Jotform vs ProcessMaker
Jotform and ProcessMaker are both workflow management software. Jotform is a commercial product from Jotform. ProcessMaker is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 538 GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Jotform when
- A small business needs many operational forms, such as orders, bookings or HIPAA-friendly intake, with payments and PDFs.
- Pick ProcessMaker when
- You want an open-source workflow and approval system on your own server and can model processes in BPMN.
Side by side
Form builder with thousands of templates, payment collection, PDF generation, approvals and simple apps and tables built from form data.
A self-hosted workflow suite with a BPMN modeler, a screen builder for forms, assignment and routing rules, task due dates and request history.
Submission limits and Jotform branding on lower plans, and the interface is crowded.
Several packages, saved searches among them, are not in the open-source edition, and there is no stage board.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service and mobile app
Self-hosted server
Not published
PHP, Laravel, Vue and MySQL
Closed source, sold by Jotform
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
316 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
538 GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 8 years ago, latest release v4.14.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.