FlowForma caps how many processes you may automate. skybow caps nothing but the number of people using it.
FlowForma and skybow solve the same problem on inverted pricing axes. FlowForma charges per process and leaves user numbers free — from around €25k a year for three processes, around €35k for thirty. skybow charges per user and places no limit on how many solutions you build, from around €6k a year for 100 users. For almost every SharePoint-centric organisation skybow is both cheaper and less restrictive. FlowForma's flat fee only pulls ahead in one narrow shape: several thousand users running a handful of processes that will never grow.
During my research for a powerful provisioning tool for SharePoint solutions, I came across skybow. In the meantime, I have not only implemented the provisioning tasks with skybow, but also many processes and forms.
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Three on Essentials, thirty on Professional. Beyond that the path leads to an Enterprise quote priced on your process estate. This cap penalises precisely the success case: teams that like the platform and roll it out more widely run into the next pricing tier. skybow has no such ceiling — the same licence carries your first solution and your fiftieth. Only the number of people actually using them affects the price.
No. FlowForma's own system requirements name Office 365, SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 as prerequisites; the platform ships as a SharePoint Online add-in and requires a Microsoft 365 plan that includes SharePoint Online. For organisations that must stay on SharePoint Server SE or 2019 for regulatory reasons — public sector, healthcare, parts of manufacturing — that rules FlowForma out. skybow runs in both worlds: SharePoint Online, SharePoint Server SE and 2019, and hybrid, from the same solution.
FlowForma's published pricing starts at around €25k a year, and that covers three processes. It is a serious entry ticket that rules out many mid-sized organisations before the conversation begins. skybow starts at around €6k a year for 100 users, with unlimited solutions and premium automation actions included. The difference is not only the figure but its direction: with skybow the price grows only as more people actually use your solutions, while with FlowForma it grows with the ambition of your process portfolio — so the better the platform works for you, the more it costs.
FlowForma's flat per-process fee is the better model in one specific shape: a very large user base running a small, stable set of processes. An organisation with several thousand staff and a handful of processes that genuinely will not grow pays less there. One other thing is worth acknowledging: every tier includes its SureStart onboarding programme — two days of product training plus up to six consultancy days with a FlowForma expert — so buyers who want a guided start get one without negotiating a separate services contract. If your process portfolio is fixed and you have no on-premises requirement, that combination is worth weighing.
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FlowForma publishes its prices, which makes the comparison straightforward. Essentials starts at around €25k a year and covers up to three processes; Professional starts at around €35k for up to thirty. User numbers are unlimited in both, but the process ceiling is hard. skybow inverts this: a flat fee per user, with no limit on solutions, forms or automation actions — and premium actions such as HTTP and API calls included rather than reserved for a higher tier. For 100 users skybow comes to roughly €6k a year, around a quarter of FlowForma's entry tier, with no cap on what you build. The honest question before deciding is therefore not “how many people work here” but “how many processes do we want to run in the next three years” — and for most organisations that number only ever goes up.
FlowForma is an Irish no-code process automation platform for Microsoft 365. It began as an incubated unit inside the IT services company Ergo and became an independent business in 2016. The platform combines forms, workflow and document generation, and is licensed per process rather than per user. FlowForma reports more than 300,000 users worldwide.
For the vast majority of organisations, yes — usually by a wide margin. FlowForma's published pricing starts at around €25k a year and covers just three processes. skybow costs around €6k a year for 100 users, with no limit on how many solutions you build. Only at a few thousand users combined with a very small, fixed set of processes does FlowForma's flat fee overtake skybow. The deciding factor is how many processes you plan to automate, not how many people you employ.
Yes. The Essentials tier covers up to three processes and Professional up to thirty; beyond that you need an Enterprise quote priced on your process estate. skybow applies no such limit — you can build and deploy as many solutions as you need on the same licence, and only the number of end users affects the price.
No. FlowForma's own system requirements list Office 365, SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365, and the platform is delivered as a SharePoint Online add-in requiring a Microsoft 365 plan that includes SharePoint Online. If you need to stay on SharePoint Server SE or 2019 for regulatory reasons, FlowForma is not an option. skybow supports SharePoint Online, Server SE and 2019, and hybrid setups with the same solution.
For most SharePoint-centric organisations, yes — particularly if you want to automate more than a handful of processes, need on-premises or hybrid deployment, or want a lower entry cost. skybow gives you unlimited solutions on a flat per-user licence and runs natively inside the SharePoint you already have.
In one specific shape: a very large user base — several thousand people — combined with a small and genuinely fixed set of processes, and no on-premises requirement. There FlowForma's flat per-process fee works out cheaper. If your process portfolio is likely to grow, or you run SharePoint Server SE or 2019, that advantage disappears quickly.
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