Blue Prism Cloud vs Nintex RPA comparison

SS&C Blue Prism and Nintex are both solutions in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category. SS&C Blue Prism is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.5, while Nintex is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.5. SS&C Blue Prism holds a 1.3% mindshare in RPA, compared to Nintex’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of SS&C Blue Prism users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Nintex users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 2024

Blue Prism Cloud and Nintex RPA are key competitors in the automation sector. Nintex RPA leads in user-friendliness and seamless integration, while Blue Prism Cloud has an advantage with its scalability and sophisticated features.

Features: Blue Prism Cloud stands out with Object Studio for flexible automation building, robust security, and high reusability. Its community version offers valuable enhancements, and cloud integration supports complex deployments. Nintex RPA is notable for its intuitive drag-and-drop interface, excellent integration capability, and user-friendly visual design, enabling efficient use by those without technical expertise.

Room for Improvement: Blue Prism Cloud requires a simpler licensing approach and enhanced online training. Transitioning its client-server model to a web-based control room would be beneficial. Nintex RPA could improve through better AI integration, collaboration tools, and increased mobile accessibility. Both would benefit from heightened user-friendly features and faster-paced innovation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Blue Prism Cloud provides flexible deployment options across various environments like hybrid and public clouds, with responsive customer service but limited public solutions. Nintex RPA focuses on on-premises deployment and has strong community support but offers limited flexibility.

Pricing and ROI: Blue Prism Cloud tends to have a higher price point reflective of its comprehensive offerings, resulting in a long-term ROI. Nintex RPA offers a more budget-friendly, flexible licensing model leading to immediate cost-effectiveness. Both solutions enhance process efficiency, with Nintex RPA being more affordable for dynamic environments.

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Automate

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, the mindshare of Automate is 1.6%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Blue Prism Cloud is 1.3%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nintex RPA is 1.9%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Anabel Marco

Account Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Automates processes efficiently with cost-effective scaling and robust customer support

Web scraping is quite good since it offers a lot of possibilities. Another important feature for me is its compatibility with MBI, the Power that is ISEQUADO Centers. I appreciate the ability to scale and increase the number of bots or studios without additional expense. Automate's non-reliance on additional orchestrators makes it quite cost-effective.

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Keith Mcdowell

Chief Executive Officer at Keith F Kube and Associates

It helps us save on staff costs

I rate Blue Prism Cloud eight out of 10 for ease of setup. It's a cloud-based solution, so it isn't hard to set up. The deployment time is hard to quantify because I work for the government, and we need to go through all these internal reviews, but the technical part takes three to four weeks. The biggest challenge is security because we need to integrate it with Active Directory and set up VPN tunnels, security profiles, etc. We deployed Blue Prism in-house and used three people to set it up. One solution engineer is enough to maintain it.

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Damilola Adeleye

Business Automation Developer at Polaris Bank Nigeria Plc

Easy to use and clear documentation with notes explaining each step available

Areas, where I see some room for improvement would be the use of reading details from an Excel file. Most of the time, it's difficult when I say looping through a huge data set, and it's very difficult for the bot to interact with those data sets unless it starts offering the Excel file. As of today, from the reports I've worked with, I noticed that most reports are empty columns and two rows. So if Kryon can associate with that and extract those deposits into a variable, and the tools can easily fit out to column dash and two rows and columns, it will be nice. But as of today, the bot doesn't have the functionality to detect variables. We have to do it on the Excel file itself. I also noticed that when it comes to the use of bots, not everyone has the same knowledge, and it can be difficult to do certain research unless you have advanced knowledge of what you need to do. I also noticed that in the community, most people don't use it, and it's quite difficult when you need certain support.

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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

"The most valuable feature is the drag-and-drop interface, which is very Windows-like."

"The most valuable features of Fortra's Automate include its FTP functionality and file manipulation capabilities."

"It's very easy to use. That's a big selling point for it. It has got a drag-and-drop interface, so you can quickly deploy bots."

"The ability to connect to websites and pull data is the solution's most valuable feature."

"Overall, the whole product is really nice and provides significant benefits."

"I find the ease of use from a programming perspective very valuable."

"The pricing is excellent. I would give them perfect marks in that regard."

"Web scraping is quite good since it offers a lot of possibilities."

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"Blue Prism Cloud is an easy to access and user-friendly solution."

"Once it does the monitor, it collects the respective data and creates an output that is required for reconfiguration."

"It provides good, clean data that enhances our AI initiatives."

"Its AI features allow customers to find specific documents via an index."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to write custom code."

