Power Automate vs Copilot Studio (2026)

Comparing the lowest listed monthly plans: Power Automate Premium: $15/mo (per user/month, paid yearly; cloud flows, attended desktop flows (RPA), process and task mining with 50 MB data stored; 30-day free trial), and Copilot Studio Copilot Credit pack: $200/mo (per pack/month, tenant-wide; 25,000 Copilot Credits per pack; build autonomous agents and publish to external channels). Power Automate lists the lower one. Plans differ in what they include, and some are per seat or billed yearly, so compare the plan details. Checked October 24, 2026.

Power Automate: no $0 plan on its pricing page (checked October 24, 2026); the pricing information we captured mentions a free trial ("A 30-day free trial is offered"). Copilot Studio: no $0 plan on its pricing page (checked October 24, 2026); the pricing information we captured mentions a free trial ("Microsoft offers a free trial, and a free Azure account comes with a $200 Azure credit").

Power Automate lists Premium: $15/mo (per user/month, paid yearly; cloud flows, attended desktop flows (RPA), process and task mining with 50 MB data stored; 30-day free trial); Process: $150/mo (per bot/month, paid yearly; cloud flows plus unattended desktop flows (RPA)); Hosted Process: $215/mo (per bot/month, paid yearly; unattended RPA on a Microsoft-hosted Azure virtual machine). Its lowest listed monthly plan is Premium: $15/mo (per user/month, paid yearly; cloud flows, attended desktop flows (RPA), process and task mining with 50 MB data stored; 30-day free trial). Prices are US list prices from Microsoft's pricing page, billed yearly; Microsoft says actual prices vary by currency, country and organization. Premium is per user; Process and Hosted Process are per bot, and one bot runs one unattended desktop flow at a time. A 30-day free trial is offered; no free plan is listed on the pricing page. Checked October 24, 2026 on the vendor's pricing page.

Copilot Studio lists Copilot Credit pack: $200/mo (per pack/month, tenant-wide; 25,000 Copilot Credits per pack; build autonomous agents and publish to external channels); Pay-as-you-go: Usage-based (pay only for the Copilot Credits used, billed at the end of the period; needs an Azure subscription; per-credit rate not listed on the pricing page); Pre-purchase plan: Contact sales (prepaid Copilot Credit Commit Units, up to 20% savings per Microsoft; no price listed on the pricing page); Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on: $30/mo (per user/month, paid yearly; includes Copilot Studio for building agents for internal use within Microsoft 365; needs a qualifying Microsoft 365 plan). Its lowest listed monthly plan is Copilot Credit pack: $200/mo (per pack/month, tenant-wide; 25,000 Copilot Credits per pack; build autonomous agents and publish to external channels). US list prices from Microsoft's Copilot Studio pricing page. Standalone Copilot Studio is sold tenant-wide as Copilot Credit packs ($200 for 25,000 credits a month) or as a pay-as-you-go meter (no per-credit rate shown on that page; an Azure subscription is required); each agent action or response uses a varying number of credits. Microsoft offers a free trial, and a free Azure account comes with a $200 Azure credit. No free plan is listed. Checked October 24, 2026 on the vendor's pricing page.

Not hands-on. This comparison is built from each vendor's public pricing page (with the date we checked it), published product information and credited public use cases.

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