IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) vs Robocorp comparison

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IBM and Sema4.ai are both solutions in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category. IBM is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.0, while Sema4.ai is ranked #32. IBM holds a 2.0% mindshare in RPA, compared to Sema4.ai’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 84% of Sema4.ai users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 2024

IBM Robotic Process Automation and Robocorp compete in the automation market. While IBM RPA offers comprehensive integration with special features like Watson, Robocorp stands out with its cost-effective Python-based platform, appealing to developers.

Features: IBM RPA offers integration with its ecosystem, easy human-bot orchestration, and Watson for document insights and business analytics. Robocorp provides flexibility through Python, ease of integration with Selenium, and supports customized code and library creation.

Room for Improvement: IBM RPA requires better AI and machine learning integration for exception handling and improved browser independence, along with enhanced support and guidance. Robocorp needs to be more user-friendly for non-technical users and expand its library offerings, along with simplifying deployment and improving community tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM RPA supports hybrid and on-premises deployment with a broad support network and training, though some users face technical support challenges. Robocorp focuses on cloud deployment but lacks robust support, highlighting service improvement opportunities.

Pricing and ROI: IBM RPA offers flexible licensing with Virtual Processor Core pricing, delivering quick ROI despite sometimes high costs. Robocorp's pay-as-you-go model aligns with varied needs, providing affordability and quicker ROI.

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Automation Anywhere

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, the mindshare of Automation Anywhere is 5.2%, down from 9.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is 2.0%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Robocorp is 1.1%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Automation Anywhere	5.2%
IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA)	2.0%
Robocorp	1.1%
Other	91.7%

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

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Venkat Sivaprakash

Management Consultant at Accenture

Has significantly improved document-driven workflows and reduced processing time across finance and HR functions

Automation Anywhere has evolved significantly and upgraded itself to provide agentic AI and AI-based automation solutions for document automation. The product has matured considerably over time. We can create workflows that can call an API. We can include prompts in particular workflows for ChatGPT-related functions, connecting to an LLM and RAG to perform tasks. For document automation, modern features are available to train documents, ensuring high accuracy and repeatability over time. The system is very easy to use. I recently completed a course in document automation, typically designed for people involved in coding and technical aspects. Though I understand coding comprehensively, I don't do actual coding. The course was very accessible. Currently, extensive coding isn't necessary due to the hybrid model incorporating GenAI aspects, low-code, no-code capabilities, APIs, and numerous pre-built objects in Automation Anywhere. The features include GenAI-driven prompting methods and workflow creation capabilities. In these workflows, we can create decision boxes and call APIs without coding. We simply pull objects, drop them, connect them, and add minimal coding when needed. The most crucial aspect isn't coding but rather sizing the automation and fleshing out the details. Automation Co-pilot takes notes and performs automated analysis. It can extract details from videos, summarize conversations, and provide detailed information. During calls, it identifies instructions and performs tasks such as preparing reports and reconciliation. Automation Anywhere can also connect with Microsoft Co-pilot. Through Co-pilot, real-time operations can be executed, allowing direct interaction between vendors and automation through this component.

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Mohamed-Abdelwahed

Business Solutions Manager at valleysoft

Has improved analytics and reporting but needs better integration and support

To improve IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for the next release, there should be more integration with external systems, and more integration with IBM's data and AI platforms is needed. There is an AI part in IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for Machine Learning, but IBM has another platform specifically for data and AI, which is integrated right now. More features are hoped for in the future.

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Mohammed Zaman

Senior Lead Developer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

It's easy to create Python libraries and custom scripts for a particular client and general use cases

We've had conversations with the head of Robocorp over Slack about things we want to improve. We want to introduce some packages, but the authentication tokens and many other things are not there. We can do it in Python, but the custom packages are unavailable. We would also like an integrated PDF reader and better integration with custom solutions. The built-in Excel customization is limited, but we can still accomplish what we want using Python. We must rely on Python to customize processes in Robocorp. I don't know about the latest IDE from Robocorp, but the old one doesn't have a lot of activities. I don't know if they have updated the UI in the latest version, but they could improve that. The UI selector isn't that great. It would be nice to take elements from the console and customize parts. Everything is based on command lines, which I do not like. A flow chart with block items would be good for optimizing code. I would also like more support tools for developers so it's easier to understand when passing code to others.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"We can integration with other APIs, which is a good thing. This helps us with our database integration. For example, we have done an SAP integration, which is great, since SAP has a lot of manual work."

