AutomationEdge vs UiPath Platform comparison

AutomationEdge and UiPath are both solutions in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category. AutomationEdge is ranked #13 with an average rating of 7.8, while UiPath is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6. AutomationEdge holds a 1.1% mindshare in RPA, compared to UiPath’s 22.0% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of AutomationEdge users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of UiPath users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 30, 2025

In the field of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), UiPath and AutomationEdge are significant competitors. User feedback suggests that UiPath holds a slight advantage due to its comprehensive community support and ease of use. **Features:** UiPath provides a user-friendly interface with drag-and-drop functionality that caters to users with limited technical expertise. Its platform supports extensive automation capabilities including AI models, document understanding, and integration with applications such as Microsoft Suite. AutomationEdge is valued for its robust desktop automation, concurrent processing, multi-threading, and technology integrations like OCR and chatbots, which facilitate advanced process automation. **Room for Improvement:** Users of UiPath recommend enhancements in AI functionalities, more detailed advanced level training, and streamlined licensing models. Some find complexities in deploying on legacy systems and suggest better pricing transparency. AutomationEdge users desire improvements in user interface intuitiveness, community support, and adaptability for varied user needs, particularly in customization and reporting capabilities. **Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:** UiPath offers a smooth deployment experience, praised for its intuitive cloud and on-premises solutions, supported by strong community forums and the UiPath Academy for training. Customer service is recognized for its responsiveness and supportiveness. AutomationEdge offers straightforward deployment with extensive integrations, though users cite the need for more efficient support channels and documentation to aid large-scale implementations. **Pricing and ROI:** UiPath is commended for its flexible pricing, offering cost savings through automation cloud solutions, which reduces infrastructure costs and provides significant ROI over time. Its community resources help optimize training costs, leading to quicker ROI realization. AutomationEdge is noted for its competitive pricing and efficient resource utilization through features like concurrent processing, though users suggest more transparency in pricing to better evaluate ROI. Despite perceived longer ROI timelines, its cost-effectiveness is recognized for specific use cases, such as desktop automation.

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Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, the mindshare of Automate is 1.6%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AutomationEdge is 1.1%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UiPath Platform is 22.0%, down from 26.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

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Anabel Marco

Account Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Automates processes efficiently with cost-effective scaling and robust customer support

Web scraping is quite good since it offers a lot of possibilities. Another important feature for me is its compatibility with MBI, the Power that is ISEQUADO Centers. I appreciate the ability to scale and increase the number of bots or studios without additional expense. Automate's non-reliance on additional orchestrators makes it quite cost-effective.

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BhargavJotva

Associate Manager - Retail Banking Operation at IDFCFIRST

An RPA tool to automate functions, tasks, and processes that also allows users to do coding from the scratch

The initial setup of AutomationEdge was satisfactory for our company. For deployment for a large process, it will take around two months to develop the process. Else, it can be done in fifteen days. My organization gets to automate the banking processes using the solution. There are different requirements for different departments. Finance departments need something to automate their processes, and the requirements may vary for the information management department. There is a different type of automation requirement if there are some secretive documents that we have to keep on triggering mail.

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Amjed Al-Tayyan

Governance Director at Diyar United Company

Automation streamlines onboarding and reduces the load on customer service agents

As the head of the division, I do not use UiPath myself. However, I am the decision-maker, so I review the features. The combination of both full-attended and half-attended automation, where you can automate tasks and still interact when required, is very useful. It provides efficiency by freeing staff from unnecessary tasks, resulting in a balanced workload and more productive use of an employee's time. The tool has a noticeable ROI, and the investment is worth every penny as it reduces tedious tasks and improves scalability. It is very easy to use. During the COVID lockdown, my son who was 11 at the time attended a UiPath and Automation Anywhere training with me. He has already automated his school tasks requiring saving data and uploading some documents to the portal. If a kid can do this, it shows how easy it is.

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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

"The most valuable features of Fortra's Automate include its FTP functionality and file manipulation capabilities."

"The pricing is excellent. I would give them perfect marks in that regard."

"I would rate the technical support as a nine out of ten because it is quite fast and courteous."

"The most valuable feature is the drag-and-drop interface, which is very Windows-like."

"We use it for specific cases, mainly secure file transfers, which are vital for us. And it works for us."

"The licensing of the product is very good. You only need to license it once and then you have it forever."

"Compared to other vendors, it's the scheduling tool because a lot of vendors want to charge you extra for their enterprise-level license to have a scheduling tool built in to give you the ability to set up regular schedules to run and do certain data checks."

"The best feature of Automate is its ease of use, which is a major selling point."

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"The chatbot that they have is most valuable. It is one of the best features because they own it, and they don't need to integrate with other parties to have a chatbot. This is one of the main features. The rest of the features are common to all RPA tools or vendors available in the market."

