The best alternative to Pega

Tallyfy is a far better, modern alternative to complex, legacy BPM like Pegasystems

  • Design - We invented Workflow Made Easy ®
  • Pricing - Minimum purchase is 1 full member
  • Support - Get expert 1:1 help free - for life
Track all your workflows beautifully - on Tallyfy

People ❤️ Tallyfy

Simple for everyone. Robust for champs.

"

We can finally delegate work with confidence and focus on growing the business.

Andrew Hurrell
Andrew Hurrell
Director · Get Customers Fast
"

A paper-based approval for critical purchases could take a couple of days before if someone was waiting for a director to be available for a signature. Now approvals are often completed in minutes.

ED
Evan Davis
Director of Finance · Alexandria Transit System
"

Tallyfy is intuitive, fun and visually appealing. We can quickly gather every detail we need from our client in order to finish it on time. All the documents, specific details and comments are in one place.

Hanka Hanga
Hanka Hanga
Co-founder · The Mindset Institute
"

Tallyfy has been transformative for us. It's reduced manual errors, sped up processes like onboarding, and helped us document workflows that are critical as we grow. The ability to track tasks and aggregate them in one place saves us so much time and ensures that nothing falls through the cracks.

Gwen Tormey
Gwen Tormey
CEO · Corestream
"

It has become a regular thing that people say 'put that in Tallyfy'. They know it by name. It has become the executive approval tool for our company. We have bi-weekly Tallyfy calls where we review what needs approval and what is pending - it keeps everyone aligned.

Joe Meadors
Joe Meadors
VP of IT · Gaylor Electric
"

It used to take us two days to run monthly client campaigns, now, with the help of Tallyfy, we complete them in just a few hours!

Julie Trelstad
Julie Trelstad
Book Publisher · Julie Ink
"

Tallyfy is a very reliable way to delegate and track tasks with confidence. It has taken the guesswork out of the equation and has helped our team focus on delivering a service within deadlines. Thank you for making my life much easier!

Karen Finnin
Karen Finnin
Physiotherapist & Director · Online Physio
"

Our clients and team sail through the Tallyfy process - there is no need for clients to log in, there is one link for everything they need to do, everything saves in real-time - it all works incredibly well! I can't imagine scaling our agency without Tallyfy.

Kasim Aslam
Kasim Aslam
Sol8 - A Google Ads Agency
"

Tallyfy transformed how we manage client onboarding and policy renewals. It eliminated inefficiencies, reduced meeting times from hours to minutes, and helped us avoid costly penalties by automating key processes. We now have full visibility over tasks, and I no longer need to chase down updates - it's all right there.

Lewis Marty
Lewis Marty
Business Development Director · Simploy
"

Tallyfy has revolutionized how we manage our marketing projects at West Community Credit Union. It allows us to quickly launch tailored campaigns and track every moving part, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks. The ease of creating flexible, repeatable processes has saved us significant time and improved team collaboration.

Kim Berzack
Kim Berzack
Marketing · West Community Credit Union
"

Tallyfy has helped our team streamline the efficiency of our processes. We now have smooth processes from beginning to end - without any steps being forgotten or skipped.

MZ
Monica Zuluaga
PhD. QA Director · A Bridge to Achievement
"

With Tallyfy, we have seen clarity in our processes as well as any bottlenecks. Tallyfy would be a good fit for any company that has a design, approval and implementation process that needs to have a quick turn around and that is growing fast.

Macklin Andrick
Macklin Andrick
Operations Manager · Greetabl
"

If you want to be efficient and scale your business then Tallyfy is the way go. There is no question about it.

Rommel C. Caibal
Rommel C. Caibal
Owner · RC Graphic Designs
"

Routing multiple documents is far quicker and there's immediate accountability and oversight. After switching to Tallyfy, routing documents and layouts went from taking over a week to taking just 2-3 days.

TO
Timothy O'Leary
General Director · Opera Theatre of Saint Louis / Opera America
"

We can finally delegate work with confidence and focus on growing the business.

