Microsoft Power Automate vs UiPath comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 6, 2024

UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate offer extensive automation capabilities, seamless integration with other systems, and competitive pricing. UiPath is praised for its user-friendly interface and robust security measures, while Microsoft Power Automate is commended for its diverse range of pre-built connectors and customizable options.

Features: UiPath is valued for its user-friendly interface, extensive automation capabilities, seamless integration, and robust security measures. Microsoft Power Automate is praised for its ease of automation, workflow streamlining, application integration, notifications, and time-saving features. Additionally, Power Automate offers a wide range of pre-built connectors and customizable options.
Room for improvement: While both platforms have areas for improvement, such as enhancing user interface and performance, the choice between UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate ultimately depends on the specific needs and preferences of the user.
Deployment: UiPath users suggest that the spent about three months on deployment and a week on setup, while others spend a week on both. Reviews for Microsoft Power Automate indicate varying timeframes, with some users taking three months for deployment and others only a week, with an additional week for setup.
Customer support: Users have praised UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate for their excellent customer service and support. They have commended the promptness and effectiveness of the teams, as well as their knowledge and helpfulness in resolving issues.
Pricing and ROI: Both solutions accommodate different business needs with their flexible licensing options, but UiPath users have reported a more favorable return on investment regarding cost savings, productivity improvement, and workflow streamlining. Microsoft Power Automate users expressed satisfaction with its automation capabilities, efficiency, and seamless integration with various applications. The platform's flexibility, user-friendly interface, and range of pre-built connectors were also commended.

The summary above is based on over 100 recent interviews with UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our comparison report.

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

Microsoft Power Automate vs. UiPath

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Power Automate

Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

2nd

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

123

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

UiPath

Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

771

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, the mindshare of Microsoft Power Automate is 20.5%, down from 22.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UiPath is 26.8%, up from 26.4% 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

Stable with reasonable pricing but doesn't integrate well with non-Microsoft solutions

Featured Reviews

GajulaSrinivas

System Engineer at Accenture AI

Jun 7, 2021

We are a customer and an end-user of the product. I have very little experience working with Power Automate. I'm the management person who gets in touch with the IT team who works with Power Automate directly. I'm not sure which version of the solution we're using. If your organization is running on Microsoft, and purely on Microsoft architecture, Power Automate is the way to go. If you're a very big company that wants to have complex tasks executed, however, it's not the best option. We're at a stage where we're trying to reevaluate where we want to go in ahead with the RPA journey. Power Automate doesn't look like the right option, at least for us right now. I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten.

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Shivendra Pratap

RPA Developer at Signity Software Solutions

Feb 29, 2024

If you implement the correct logic and exception handling in your code, it seldom makes mistakes

I like the Orchestrator and the AI Center. The AI Center has many pre-trained models you can adapt to your requirements. You can train your AI or upload your own model as well. You can use the AI to extract the information from structured or unstructured documents. UiPath is easy to use and implement. The tool has so many capabilities that we can use without using any code. Everything is there, and it's a low-code solution. We only need to drag and drop the elements and apply the logic. The UiPath community is helpful. Most of the questions have already been answered on the forum, and you can easily solve your issues there. I've done the UiPath Academy courses. I took the fundamental course and the advanced developer course. I also received an associate developer certification. You can develop a complete understanding of the tool and its capabilities using the Academy.

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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

"You can create a flow, and it can be shared across different environments."

"Power Automate is a better and more cost-effective solution compared to Automation tools."

"The best part is the automated workflow, which is quite good and easy. It is just drag-and-drop. We are able to create workflows quite quickly. We are able to directly integrate the data that it generates with Power BI dashboards. Its integration is quite good with other Microsoft tools, such as Power BI. The visualization of the data has become helpful for us."

"Different trigger events were most valuable. You could schedule a process on a recurring basis, at a certain time of day or week, or when something happens, which is huge."

"The initial setup isn't too difficult."

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

"It is very easy to learn and use. It is quite useful for any sort of back-office work. Any kind of work with low and medium complexity is very doable in ProcessRobot. For higher complexity, some refinement is required, but it is doable."

"I use the product for automation."

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"Most valuable is the document understanding feature of this current project, which is better than ABBYY FlexiCapture or Automation Anywhere."

