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Camunda vs Hyland OnBase comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.3
Camunda improves efficiency and productivity, reducing resources and lead times while being cost-effective compared to competitors.
Sentiment score
4.7
Hyland OnBase enhances efficiency, accuracy, and security, offering savings, reduced errors, and improved workflows, especially for insurance companies.
I have seen a return on investment where we have fewer resources in development because of Camunda.
Manager at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Regulatory changes or implementation needs should not take years to resolve, as the value is not just the license cost per number of cases run in the workflow, but how you achieve service enhancement for your company.
Product Owner/Manager at RS2i
When it comes to return on investment for Camunda, regarding process lead time reduction, we see something between 50 to 80 percent easily.
Head of Process Excellence at ODDO-BHF
I have seen a return on investment with Hyland OnBase because it provides a very reliable ECM platform for my organization, helps to remove the dependency on paper files and file folders, saves real estate costs, and facilitates the ability to work from anywhere.
Senior Software Engineer at Infosys
There's also prevention of financial loss because I have some workflows designed specifically to validate certain processes, and in the past a lot of money was lost because calculations were done incorrectly.
Analista at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Automation processes that used to take four or three weeks now only require days, and users can be easily trained to implement their own processes.
Process Analyst at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.6
Camunda's support is responsive and supportive, but agent expertise and documentation occasionally receive mixed reviews; improvements are suggested.
Sentiment score
5.6
Hyland OnBase provides professional 24/7 support, often praised despite complex processes or premium fees required for premium options.
AWS provides the best support, followed by Microsoft, and then Google.
Chief Technology Officer at Looplex SA
They really understand deeply and in detailed fashion the solution.
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
They provide better support for the enterprise edition.
Technical and Solution Architect at Freelance
Our vendor relationship facilitated integration with our system and offered additional service beyond the Hyland OnBase product.
Program Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Whenever I proved it was an issue on their side, they always followed up quickly and professionally and always resolved the problems.
Analista at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Customer support largely falls on us, as many aspects must be handled directly with Hyland.
Process Analyst at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.6
Camunda excels in scalable deployments for various business sizes, with strong architecture but needs better documentation and support.
Sentiment score
6.4
Hyland OnBase is scalable and adaptable, supporting growth in users and documents, with cloud services easing manageability and costs.
Camunda offers a high level of scalability, especially when using its SaaS model, which manages and scales implementations automatically.
Technical and Solution Architect at Freelance
ECS and Fargate make horizontal scalability very easy.
Chief Technology Officer at Looplex SA
They have that REST layer, REST APIs layer that makes it easy to integrate and make it part of a microservices ecosystem and APIs.
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Transitioning to cloud-based services may reduce these costs in the future.
Product owner at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Hyland OnBase's scalability is one of its most significant strengths.
Process Analyst at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
In the cloud it's easier to handle; you work with pods and other infrastructure elements.
Analista at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Camunda is highly stable, excelling in reliability despite occasional integration challenges, and supports long-running processes effectively.
Sentiment score
8.0
Hyland OnBase is highly stable, with users praising its reliability, minimal downtime, and excellent scalability, security, and data protection.
There haven't been any significant outages in my experience with Camunda.
Technical and Solution Architect at Freelance
We were not really concerned about the performance on the process itself because it was super simple, super straightforward, and it did not present itself as a bottleneck, nor did we feel it was adding additional time in the execution.
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
For stability, most use cases depend on the workflow engine with Cockpit, which is stable about 98% of the time.
Transformation Manager at Vodafone
Since then they've improved a lot, and now it's very stable.
Analista at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Hyland OnBase was a stable solution that worked effectively for us.
Program Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Camunda users seek UI improvements, expanded functionality, better regional support, enhanced security, and improved integration and documentation.
Hyland OnBase needs enhanced dashboards, AI integration, user-friendly interface, flexible pricing, improved support, OCR, and simplified processes.
For our implementation, the only issue we have encountered is that when it comes to scaling with external tasks, it struggles on Camunda 7.
Principal Solutions Architect at BT - British Telecom
More open documentation would be beneficial to understand the deployment process better and facilitate easier setup.
Technical and Solution Architect at Freelance
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.
Chief Technology Officer at Looplex SA
The application could potentially be more open-source, allowing integration with more solutions.
Program Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Hyland is working on a new platform (HXP) to integrate features from all products, addressing some concerns.
Product owner at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
If AI could be used more at an enterprise level, since we are purchasing at an enterprise level for the subscription of Hyland OnBase, I would say if those AI informations would stay within the enterprise and not go outside of our enterprise boundaries, it would be secure and maintain our privacy.
Business Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

