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Blue Prism Cloud vs BotFarm comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Blue Prism Cloud
Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Agentic Automation (6th)
BotFarm
Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
24th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, the mindshare of Blue Prism Cloud is 1.4%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BotFarm is 0.8%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Blue Prism Cloud1.4%
BotFarm0.8%
Other97.8%
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
 

Featured Reviews

AyanBanerjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud & AI Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Automation and AI integration enhance performance and user experience
The improvements or enhancements I would like to see in Blue Prism Cloud revolve around further developing server-client architecture, focusing on centralized control for remote agents. I believe more capabilities in that area could be beneficial. At the moment, I don't recall any specific features or functionalities missing from Blue Prism Cloud that come to mind. In terms of complexity, I find that Blue Prism Cloud is somewhat straightforward to use. Flexibility-wise, it engages well with Microsoft-based technologies. However, there are challenges with OCR capabilities that remain an issue. While there are readily available features that work well, the effectiveness does depend significantly on the type of use case I am implementing.
Rajneesh Prajapati - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Rpa Consultant at Accely Consulting
Automation has streamlined client data extraction and has improved reporting for business decisions
I work as a developer, and my manager is responsible for the research and analytics for the project with the client and business users. I am satisfied with BotFarm. I would rate my experience with BotFarm an eight out of ten. I do not see any room for improvement for BotFarm. I am using AI tools such as Amazon, Microsoft Azure, and ChatGPT. I am not using AI-powered bots in BotFarm. I am a partner with Automation Anywhere.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"There is no latency in the product."
"Its AI features allow customers to find specific documents via an index."
"Once it does the monitor, it collects the respective data and creates an output that is required for reconfiguration."
"The user-friendly interface of Blue Prism Cloud is nice, and compared to the previous one, it has some advanced features such as drag and drop, PDF extraction, and accessing external applications with connectors, which has helped me design and automate processes."
"It is more secure for complex implementations."
"The most valuable feature of Blue Prism's Virtual Workforce is that it is quite stable."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to write custom code."
"Blue Prism Cloud is an easy to access and user-friendly solution."
"It is easy to use and very stable. It is a rugged product, and it doesn't break so easily."
"They recently released the newest version that has a good program flow, quality, and blueprints that are all good improvements to the automation. They also have good integration with SAP."
"Automation Anywhere has good document extraction features where it can learn patterns."
"The system is stable and very little maintenance is required, assuming the bots process is perfectly designed."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the Excel automation and support for SharePoint."
"I use it in my client project to extract data and communicate it for business purposes."
"The most valuable features are the portals for extracting data from PDF files, appending data to SAP, automating the SAP, downloading reports, and mapping and creating the reports accordingly to your requirements."
"The most valuable features I have found to be the screen scraping and the integration with third-party solutions."
 

