Stop burning engineering hours on DRL file edits, test harnesses, and redeployments. Nected migrates your existing rules in 2–3 weeks, hands rule ownership to your product and ops teams, and runs at $105K–$283K/year instead of $588K–$1.5M.
| Easy-to-use UI/UX | Value for money | Customer support | |
|---|---|---|---|
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No-code rule editor | No-code rule editor | 24/7 support + migration help |
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Needs DRL + Java skills | Free, but high setup cost | Community support only |
Before you invest more time and money into Drools, consider what staying costs you
Total Cost of Ownership
$588,000
cumulative
$882,000
cumulative
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$90,000
cumulative
$410,000
cumulative
Additonal Fixed Cost
| Middleware & Databases | $60K-$180K | $100K-$250K | $0 (included) | $40K-$120K |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Implementation (one-time) | $80K-$200K | $50K-$130K | $15K | $60K-$180K |
| Training & Onboarding | $48K-$144K | $0 | $0 | $30K-$100K |
| Enterprise-grade custom dev & maintenance | $50K-$150K | $0 (built in) | $0 (built in) | $40K-$120K |
Recurring Annual Costs
| License + Support per year | $0-$80K | $120K-$325K | $50K | $0-$150K |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infra per year (100 tps baseline) | $85K-$105K | $70K-$95K | $25K | $50K-$80K |
| Ops & Admin per year | $100K-$200K | $100K-$133K | $0 | $50K-$100K |
| Change Mgmt & Deployments per year | $100K-$200K | $100K-$175K | $0 | $80K-$180K |
Real reviews from real teams. Left side — life with Drools. Right side — life after switching.
Alex Morgan
Teamhead Product Development, Puma Group
"Every rule change required developer intervention. Even simple logic updates meant touching DRL files and triggering redeployments. There was no way for business teams to own anything."
Sara Reid
Engineering Lead, Delta Solutions
"Adapting to changing requirements meant touching DRL files and redeploying services. Our iteration speed suffered every single sprint."
James Kim
Senior Developer, Apex Corp
"You need strong Java and DRL knowledge just to get productive. Onboarding new engineers took significantly longer than it should have."
Kishore K.
Digital Marketing Manager, Mid-Market
"Nected helps us create baseline rules for our business that automate all the workflows we need. We're able to build day-to-day systems that every team follows — the whole process runs with far less friction now."
Verified G2 Review
Shruti S.
Operations Manager, Mid-Market
"The interface is simple and beginner-friendly. Technical and non-technical employees both use it — no one needs to know how to code. New joiners pick it up with minimal training."
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Rakshit P.
Team Manager, IT & Services
"Managing workflows used to take a lot of time. Since moving to Nected, we're significantly more efficient. Even new members understand the workflow quickly — the UI makes it obvious."
Verified G2 Review
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At Nected, we don't just offer another automation tool — we provide a frustration-free alternative to rigid, outdated decision engines, built around how real teams actually work.
Cloud SaaS on AWS (US East default; EU on Growth+). Self-hosted on Enterprise — Docker, Kubernetes, on-prem on your VPC. Air-gapped deployments supported for regulated industries.
Yes — that's the point. Product, ops, and compliance teams build rules in our visual editor without code. Engineering owns integration once; non-engineers own rules forever.
Growth: 99.5%. Enterprise and Self-Hosted: 99.95%+ with custom SLAs.
All three, across every tier — not just Enterprise. Reports available under NDA.
All three, across every tier — not just Enterprise. Reports available under NDA.
Cloud SaaS on AWS (US East default; EU on Growth+). Self-hosted on Enterprise — Docker, Kubernetes, on-prem on your VPC. Air-gapped deployments supported for regulated industries.
Yes — that's the point. Product, ops, and compliance teams build rules in our visual editor without code. Engineering owns integration once; non-engineers own rules forever.
Growth: 99.5%. Enterprise and Self-Hosted: 99.95%+ with custom SLAs.
All three, across every tier — not just Enterprise. Reports available under NDA.
All three, across every tier — not just Enterprise. Reports available under NDA.
Cloud SaaS on AWS (US East default; EU on Growth+). Self-hosted on Enterprise — Docker, Kubernetes, on-prem on your VPC. Air-gapped deployments supported for regulated industries.
Yes — that's the point. Product, ops, and compliance teams build rules in our visual editor without code. Engineering owns integration once; non-engineers own rules forever.
Growth: 99.5%. Enterprise and Self-Hosted: 99.95%+ with custom SLAs.
All three, across every tier — not just Enterprise. Reports available under NDA.
All three, across every tier — not just Enterprise. Reports available under NDA.
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