"My understanding is that the initial setup is pretty straightforward."

"Automation Anywhere has not only my organization but several customers as well, particularly the organizations from the automobile industry, benefitted in their vision to transform their business objective towards the path of digital transformation."

"One thing I really like is the the recorder where you can connect with multiple systems. The OCR is also good."

"It can be used for customer service support, data extraction, data migration, and software installation."

"It is easy to use and very scalable."

"The best feature is the drag-and-drop command. Users with less coding knowledge can also automate their end-to-end processes very easily."

"Automation Anywhere greatly improved our processing time since robots can execute process steps faster than human resources do."

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"This product definitely helps with cost optimization and brings a lot of optimization to repetitive processes."

"The good stuff about IBM is the fact that it's very easy to use, there are very nice and smart AI tools within the licensing that you don't have to pay any access. Moreover, it's more precise and more secure."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"Speed is definitely the key here, and in six weeks you can actually take a robotic solution and move it all the way into production while keeping your existing systems and teams working the way they are right now."

"The feature I found most valuable is the TCO."

"Put IBM on top of your list because we have done the analysis."

"The quality is great! It's very strong and has a very strong platform."

"I think simplicity is key. One of the things that we've noticed is how our developers have been able to quickly adopt the platform; but not only the developers or the techy people, also the business."

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"I like the fact that it's very fast. The processing speed is good, and that's what matters to me. I also like that we don't have to bother with the infrastructure setup. We don't have to care about the status of the data set, as I believe the local group will provide it. We don't care about the licensing model. We only have to care about how long we are using it."

"As a developer, I found it easy to integrate third-party applications with Robocorp. I have previous experience with Selenium, and I found the Robocorp framework to be accessible because it uses Python and Selenium keywords."

"Time complexity is reduced and the execution speed is much higher."

"It supports Python runtime because of that, runtime also improves."

"The ability to create separate organizations on this platform makes it easier to bill each of the clients separately."

"It offers high scalability and enables automation in ways that haven't been possible before."

"Robocorp is based on Python, so you can use Python scripts and create libraries for your use cases. Building libraries and custom scripts for a particular client and general use cases is easy. We can reuse those scripts for other clients, so we start seeing benefits quickly."

"I have worked with UiPath and Automation Anywhere previously. Robocorp offers an improved development style and support as well as flexibility of its tools. You can easily develop custom libraries in Robocorp."

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Cons

"We've struggled with some of the new features Automation Anywhere added in the latest version. For example, they added a new OpenAI package, but it took a while for me to find it in the actions menu."

"Automation Anywhere is unable to connect to the database directly. What we are doing now is directly writing the PL/SQL scripts and trying to push the data from the database into Automation Anywhere. This feature is available in UiPath, but not in Automation Anywhere."

"There is an issue with the object cloning in Excel. OCR is also not that stable. Image recognition works fine, but not all the time."

"20 percent of the bots need to supervised because sometimes errors occur during the run. Most of the errors that I have encountered have been because the object cloning did not capture the buttons properly."

"Automation Anywhere could improve its integration with Python and other programming languages."

"Integration with secondary environments needs to be improved or enabled."

"We have used the technical support. I am quite unhappy with the support part. The higher priority tickets are not getting resolved within the SLA. Higher priority tickets for production issues should be looked into immediately. However, until they get escalated, tickets are not receiving higher priority. I would like to see this improve."

"The technical support needs improvement."

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"IBM Robotic Process Automation should be more stable."

"I would like to improve the efficiency of this solution and the Surface Level Agreement."

"I think it's complex, and not straightforward."

"Extensibility is the key, especially in terms of the Recorders feature that we have. That should be browser independent. Enhance it because some people have Chrome, some have Internet Explorer, etc. Also, integration with PDFs: Not just the ability to read information from PDFs but the ability to write information from PDFs, make it secure, sign it, etc. Finally, if they can allow a token exchange inside the tool itself, that would help."

"My impression of the support experience is lower than middle. I would rank it as that. They need to improve their support by having more experienced level one support."