"The technical support team of Blue Prism Cloud is very good...I rate the support a ten out of ten."

"It is secure and supports unattended mode of operations."

"It is an easily scalable solution."

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"We took a very complex business area, and every activity in it which can be done automatically is being replaced by the robot instead of people working on it."

"The bot is typically about twice as fast as a person and more accurate, as long as the data going in is good. That is the biggest advantage."

"The user-friendly environment allows for easy learning, and the end-to-end workflow management is excellent."

"We are able to cope with our clients's demands. No matter how much volume they throw at us, we are able to get it done quickly."

"Attended automation has diverted 34 percent of training calls to our tech support centers."

"The initial setup process is easy."

"The friendliness of the software is good because people without any technical background can start off on it. This solution makes it easy for us to use it, as there is no learning curve. With no learning curve, the development time turnaround decreases."

"While we have only explored the simple use cases so far, Nintex RPA has good integration capabilities, such as working well with Gmail and Outlook to automate document handling and notifications."

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Cons

"There is room for improvement regarding cloud functionality; there are a few missing features, and the logging could be better, especially air logging. We can go into logging events and create our own task, but it would be nice if this were more detailed."

"I find that most important features are strong, however, there is a lack of good development for artificial intelligence, such as machine learning."

"Sometimes when we communicate with the ERP system and there is an issue, we are not always aware of the specifics of Automate and the source of the problem."

"It's possible that they could use a stronger community for seeking guidance and help."

"While this solution is continually improving, as it is now, the user interface could use improvement when I compare it to a product like UiPath."

"There is a lack of good development for artificial intelligence, such as machine learning."

"I would like the updates to be easier to deploy. Integration with Amazon S3 is somewhat lacking."

"The technical support could be better. We suffer from language barriers, as we are in Argentina."

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"They should improve the user-friendliness and they should change their business model."

"They should work on the solution's pricing."

"Decipher, one of their solutions, is a waste of time."

"Improvement should be per customer requirements."

"There is room for improvement in the speed."

"I believe they need to become more competitive within the market in order to maintain their market share. We were essentially a Blue Prism shop and sold Blue Prism, but because of the price point, many clients are now looking at competitors."

"I think that there are some improvements in the product performance that are needed in Blue Prism Cloud...The initial setup of the product needs a lot of time and effort."

"The version control could be improved and made consistent. There is a discrepancy between the versions on premise and the cloud versions."

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"The product requires some more time in development. It still has some bugs and some things to work out. They're constantly releasing. They need to continue working out the general issues of using the product at scale, first and foremost."

"Extracting meaningful data requires significant effort. You need a dedicated business analyst who can understand the output."

"At first, we had problems with the object detection but in this latest release it has been better, and I think it keeps getting better."

"The only unstable part is Studio where you build this stuff. In our version, the 5.25. It has a memory leak. If you leave it open for too long, eventually it just freezes. Saving your work, closing, and opening it just once a day is all it takes. However, this is a bug that I have noticed about the stability of the actual tool."

"Kryon could be easier to use, especially in comparison to UiPath."

"Nintex RPA is not suitable for PDF automation."

"We use Google Drive a lot. If somebody sends us a spreadsheet or a document, it's going to be in Google’s format. It's not going to be in Microsoft Office format. But currently, there's no integration with Google’s documents. That would be a huge plus to have."

"Often, it's difficult to loop through a large data set unless the bot has access to the Excel file with specific settings and shortcodes."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It comes with a package that costs approximately $20,000 USD per year."

"I like the way this solution is priced because you can buy a license, or you can buy the software outright."

"While solutions like UiPath and Blue Prism cost around $11,000-$12,000 for each license, this product costs around $7,000 and you can keep it forever."

"I believe the price falls within a reasonable range, which significantly influenced our decision regarding the product. This aspect is crucial for any technological solution, especially in our country where enterprises might be hesitant to invest heavily in something untested or uncertain about its practicality and potential returns."

"It has gone up in price. The price of Fortra's Automate has increased since we first started using it. It does a lot but also costs a lot. It was a lot more affordable before Fortra owned the software."

"Once you buy the software, you just pay for the support for backend help."

"I'm only involved in running the product and maintaining the systems, so I can't speak to the cost."

"The cost is a bit high for a small business like ours, but we manage with Fortra's Automate."

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"The licensing of the solution is on a subscription-based model and costs around 4,999 for one bot's license. If someone wants to increase the number of bots you want from Blue Prism, then they provide a discount."

"There are many RPA solutions available from different vendors and the pricing for Blue Prism is competitive."

