Automation Hero vs IQ Bot comparison

Automation Hero and Automation Anywhere are both solutions in the Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) category. Automation Hero is ranked #30, while Automation Anywhere is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.3. Automation Hero holds a 0.2% mindshare in IDP, compared to Automation Anywhere’s 2.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Automation Hero users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Automation Anywhere users who would recommend it.

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We performed a comparison between Automation Hero and IQ Bot based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Automation Hero

Ranking in Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)

30th

Average Rating

7.0

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IQ Bot

Ranking in Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)

4th

Average Rating

7.6

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7.6

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Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) category, the mindshare of Automation Hero is 0.2%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IQ Bot is 2.6%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

AvanthikaKaruna

Intern at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Good dashboard with easy tracking feature; lacks sufficient templates

Our use case of this product is for invoice processing. We tested it on a small project to get a comparison with UiPath. I am a user of this product and an intern in the company. It's great that the solution doesn't require coding. If you input an invoice, it reads all the fields automatically…

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Neethushree S

QA in RPA at Merck Group

User-friendly and code reusability feature for efficient utilization of existing code repositories

Building IQ bots is time-consuming. Initially, script-wise, it would take a lot of time and also the testing of testing part of it. Probably there might be something that has been advanced now, but I'm talking about before six months. Maybe there has been an enhancement, but during the time that we were working, the time that would take up to build the requirements initially would need a lot of time. In future releases, Automation Anywhere should promote this product more to make it more visible. It should be promoted to increase its visibility and awareness.

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

Pros

"Dashboard is good and the product doesn't require coding."

"The product is easy to use and easy to deploy."

"It's quite easy to use, you just have to map the filter to keep it going."

"I like most of the algorithms that it has, such as classified algorithms. I also like the OCR engines that it provides. We get a lot of options to explore and deal with. IQ Bot has added a lot of value in terms of extracting the information. Some OCR engines have limitations in terms of extracting the information. They have recently added a new feature that allows us to add Python scripting. Earlier, we had to do the post-processing work in terms of formatting and updating the proper values, but now, we have the option to write a Python script, which is really helpful for us in terms of getting the output. We can manage everything using Python."

"The best feature is that we can extract data from an image. That's why Automation Anywhere implemented IQ Bot. Otherwise, you cannot extract data from an image. Nowadays, every industry is scanning invoices and uploading them to some website or storing them on some shared drive. IQ Bot can do data extraction from the PDF format and the JPG format."

"Training the model is very simple with IQ Bot's technology. It requires providing several examples of the type of document you want to evaluate. IQ Bot already has a built-in taxonomy, which is like a dictionary of elements commonly found in certain types of documents. For example, when evaluating an invoice, you will find elements, such as "total," "item descriptions," and "shipped to." This pre-existing taxonomy greatly speeds up the training process as it provides a starting point and structure, rather than starting from scratch."

"The valuable feature of IQ Bot is the AI functionality."

"What I found most valuable in IQ Bot is its stability because it's now getting very much stable. Automation Anywhere is continuously enhancing this product. Initially, while my team was doing the PDF automation training in IQ Bot, sometimes, the solution doesn't extract the data, but now, you can easily group the software in different folders and you can integrate with TaskBot easily. Another valuable feature of IQ Bot is data extraction. The solution makes it easy to fetch data and extract data from PDFs. Without IQ Bot, it's very tough to do PDF data extraction. Now, I can extract data from more than five hundred templates easily through the solution. I also like that IQ Bot has great functionality."

"IQ Bot is easy to use compared to some of the other solutions out there."

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Cons

"Lacks sufficient keywords and templates."

"The solution's predictive model can be improved in terms of accuracy."

"If even a small change is made to a PDF format, IQ Bot may fail to read it and require me to go back and create a new learning instance."

