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

Gane Index, November 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 November 2026 Edition. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/process-mining/smb

**Standing:** Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining leads with 21% of first choices; verdict contested. 56 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/microsoft-power-automate-process-mining/index.md) | 21% | 11% | 37 |
| 2 | [Apromore](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/apromore/index.md) | 18% | 2% | 52 |
| 3 | [Microsoft Power Automate](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/microsoft-power-automate/index.md) | 16% | 13% | 23 |
| 4 | [process.science](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/process-science/index.md) | 9% | 0% | 13 |
| 5 | [Fluxicon Disco](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/fluxicon-disco/index.md) | 5% | 0% | 16 |
| 6 | [ProcessMind](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/processmind/index.md) | 5% | 0% | 16 |
| 8 | [UiPath Process Mining](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/uipath-process-mining/index.md) | 4% | 52% | 48 |
| 9 | [Mindzie](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/mindzie/index.md) | 2% | 6% | 17 |
| 10 | [Disco](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/disco/index.md) | 2% | 10% | 10 |
| 21 | [PM4Py](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/pm4py/index.md) | 0% | 31% | 13 |
| 67 | [IBM Process Mining](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/ibm-process-mining/index.md) | 0% | 82% | 22 |
| 68 | [SAP Signavio Process Intelligence](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/sap-signavio-process-intelligence/index.md) | 0% | 83% | 47 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 69 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

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

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining; alternatives Apromore, Mindzie, ProcessMind
- GPT-5.4 mini: UiPath Process Mining; alternatives Apromore, Celonis Process Intelligence Platform
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining; alternatives Apromore, Fluxicon Disco, process.science
- Perplexity Sonar: Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining; alternatives Apromore, SAP Signavio Process Intelligence, UiPath Process Mining
- Grok 4.20: Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining; alternatives Apromore, process.science
- Mistral Small: Microsoft Power Automate, ProcessMind; alternatives Apromore
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Apromore, Mindzie; alternatives Microsoft Power Automate, UiPath Process Mining
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining; alternatives Apromore, SAP Signavio Process Intelligence, UiPath Process Mining
- Kimi K2: Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining; alternatives Apromore, Mindzie
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: process.science; alternatives ABBYY Timeline, Minit
- MiniMax M2.5: Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining; alternatives Apromore, process.science
- GPT-6 Luna: Apromore; alternatives Disco
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Apromore, Microsoft Power Automate; alternatives Caddi, Mindzie, Workfellow

## Sources the answers cite

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

- g2.com: 44 answers, 71 citations
- superkind.ai: 28 answers, 28 citations
- guideflow.com: 27 answers, 27 citations
- bardeen.ai: 23 answers, 25 citations
- omr.com: 23 answers, 24 citations
- trycaddi.com: 21 answers, 23 citations
- scribe.com: 21 answers, 21 citations
- gane.ai/index: 20 answers, 21 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://g2.com/categories/process-mining-tools/small-business (32 answers)
- https://superkind.ai/blog/ai-process-mining-tools (28 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/process-mining-tools (27 answers)
- https://omr.com/en/reviews/category/process-mining (23 answers)
- https://bardeen.ai/best/process-mining-tools (21 answers)
- https://scribe.com/library/process-mining-tools (21 answers)
- https://trycaddi.com/blog/process-mining-software (20 answers)
- https://gane.ai/index/it/operations/process-mining/smb (19 answers)
- https://socialatoz.com/software-category/process-mining-software (16 answers)
- https://erpresearch.com/erp-add-ons/process-mining (14 answers)

## Warned against

- Celonis Process Intelligence Platform: 55 of 62 labels negative. "Celonis, SAP Signavio Process Intelligence, UiPath Process Mining, IBM Process Mining, ARIS and Automation Anywhere are the ones small businesses are most commonly advised to avoid" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- UiPath Process Mining: 25 of 48 labels negative. "Avoid the heavy, enterprise‑focused platforms (IBM, UiPath, Celonis, the Power Automate Process Mining add‑on, ARIS, etc.)" (MiniMax M2.5, negative prompt)
- SAP Signavio Process Intelligence: 39 of 47 labels negative. "implementation and subscription costs that are higher than some other platforms, likely ruling it out for many smaller organizations" (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)
- IBM Process Mining: 18 of 22 labels negative. "Avoid the heavy, enterprise‑focused platforms (IBM, UiPath, Celonis, the Power Automate Process Mining add‑on, ARIS, etc.)" (MiniMax M2.5, negative prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
New leader: Microsoft Power Automate (25%) to Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining (21%). Margin 5 points, within noise.

- ProcessMind: 23% to 5%, −18. Cleared the floor by 7 points · rank 2 → 6 of 69.
- Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining: 10% to 21%, +11. Cleared the floor by 0 points · rank 4 → 1 of 69.
- Microsoft Power Automate: 25% to 16%, −9. Inside the floor by 2 points · rank 1 → 3 of 69.
- process.science: 2% to 9%, +7. Inside the floor by 4 points · rank 9 → 4 of 69.
- Apromore: 12% to 18%, +6. Inside the floor by 5 points · rank 3 → 2 of 69.
- Celonis Process Intelligence Platform: 4% to 0%, −4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 7 → 69 of 69.
- UiPath Process Mining: 2% to 4%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 14 → 8 of 69.
- Mindzie: 4% to 2%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 6 → 9 of 69.
- Disco: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 18 → 10 of 69.
- Bizagi: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 8 → 59 of 69.
- IBM Process Mining: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 15 → 67 of 69.
- Fluxicon Disco: 4% to 5%, +1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 5 of 69, unchanged.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.