Microsoft Power Automate vs Robocorp comparison

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Microsoft and Sema4.ai are both solutions in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category. Microsoft is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.8, while Sema4.ai is ranked #31. Microsoft holds a 5.8% mindshare in RPA, compared to Sema4.ai’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Microsoft 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

Microsoft Power Automate and Robocorp are leading competitors in the automation software market. Based on feature breadth and integration, Microsoft Power Automate appears to offer an advantage due to its richer ecosystem within Microsoft tools.

Features: Microsoft Power Automate is known for its extensive template library, facilitating seamless integration within the Microsoft ecosystem. It provides low-code automation options great for non-technical users and supports connectors to integrate with various Microsoft applications. Robocorp leverages Python for development, delivering highly-customizable and scalable automation solutions. It caters effectively to organizations needing advanced Python-based solutions, enhancing flexibility in automation processes.

Room for Improvement: Microsoft Power Automate lacks improved AI capabilities and OCR functionality, with challenges in non-Microsoft integrations. Users find licensing complex and premium features trial periods missing. Robocorp requires advancements in its UI design and easier deployment options. It would benefit from enhanced library support and a streamlined debugging process for improved usability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft Power Automate deploys across various environments with mixed feedback on technical support. It enjoys community support but slow technical assistance responses. Robocorp's setup is straightforward, focusing on public cloud deployment but shows limitations in swift support response and comprehensive solutions.

Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Power Automate is budget-friendly for Office 365 users but complex in licensing and premium costs, providing considerable ROI by reducing manual labor. Robocorp is affordable, with a transparent pay-as-you-go model favorably viewed, especially for organizations seeking scalable pricing without upfront fees.

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Automation Anywhere

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, the mindshare of Automation Anywhere is 5.2%, down from 9.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Power Automate is 5.8%, down from 17.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Robocorp is 1.1%, down from 1.5% 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%
Microsoft Power Automate	5.8%
Robocorp	1.1%
Other	87.9%

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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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Brijesh-Kumar

Sr. General Manager , Global IT Services at a non-profit with 5,001-10,000 employees

No-code workflows have streamlined daily operations and support seamless cross-application automation

Microsoft Power Automate's no-code workflows help my team in daily operations to a great extent. Automating a particular activity may not be so useful, but when you connect the whole workflow, then it starts helping a lot. I cannot say much about the best features in Microsoft Power Automate because I have not used it personally, but first of all, it is very easy, it is a low-code platform, and Microsoft has a lot of integration with Microsoft technologies, making it very easy to connect with MS Teams and different Microsoft products, including MS Azure. From that point of view, it provides a lot of connectivity options. From a cost point of view, Mendix is much more costly compared to Microsoft Power Platform, allowing us to develop applications very quickly.

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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

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

Pros

"It really does have a great dashboard. It has Bot Insight, it has MetaBots, and IQ Bots. It has so many features where it can read a file and loop."

"The primary use case is automation of processes for people services, such as data management of the employees, and financial processes, like reporting, financial reporting, and month-end closing activities."

"Based on my experience, I have found Automation Anywhere to be more stable and accessible."

"Because of this product's features, I would rate Automation Anywhere as a game changer."

"I strongly believe that the UI which we have is a good advantage for Automation Anywhere, as it is easy to understand, so a person who is new to Automation Anywhere can easily understand and start their journey with it."

"Being the end user, we didn't really have to get into a learning curve as such since our vendor partners were able to map everything for us as per our requirements. There was not much training that we had to do."

"The speed-up and greater control over the quality of the processes have also led to savings in money and are increasing the happiness of the company's customers."

"Toward this life cycle, we have a very structured approach of governing, monitoring, and tracking, that's the approach we have taken. Insights we gain from this governance, we apply towards automation strategy and implementations. We've done this for many clients across the globe. We are happy to share those experiences with some of you as well."

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"Automation is the best feature of the product."

"Microsoft is heavily investing and developing new features, and it is well integrated into the CRM, SharePoint, and other Microsoft platforms."

"To me, what's most useful in WinAutomation by Softomotive is that it's quite intuitive, especially because most of the capabilities of the older WinAutomation remain. You also don't need to do or know hard coding, and this is another useful feature of the solution. I also like that WinAutomation by Softomotive integrates very well with Microsoft products, especially Microsoft Office, and this is great news because most companies use Microsoft Office. Having a very good integration with the Microsoft Office suite covers a lot of bases, and is one of the advantages of WinAutomation by Softomotive."

"The solution integrates well with Microsoft Office and other Microsoft solutions."

"The product provides valuable integration with other Microsoft tools."

"The email routing, consolidation of the reports, and management features are strong."

"Power Automate has allowed us to simplify the business process and improve operational efficiency."

"The most valuable features of Microsoft Power Automate are the ease of use and the templates that are provided. I no longer need to make the document from scratch. I can search for what template I want and then it only requires me to modify it a bit for my needs. Additionally, it's helped improve my productivity and efficiency, and at the same time, it's quicker."

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"The process execution and all features are very good."

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

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

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

"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."

"The price is good."

"I can use it as a library by importing Python scripts, allowing me to access its many features while working with coding."

"The solution is based on Python which makes it very valuable."