"This RPA should be under the umbrella of BPM. This is what the future should be."

"The users should be allowed to create folders in Control Center."

"Capturing GUI operations is very easy, but capturing IBM Logistics automation is hard. It does not always work with browsers or automotive applications like SAP."

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"I don't like the complexity of deployment."

"The deployment process is complex and not straightforward, especially for legacy modernization."

"The standard libraries in Robocorp should be more advanced."

"We use the latest version of the process studio and it takes up a lot of CPU storage. In our case, this has been up to 14 GB of storage."

"There are certain libraries in Python, such as those dealing with PDF automation and word files, that require the presence of certain external dependencies in the environment to be successfully used."

"Robocorp is still in development, so most of the keywords are a bit confusing. I have to alter lots of automation steps between processing and development. However, Selenium is due for an update soon, and Robcorp is addressing some of the limitations caused by the previous Selenium version."

"They should fully develop Robocorp Studio because it would attract a lot of people to the Robocorp platform."

"The solution could be more stable."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Automation Anywhere falls within a mid-range price point when compared to other RPA tools on the market."

"If you look at the capital expenditure, Automation Anywhere is number two to UiPath. But if you take a long-term view, on a scalable model of a large number of bots coming out, it slowly goes on to become the costliest tool. There is something they can do about that. The capital expenditure goes out right at the point of buying the tool. For Automation Anywhere, I would need to spend $20,000. UiPath can give me something for $6,000, while Blue Prism will come in at $300,000."

"The pricing for Automation Anywhere is reasonable."

"Our company is investing a lot of money in Automation Anywhere. They have saved money wherever humans are working. They invest a lot of money in FTEs and other logistics, so the money saving is very pretty good with Automation Anywhere. While I don't know the exact figure, the tool is saving us millions of dollars as well as saving about 40,000 hours in the last year."

"Currently, it stands as one of the more expensive RPA tools available."

"I do not know the price, but I am told that it is cheaper than UiPath."

"There may be room for the product to be more competitively priced to excel in the market."

"My only suggestion in terms of pricing is very generic and that is to consider that as much as RPA saves cost and does automation, please get a realistic estimation done on whether you are really achieving any ROI over your investment with RPA."

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"I rate the pricing ten out of ten. So, the pricing is very good for me."

"The license is paid annually."

"There is a free trial for one month, so you can use it to run your payloads or proof of concept. After that, you can pay for the license on a monthly or annual basis."

"The product has a yearly licensing fee."

"IBM licensing is annual and based on Virtual Processor Cores (VPC). This provides flexibility as part of the containerization environment."

"IBM RPA is cheaper than other tools."

"The product is reasonably priced compared to other tools."

"The pricing is reasonable for this solution."

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"The solution is a very affordable price."

"The pricing is fine."

"The product has good pricing."

"You don't have to pay for the license. You have to pay for the time you use it."

"It's a cost-effective solution."

"In terms of licenses, there is a return on investment in that area."

"Robocorp is much better in terms of pricing compared to UiPath."

"The price is cheaper than other competitors. I would rate the cost as one out of five."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Outsourcing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

10%

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	161
Midsize Enterprise	85
Large Enterprise	561

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	10

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It depends on your use case. Is it simply to automate a couple of processes? Is it to augment a human team? AA is ver...

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From my experience using AA tool, it depends on the applications that you want to automate, because there some applic...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It is a highly preferred RPA tool. You can check my Automation Anywhere Review to know more.

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Compared 16% of the time

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Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)

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Overview

Automation Anywhere offers ease of use, robust system connectivity, and GenAI-driven document automation through a cloud-native platform, significantly enhancing productivity across multiple industries with advanced AI features.

Delivering a comprehensive suite of tools designed for easy integration and rapid deployment, Automation Anywhere drives efficiency by reducing costs and automating repetitive tasks. Its cloud-native platform supports broad industry adoption, including advanced AI features like process automation and Co-Pilot, streamlining complex workflows with minimal technical skills required. Users benefit from robust integration capabilities, which facilitate seamless interaction with multiple systems. However, there is room for improvement in areas such as user-friendliness for beginners, stability, flexible licensing, and enhanced OCR functionality. Organizations in sectors such as banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare gain from the improved operational efficiency and ROI Automation Anywhere offers.