Cons

"The pricing was a bit high, from what I understand. That might have played a role in the decision to migrate to another solution."
"It would be useful if some of the information protocols came built within the app instead having to create them."
"Blue Prism is slightly difficult for the non-technical user."
"Improvement should be per customer requirements."
"We have limited integrations in place, and my objective is to integrate Sentinel. However, there are constraints as some individuals have only one or two options for SIM integration solutions. Given the urgency of quick resolutions in today's landscape, prevention and detection are crucial. While these measures provide significant security, it's equally important to focus on response and recovery. In the case of a ransomware attack, it's not enough to solely prevent and detect. Once detection is in place, a response model should be implemented to automate the process and minimize the time required for tasks, such as creating investigation reports. In the past, it would take approximately seven to eight days to create an investigation report for a specific attack, including writing a case study. This process can be streamlined and improved through the automation of contextual investigation reports. By saving base templates and content, including screenshots and attack details, automation can be achieved. We are currently working on integrating Microsoft WAF and Excel for this purpose, but having a built-in tool would be ideal."
"The vendor does not make their pricing clear when you are searching for it, which is something that needs to be improved."
"The area for improvement in Blue Prism Cloud is the support component. Whenever I reach out to the Blue Prism community, they consistently request knowledge sessions for everything, whether it is an advanced feature or not."
"If Blue Prism could integrate into Azure SQL because it's essentially an on-prem code, on infrastructure as a service. So, Blue Prism has moved the infrastructure into the cloud, but they haven't necessarily moved the application into cloud-native."
"The image processing capabilities definitely need to be improved."
"One aspect that can be improved is the accessibility of reusable components for developers. It relates to role-based access and accessibility."
"Although I like the OCR technology, it could still be further improved."
"I would definitely be wanting to see OCR features for improving the solution."
"The deployment could be simplified."
"Its UI could be made better. It should also be more flexible. Currently, it is more rigid, and a little more flexibility is required. Their technical support should also be better. We are not very happy with their technical support. Its price is also quite high as of now. They should improve its price. Its setup should also be made easier. It is quite complex to set it up. Even though we were able to set it up a little fast because we had done something similar earlier, but it has a very complex setup. It is extremely resource-hungry. If they can make it a little light on resources, that would also be useful."
"The only challenge that we have faced with BotFarm is that there is no continuous deployment. The whole world is moving to the DevOps model, but BotFarm is still not on the DevOps model. It should have integration with the DevOps model. The migration of the bots or bots pipeline is currently purely manual."
"BotFarm newer version has been difficult to install, we have been in contact with the support on this matter."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This solution comes at a medium to high price point. They need to work on their pricing to enable smaller enterprises to get the benefit of using the product."
"The licensing structure is complex and the minimum contract length is three years."
"When compared with UiPath, I believe it will be difficult for Blue Prism to maintain its market share."
"The default configuration does not include large-scale log injection, but if you require, such integration, it may incur additional costs per gigabyte. I don't have the exact pricing information for log injection, but it is possible that it varies depending on the volume of data. While there may be a basic service included, additional features might come at an extra cost. When working with cloud environments like VMs, calculating costs involves considering factors such as usage duration, network traffic, inbound and outbound data transfer, as well as network access control. The pricing structure for cloud coverage solutions follows a similar pattern, although specific pricing details would need to be obtained separately."
"The pricing for Blue Prism Cloud is two out of ten because it's higher than every other technology. My company is on a three-year Blue Prism Cloud license."
"There are many RPA solutions available from different vendors and the pricing for Blue Prism is competitive."
"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."
"Blue Prism Cloud's cost is very high."
"There is a license for this solution and it is on an annual basis. I am satisfied with the price."
"The solution prices are expensive. It would be more beneficial for customers to lower the pricing."
"Its price is quite high as compared to other solutions, but it has a lot of features and good stability. They should reduce its price."
"The licensing is on a monthly basis."
"We pay approximately $15,000 USD per year."
"Automation Anywhere is more reasonable than Blue Prism and UiPath in terms of cost."
"It is too expensive and not worth the price."
"Pricing for this solution can be better."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Educational Organization
10%
Performing Arts
9%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Marketing Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise21
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise18
 

Questions from the Community

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.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Blue Prism Cloud?
Concerning pricing, it's moderate now, but when it comes to the cloud, it is a bit expensive.
What needs improvement with Blue Prism Cloud?
The area for improvement in Blue Prism Cloud is the support component. Whenever I reach out to the Blue Prism community, they consistently request knowledge sessions for everything, whether it is a...
What do you like most about BotFarm?
The product has increased efficiency and reduced the time spent on tasks.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BotFarm?
The product is slightly expensive. In comparison to competitor tools like UiPath, BotFarm's cost is greater. Our organization also works with UiPath and Microsoft products. Our company doesn't want...
What needs improvement with BotFarm?
The solution can improve the accuracy of hand-written data reading. In some situations, the data needs to be hand-written by the agents, and at our organization, we face some rare challenges with s...
 

Also Known As

Blue Prism Thoughtonomy Virtual Workforce, Blue Prism Virtual Workforce, Thoughtonomy Virtual Workforce
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Sample Customers

Cabot Credit Management, Hovis, Utilita
Cisco, CocaCola Bottlers Japan, Macy's, Whirlpool, Unilever
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