Microsoft Power Automate review

Microsoft Power Automate is the most affordable way for a Microsoft 365 shop to automate multi-step processes with a published price. Power Automate Premium costs $15 per user per month, paid yearly, and covers cloud flows for digital process automation, desktop flows that run RPA in attended mode, and process and task mining with 50 MB of data stored. It also includes Microsoft Dataverse entitlements of 250 MB of database and 2 GB of file storage. Unattended automation is licensed by bot: Power Automate Process costs $150 per bot per month, and Hosted Process, which adds a virtual machine managed by Microsoft on Azure, costs $215 per bot per month. For deeper analysis, the Process Mining add-on costs $5,000 per tenant per month and stores 100 GB. The drawback for BPM work is that modeling and governance are spread across several Power Platform products, and costs climb once you add bots and mining. A 30-day trial lets you test cloud flows first.

Who it is for

operations teams already on Microsoft 365

Price

Premium from $15 per user per month, paid yearly; 30-day free trial.

Power Automate Premium $15.00 user/month, paid yearly
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 12, 2026.

Key features

• Premium includes cloud flows, attended desktop flows (RPA) and process and task mining
• Premium includes Dataverse entitlements of 250 MB database and 2 GB file
• Power Automate Process runs unattended automation at $150 per bot per month
• Hosted Process adds a Microsoft-hosted virtual machine at $215 per bot per month
• Process Mining add-on at $5,000 per tenant per month with 100 GB data stored

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Published per-user price of $15 per month, paid yearly, for Premium
• Strength: Process and task mining is included in Premium with 50 MB of data stored
• Strength: 30-day free trial with UI-based cloud flows and standard connectors
• Weakness: Unattended bots are licensed separately at $150 or $215 per bot per month
• Weakness: The full Process Mining add-on costs $5,000 per tenant per month
• Weakness: Premium alone stores only 50 MB of process mining data

Key facts

• Starting price: $15 per user per month, paid yearly
• Free trial: 30 days
• Unattended bot: $150 per bot per month
• Process Mining add-on: $5,000 per tenant per month
• Data platform: Microsoft Dataverse

Where it ranks

Microsoft Power Automate is No. 2 in our Best Business Process Management Software verdict and No. 1 in Best RPA Software.