"The solution includes preset activities but allows integration of code and expressions that make it more powerful and dynamic."

"The Orchestrator and the Studio are the features that I personally enjoy using."

"This solution saves us time in all areas."

"We find the solution to be stable."

"It integrates naturally with environments in most scenarios, which is good from an implementation standpoint."

"The user interface is intuitive and easy to understand. This automation increases the ease of operation for the employees."

"It has mainly taken the load off of employees. We had a huge amount of tasks which weren't being done. It provides our employees time to do their other work, since we automated very manual things."

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Cons

"When compared to other workflow automation tools out there, it's just not as mature."

"I need to have more integration capabilities from this solution."

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

"There are frequent version updates and that impacts different algorithms so we have to adjust our code."

"We need a more powerful desktop option."

"We find the solution to be not that user-friendly, and might be using the older version, which really did not have a lot of features, so my review is mostly based on the older version."

"Sometimes it can be difficult to share flows for multiple users to edit."

"When you try to create a flow or work on the flow in Microsoft Power Automate you cannot undo changes. There are no options to edit or, undo an action. This feature would be useful. The editing option within the flow can be enhanced."

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"What happens when a selector breaks? That means that something has changed in the application... UiPath could do a better job of enveloping selectors to make them less fragile... That is the one area that is the biggest pain point. It happens all the time... They should reduce selector sensitivity and improve remediation when one does break."

"The developer studio could be improved. There have been glitches, but it has improved from year to year."

"For UiPath Orchestrator and Studio, if I want to watch the performance of my machines at a specific time or time range, there is no option for that. There are options for one day or week, but there is no option to specify a date such as from Nov 1 to Nov 3. This option should be there for queues and monitoring."

"I would like to see improved support and cost management for advanced certification."

"The emailing and integration with self-service BI systems are areas that need improvement."

"UiPath is very slow for scraping."

"Providing a great product at the wrong price without consideration to the economic conditions of the markets within which it is being offered, creates barriers and another product is sure to fill the void."

"Studio... only works on Windows. It doesn't work on other platforms. I'm a techie by background. I don't hate Windows but I don't love it. It comes with the limitation that it is completely dependent on Windows. I would have loved if it were available on Mac or Linux or Unix."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are just using the free products at the moment. We are using the ones that come with the license that we have got."

"The cost to use Microsoft Power Automate is approximately $15 per user per month, for the basic plan. However, the solution comes free with the Microsoft 365 Suite."

"There are many different ways to license it."

"There is zero licensing cost. It comes with our Microsoft Office subscription."

"Power Automate is comparatively less costly than UiPath."

"They have the community edition that people can use for free, and they also have the enterprise edition. My company uses the enterprise edition, and I don't know how much they pay."

"With our Microsoft Office 365 license, we are able to use Microsoft Power Automate."

"My company switched to a monthly payment for the WinAutomation by Softomotive license. I don't have the exact figure, but it roughly amounts to 500 Euros a year which isn't bad."

More Microsoft Power Automate pricing and cost advice

"When I started with UiPath, there was a desktop model, and we did not have to purchase Orchestrator. Now, there is a bundle or package of Orchestrator with attended or unattended robots, so the cost is a little bit on the higher end. They are selling the Orchestrator model or the admin model. If someone wants to purchase the standalone or desktop model, they cannot do that, so the cost is on the higher side, but if we purchase more licenses, it gets reduced. If we purchase fewer licenses, it will be high."

"Whether UiPath has reasonable or expensive pricing depends on the scale of your organization. It could be pricey for startups, but the pricing would be okay if you belong to at least a mid-level organization."

"Small businesses do not have the budget to purchase the UiPath license. They should provide a cheaper license option for small businesses."

"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."

"UiPath is expensive."

"Annually, the product saves us 25,000 hours. Everyone is satisfied with that."

"...it's a bit pricey."

"Its pricing seems reasonable. I know we've been able to get a good amount of value in a few years. Our breakeven was only in year two. So, we're approaching breakeven in our licensing program. It's not a cheap product by any means, but the value that can be returned on an ROI basis is quite high."

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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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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

Power Automate, Microsoft Flow, MS Power Automate, WinAutomation by Softomotive, ProcessRobot by Softomotive

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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.

Sample Customers

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