Design

Featured Reviews

Fred_Lee

Enterprise Architect at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

Intuitive toolset engages users effectively in agile projects

I would recommend Bizagi depending on the maturity of the organization. For those just starting, it's a good tool to get into business modeling. In more mature environments, I might not pick this toolset because it doesn't integrate with live systems well. Overall, I would rate Bizagi between eight to nine.

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Milan Sterba

Senior Enterprise Architect at Deepview S.r.o.

Efficient documentation generation through organized model structure with a good price-performance ratio

Whenever I begin a new project with Sparx, I have to spend time training people on how to use it since it is not straightforward. Although it's a powerful product with plenty of features, it's not easy for even experienced users to find their way without guidance. This is not the most user-friendly solution.

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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

"Bizagi is really great for beginners because it's user-friendly and you can learn in it quickly, whereas other similar software are harder."

"The product enables the users to automate the processes and provides a good user experience."

"I like the integration part, and I also like how they use the database, such as the data when they implement all the data side, and how you can easily integrate it with their widgets."

"It automates a completely manual, complicated process."

"This is a free solution that allows us to create quality visualizations for our company."

"The most beneficial features of Bizagi for our business processes are its seamless connectivity between process elements and its ability to automate tasks and perform simulations."

"Agility is most valuable because we can develop so much faster than other tools. We can make requirements, develop, and go out to production much faster. So, agility in the software cycle is most valuable."

"The visualizations and attachments provided by the product are valuable."

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"Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect supports multiple modeling languages like ArchiMate for database design, software lifecycle visualization, and team management."

"This is a useful tool for IT people who need to design their solution architecture."

"It's easy to search within the solution."

"A feature I like most about Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is its ease of use."

"The most valuable feature is the integrated data model, so if I change the name of an item, all models using that object are automatically updated."

"The TOGAF ADM model is most valuable. It is also very cheap as compared to other options in the market."

"Scalable solution for modeling, project sharing, and collaboration. Support for it is good."

"We use it to develop and maintain the Enterprise Conceptual Model, migrated from erwin a couple of years ago."

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Cons

"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."

"The data in Excel that comes out after running the simulation is a bit complicated sometimes to interpret."

"The open source version lacks the option to publish."

"The performance could use improvement. We couldn't connect the processes to on one file. The performance is an issue for us."

"In terms of what needs improvement, the costs can be lowered."

"Cloud support for their process mapping tool could be better. To map all your processes in any way and call your data, you need to download their on-premise setup or their desktop setup. Cloud support for process mapping is limited, and they should work on that."

"It should provide the ability to create a simple application. It can be used for database modeling diagrams and forms, but it should also support CRUD, that is, create, read, update and delete."

"I would like to see simulation as a free feature again. In version 3.3 it was free, but in 4.0 it isn't."

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"If you just want to create some diagrams with shapes and arrows, then use Visio."

"The reporting needs improvement."

"More challenging than other tools to maintain documents and document versions for an architecture board review."

"The areas of improvement should be focused on utility service such as producing better graphics, perhaps having a wider image library set and producing better models for working directly with customers."

"The presentation graphics need to be improved in future builds."

"From a practical point of view, we need speed and reliability for creating a model and doing some really meaningful tasks such as application landscape, refactoring, etc. These are two primary criteria. Sometimes, when you import something, it creates the object duplicates, or it allows you to do something that you're not supposed to do. For example, validation is missing. This could be frustrating because when you work at a high speed, you need to come back and start fixing things that the tool allowed you to go with, which is not quite good. So, there should probably be some internal mechanisms to advise you about what you're doing and what is probably not the best idea."

"Even if there are web-based tools in the Enterprise Architecture tool ecosystem (like Prolaborate), the main modeling application is still a fat client application."

"For data modeling, it is not very mature when comparing with other data modeling tools."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has a very high price. Many clients complain about the price for maintaining the application on Bizagi."

"When we were working with the on-premises solution, the licenses were a little bit expensive because we had to buy one by one a package of a hundred licenses, whereas now, we are working with the cloud solution, and it has a different cost. It's a different business model because we pay the license for the developers, but the cost is by the environment, and we have unlimited licenses. The business model is different now, but the benefit ratio is good."

"We have no issues with the pricing."