What are the important features of Automation Anywhere?

Ease of Use: Simplifies automation tasks with a user-centric interface.
Robust Connectivity: Provides seamless integration with multiple systems.
GenAI-Driven Document Automation: Leverages AI to automate document management.
Process Automation & Co-Pilot: Enhances workflow automation with advanced AI.
Cloud-Native Platform: Enables rapid deployment and integration.

What benefits should be evaluated in reviews?

Time Savings: Automation drastically reduces manual processing time.
Cost Efficiency: Decreases overall operational costs by automating tasks.
Productivity Enhancement: Streamlines workflows with AI-driven tools.
Improved Integration: Enhances ability to work with multiple systems.
Scalability: Supports growth with a flexible cloud-native architecture.

In the insurance industry, Automation Anywhere is utilized for automating processes such as enrollment management and compliance checks. Its applications extend to supply chain management, financial transactions, and business performance monitoring across sectors like banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare, helping organizations to automate routine tasks, improve efficiency, and reduce costs.

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IBM Robotic Process Automation offers intuitive drag-and-drop features and strong integration with Watson, enhancing document analysis insights. It automates routine tasks, effectively boosting workflow efficiency and user productivity. Ideal for hybrid cloud environments, setup is straightforward and error-free.

Designed to reduce coding requirements, IBM Robotic Process Automation integrates with Watson to provide valuable insights from document analysis. It's popular for automating routine tasks to enhance workflow efficiency. Users can effortlessly automate processes, benefit from cost reductions, and enjoy increased productivity without encountering errors. It seamlessly integrates with hybrid clouds while offering robust analytics through advanced dashboards. While some users suggest improvements in scheduling, integration with non-IBM systems, and AI features, the system remains a strong performer with opportunities for evolution in cost management and support documentation.

What features should be considered?

Drag-and-Drop Functionality: Simplifies automation with user-friendly interfaces.
Watson Integration: Provides insights from document analysis.
Hybrid Cloud Integration: Works efficiently within hybrid environments.
Analytics Dashboards: Delivers comprehensive performance insights.

What benefits or ROI can users expect?

Cost Reduction: Significant savings by automating manual tasks.
Productivity Increase: Boosts efficiency by handling routine processes.
Improved Morale: Reduces monotony, allowing employees to focus on strategic tasks.

IBM Robotic Process Automation is frequently deployed in finance, IT, banking, and hospitality sectors to automate financial tasks like payments and accounts processing. It's also invaluable in customer service for automating call center operations and onboarding procedures, streamlining activities in diverse industries to enhance operational efficiency.

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Robocorp offers a developer-friendly platform that integrates Python-based RPA solutions for seamless deployment and fast processing, enhancing automation efforts across industries.

Robocorp's strength lies in its API-based deployment, robust debugging, and Python architecture, making it easy to integrate with third-party applications. Users value its affordability and enhanced development style, supporting custom libraries and efficient data management. Challenges include a need for simplified navigation, better IP handling, and region selection options. Improvements are desired in CPU storage consumption and overall stability, with calls for more external package integration, intuitive IDE, and drag-and-drop features. Deployment, documentation, and library enhancements are priorities for better end-user support, including advanced SAP automation capabilities.

What are the key features of Robocorp?

Seamless Deployment: Easily deploy RPA processes through APIs.
Python-Based Architecture: Leverage Python for automation tasks.
Custom Libraries: Create tailored libraries for specific needs.
Separate Billing: Flexibility in client billing arrangements.
Data Management: Efficient handling of sensitive information.

What benefits do users typically highlight in reviews?

Affordability: Cost-effective solution for businesses.
Fast Processing: Quick execution of automated processes.
Developer Friendly: Easy integration with existing systems.
Flexible Orchestration: Enhanced control over automation tasks.

Robocorp supports diverse industry applications, primarily in RPA process development for insurance, financial services, and banking portal management. It also caters to test automation, data processing, payroll management, and cloud-based deployments. The platform's open-source library, Python integration, and cross-platform support facilitate tasks like data entry, invoice and order processing, and ETL operations, generating valuable financial insights efficiently and at scale.

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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics

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