Microsoft Power Automate vs UiPath comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate are key competitors in the automation platform category. Microsoft Power Automate is often seen as having an edge due to its advanced features, while UiPath is commended for pricing and support.

Features: UiPath is recognized for its extensive automation capabilities, strong integrations, and user-friendly scalability. Microsoft Power Automate stands out with robust cloud integration, an extensive connector library, and seamless compatibility with the Microsoft ecosystem.

Room for Improvement: UiPath could enhance cloud infrastructure, performance on complex workflows, and its interface for complex processes. Microsoft Power Automate requires better handling of complex automation scenarios, an improved interface for non-technical users, and more intuitive workflow design tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: UiPath offers straightforward deployment and effective customer service, especially for users familiar with automation. Microsoft Power Automate benefits from seamless Microsoft environment integration, though it could improve customer support services.

Pricing and ROI: UiPath is cost-effective, offering flexible solutions and high ROI. Microsoft Power Automate, while perceived as higher in cost due to tiered pricing, is worthwhile for companies deeply integrated with Microsoft services, promising enhanced productivity and considerable ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Microsoft Power Automate vs. UiPath Report (Updated: December 2024).

Microsoft Power Automate vs. UiPath

December 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Power Automate

Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

2nd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

125

Ranking in other categories

Process Mining (2nd)

UiPath

Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

815

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, the mindshare of Microsoft Power Automate is 21.2%, down from 21.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UiPath is 26.4%, up from 25.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Q&A Highlights

reviewer1749891

Works at Arcadis

Jan 27, 2022

Which one to choose, Power Automate or UiPath, for unattended and attended bots implementation for a simple RPA use case?

Uipath

Provides valuable integration with other Microsoft tools

Featured Reviews

Gowtham J

Associate - Analytics at Ernst & Young

The initial setup process involves three trigger points. One is a manual trigger, where users interact with a button or interface element to start the flow. The second is the recurrence trigger, which allows users to schedule automated maintenance at a specific time. Third is a data-driven trigger, where the flow is initiated based on an event in a database, such as creating a new line item in SharePoint database. Once triggered, the flow continues to execute, performing the configured actions and providing the results.

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NicolasSandros

Director of Data ANI at Freudenberg Sealing Technologies

Has a lot of use cases, great automation capabilities, and helpful support

I'd rate the initial setup eight out of ten. It's pretty easy to implement. We use Azure Virtual Machines to deploy the robots and usually use a lot of the Azure services in conjunction with the robots. The cloud is on UiPath's automation cloud. That's where we have our servers - to manage the robust deployed data on multiple virtual machines. In terms of maintenance, there are always releases and updates, and then you can usually design your own robots to watch over the other robots, which is really interesting. You have the flexibility to make your own monitoring; if it sees something wrong, you can enter a ticket and then dispatch it to the support team to respond to it. My whole developer team is involved in maintenance; however, I have specific support team members. There's 28 developers and seven support team members in that group.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I find WinAutomation's linear approach to the code and function calling valuable."

"It helps with the feedback mechanism, where we need to determine the relevant team and obtain their email addresses."

"It comes as a part of the Microsoft suite, which makes it an easy sell."

"The most valuable feature is the Office connector, which connects to Excel and Exchange."

"The best feature of the tool is that it is generic, so it allows one to do as he wishes."

"Its usability is very valuable because it has a quite simple flow. It is very user-friendly. It provides you templates. I started learning with the help of Teams templates, and then I started providing them. It is always good to start with a template so that you understand how it works. Its branches are quite user-friendly. You can put expressions in it. It allows you to link and test the flow so that you can check whether everything is running properly. From a business standpoint, Power Automate is quite good for a non-tech person. It is not like Java, HTML, or C++, which are very developer-driven. Power Automate is a more business-oriented kind of tool."

"It's not hard to learn, which means we'll be able to make more workflows in the future."

"The solution is very easy to use. It's a code three platform that works very easily with documents to create custom automations."

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"Human error was greatly reduced and the solution saves a significant amount of time, these are the two main reasons we started using UiPath."

"The solution reduces human error significantly."

"UiPath is a user-friendly solution."

"The Orchestrator is great because you schedule it, and that's it, you don't have to worry about it."

"The cloud feature is valuable. Automation Hub and AI fabric are also good features."

"The main focus was improving efficiency. Once you focus more on redundant paths, having a bot doing it over and over again, that eliminates human error every now and then. There is definitely a huge ROI in that. Our main focus was low-hanging fruit. By low hanging fruit, I mean the redundant processes that users are just annoyed by when they go in every day and have to do it. There has definitely been a huge ROI because we are trying to free up a lot of the project managers for construction to do more focused stuff there rather than job cost details."

"In terms of ease of use, I would rate the solution five out of five. It's really intuitive and any people that have the basics of coding can handle it."