"It is a valuable tool for developing efficient solutions, especially in finance and banking."

"The initial setup was easy and straightforward."

"The most valuable feature of AutomationEdge is creating accounts."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...I rate the technical support of the solution a nine out of ten."

"We can quickly adapt to our end users."

"The studio design is fine compared to other similar products. There is nothing extraordinary about it, but at the same time, there are not any negatives."

"The support from the vendor is very good."

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"UiPath Action Center is very valuable."

"The Excel activities are valuable. We can do browser automation through other sites or tools, but for Excel, using tools or options like Selenium or JavaScript is quite complicated because we have to import the file from the JSQL or other things, whereas, in UiPath, we get direct activities. We can directly perform the operations by using the activities. We can directly apply logic to it, and that is how UiPath makes Excel automation easy. This is why I like it."

"UiPath has reduced human error by 20%."

"The best part is the way UiPath provides the ability to automate everything, including the architecture and Orchestrator. The interfaces are very user-friendly and intuitive. It's very easy to build automations. Someone who is not very technical can understand quite a lot and start to automate."

"It is easy to go to the code level and write automations that only require a couple lines of code."

"The most valuable feature of UiPath is its usability. It's very easy to understand."

"The differentiation between unattended and attended bots is valuable, as well as being able to do portions of a process that are unattended coupled with portions that are attended. We can get human interaction, all within the same product."

"The solution has improved our organization, specifically around all the operational aspects of the bot. Once we deploy them through the orchestrator we use insights to see how the bots are performing, what errors are referring, and just the general health insights would be the biggest lift that we've gotten out of the solution. Building the automation is a little bit easier and quicker on the platform than where we were at before."

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Cons

"The OCR for Hebrew text needs to be improved."

"There is room for improvement regarding cloud functionality; there are a few missing features, and the logging could be better, especially air logging. We can go into logging events and create our own task, but it would be nice if this were more detailed."

"The documentation for errors needs improvement as many of the error messages we receive are very vague."

"The technical support could be better. We suffer from language barriers, as we are in Argentina."

"It would be an improvement if Automate had better stability tools, whether by recommending a certain amount of memory because it can be a memory hog at times."

"Sometimes when we communicate with the ERP system and there is an issue, we are not always aware of the specifics of Automate and the source of the problem."

"I currently have three bugs open with them that I don't know if they are addressed in the new release."

"I would like the updates to be easier to deploy. Integration with Amazon S3 is somewhat lacking."

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"They could provide more technologies for IT and security to enhance machine learning capabilities."

"The installation process could improve. It was difficult to complete."

"We cannot use extra modules while working with AutomationEdge. It crashes if we have lots of data to process in Excel."

"There are some shortcomings in the product's stability that need improvement."

"The ease of use is the main thing on which they really have to focus. If they want to go against the giants, it should be improved in ease of use, and it should be more user-friendly. It would be helpful because everyone should be empowered irrespective of whether they know how to code or not. They should enhance its user interface and make it more intuitive."

"AutomationEdge's ecosystem has shortcomings and needs improvement. When we compare AutomationEdge to other RPA tools in our company, we find that it has a very minor online community."

"It's not an intuitive tool."

"With the solution, customizing software can be time-consuming."

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"We would like UiPath to make some enhancements to the cloud version to provide more flexibility for OCRs, email models, and AI centers."

"UiPath can probably work on improving the AI features. We tried UiPath's AI functionality in our automation program. We did some research on that, but right now, nothing is in production. When we did some research, we weren't getting the expected results. We weren't completely satisfied with the results, so we put it aside. It could be a drawback on our side in terms of learning the tool."

"We would like to see C# support in the next release."

"UiPath could improve integration with other platforms, like the SAP platform. I heard that SAP has their own automation processes in their platform and they are trying to avoid integrations with RPA platforms. Sometimes, that can be difficult. UiPath's room for improvement is having the ability to integrate with as many platforms as possible."

"There is a drawback that the new products getting launched are not well documented, and the information only sits with the product team, not with the support team."

"UiPath Studio could offer alternative coding methods. You could invoke the code with VB or C#, but I'm unfamiliar with either of those languages, and I don't have time to explore them."

"We need to be able to span across a bigger complex network. Right now, the decision-making is based on a five step rule. It would like to see this increased, so we can take on bigger productions and work more efficiently."

"I have fewer issues with the user interface when I'm using Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere. For example, if you want to perform an action in UiPath, it's a little tricky because you must click on a particular icon. When you click on that, some selectors are generated. That will change whenever the application updates, so you must change the selector again after the update. When we are dealing with Automation Anywhere, we'll not get any selectors if we are using that action once."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"From a distributor's perspective, one of the biggest selling points of Automate is its price point."

