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Automation Hero vs IQ Bot [EOL] comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 23, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Automation Hero
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (37th)
IQ Bot [EOL]
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

AK
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…
JS
Executive Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Process automation in manufacturing and accounting benefits from session identification features
I haven't found any significant pitfalls, but one area for improvement could be the selection process when working with multiple applications. It would be helpful to highlight a specific application instead of providing options for all applications. This change could help me avoid confusion, especially if applications have similar names or when different pages of the same application are in use.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Automation Hero has all of that as an inbuilt feature, it's very user-friendly and doesn't require a lot of manual work."
"Dashboard is good and the product doesn't require coding."
"I personally feel that the c-extraction feature is valuable. After training it for a particular document, we can see the extractions there. Other than that, it has other features like Python scripting in-built, and these are the features that I feel stand out."
"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."
"The flexibility to deploy based on the different types is the most valuable. We can deploy pieces of the program directly over the fields. We can also directly connect with databases. We can modify it and make different connections with the database. We are also able to programmably modify the fields and change the presentation and values or evaluate a list of values. We can change the values on the fly. It is very flexible and very easy to use and learn. It is also very simple."
"The extraction feature is the most valuable, because the post-processing and the pre-processing are very standardized, even from a classification point of view, and the place where I found the IQ Bots to be a par change in comparison with the other solutions is on the extraction piece, as it uses good and middle technologies to extract the specific data that we require from the documents."
"The most valuable feature of IQ Bot is the Discovery Bots. They can detect and analyze for improvements."
"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."
"IQ Bot's connectivity to various cloud service providers is beneficial."
"The product is easy to use and easy to deploy."
 

Cons

"Lacks sufficient keywords and templates."
"I wouldn't say the product is totally scalable or 100% reliable. I'm not sure that an organization should depend on this tool 100%."
"It would be helpful if the IQ Bot OCR could be integrated with third-party solutions like FlexiCapture."
"The process of manually correcting the data in the validation queue that IQ Bot failed to extract should be automated."
"The licensing is under usage per page, and I wouldn't recommend it."
"We are working with IQ Bot, but we are not impressed with it."
"The product algorithms could be improved to increase accuracy. We currently need to make regular adjustments, constantly retraining the product to cover all cases."
"I've used versions 11 and 2019 of this solution. The problem with version 11 is integration. When you are using a conventional bot and you try to use IQ Bot development, you don't have a specific feature for integrating these two pieces or components of Automation Anywhere. I was seeing some issues while trying to, for example, send some PDF to an IQ Bot processor and get a response for that process. So, there is a problem with integrating the conventional task automation and IQ Bot in version 11. In contrast, version 2019 already has the integration feature, and we can easily integrate two components. There are some features that must be there in version 11 but are currently missing. There is no total control over some features in IQ Bot. Some variables cannot be parametrized when using IQ Bot directly. The AI features that IQ Bot has must be more open to being parameterized by the user. It would be good if Automation Anywhere exposed some parameters so that I can adjust them as a customer. This is an improvement that Automation Anywhere can do. I would like to see some features related to deep learning in the next releases of IQ Bot. These will be some interesting features to see."
"There are certain things that OCR engines are not capable of handling currently. For example, OCR engines pick up a slash as a question mark."
"Sometimes we send documents with less than 300 DPI. I know that Automation Anywhere just said that IQ Bot 11 and higher versions are ready to extract the documents with less than 300 DPI, however, this is not true. I never could work with documents with less than 300 DPI."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The product cost is relatively high compared to other tools in the market."
"The cost can be high."
"Solutions from Automation Anywhere are expensive."
"The package that includes Automation Anywhere and IQ Bot starts at $10,000 USD."
"If you make use of only a few bots, this solution is very cheap."
"It has an average cost."
"The price of IQ Bot could improve by being less expensive."
"I feel that the price of IQ Bot could be lower."
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Financial Services Firm
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Marketing Services Firm
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Government
7%
 

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