"The most valuable feature is UiPath's integration with the AI chatbot for automating customer service in our web applications. We directly integrate ChatGPT to talk to the customer because it performs better than our old Python-based chatbot, which was really slow."

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Cons

"I've had issues with reordering columns. When I tried to do it, it seemed to take a long time, and then, later, it gave me some kind of error."

"Power Automate is too complicated - it forces you to go through extra tasks instead of streamlining your workflow."

"If the product had onscreen help, it would be easier to learn and use."

"They can improve the description of errors and provide more details. Sometimes, when I receive an error, I can't understand what is wrong. It would be useful to have a desktop version to modify or edit workflows. Its scalability can also be better."

"They can build more templates and more connectivity with other platforms. They can provide a more user-friendly way to connect with other platforms. They have their own in-built plugins for certain third-party vendors, but there are still a lot of third-party vendors that are not there."

"It doesn't have any OCR capabilities."

"They need to come up with a little more on AI and precision discovery path to be able to record the processes."

"While working with big data, when we have structured data like logs, we have to work with an ETL tool before manipulating the data and creating the workflows and the forms. This can be improved. Big data support is something that I'd like to be covered a lot."

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"Currently, UiPath doesn't provide automatic notifications for known bugs in new releases."

"You can't get the response that you want until the people in the field decide that they want to change and adopt it. That will be the challenge. Managing the change is huge for us. It's always an obstacle. It's not that, can you automate something, it's more of a question of, internally, will they let you automate something?"

"There's room for enhancement, particularly in the support department and in the area of reporting, to provide a more robust product for gathering insights."

"If I can get a little bit more data and a little bit more customization on Orchestrator, that would be really great."

"Its price is high compared to many other tools. When we go for any additional capability, everything comes at additional pricing. As a package, they can provide something that helps with scalability in terms of bot addition."

"Since we are still in the early stages of using UiPath, identifying areas for improvement is challenging."

"There are instances when the introduction of new features or concepts can be a bit overwhelming for users."

"We ran into issues during the upgrade. It was not warned before."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It comes with the Microsoft suite. I'd rate it an eight out of ten in terms of pricing."

"I give the cost a three out of ten."

"The solution is free with Microsoft 365."

"The solution is $150 per month for the unattended add-on, and the normal Power Automate comes with an E3 license."

"Microsoft is providing an automatic license with a cost of $20 million per month, which is reasonable."

"This solution is bundled with our Office 365, so there is no additional licensing fee."

"The licensing cost for us at this time is between $8 and $20 per user, per month."

"I believe one of the advantages of this device is its low cost."

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"It is cheaper than Microsoft Power Automate and saves us between 50 and 70 percent on costs. UiPath's pricing is moderate and something everyone can afford."

"We license the use of the product on a yearly basis. The licensing we bought costs $7000 in 2019 for what we have in production. That is the cost of the license plus Studio."

"Its price is fair, but I would prefer it to be lower."

"I hope in the future the costing will be trimmed down, especially on Studio."

"Compared to other solutions, the pricing is moderate."

"In the initial days, UiPath was more competitive in terms of the license pricing as compared to Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere; it was much less. Currently, the pricing is quite standard compared to the other two vendors."

"If UiPath really wants to put Attended Robots out to everyone, there will be a cost issue. We have some that we are testing now and what their effect will be. However, these are the robots where the license model needs to change before we go full throttle in that direction."

"We would like to see improvement on the ROI, as we need to free up resources. Too many man-hours are being spent on trivial tasks which could be automated."

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Answers from the Community

reviewer1749891

Works at Arcadis

Jan 27, 2022

Which one to choose, Power Automate or UiPath, for unattended and attended bots implementation for a simple RPA use case?

UiPath

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Huang YC

Engineer at MIBA

Jan 12, 2022

Uipath

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Software Consultant at TANGENT SOLUTIONS

Jan 27, 2022

UiPath

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Financial Services Firm

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Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

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Computer Software Company

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

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I am evaluating Blue Prism and UiPath for RPA for my company. Which one do you recommend?

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What do you like most about UiPath?

UiPath is user-friendly, meaning even without coding knowledge, we only need basic logic understanding.

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Also Known As

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Overview

Microsoft Power Automate is a powerful tool that streamlines and automates tasks within an organization.

It is used for workflow automation, data integration, and creating automated notifications and approvals.

Power Automate connects different applications and services, such as SharePoint, Excel, and Outlook, to automate data transfer and synchronization.

UiPath is a user-friendly automation software that streamlines business processes by automating repetitive tasks. It offers extensive automation capabilities, seamless integration with other systems, and robust security measures.

Users appreciate its intuitive design, ease of use, and ability to automate complex workflows.

Its seamless integration with various applications ensures smooth data exchange and enhances workflow management, while strong security measures protect sensitive data and maintain compliance with industry standards.

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