"There's still room for improvement in IQ Bot because sometimes, my team has certain types of PDFs that need to be grouped, for example, five types of videos need to be sorted to get data, but it was impossible to do in the solution. There's even an instance when I'm extracting data, for example, the invoice numbers, and I trained IQ Bot to do the extraction just for the invoice numbers, but it failed to do it. There could be some exceptions that the product developer is working on, but it could take time because sometimes IQ Bot works, and sometimes it doesn't, so the error isn't because of the developer. The error lies with the system. Another area for improvement in the solution is that during installation, it makes your machine drastically slow. It requires you to have RAM of 16 GB and a 500 GB hard disk, but that's still not enough. Slow downloading is also an area for improvement in IQ Bot because whenever you try to execute bots around 20MB to 100MB, for example, that will be downloaded from the cloud to local machines, and this process could take between seven to eight minutes, and this could be frustrating especially when you're trying to showcase it to a customer. Bot downloading into a local machine shouldn't be taking more than five minutes because it's embarrassing in front of clients. It's good that Automation Anywhere provides a cloud version for IQ Bot, but if you're unable to execute it fast, then that's not very good. I was working for one client in Brazil and there was a time I was showing the bot to them and it was taking around seven minutes to get downloaded on the local machine, and I even tried to connect with the support team, but that still didn't get me anywhere. If you're working on some code and you're executing a bot, you need to change one line and the bot will download completely, so it should be pipeline or SVN or Git. If you've downloaded a 50MB bot, you just change one variable name, but then you have to download the 50MB code again, and it makes you wonder why you need to download the complete code. You have to double-check if you already have the code in your folder, and why would you need to download it again. Only one line should be changed for the download time to decrease drastically, but right now, you need to be downloading the code completely, so if you're executing a 100MB bot fifty times, then that means it will be downloaded fifty times as well. IQ Bot is not a straightforward solution, so my team is struggling with it. Currently, my company has been doing some R&D about the solution, and it has several main problems that need to be addressed. What I'd like to see in the next version of the solution is support for unstructured PDFs because currently, it's a very good solution for structured PDFs."

"API configurations through control room could be improved a bit."

"It would be helpful if the IQ Bot OCR could be integrated with third-party solutions like FlexiCapture."

"The quality of the service needs to be improved."

"I think Automation Anywhere has a partnership with Google. I hope they integrate Google's OCR engine in some way with IQ Bot because the OCR engine that Google produces provides an in-built accuracy of close to 99%. That is the integration we are looking for, but we need to pay for IQ Bot. If they can integrate both and come up with better pricing, then it will be a huge boost because, in that case, the quality of an image or PDF quality is taken completely out of difficulty as Google tends to extract the data. That is something I am looking for if this happens."

"Building IQ bots is time-consuming. Initially, script-wise, it would take a lot of time and also the testing of testing part of it."

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"It is based on the stages and on a yearly basis."

"It's expensive."

"The licensing is under usage per page, and I wouldn't recommend it."

"The solution’s hardware cost is high."

"Pricing for IQ Bot isn't good because if you're paying a lot and you're still getting some problems from it, then you can't give it a good rating. You have to compare how much you're taking out of your pocket with what you're getting from the solution. For example, I have a client paying $30 or $40 for the solution, but sometimes, he's still getting exceptions or errors from it. The cost of IQ Bot is too high, so people are hesitant to purchase the license for it. On a scale of one to five, with one being expensive, and five being affordable, I'm giving IQ Bot pricing a one."

"The licensing is on a yearly basis, and I am happy with the pricing."

"With the Cloud, the price goes up and down. You only pay for what you use."

"The product’s price is always in the higher range."

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When evaluating Robotic Process Automation, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?

My answer is going to a bit different as I am a business user with limited programming skills 1. Software costs including recurring fees are very important. Automation Anywhere wants to charge a ...

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What do you like most about IQ Bot?

IQ Bot is relatively easy to use and develop.

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Overview

Drive your digital transformation with an all-in-one platform that adds intelligence to automation and makes it more easily accessible. There's no limit to what you can automate.

