Power Automate vs UiPath (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 UiPath Basic: $25/mo (starting price; basic personal automations, limited scale (users and robots), hosted in UiPath's European region, Bronze support; unattended RPA is an add-on; UiPath says an updated plan is coming soon). Power Automate lists the lower one. UiPath also has a free plan. 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"). UiPath: yes. Its Community plan is Free (free forever; build code-first or low-code with UiPath Studio or SDKs; Community Forum support), checked October 24, 2026.

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.

UiPath lists Community: Free (free forever; build code-first or low-code with UiPath Studio or SDKs; Community Forum support); Basic: $25/mo (starting price; basic personal automations, limited scale (users and robots), hosted in UiPath's European region, Bronze support; unattended RPA is an add-on; UiPath says an updated plan is coming soon); Standard: Contact sales (no price listed; enterprise automations including agents, document processing, orchestration, no limits to scale; 60-day free trial); Enterprise: Contact sales (no price listed; everything in Standard plus self-healing UI automation, process monitoring, bring your own model, keys and vaults). Its lowest listed monthly plan is Basic: $25/mo (starting price; basic personal automations, limited scale (users and robots), hosted in UiPath's European region, Bronze support; unattended RPA is an add-on; UiPath says an updated plan is coming soon). Prices from UiPath's pricing page (Automation Cloud). Basic is shown as "Starting at $25 per month" and UiPath notes an updated Basic plan is coming soon. Standard and Enterprise have no published price (contact sales); Standard offers a 60-day free trial. The Community plan is free. 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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