"From what I know of the market, I think Bizagi is a cheap solution for process engineering. Out of the solutions I've tried, from cheapest to most expensive, would be Vizor, Bizagi, Signavio, and then Siemens. I used a version of Bizagi that my university provided for free, so I have never paid for a license."

"My company uses the free version of the product."

"This solution would be expensive for a company that has a lot of users."

"I was using the free version."

"It is only necessary to pay for licenses when ready to deploy applications to production."

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"Licenses are pretty low cost compared to, for example, ARIS."

"Use floating licenses strategically."

"It's affordable. The only additional cost that we haven't yet figured out is the floating license. If you buy a floating license, you have to have a license management server, which comes at an additional cost that's not discussed. So, we haven't yet used the floating license. That’s because I haven't had a chance to figure that out."

"The licence has a costly upfront fee which gets you access. You have to pay an annual maintenance fee, which is less."

"It is very economical and low cost. You have to pay for a one-time license, and it is active forever."

"The license for Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is paid yearly, but I don't handle that area. It's good for its price, so I'm rating it a five out of five, but I'm not using it much. I also don't have information regarding additional costs apart from the standard licensing fees."

"The solution is quite expensive."

"Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is priced well. The price we pay is approximately $20 per month. Other solutions I have found to be much more expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	42
Midsize Enterprise	16
Large Enterprise	36

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	38
Midsize Enterprise	20
Large Enterprise	58

Questions from the Community

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...

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What do you like most about Bizagi?

The natural notation is the best feature of Bizagi because it makes it compatible with other products.

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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.

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What do you like most about Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect?

The stability has been good and satisfactory. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect?

One of the reasons many public sector institutions in the Czech Republic use it is that it provides a very good price-performance ratio. While it might be cumbersome to learn, it still delivers exc...

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What needs improvement with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect?

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Overview

Bizagi’s industry-leading low-code process automation platform connects people, applications, robots, and information. As the most business-friendly and flexible solution on the market, Bizagi enables true collaboration between business and IT, delivering faster adoption and success. Fuelled by a community of 1 million users, Bizagi powers over 1,000 organizations worldwide including Adidas, BAE Systems, and Old Mutual. For more information visit www.bizagi.com

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Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is an enterprise solution that helps streamline, accelerate, and integrate software, system, and business development. With this intuitive modeling and design solution, enterprises can stay in control of their workplaces, enable collaboration, support their teams and colleagues, and manage complex projects. Software architects, business analysts, project managers, developers, support staff, and testers can unite under a single repository. Through numerous view points and potential sub-systems, users are offered a unified view in a complex environment.

With Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, users are also offered a shared model option which can be accessed quickly and securely by in-office and remote team members through the Enterprise Architect’s Pro Cloud Server. Building a coherent, verifiable model can be done by connecting and integrating a variety of behavioral and structural information in visual form. As a result, Enterprise Architect offers high performance, flexibility, and the ability to model, manage, and trace every stage of the business development and modeling process.

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect Features

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect assists in creating a unified and accessible vision in business development by offering a flexible platform with a unique set of rich features. These features include:

Test and debug - Streamline software development and visualize software with the simulation process. Users can test and confirm correct behavior, set and oversee test points, and debug and examine software.

Track tasks - Track, prioritize, and assign individual and group tasks to assist in the model’s development. Users can visually monitor their progress through the Gantt chart.

Open standards - Users can visualize and analyze running software with integrated custom tools. They can also run advanced simulations, team-based repositories, testing tools, and version control. In addition, the solution supports enterprise architecture frameworks such as UPDM and TOGAF.

Simulation - Create and debug embedded solutions by simulating behaviors and state models. Users can specify events, triggers, constraints, and more. Users can also specify extensive and complex structural systems and create custom domain-specific solutions.

Reviews from Real Users

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect merges high-end tools, online availability, a dedication to open standards, and accessible pricing so enterprises can stay in control of their workplaces, whether remote or in-office. Users particularly like the architectural frameworks and the scalability.

Marc L., a principal architecture enterprise solution adviser at Cronomagic Canada, notes, "The product offers very good support for all mainstream modeling notations and architectural frameworks."

An enterprise architect at a manufacturing company writes, "Scalable solution for modeling, project sharing, and collaboration. Support for it is good."

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adidas, Audi, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Post DHL & many more - 500+ customer globally.

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