# Process mining for small business buyers: what AI models recommend, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "process mining tool" and as "process intelligence platform", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a small B2B company. Added to the October 2026 Edition on October 4, 2026; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b-run3), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/operations/process-mining/smb/

**Standing:** Microsoft Power Automate leads with 25% of first choices; verdict contested. 48 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Power Automate | 25% | 3% | 31 |
| 2 | ProcessMind | 23% | 0% | 30 |
| 3 | Apromore | 12% | 6% | 36 |
| 4 | Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining | 8% | 14% | 21 |
| 5 | Fluxicon Disco | 4% | 6% | 17 |
| 6 | Mindzie | 4% | 0% | 16 |
| 7 | Celonis Process Intelligence Platform | 4% | 91% | 55 |
| 8 | Bizagi | 2% | 0% | 13 |
| 9 | UiPath Process Mining | 2% | 46% | 41 |
| 10 | IBM Process Mining | 2% | 76% | 25 |
| 11 | PM4Py | 0% | 0% | 11 |
| 12 | SAP Signavio Process Intelligence | 0% | 74% | 31 |

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: QPR ProcessAnalyzer; alternatives Apromore, Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining, Mindzie, ProcessMind
- GPT-5.4 mini: Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining; alternatives IBM Process Mining, UiPath Process Mining
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Fluxicon Disco; alternatives Apromore, Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining, Mindzie
- Perplexity Sonar: Microsoft Power Automate Process Advisor; alternatives ProcessMind
- Grok 4.1 Fast: Microsoft Power Automate; alternatives Apromore, UiPath Process Mining
- Mistral Small: Fluxicon Disco; alternatives UiPath Process Mining
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: ProcessMind; alternatives Apromore
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: process.science; alternatives Disco, Logpickr, Microsoft Power Automate
- Kimi K2: Microsoft Power Automate; alternatives Apromore
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining; alternatives Apromore, UiPath Process Mining
- MiniMax M2.5: Microsoft Power Automate, Mindzie; alternatives Fluxicon Disco, UiPath Platform
- GPT-6 Luna: ProcessMind; alternatives Microsoft Power Automate
- Muse Glimmer 30B: ProcessMind; alternatives Fluxicon Disco, Mindzie, PM4Py

## Sources the answers cite

78 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- bardeen.ai: 46 answers, 72 citations
- processmind.com: 45 answers, 74 citations
- g2.com: 40 answers, 64 citations
- learn.g2.com: 39 answers, 41 citations
- us.fitgap.com: 29 answers, 33 citations
- softwaresuggest.com: 29 answers, 30 citations
- guideflow.com: 28 answers, 28 citations
- erpresearch.com: 26 answers, 31 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://bardeen.ai/best/process-mining-tools (39 answers)
- https://learn.g2.com/best-process-mining-software (35 answers)
- https://processmind.com/resources/blog/the-best-process-mining-tools-of-2026 (29 answers)
- https://us.fitgap.com/search/process-mining-tools/small-business (28 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/process-mining-tools (27 answers)
- https://softwaresuggest.com/process-mining-tools (26 answers)
- https://bardeen.ai/best/process-intelligence-software (24 answers)
- https://erpresearch.com/erp-add-ons/process-mining (23 answers)
- https://omr.com/en/reviews/category/process-mining (20 answers)
- https://dupple.com/learn/best-ai-process-mining-tools (19 answers)

## Warned against

- Celonis Process Intelligence Platform: 50 of 55 labels negative. "You almost certainly do not need a Celonis or SAP Signavio — those are enterprise tools built for organizations with dedicated process teams" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, scale prompt)
- UiPath Process Mining: 19 of 41 labels negative. "avoid enterprise-first platforms like Celonis, SAP Signavio, UiPath Process Mining and IBM Process Mining" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- SAP Signavio Process Intelligence: 23 of 31 labels negative. "avoid enterprise-first platforms like Celonis, SAP Signavio, UiPath Process Mining and IBM Process Mining" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- IBM Process Mining: 19 of 25 labels negative. "What to Avoid ... IBM Process Mining: Minimum $2,885/month, designed for regulated enterprises" (Kimi K2, comparative prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://it-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://it-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, it-ai-index.com.