Andrew Hurrell
Andrew Hurrell
Director · Get Customers Fast
"

A paper-based approval for critical purchases could take a couple of days before if someone was waiting for a director to be available for a signature. Now approvals are often completed in minutes.

ED
Evan Davis
Director of Finance · Alexandria Transit System
"

Tallyfy is intuitive, fun and visually appealing. We can quickly gather every detail we need from our client in order to finish it on time. All the documents, specific details and comments are in one place.

Hanka Hanga
Hanka Hanga
Co-founder · The Mindset Institute
"

Tallyfy has been transformative for us. It's reduced manual errors, sped up processes like onboarding, and helped us document workflows that are critical as we grow. The ability to track tasks and aggregate them in one place saves us so much time and ensures that nothing falls through the cracks.

Gwen Tormey
Gwen Tormey
CEO · Corestream
"

It has become a regular thing that people say 'put that in Tallyfy'. They know it by name. It has become the executive approval tool for our company. We have bi-weekly Tallyfy calls where we review what needs approval and what is pending - it keeps everyone aligned.

Joe Meadors
Joe Meadors
VP of IT · Gaylor Electric
"

It used to take us two days to run monthly client campaigns, now, with the help of Tallyfy, we complete them in just a few hours!

Julie Trelstad
Julie Trelstad
Book Publisher · Julie Ink
"

Tallyfy is a very reliable way to delegate and track tasks with confidence. It has taken the guesswork out of the equation and has helped our team focus on delivering a service within deadlines. Thank you for making my life much easier!

Karen Finnin
Karen Finnin
Physiotherapist & Director · Online Physio
"

Our clients and team sail through the Tallyfy process - there is no need for clients to log in, there is one link for everything they need to do, everything saves in real-time - it all works incredibly well! I can't imagine scaling our agency without Tallyfy.

Kasim Aslam
Kasim Aslam
Sol8 - A Google Ads Agency
"

Tallyfy transformed how we manage client onboarding and policy renewals. It eliminated inefficiencies, reduced meeting times from hours to minutes, and helped us avoid costly penalties by automating key processes. We now have full visibility over tasks, and I no longer need to chase down updates - it's all right there.

Lewis Marty
Lewis Marty
Business Development Director · Simploy
"

Tallyfy has revolutionized how we manage our marketing projects at West Community Credit Union. It allows us to quickly launch tailored campaigns and track every moving part, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks. The ease of creating flexible, repeatable processes has saved us significant time and improved team collaboration.

Kim Berzack
Kim Berzack
Marketing · West Community Credit Union
"

Tallyfy has helped our team streamline the efficiency of our processes. We now have smooth processes from beginning to end - without any steps being forgotten or skipped.

MZ
Monica Zuluaga
PhD. QA Director · A Bridge to Achievement
"

With Tallyfy, we have seen clarity in our processes as well as any bottlenecks. Tallyfy would be a good fit for any company that has a design, approval and implementation process that needs to have a quick turn around and that is growing fast.

Macklin Andrick
Macklin Andrick
Operations Manager · Greetabl
"

If you want to be efficient and scale your business then Tallyfy is the way go. There is no question about it.

Rommel C. Caibal
Rommel C. Caibal
Owner · RC Graphic Designs
"

Routing multiple documents is far quicker and there's immediate accountability and oversight. After switching to Tallyfy, routing documents and layouts went from taking over a week to taking just 2-3 days.

TO
Timothy O'Leary
General Director · Opera Theatre of Saint Louis / Opera America

Tallyfy vs. Pega

Feature
Pega
1 Simple, proven, tested user experience
Pega
Tallyfy
2 Guaranteed free 1:1 support for life
Pega
Tallyfy
3 Customer-obsessed with no pushy sales
Pega
Tallyfy
4 Far more affordable and tiny minimum purchase
Pega
Tallyfy
5 Discount available based on your country
Pega
Tallyfy
6 Free Single Sign On (SSO) for everyone
Pega
Tallyfy
7 Compliant with HSTS and BIMI security
Pega
Tallyfy
8 No complex flowcharts or BPMN
Pega
Tallyfy
9 Designed for everyone - not just IT
Pega
Tallyfy

Which tool is right for you?

