The Best Kissflow Alternative for Teams Who Want the Price on the Page
A flat monthly fee you can read before you talk to anyone, with unlimited users on every plan and no annual agreement to sign.
14 day trial. No credit card. Cloud or self-hosted.
The short answer
Kissflow and Orangescrum get compared, but they are built for different jobs. Kissflow is a no-code platform for building workflow apps and approval processes. Orangescrum is project management: projects, boards, sprints, Gantt, time, cost, and reporting. Teams that came to Kissflow looking for project management often find they are buying a platform when they wanted a product, and the price is only available through a sales conversation ending in a fixed annual agreement. If what you actually need is to build internal apps, forms, and multi step approvals across departments, Kissflow is the right tool and you should not switch to us. We do not do no-code app building and we are not planning to.
When Kissflow is the better choice
We would rather you find this out here than three weeks into a trial.
- You need to build internal apps, not run projectsKissflow is a no-code workflow and process app builder, which is a different category from project management. If you want to build a procurement request, an onboarding flow, or an expense claim app without writing code, that is exactly what it is for and we do not do it.
- Your work is approvals across departmentsRouting a form through finance, then a manager, then legal, with conditions at each step, is Kissflow's core competence. We have a visual workflow designer in the self-hosted edition, but it drives project work, not company wide business processes.
- You want citizen developers building their own toolsKissflow is designed so people outside IT can build and ship small internal applications. If reducing the queue on your development team is the goal you are being measured on, that is a real reason to buy it.
- You want a managed private clusterKissflow offers a dedicated private cluster on Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure for an extra managed service fee. We offer self-hosting, which means you run it. If you want isolation without operating the infrastructure yourself, that is a genuine difference.
Why teams move from Kissflow
The price is on the website
$29, $69, and $349 a month, published, with no form to fill in first. You can budget for it in the time it takes to read a page.
One flat fee, not a per person rate
The price does not move when the team grows. Adding someone costs nothing, so the tool holds everyone who touches the work.
Unlimited users on every plan
Including the $29 plan. Clients, contractors, and stakeholders sit inside the project rather than outside it.
Monthly, not a fixed annual agreement
Kissflow states its pricing is set as fixed annual agreements. Ours is a monthly price you can stop paying at the end of any month.
Project management out of the box
Boards, sprints and backlogs, Gantt with critical path, time tracking, budgets, and reporting are there on day one. Nothing has to be built first.
Genuinely self-hosted
Orangescrum Self-Hosted runs on your own servers or an air gapped network, and the Community Edition is free and open source under AGPL.
Orangescrum compared with Kissflow
| Orangescrum | Kissflow | |
|---|---|---|
| Prices published on the websiteKissflow's pricing page directs buyers to contact sales | $29, $69, $349 per month | No |
| Contract termStated by Kissflow | Monthly, stop any time | Fixed annual agreements |
| Users included | Unlimited on every plan | Not published |
| Kanban boards | Yes | Yes |
| Sprints, backlogs, story points | Yes | No |
| Gantt chart with critical path | Yes | No |
| Time tracking built in | Yes | No |
| Budget, cost, and invoicing | Yes | No |
| Resource and workload planning | Yes | No |
| No-code app and form builderKissflow does this and we do not | No | Yes |
| Multi step approval workflows | Self-Hosted, via the visual workflow designer | Yes |
| Self-hosted or on-premise editionKissflow offers a dedicated private cluster on Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure for an extra managed service fee | Yes | No |
| Free and open source edition | Yes | No |
| Free plan | 1 project, 1 user | Not published |
What it costs as the team grows
Kissflow publishes no plan prices. Its pricing page directs buyers to contact sales, and it states that pricing is set as fixed annual agreements. We are not going to guess at a figure or borrow one from a review site, so there is no table here. Our own prices are on our pricing page: $29 Basic, $69 Pro, $349 Premium, each a flat monthly fee for the whole team with unlimited users. We publish ours and Kissflow does not publish theirs, and you can decide what that is worth to you.
Moving off Kissflow
Most of what comes across is project work rather than process apps, so the mapping conversation matters more here than the import itself. We do the work and there is no charge for it.
- Separate projects from processesWe look at what you have built and say plainly which parts are project work we can hold and which parts are approval apps that we are not the right home for.
- We map the project sideBoards, items, fields, owners, dates, and comment history are mapped to Orangescrum projects and tasks, and you approve the mapping first.
- Trial runThe import runs into a sandbox so your team can open it and check the work landed the way they expected.
- CutoverThe real import runs, we validate it with you, and your team starts. Keep Kissflow for anything genuinely process shaped if that suits you better.
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