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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Nintex

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ANintex offers a platform that helps companies discover, automate, and optimize business processes.

    $480

    Minimum 1,000 users per user

    Smartsheet

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASmartsheet is an online project management and collaboration tool. It includes automated alerts, instantaneous updating and sharing across team members, resource management, nested tasks organized in a hierarchy, a Gantt chart view, exportable and automated reports, and integration with email.

    $12

    per month per user (up to 10 users)

    Pricing
    NintexSmartsheet
    Editions & Modules
    Enterprise - Process Platform
    $480
    Minimum 1,000 users per user
    Pro
    $12
    per month per user (up to 10 users)
    Business
    $24
    per month per user (3 user minimum)
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Advanced Work Management
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    NintexSmartsheet
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—A discount is offered for annual billing.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    NintexSmartsheet
    Considered Both Products
    Nintex
    Chose Nintex
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    Smartsheet
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    83%
    Would buy again
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    90%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
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    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    61 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    69 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    47 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    78 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    51 Answers
    Features
    NintexSmartsheet
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Nintex and Smartsheet
    Feature
    Nintex
    6.6
    190 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Smartsheet
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards6.6176 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports6.8179 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports6.4143 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Nintex and Smartsheet
    Feature
    Nintex
    7.0
    258 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Smartsheet
    -
    Ratings
    Process designer7.6230 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process simulation5.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules engine7.7198 Ratings00 Ratings
    SOA support7.0174 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player7.357 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages6.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder8.0228 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model execution7.7181 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Nintex and Smartsheet
    Feature
    Nintex
    9.0
    18 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Smartsheet
    -
    Ratings
    Social collaboration tools9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Nintex and Smartsheet
    Feature
    Nintex
    10.0
    23 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Smartsheet
    -
    Ratings
    Content management10.023 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Nintex and Smartsheet
    Feature
    Nintex
    -
    Ratings
    Smartsheet
    9.1
    129 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings9.8126 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings10.0108 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings9.0109 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings9.8111 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings9.2100 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings10.0122 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.981 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings9.079 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings9.2101 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings9.0100 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings8.096 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings9.762 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings8.169 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings8.075 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Nintex and Smartsheet
    Feature
    Nintex
    -
    Ratings
    Smartsheet
    7.9
    66 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings8.144 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings7.537 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings8.760 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings7.332 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    NintexSmartsheet
    Small Businesses
    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NintexSmartsheet
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (302 ratings)
    9.3
    (146 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    2.7
    (34 ratings)
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (23 ratings)
    9.2
    (17 ratings)
    Availability
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.7
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (24 ratings)
    8.1
    (45 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NintexSmartsheet
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Nintex
    We use Nintex to automate fundraising outreach at scale. It helps us send personalized emails to a large contact list, and we’d also like to automate follow-ups when there’s no reply.
    If you need highly customized solutions or clean, fully controllable code, I wouldn’t recommend Nintex. It has many features, but it’s not the same as building your own system from scratch. That said, it can save a lot of time for standard automation workflows.
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    Smartsheet
    Smartsheet shines for collaboration. When you have multiple people involved with planning events Smartsheet makes it easy to share and collaborate. For instance, multiple people can be in Smartsheet working at the same time. Also setting permissions for exactly those who need to know is quite easy with Smartsheet. For data analytics and general spreadsheet purposes Excel is better but for project management and event planning Smartsheet is superior
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    Pros
    Nintex
    • Integrations with other services using various secure authentication methods, along with the seamless integration with SharePoint, are the icing on the cake. This makes it superior to other BPM tools available in the market.
    • Flexibility in application development - The diverse configurable properties offer multiple ways to utilise the controls and events, affording the flexibility to expand your scope and enabling the creation and use of processes in a myriad of ways.
    • The streamlined and efficient deployment process significantly accelerates release management, allowing for faster and smoother implementation of updates and new features.
    • The user interface of the pages offers a more refined and appealing look and feel compared to most other BPM tools.
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    Smartsheet
    • Its hard to overstate the value of familiarity. Being able to use a tool that has some familiarity takes away the time needed to train and orient employees on a new tool and allows an organization to hit the ground running.
    • Smartsheet covers most of the basics of a project management tool, the usual tasks, milestones and project viewing options.
    • For data viewing, you get multiple data viewing options including a calendar view (good for marketing teams and those who work around scheduling), Kanban, Gaant etc
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    Cons
    Nintex
    • If you are creating a process with parallel subprocesses, there's no way to see, in a single view in Nintex, all the steps for the subprocesses. You have to view each sub-process in its own view, so it's hard to see what's going on at a high level.
    • There isn't an easy way to filter the processes by another user (not yourself) in Nintex. There is a report that shows processes and objects by user, but that's not as convenient. This is something that I've seen in other tools (OpenPages by IBM) so I am surprised that it is missing.
    • Nintex doesn't really have a way to capture iterative processes (which we have a lot of). It's designed for linear processes.
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    Smartsheet