"Blue Prism Cloud’s pricing is fine for commercial usage."

"The pricing is fine."

"Though I don't have many details, I think Blue Prism Cloud is an expensive product compared to the other tools in the market since you need to pay for resources like machines."

"I would rate the pricing a five out of ten, with one being cheap and ten being expensive."

"I am not sure how we are set up today, but I recall we had an annual License."

"We found the pricing reasonable, and it aligned with our budgetary requirements."

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"We've more than broken even over on the license. Year to date, we are at $120,000 in savings."

"We have a yearly license. It's about $5,000 per year."

"Licensing costs are about $100,000 a year without any additional costs."

"Kryon is slightly more expensive compared to UiPath."

"Can't beat the price... There are different pricing levels for every bot or unattended bot. You can buy however many you want. You'll need an additional virtual machine for it to work on."

"In addition to the standard licensing costs, there are manpower costs."

"We're paying in the neighborhood of about $66,000 a year. The cost is fairly similar to its competitors' costs. It might have been a little bit more reasonable than the others, and that cost was with Process Discovery in addition."

"For an unattended robot it's $6000 a month."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about HelpSystems AutoMate?

We use it for specific cases, mainly secure file transfers, which are vital for us. And it works for us.

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What is your primary use case for HelpSystems AutoMate?

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The pricing is quite good compared to its competitors. Competitors are often more expensive than Automate. I would ra...

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What do you like most about Blue Prism Cloud?

It's easy to use, the interface, the the the the queries is which we use. It's user friendly.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Blue Prism Cloud?

If we utilize Blue Prism's full capabilities, then it is cost-effective. Otherwise, the pricing can seem high. It req...

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What needs improvement with Blue Prism Cloud?

Decipher, one of their solutions, is a waste of time. Other than that, there's nothing specific I can think of.

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Also Known As

HelpSystems Automate, Automate

Blue Prism Thoughtonomy Virtual Workforce, Blue Prism Virtual Workforce, Thoughtonomy Virtual Workforce

Kryon RPA

Overview

Automate offers a user-friendly solution with a drag-and-drop interface for efficient task automation and integration with major platforms like SAP and Azure, making it ideal for quick deployment with minimal coding and training.

Automate provides powerful features for businesses seeking efficient automation, offering compatibility with databases, email integration, and cloud platforms. Its simple interface supports both beginners and experienced users, simplifying tasks like invoice processing, HR automation, and data transformation. Cost-effective pricing and flexible licensing enhance its appeal while integration capabilities and scheduling tools ensure smooth workflow automation.

What are Automate's Key Features?

Drag-and-Drop Interface: Simplifies automation with intuitive design.
Integration Capabilities: Connects with platforms like SAP and Azure for seamless data flow.
Database and FTP Triggers: Enhances automation potential through direct data interaction.
Efficient Scheduling: Automates tasks with precise timing and control.
Web Scraping: Automates data extraction for quick analysis and reporting.

What Benefits and ROI Should Users Expect?

Rapid Deployment: Minimizes coding efforts for quick implementation.
Cost-Effectiveness: Offers flexible pricing models to suit budget constraints.
Operational Efficiency: Reduces manual workloads and enhances productivity.
Comprehensive Integration: Facilitates improved data management across systems.
Scalability: Adapts to growing business needs with ease.

In industries such as healthcare, banking, and logistics, Automate is used for tasks like invoice payment automation, data transformation, and task automation. This leads to streamlined processes and reduced manual workload, illustrating its value in enhancing operational efficiency through diversified workflows.

Fortra

The Thoughtonomy Virtual Workforce is a highly flexible intelligent automation platform. It uses software to replicate the way people work in existing applications and systems, the processes they follow, and the decisions they make, to deliver automation without disruption.

SS&C Blue Prism

Using Nintex RPA, enterprises can leverage trained bots to quickly and cost-effectively automate routine tasks without the use of code in an easy-to-use drag and drop interface. Users are now equipped with a comprehensive, enterprise-grade process management and automation solution that streamlines processes fueled by both structured and unstructured data sources.

Nintex

Sample Customers

Aldergrove Financial Group, Preferred Health Professionals, Mindbeam Technologies, First Credit Union in British Columbia, Vestcom International, Prime Liberty Benefits, University of Tampa, CNLBancshares, World Precision Instruments, BJ's Restaurants, Globe Pequot Press, Accudata Technologies, Norton Healthcare, Pacific Toxicology Laboratories

Cabot Credit Management, Hovis, Utilita

Amazon, Audi, Chevron, Toyota, Uber, Walmart

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