Honest comparison to help you make the right choice

Tallyfy is best for

  • Mid-market operations teams needing rapid workflow deployment
  • Organizations avoiding 6+ month implementation projects
  • Teams without Pega-certified developers or consultants
  • Companies seeking affordable, predictable licensing
  • Business users who need to own their workflows without IT gatekeeping

Pega may be better for

  • Fortune 500 enterprises with complex case management needs
  • Organizations with existing Pega investments and trained staff
  • Highly regulated industries requiring enterprise decision management
  • Companies with budgets for Pega-certified implementation partners
  • Teams needing AI-driven next-best-action decisioning at scale

Here's why people don't like Pega

This is third party content sourced from the public web. You can verify this content if you wish. See our disclaimer and citations section below.

" The software is not very user-friendly and it's also a very complex to setup.[1] "
- Pega review on G2
" The filtering capabilities on custom dashboards is very limited, the custom search results can be improved.[2] "
- Pega review on G2
" The platform is only viable for top 500 companies and is hard to learn and upskill beyond the basics due to a lack of content on the internet.[3] "
- Pega review on G2
" There is not an extensive developer community to find any specific answers and tutorials.[4] "
- Pega review on G2
" The software can be expensive, particularly for small and mid-sized businesses. The licensing fees, implementation costs, and ongoing maintenance costs can add up quickly, making it difficult for some organizations to justify the investment.[5] "
- Pega review on G2
" Certain processes for a customer couldn't be done in the software and another software had to be used. It would be improved if all processes could be done through the software.[6] "
Programmer within the Information Technology and Services industry with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Pega review on Capterra
" To solve very specific needs of your application you need to adapt to the limits of this tool since you do not write code in it. Likewise, its continuous integration has issues.[7] "
- Pega review on Capterra
" As the software releases new updated versions, the old applications built on lower versions need to be upgraded then some issues are introduced as some rules are deprecated. The main problem with the software is learning and tool cost. It's very difficult to contact support team. For small companies it is very difficult to purchase.[8] "
Education Management industry with 10,001+ employees
- Pega review on Capterra
" Developing in the software isn't the worst, but unless you're running in their cloud env it's a massive PITA to manage. Documentation is terrible for anything more than the most basic things.[9] "
Former developer
- Pega review on Reddit
" They make some of the easiest tasks harder than it has to be. I don't understand how they can claim to be low code and expect "citizen" devs to pick it up with no issues. The platform could not pass properties back and forth between the Robotics modules.[10] "
- Pega review on Reddit
" Missing any details from deployments meant that users were confused about changes or faced errors/bugs that were unexpected - the software could have tried harder to ensure that the end users knew how to use the app and how the updates would affect them in their roles. Bugs were often timely to fix and had a massive impact to the customer journey which in return took time to win back the customers trust (if at all).[11] "
- Pega review on Gartner Peer Insights
" The instructions NEVER match up with what is shown in the application. I spend half an hour looking everywhere for the buttons that they claim exist, but they are nowhere to be found. It's packed full of unintelligible jargon because they felt this need to over complicate everything. The naming conventions used are awful. The UI design is just so horrible, especially for a company that is trying to sell itself on being UI experts.[12] "
- Pega review on TrustRadius
" The learning curve is extremely steep and the platform requires extensive training that most companies aren't willing to invest in. Even after months of training, basic tasks still feel unnecessarily complex compared to modern alternatives.[13] "
- Pega review on Reddit
" Integration nightmares with third-party systems. What should be simple API connections become multi-month projects requiring specialized consultants. The vendor lock-in is real and expensive to escape from.[14] "
- Pega review on G2
" As a developer I hated it... the skills were not marketable.[15] "
Software Developer, r/ExperiencedDevs
- BPMN discussion on Reddit
" In 99% of cases it's a solution in search of a problem, peddled by an expensive consultant.[16] "
Software Developer, r/ExperiencedDevs
- BPMN discussion on Reddit
" BPMN is a horrific solution to a problem that doesn't exist.[17] "
Software Developer, r/ExperiencedDevs
- BPMN discussion on Reddit
Pega is not transparent about their pricing

Expect sales calls and unpredictable costs. Hard to budget or compare.