    • Smartsheet set up is similar to Excel, yet when you upload an Excel file, things like conditional formatting are lost. Smartsheet has its own conditional formatting, and you have to reinstate the rules. It would be great if those would apply automatically once a file is uploaded
    • Some Smartsheet management and access rules can take some tweaking to work properly. This may be a case of offering more info to admins so they can apply these better and with more efficiency
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Nintex
    We are currently investigating which collaboration platform best suits our needs. Chances are that we move to SharePoint Online and then we're going to also consider the microsoft power platform (power automate and power apps) to develop forms and workflows. Aspecially the pricing model for the cloud is currently a blocking factor to go for the Nintex solution in the Cloud.
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    Smartsheet
    It definitely meets our needs as far as organizing and archiving our tasks and files. As we train more staff to view it, I see opportunities for more improvement, which I am sure this program can handle. I look forward to seeing continued improvement from Smartsheet on their capabilities and functionality.
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    Usability
    Nintex
    Based on the on-prem experience with this tool, I believe that they have a lot of potential to help the online version catch up to where the on-prem left off. Nintex developed their online version and it is not as fully formed or capable compared to the on-prem version, and the licensing model scales back what we would have liked to be an expansion or at least continuous improvement of existing flows. It is also not near as user friendly specifically to non-developers and has an uncanny similarity to Microsoft Flow in the online instance. Consistent with my reviews of the tool - I believe they have some good approaches to design thinking that, if translated well from on-prem to online, could make this a clear winner again.
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    Smartsheet
    Smartsheet is very easy to learn. However, while I have been able to pick it easily, Microsoft Excel and Project super users that I have trained on Smartsheet get bogged down in the differences and can find it frustrating. Explaining the differences ahead of time and why Smartsheet is being chosen instead of a different software seems to counteract those reactions
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    Reliability and Availability
    Nintex
    The Nintex Process Platform has never crashed or had any availability issues during my usage. However there was an issue that was of my own making that caused a slowdown of the system. I had set up a process to run once a day and check for employees on a list that had certain parameters selected, and for some reason that I had to troubleshoot, the process instead ran constantly, which filled the cache quickly. I ended up having to dismantle that process so the system didn't crash.
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    Smartsheet
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Nintex
    Unlike any other process automation product out there. Not only is it a low-code, easy to use tool for building processes in environments like SharePoint or Salesforce, they have really started to expand their tool-set by offering tools to manage other things like process mapping, RPA, mobile,etc.
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    Smartsheet
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Nintex
    The support team works as fast as they can and they are usually fast to solver the issues. Sometimes they need more time to solve one of them because our workflows and so on are more complex than usual clients.
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    Smartsheet
    I give this rating because it fills a niche in the market. MS Project scares many away from proper task management but there are limited tools our there, especially cloud-based that are mobile-friendly. Smartsheet fills this market gap, especially for small to medium-sized businesses. IT is not fair to compare it to MS Project, but fairer to see what gaps it fills.
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    In-Person Training
    Nintex
    The trainer addressed the smallest queries in a friendly and timely manner; He walked us through all the necessary products we were using
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    Smartsheet
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    Online Training
    Nintex
    I used the Nintex training software, it was easy to watch and follow along. It didn't go too fast and was descriptive enough to understand what the steps needed were in order to produce efficient workflows and user friendly forms.
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    Smartsheet
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    Implementation Rating
    Nintex
    1.Start with Simple Workflows: Begin with basic workflows to gain user confidence before tackling complex processes.
    2.Involve Stakeholders Early: Engage business users and IT early to align workflows with real business needs.
    3.Comprehensive Training: Invest in user training to ensure smooth adoption and reduce resistance.
    4.Leverage Prebuilt Templates: Use Nintex’s templates to speed up implementation and maintain consistency.
    5.Iterate and Optimize: Continuously improve workflows based on user feedback and performance metrics.
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    Smartsheet
    It's absolutely paramount to take a few minutes to actually play with the software. It's nearly impossible to do anything wrong or make a mistake which cannot be fixed easily. Under the help menu is Live Training option. After you familiarize yourself with the commands, watch the live training for some in depth understanding of how to make the software fit your needs perfectly.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Nintex
    Microsoft environment does not have the scalability of Nintex; it is perfect for small and medium-sized companies, especially in environments where Microsoft environment is almost entirely used. Although Microsoft offers options to connect to other applications, its platform lacks the development and robustness that Nintex provides. Nintex not only covers Microsoft environments but also Google and other important platforms.
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    Smartsheet
    Jira and Redmine are much more robust and technologically advanced project management solutions. I enjoy using either when managing a very large project. However, I prefer to use Smartsheet for my smaller to medium sized projects. As for Google Drive - I would say that Google sheets and Smartsheet are almost identical in my opinion when it comes to functionality. Personally I prefer to manage smaller projects via Google Drive, but it is a personal preference!
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    Scalability
    Nintex
    The scalability is really bottlenecked by the imagination of the user. I was able to make processes for my own personal usage, making my daily tasks easier. I was also able to make processes that affected hundreds of employees, making large standardization and efficiency gains. So either way, the system is used the same way, and I was the limiting factor.
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    Smartsheet
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Nintex
    • People have woken up to the amount of overlap after mapping their processes.
    • People can be resistant to process changes. You need to have the support from above or support from the 'business' that you are process changing to be able to see the positive impacts.
    • Numbers talk. if you can get a general salary figure from your HR dept to show savings for 'employee bands', then when you present reports, they will be all the richer in data.
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    Smartsheet
    • This has really opened up collaboration across teams. A lot less working in silos.
    • It hasn't fully replaced any one tool so it means having to go to another place. Hopefully, we can eliminate a tool or two in the next six months.
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    Nintex Screenshots

    Screenshot of Nintex Automation CE, a complete agentic business orchestration platform — unifying process intelligence, agentic workflow orchestration, and AI-driven solution building in one governed platform.Screenshot of the Nintex K2 dashboard. The application offers on-premises and hosted solutions that brings together advanced orchestration, control, and scalability, and security into a single platform.