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Cons

"There is definitely some room for improvement there. It is sort of a hit and miss with their support engineers, you have some really good ones and some that aren't."

"We would like Automation Anywhere to have a way to run a capacity check on machines and show us what is available."

"Cost-wise, it should be reduced."

"I have experienced the issues of UI getting stuck. There seems to be an issue with server stability. This is something that can be better."

"One key feature we are looking for from Automation Anywhere is the need for a fully evolved CI/CD pipeline approach within our IT organization, given that we manage multiple applications."

"We looked at the Bot Store initially and didn't find much."

"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see a plug-and-play tool for NLP programming."

"We're in a digital world where everything's evolving. AI is coming out, so just looking at keeping moving, introducing new innovations into the product, nothing specific. The Automation Anywhere teams seem to know what the customers want."

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"We expect Microsoft Power Automate to work like any other RPA software, but at present, it is fairly lax, especially in the RPA space. We have a very limited set of use cases today for Microsoft Power Automate. Microsoft should make it a full-featured RPA product like other solutions that we use, such as Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, and UiPath. This is predominantly the area that they need to improve on. Microsoft Power Automate is quite complex to use as well, especially if you want to do advanced workflows or advanced automation. The regular simple workflows are quite easy and straightforward, but the moment you want to do something complex, it is almost impossible for one of our employees to work on it."

"There is a limitation in setting up loops, where it does not support multiple conditions."

"The new designer is problematic and wastes development time. What can be developed in an hour typically takes 15 to 20 minutes longer with the new designer."

"It is not very stable."

"The connectors and the integration capability can be improved. Microsoft RPA is a growing platform, and it is not yet particularly mature."

"There have been issues in which it has failed, and it remains a concern."

"Technical support needs to be able to respond quickly to queries. Right now, they are much too slow."

"If you don't have that level of support then you are basically on your own."

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"I preferred the user interface in the older versions. When troubleshooting, it's sometimes hard to find details about where things went wrong. You need to search a little harder. It takes more clicks to get to where you want to go. It can be somewhat confusing. When you run a process that fails, it takes you somewhere you may not expect."

"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."

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

"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."

"The platform's documentation could be better."

"An additional feature I'm looking for in Robocorp is SAP automation."

"It would be better if it were more user-friendly for non-technical users. It would be better if they had some drag-and-drop features to create logic."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is reasonable and one can achieve ROI faster when compared to other tools."

"Annually, we are paying almost one million reais."

"I advise others that even as of right now, the setup cost and licensing cost to automate bots on Automation Anywhere is steep but it is worth the investment!"

"Automation Anywhere is competitive... Pega is somewhat comparable, but Pega also requires a lot more infrastructure and a lot more experience to get up and running."

"It depends. For example, for my group, we are centralizing the infrastructure in Paris. Our contract is signed with Automation Anywhere in France. The currency and the pricing of Automation Anywhere in France can appear beneficial and interesting for Germany and Scandinavian countries, but when we share our infra and are internally charging other countries such as Poland, Brazil, or some other country with a lower currency value as compared to Euro, it becomes less beneficial. They would prefer to sign the contract directly with Automation Anywhere because they will benefit from a price that is as per their local market."

"Regarding the price, licensing, and maintenance, Automation Anywhere provides its customers with its best and affordable value."

"This solution costs approximately $3,500 USD per license."

"Complaints are generally about the cost of IQ Bot, which is higher than its competitors. The base model’s pricing is comparable to other platforms with attended, unattended, and IDP capabilities as well."

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"It had by far the fairest licensing on the market. For the money, you got a very good value."

"The price of the solution is reasonable. I rate the pricing a five out of ten."

"I give the cost a three out of ten."

"It is free for us. It is embedded directly in the Office package."

"We've got a subscription package. We are on a monthly package of $40. We've got some discount because we're a big corporate client of Microsoft 365 and other solutions, but the standard price of the package that we use is $40. For the product, you don't have to pay anything extra. If you're using a partner, you need to pay for their coding, advice, and services, which is a separate cost. The majority of the features are available for free for anyone who is on Microsoft 365."

"The licensing cost for us at this time is between $8 and $20 per user, per month."

"There is a per-user licensing model for individual users."

"Currently, we are using the free license for testing. After everything is done, we'll buy the license."

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"The solution is a very affordable price."

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

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

"The pricing is fine."

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

"It's a cost-effective solution."

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

"The product has good pricing."

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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

14%

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Computer Software Company

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	161
Midsize Enterprise	82
Large Enterprise	558

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Small Business	50
Midsize Enterprise	18
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Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	3
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Questions from the Community

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

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Compared 17% of the time

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Also Known As

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

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

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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.

Automation Anywhere

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.

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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

1. Coca-Cola 2. General Electric 3. Siemens 4. Accenture 5. Deloitte 6. Johnson & Johnson 7. Ford 8. Nestle 9. Procter & Gamble 10. IBM 11. Amazon 12. Google 13. Microsoft 14. Adobe 15. Cisco 16. Oracle 17. SAP 18. Intel 19. HP 20. Dell 21. Verizon 22. AT&T 23. T-Mobile 24. Walmart 25. Target 26. Home Depot 27. McDonald's 28. Starbucks 29. Nike 30. Apple 31. Facebook 32. Twitter

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