Fluent by Apryse vs Docmosis
A Definitive Comparison in 2025

Creating Templates

Docmosis lets you quickly iterate on the development of a template, while Apryse’s Fluent takes a more complex, technical approach.

Fluent by Apryse comes with 21 pre-made templates and requires a Fluent Designer plugin.

The plugin supports template creation with only with Microsoft Office tools: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. While these interfaces might feel familiar, the plugin’s features require a high level of technical competence, you need to familiarize yourself with Fluent’s auto-tag and Wizard features, learn to configure and connect with databases, and have a good grasp of data structures.

On the other hand, Docmosis has a document gallery with 43 document templates that include:

• invoices,
• proposals,
• certificates,
• and business letters.

Many of these are made by Docmosis and come with sample data for testing. Docmosis also provides the ability to generate sample data based on the fields in the template, either via the user interface or via the API.

You can create templates from scratch using LibreOffice Writer or Microsoft Word by adding plain-text placeholders to create the merge fields. When uploaded to Docmosis, they can be easily tested with the sample data to see what the final document will look like once generated. Also, creating conditional statements for content and injecting data into table rows requires only a few lines of code.

The final document retains the formatting applied to merge fields in your template (which we cover in depth in the next section).

Quality of Export

Apryse’s Fluent supports multiple output formats with lower template to document conversion accuracy, while Docmosis supports fewer output formats but offers a higher conversion accuracy.

Fluent by Apryse can output documents in various formats, including DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, and HTML. In addition to that, it also does RFT and direct-to-printer.

When it comes to the quality of document exports, Apryse’s Fluent is acceptable for basic docs with limited formatting and simple tables. However, when working with complex documents, the final output can look quite different from the original template. For example, logos can get resized or moved, font types changed, and column widths expanded.

This means that, after investing time designing templates, they’ll end up looking different in the output, which defeats the purpose of a template-based process.

Meanwhile, Docmosis focuses on the following document-based outputs: PDF, DOCX, ODT, and TXT.

Unlike Apryse’s Fluent, the generated documents look like the initial template, for simple and multi-page documents alike.

This gives you the flexibility and control expected of a template-based approach, knowing that your hard work will be reflected in the final document.

Data Sources

For input data, Fluent by Apryse connects with multiple databases, while Docmosis primarily supports JSON and XML data.

Docmosis accepts data in XML and JSON formats, making it compatible with most modern custom-built software applications. It offers an easy-to-use API for connecting with other apps and third-party tools. However, it doesn’t provide as many built-in integrations as Apryse’s Fluent.

**Update: Docmosis also provides a Zapier integration, enabling it to connect easily with thousands of apps (e.g., HubSpot, Tally, Pipedrive, Salesforce). This significantly expands its integration capabilities.

Fluent by Apryse is very flexible when it comes to data sources. In addition to its API, it connects directly with JSON, XML, SQL, Oracle, DB2, and other databases to inject data into templates in real time. Unlike Docmosis, Apryse’s Fluent can combine data from multiple sources into a single template, which makes it more flexible.

Resources & Support

Fluent’s resources are outdated, but their support is reliable. Docmosis offers organized resources and excellent support.

Having a well-organized help section means seamless troubleshooting, done by end-users themself. This helps take the load off higher-level decision-makers and removes bottlenecks since the person encountering issues can also resolve them.

As Fluent (previously Windward Studios) is part of the larger Apryse group, finding specific resources is challenging due to unintuitive organization. The knowledge base also isn’t frequently updated, which leads to confusion and lengthy troubleshooting sessions. On the other hand, users praised the customer support team when it was under Windward.

Unlike Apryse’s Fluent, Docmosis’ resource section is neatly structured and organized, with filters that make it easy to find resources according to products (Cloud, Tornado, and Java) and their different versions.

Plus, Docmosis has comprehensive, easy-to-follow, and frequently updated documentation for quickly resolving issues. Their customer support team is also prompt, providing detailed responses with specific examples and templates. It has been described as brilliant and excellent several times. Check out the user reviews on Capterra here.

Price & Free Trial

Docmosis has a long free-trial period and the best value paid plans. Fluent’s pricing plans are hidden.

Fluent’s free trial lasts for 30 days. During this period, generated documents have the watermarks and/or Fluent logo at the bottom.

Similar to Apryse’s Fluent, Docmosis also offers a free 30-day trial. However, Docmosis gives full access to its features, without any form of branding in the headers and footers, and no watermarks. And the trial period can even be extended if needed.

Currently, Fluent’s (or Apryse’s) paid plans are hidden. Before it was rebranded as Fluent by Apryse, as at April 2023 (the last time they were public) the starting price for the Windward Engine was $6,790 per year. Editing templates required an MS Word add-in, called the Windward Designer, which had an additional cost of $730 per user per year. This means that the number of template authors needed to be known and licensed in advance.

Fluent’s architecture includes separate components:

• Fluent Designer,
• Fluent Manager,
• and Fluent Engine.

While the Fluent Designer (used for creating templates in Microsoft Word) is likely to have per-user pricing, the Fluent Engine is licensed based on usage volume. Fluent Manager‘s pricing and licensing are less clearly defined and may vary depending on deployment or support needs.

Fluent offers a RESTful Engine and Java Engine, similar to the Docmosis Tornado and Docmosis-Java, but unlike Fluent, Docmosis requires only a one-time license payment starting at $3,695. For support and updates, Docmosis offers an optional package, starting at $1,478 annually. Unlike Fluent, where the license fees need to be paid every year, if you don’t take the optional renewal, the Docmosis software will continue to run indefinitely.

Docmosis Cloud (a cloud solution that Fluent doesn’t offer) pricing is completely transparent. It unlocks all features on each plan; the only difference between them is in the number of users and work environments. Each plan’s price is based on the monthly page generation (with unlimited input templates):

This simply means if you generated two documents with Docmosis, one document with 4 pages and the other with 6 pages, a total of 10 pages will count towards your quota.