See Tallyfy's transparent pricing instead
Pricing last verified: December 2025. Prices may have changed.

Tallyfy might not be right for you if...

Tallyfy isn't for everyone. Here's when it may not fit:

  • Not designed for complex case management or enterprise decision management
  • May not suit organizations requiring Pega-level AI decisioning capabilities
  • Limited for highly regulated industries needing BPMN compliance documentation
  • Best for workflow execution, not enterprise-scale application development
  • Not a replacement for Pega Customer Decision Hub or Marketing capabilities

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Skip the consultants and BPMN complexity

1. Document

Business users create workflows directly - no BPMN expertise needed. No IT bottleneck.

2. Track

Business users track progress. No developers needed.

3. Improve

Changes roll out instantly. Continuous improvement without development cycles.

Is Pega right for mid-market?

Are you hearing this at work? That's busywork

"How do I do this?" "What's the status?" "I forgot" "What's next?" "See my reminder?"
people

Enter between 1 and 150,000

hours

Enter between 0.5 and 40

$

Enter between $10 and $1,000

$

Based on $30/hr x 4 hrs/wk

Your loss and waste is:

$12,800

every week

What you are losing

Cash burned on busywork

$8,000

per week in wasted wages

What you could have gained

160 extra hours could create:

$4,800

per week in real and compounding value

Sell, upsell and cross-sell
Compound efficiencies
Invest in R&D and grow moat

Total cumulative impact over time (real cost + missed opportunities)

1yr
$665,600
2yr
$1,331,200
3yr
$1,996,800
4yr
$2,662,400
5yr
$3,328,000
$0
$1m
$2m
$3m

You are bleeding cash, annoying every employee and killing dreams.

It's a no-brainer

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Tallyfy does not charge for basic services

Need help? Unlike costly "professional services" for Pega - Tallyfy guarantees free 25-minute screen-sharing calls with workflow experts for life.

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Fair Price Guarantee

If your company is based in a country where the GDP per capita is significantly lower than the USA, we offer a discount on our pricing. This ensures fair pricing for companies worldwide.

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Switching from Pega to Tallyfy

In our experience, teams typically migrate core workflows in 6-8 weeks

1

Audit existing Pega applications to identify workflow-centric processes

2

Export process documentation and business rules definitions

3

Prioritize processes by business impact for phased migration

4

Recreate workflows in Tallyfy using visual, no-code design

5

Configure automation and conditional logic to replace Pega rules

6

Migrate by department or process area to reduce risk

The Tallyfy team provides free migration support including workflow recreation and training at no additional cost.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Pega used for?

Pega - also known as Pegasystems - is a traditional Business Process Management (BPM) platform that's been around for decades. It's typically used by large enterprises for complex process automation, but it may require significant IT resources and extensive training to implement and maintain. Unlike modern alternatives like Tallyfy, Pega's approach tends to be heavily technical and often disconnected from what business users actually need. You can learn more about simpler automation approaches that don't require complex technical expertise.

What exactly is Tallyfy and how is it different?

Tallyfy is a modern workflow management system that makes it incredibly easy to track and automate any business process. Unlike complex legacy systems, Tallyfy focuses on real-world usability and quick adoption. It eliminates workflow chaos by automatically tracking every step, helping teams save hours daily while ensuring consistent quality outcomes. The platform is designed for actual business users, not IT specialists, making it far more effective than traditional BPM tools.

Why are legacy BPM systems like Pega becoming obsolete?