Discover

Go beyond traditional process mining. In addition to visually mapping the largest and most complex processes, turn your historical process data into an AI model to predict and test potential outcomes. You can also monitor and measure your improvements in real time. Imagine training your AI model with the wisdom of your company experts.

Build

Your teams can directly build intelligent automations for the challenges they face every day, without writing a single line of code. An accessible point-and-click interface makes it easy, transparent, and fast with built-in orchestration at no extra charge.

Integrate

Work with all of your important data by easily connecting to internal and external data sources with pre-built connectors (or via API).

Empower

Do-it-yourself AI lets you add intelligence to your automations at any step without relying on advanced data science resources. Combining pre-templated complex AI models -- Intelligent OCR, Classification and Extraction -- with your domain-specific knowledge creates an unparalleled super intelligence. Immediately deploy, get feedback and optimize.

Interact

Attended and unattended automations are available. Attended can be delivered via customizable notifications within any preferred workflow. This modern approach ensures the best possible outcomes by combining AI with your human expertise at the right place and time. A continuous feedback loop between human input and AI models improves model quality.

Analyze

Track the performance of automations visually in detail-rich customizable dashboards.

Inspire

Explore pre-templated automation examples to get you started or learn what’s possible from real customer use cases.

Deploy

You can deploy the Hero Platform_ in a single-tenant environment in the cloud.

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What is IQ Bot?

IQ Bot is a leading, highly-regarded next-generation Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) solution and part of Automation Anywhere, which is the industry leader in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) marketplace.

IQ Bot utilizes various AI technologies, such as fuzzy logic, machine learning ( ML), computer vision, optical character recognition (OCR), and natural language processing (NLP) coupled with the strength of RPA to instantly identify, export, and authenticate information from various business documents, such as emails, invoices, receipts, charts, and more. This process is known as Intelligent Document Processing (IDP). IDP is an integral part of today’s business process. IDP and RPA work together to create an effective necessary tool to fully automate and streamline enterprise business processes.

The basic functions of an effective IDP solution are as follows:

Initialization: Business documents generally have varying levels of quality, which can have adverse effects on the data extraction process. Initialization will take appropriate steps to ensure documents are “repaired” by utilizing various methods to improve the overall document quality.
Categorization: Often, business documents contain numerous pages with several different types of documents, such as invoices, receipts, applications, etc. These all need to be properly categorized and classified.
Extraction: Generally, an IDP solution has pre-set protocol templates that can be populated with the exact field for extraction. The appropriate information is extracted from the documents and then the accuracy of the extracted information is confirmed.
Post-Processing: The final step sends the data through a process of protocol checks to help improve the overall AI procedures and improve future results. These could be automated processes or human interaction to better facilitate continued learning and improved processes as time goes on.

IQ Bot is an intuitive, intelligent, next-gen bot solution that uses multiple cognitive capabilities and is able to learn easily and rapidly from human behavior to become faster and incredibly accurate with every progressive cycle. IQ Bot integrates well with other third-party cognitive solutions, like Watson. With effective training, IQ Bot can also accurately recognize handwritten documents. IQ Bot is very easy to configure and is extremely cost-effective. Finally, IQ Bot has both on-premises and cloud options for flexible seamless deployment, lower TCO, and a quickly realized ROI. IQ Bot is the intelligent digital workforce solution for today’s enterprise business needs.

Reviews from Real Users

Vikas K., CFO at Travel Food Services ltd, relates, "The extraction feature is the most valuable one of IQ Bot."

Celestine, Director Intelligent Automation at a tech services company, tells us, "The ability to train itself is a good, valuable feature. It is one of the most stable RPA products at present. Installation is easy for IQ Bot, and they provide good technical support."

German C., PMO Manager (Peruvian Branch) at Globalhitss, says, "It is very easy to set up and use this tool to get information from documents. It can get the information about the purchase order number, average, description of purchase orders in several formats without any problem."

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