Camunda offers free open-source and enterprise plans, starting at $200/month, with enterprise costs around $50,000 annually.
Hyland OnBase's complex pricing is costly, especially in Latin America, with varied monthly licensing averaging $4,500-$5,000.
AWS pricing is very competitive compared to Azure and cheap compared to Google.
Chief Technology Officer at Looplex SA
I do not know if it is just not possible to run the whole environment at a rate that would be affordable.
Freelance Consultant at a consultancy with self employed
While it might be too expensive for smaller business use cases, if we can automate and have high-value cases, then Camunda's pricing makes sense.
Transformation Manager at Vodafone
We also paid for workflow licenses, which allowed up to 250 concurrent users.
Program Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
I find pricing to be on the higher side due to its monolithic architecture.
Product owner at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is very cost-effective and affordable.
Senior Software Engineer at Infosys
 

Valuable Features

Camunda offers flexibility, user-friendly interface, BPMN compliance, integration capabilities, scalability, and customization, supporting seamless complex process orchestration.
Hyland OnBase enhances document management with secure storage, AI capabilities, workflow automation, and flexible integration for business efficiency.
The customer support is outstanding.
Freelance Consultant at a consultancy with self employed
The coexistence that Camunda allows is important because we are connected, using it as an orchestrator for domain controllers and various automation platforms, both legacy and new, ensuring we are independent and can operate across domains.
Transformation Manager at Vodafone
Another feature I value is the intuitiveness of BPMN that allows you to create your UI without needing a developer, which is very helpful.
Manager at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It provided data security features, allowing restrictions on sensitive documents, such as who could view or modify them.
Program Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
The workflow engine has made the biggest difference for me because it is excellent for automating approval processes.
Senior Software Engineer at Infosys
Hyland OnBase has impacted my organization positively by faster document retrieval, intuitive setup, reduced manual processing, and comes with security.
Business Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Camunda
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
90
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Design (1st), Process Automation (1st), AI Orchestration Frameworks (3rd), Agentic Automation (5th), AI Agent Builders (9th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (4th)
Hyland OnBase
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
13th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (5th), Low-Code Development Platforms (16th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Business Process Management (BPM) category, the mindshare of Camunda is 7.3%, down from 13.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hyland OnBase is 1.0%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Process Management (BPM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Camunda7.3%
Hyland OnBase1.0%
Other91.7%
Business Process Management (BPM)
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Joao Santiago - PeerSpot reviewer
Analista at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Digital workflows have transformed meeting minutes and document tracking across departments
There are some particular aspects of Hyland OnBase, such as layouts or some modules that have just been built, that are not designed with the end user in mind. That's something they need to improve. However, even if it's not adequate for the end user, you can still take that and, with custom development, use those modules and APIs in a user-friendly way. They need to improve the interface and usability of Unity and think more about usability. In terms of tool usability, sometimes there are too many clicks to perform an action, which, if you developed it yourself, you could do in two clicks, whereas within Unity you need four or five clicks to do the same process.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
9%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business48
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise39
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise16
 

Questions from the Community

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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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hyland OnBase?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is very cost-effective and affordable.
What needs improvement with Hyland OnBase?
More training videos, if they are more findable, would improve documentation and training documentations from Hyland's side, because there is a lack of documentation and training materials from Hyl...
What is your primary use case for Hyland OnBase?
As a business analyst, while working on a recent project, I used Hyland OnBase as an enterprise-like document management tool. It was used for storing, organizing, and retrieving invoices regarding...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Camunda BPM
OnBase
 

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Sample Customers

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
Honda France Industries, Hill County Texas, Hylant Group, ING Lease France, State of South Carolina, Syracuse University, Swindon College, Rhode Island Department of Human Services, Rochester Institute of Technology, Moen, Odense University Hospital
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