Traditional BPM systems like Pega may be falling behind because they're built on outdated assumptions about how work gets done. They often rely heavily on rigid flowcharts and complex technical implementations that don't reflect real-world workflows. Modern teams need flexible, intuitive tools that can adapt quickly to change. While Pega may require months of implementation and extensive IT support, Tallyfy can be deployed in minutes using simple process launching and used effectively by anyone in your organization through intuitive task views.

Does Pega have a discount for certain countries?

Pega typically maintains standard enterprise pricing regardless of location. In contrast, Tallyfy offers thoughtful GDP-based pricing with lifetime discounts for certain countries, making it accessible to organizations worldwide. This approach ensures fair pricing based on local purchasing power, showing Tallyfy's commitment to global accessibility. Learn more about our Fair Price Guarantee and how it benefits companies in different regions.

How does Tallyfy handle process improvement?

Tallyfy makes process improvement intuitive and collaborative through its elegant commenting system. Users can provide feedback directly within workflows, which goes to process owners for review and implementation. This creates a continuous improvement cycle that's often missing in legacy systems like Pega, where changes require IT intervention and lengthy development cycles. With Tallyfy's easy template editing, you can make changes instantly, and new versions roll out with a single click using dynamic variables that adapt to your needs.

How does Tallyfy implement AI compared to Pega?

While Pega may offer AI capabilities, they're often complex and require significant technical expertise. Tallyfy takes a more practical approach, implementing AI where it makes the most sense - including automatic SOP migration, computer vision AI for automation, and intelligent workflow improvements. This focused approach delivers real value instead of just buzzword compliance, especially when combined with our powerful webhook integrations for smooth system connectivity.

What are the main problems with Pega?

Pega's main challenges include extremely high implementation costs, long deployment times (often 6+ months), heavy reliance on IT teams, complex user interfaces, and difficult integration with modern tools. Users often report feeling overwhelmed by its complexity and frustrated by the need for extensive training. These issues can lead to poor adoption rates and failed implementations. Unlike Pega's complexity, Tallyfy offers simple member management and unlimited guest access that anyone can understand.

How do I see real customer reviews of Tallyfy?

You can read authentic customer reviews and success stories at Tallyfy's customer stories page. Unlike enterprise BPM vendors who often hide behind complex case studies, Tallyfy proudly shows real feedback from actual users across various industries. These stories show how organizations have successfully replaced complex systems with our reusable snippets and streamlined processes.

Does Tallyfy offer free help and services?

Yes, Tallyfy provides free professional services and implementation support, unlike Pega which may require expensive consulting engagements. Our team helps you set up everything from organization settings to authentication systems at no extra cost. To learn more about our free services and get started, schedule a chat with our team.

How can I get started with Tallyfy?

The best way to experience Tallyfy is through a personalized demo. Our team will set up a custom instance tailored to your needs and guide you through the platform, including features like compliance management and API integration. Book your demo here to see how Tallyfy can transform your workflow management.

Can Tallyfy work alongside existing Pega implementations?

Many organizations are heavy Pega shops with significant existing investments in complex rules engines and case management. Rather than replacing Pega entirely, teams use Tallyfy for simpler operational workflows that do not require hardcore BPM infrastructure. This complementary approach lets you handle everyday processes without the overhead of enterprise BPM. Learn about integration options for connecting systems.

Why do ex-Pega professionals recommend simpler workflow tools?

Professionals who have worked extensively with Pega often advocate for simpler workflow-as-a-service approaches for standard business processes. They have seen firsthand how heavyweight BPM creates unnecessary complexity for workflows that just need tracking and task management. Tallyfy embodies this simpler philosophy while still handling sophisticated automation when needed. Explore the modern workflow approach.

Tallyfy is a far better alternative to Pega

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DISCLAIMER OF AFFILIATION, ACCURACY & LIABILITY

This page is an independent, good-faith comparative review prepared by Tallyfy, Inc. ("Tallyfy") and is based on publicly available information, third-party reviews, and vendor materials current as of January 2026. The content is offered "AS IS" for general informational purposes only and does not constitute professional, technical, or legal advice.

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