10 Best RPA Software of 2026

Power Automate ranks second because it gives Microsoft customers attended RPA at a published $15 per user per month on the Premium plan, paid yearly, which also includes cloud flows and process and task mining with 50 MB of storage. Microsoft's documentation says desktop flows can automate legacy applications such as terminal emulators, modern web and desktop apps, Excel files and folders, using UI elements, images or screen coordinates, and you can record a flow or build it with drag-and-drop actions. For bots that run without a person watching, Power Automate Process costs $150 per bot per month, and Hosted Process at $215 per bot per month adds a virtual machine that Microsoft manages on Azure. The weak points are the stacking costs once you scale unattended work, the $5,000 per tenant per month Process Mining add-on, and annual billing. Companies with mixed operating systems or very large bot fleets often compare it with UiPath.

UiPath ranks first because it covers the full path from a single desktop robot to a governed enterprise program on one platform. The pricing page lists a Community plan that is free forever, a Basic plan from $25 per month for small team automations, and Standard and Enterprise tiers quoted by sales. Standard is where most companies land: it removes the scale limits, adds document classification and extraction, lets you bring your own identity provider, and can run in a UiPath cloud region or on your own servers. Developers can build in UiPath Studio or with UiPath SDKs in their own IDE, and the platform orchestrates robots alongside AI agents and people. Enterprise adds self-healing UI automation and process simulation. The trade-offs are cost visibility and plan churn: Standard and Enterprise prices are not public, Basic is hosted only in Europe with limited scale, and UiPath notes Basic is being updated. Microsoft 365 shops may find Power Automate cheaper to start.

Automation Anywhere is third because its RPA sits inside a broad cloud-native platform that also covers AI agents, document automation, process discovery and a center of excellence manager. The vendor describes its RPA as pre-integrated with AI, enterprise apps and human-in-the-loop controls, with role-based access and full audit trails for compliance teams. It says it was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for RPA for the eighth year in a row. A free Community Edition lets students, developers and qualifying small businesses build automations with Prompt-to-Automate and generative AI document extraction on Windows or Mac, but small businesses may use it on no more than 5 machines and 100 document pages per month. The main drawback for buyers is pricing: paid plans are quoted by sales and no USD list price was shown to us. It suits large enterprises that want a cloud-first platform; smaller teams will find clearer pricing with UiPath, Power Automate or Robomotion.

Robomotion ranks fourth because it publishes everything the large vendors keep behind a sales call. The Solo plan at $49 per month includes one user, one development robot, three application robots and 50 flows; Pro at $129 per month adds a production robot for unattended work and 250 flows; Team at $399 per month includes two production robots, unlimited flows and Document Understanding. If you outgrow a plan you add robots individually: $19 per month for an application robot, $49 for a development robot and $99 for a production robot. Local execution time is unlimited, while AI credits, cloud run minutes and proxy requests are metered per plan. Robomotion also lets people ask for automations in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Claude Code or Codex and saves them in the workspace. The limits are metering on AI and cloud usage and a smaller enterprise footprint. Startups and mid-sized teams get the clearest per-bot math here.

SS&C Blue Prism ranks fifth because it remains a strong choice for regulated industries, but it asks more of buyers in setup and pricing transparency. Blue Prism Cloud is a fully managed RPA platform hosted on Microsoft Azure or AWS, where the vendor's team handles infrastructure, security, monitoring and incident management. The Cloud product page lists ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certification, plus Cyber Essentials, GDPR and HIPAA compliance, which helps banks, insurers and healthcare groups get through security review. Around the core robots, SS&C sells modules for desktop automation, human and bot collaboration (Interact), decisions, intelligent document processing (Decipher IDP) and an orchestration layer called WorkHQ. SS&C says its own internal use of the stack has driven more than $200 million in savings. The downsides are that no price is published, the module list is long, and the product is aimed at a central automation team rather than individual users.

Axiom.ai ranks eighth because it is the cheapest and quickest way to automate repetitive work that lives in a web browser, but it does not reach Windows desktop applications. Bots are built in a Chrome extension, by hand from a library of actions or by describing the task, and can run on your own computer through the desktop app or in Axiom's cloud. Starter costs $15 per month with 5 hours of monthly runtime; Pro at $50 per month raises that to 30 hours and adds webhooks, an API and Zapier and Make integrations. Desktop runs have no concurrency or time limit, while Starter cloud runs are limited to one bot at a time and one hour per run. Bots can store site logins and pass 2FA, which helps with portals that require sign-in. Every new account gets 2 free hours of runtime without a credit card. Back-office teams that work in desktop ERPs or Citrix need a full RPA platform instead.

IBM Robotic Process Automation ranks seventh because it publishes a clear entry price and offers both cloud and on-premises deployment, though at a higher starting cost than self-serve tools. The pricing page lists SaaS and on-premises editions, each starting at $981 per month, and a no-cost 30-day trial. Both paid editions include attended and unattended bots, a studio build environment, optical character recognition and intelligent virtual agents that can answer customers in chat; bots run on Windows. The SaaS option is a multitenant cloud for bot repository, scheduling, workload management, OCR and dashboards, while the on-premises version provides client and server components for organizations that must keep data in house. IBM notes that its prices are indicative and may vary by country. The entry price makes it a weaker fit for a small team trying RPA for the first time, and it makes the most sense for organizations already standardized on IBM automation software.

Ui.Vision RPA ranks sixth because it is the lowest-cost way to put real desktop and web bots on company machines. The core product is open source and free for personal and commercial use, and every edition includes unlimited web and desktop automation that runs locally. The PRO edition costs $299 per year and adds email support; Enterprise starts at $999 per year for up to five users and adds update management, so IT can control when browser extension updates reach critical bots, plus priority support with a same-day response on weekdays. The Enterprise Player license, $1,499, lets you replay macros on unlimited users and machines, and the vendor says it does not charge per attended or unattended bot. The trade-off is that there is no hosted orchestrator, so scheduling, credential vaults and fleet monitoring at enterprise scale are thinner than in UiPath or Automation Anywhere. It fits small IT teams that want local bots without a subscription per robot.

Nintex RPA ranks tenth because it is a capable bot tool whose strongest case is inside the Nintex workflow suite. The designer is drag-and-drop with no coding needed, offers over 200 advanced commands, and uses machine learning and OCR so robots can work with applications the way a person does. Teams can run attended bots that employees trigger on demand or unattended bots that work around the clock. Native integrations with Nintex Automation CE and Nintex Automation K2 let a bot handle the screen steps inside a wider approval or document workflow. Security is a selling point: Nintex says it is the only RPA vendor with ISO 27701 certification, and it lists ISO 9001, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance plus a secure credentials vault. Nintex Desktop Guide also coaches staff through new applications step by step. The weaknesses are that pricing is not published and companies not using Nintex workflows will find broader ecosystems elsewhere.

Pega Robotic Process Automation ranks ninth because it is strongest as part of the Pega platform rather than as a standalone RPA purchase. Bots are designed, tested and deployed in Robot Studio, a low-code environment, and Robot Manager handles work groups and bot performance analysis. Pega supports unattended bots that run in the background to fill process gaps and attended bots that sit beside an individual employee, and it now uses design agents that map an application and generate automations with agentic AI. The main reason to choose it is integration: bots work inside Pega workflows and pair with Pega Agentic AI, Pega Process Mining and Pega Process AI, so a case can move between people, bots and agents in one system. Pega cites Starbucks as a customer that saved thousands of hours. The drawbacks are no published pricing and a heavier implementation than UiPath or Power Automate for teams that do not already run Pega.