"It has gone up in price. The price of Fortra's Automate has increased since we first started using it. It does a lot but also costs a lot. It was a lot more affordable before Fortra owned the software."

"Compared to other products, the pricing model for this solution is much more convenient, flexible, and adaptable to the Portuguese reality."

"Once you buy the software, you just pay for the support for backend help."

"I like the way this solution is priced because you can buy a license, or you can buy the software outright."

"The cost is a bit high for a small business like ours, but we manage with Fortra's Automate."

"I'm only involved in running the product and maintaining the systems, so I can't speak to the cost."

"It comes with a package that costs approximately $20,000 USD per year."

More Automate pricing and cost advice

"The product is available at the lowest price."

"Price-wise, AutomationEdge is pretty affordable, making it not so expensive when you compare this with other tools in the market."

"Pricing can be made better. Currently, I think the pricing is based on the market. The pricing also depends on the business partners that offer you the solution."

"The licensing for this solution should have a more competitive pricing model. The price is in the top five of similar products."

"If you are looking for a budget solution, you can consider AE. It has all the features. Scaling it is way easier because of the cost itself."

"It is expensive but its value can justify the cost."

"I give the price of the solution a nine out of ten."

"UiPath is reasonably priced for being a leader in the market."

"Do your research, the infrastructure piece is important to understand before purchasing."

"I find UiPath a reasonably priced solution."

"The price of both UiPath and Automation Anywhere is high. The basic package is included in the price, but in case you require any professional or golden package, you have to pay a higher price."

"There is some initial sticker shock from a lot of people regarding cost, until you show them what the actual benefit is. Initially, people are just going, "Why?" So, the retort for that is, "Look how much you will save, time, and budget-wise with one bot. If one bot costs X, this is how much it will save you over one year. This alleviates the "Oh my gosh" face, when it's 1200 dollars for a bot."

"The pricing differs on the requirements. If there is a huge purchase, then we get a discount. There is not a fixed pricing of the product."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"Its pricing seems reasonable. I know we've been able to get a good amount of value in a few years. Our breakeven was only in year two. So, we're approaching breakeven in our licensing program. It's not a cheap product by any means, but the value that can be returned on an ROI basis is quite high."

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

13%

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Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

15%

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Real Estate/Law Firm

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

15%

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What do you like most about AutomationEdge?

It helps us with cost optimization and easy implementation.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AutomationEdge?

I rate AutomationEdge's pricing as a six to seven. It is expensive but its value can justify the cost.

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Comparisons

Microsoft Power Automate vs Automate

Compared 38% of the time

Automation Anywhere vs Automate

Compared 8% of the time

Blue Prism vs Automate

Compared 8% of the time

VisualCron vs Automate

Compared 7% of the time

MOVEit vs Automate

Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 37% of the time

Microsoft Power Automate vs AutomationEdge

Compared 27% of the time

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Compared 24% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Also Known As

HelpSystems Automate, Automate

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Overview

Automate offers a user-friendly solution with a drag-and-drop interface for efficient task automation and integration with major platforms like SAP and Azure, making it ideal for quick deployment with minimal coding and training.

Automate provides powerful features for businesses seeking efficient automation, offering compatibility with databases, email integration, and cloud platforms. Its simple interface supports both beginners and experienced users, simplifying tasks like invoice processing, HR automation, and data transformation. Cost-effective pricing and flexible licensing enhance its appeal while integration capabilities and scheduling tools ensure smooth workflow automation.

What are Automate's Key Features?

Drag-and-Drop Interface: Simplifies automation with intuitive design.
Integration Capabilities: Connects with platforms like SAP and Azure for seamless data flow.
Database and FTP Triggers: Enhances automation potential through direct data interaction.
Efficient Scheduling: Automates tasks with precise timing and control.
Web Scraping: Automates data extraction for quick analysis and reporting.

What Benefits and ROI Should Users Expect?

Rapid Deployment: Minimizes coding efforts for quick implementation.
Cost-Effectiveness: Offers flexible pricing models to suit budget constraints.
Operational Efficiency: Reduces manual workloads and enhances productivity.
Comprehensive Integration: Facilitates improved data management across systems.
Scalability: Adapts to growing business needs with ease.

In industries such as healthcare, banking, and logistics, Automate is used for tasks like invoice payment automation, data transformation, and task automation. This leads to streamlined processes and reduced manual workload, illustrating its value in enhancing operational efficiency through diversified workflows.

Fortra

AutomationEdge is an Intelligent Robotic Process Automation product which comes bundled with key essential technologies for automation of front office, middle office, back office and IT operations.
AutomationEdge provides Chatbots, Intelligent Automation bots, AI and Machine Learning capabilities that help clients reduce costs, improve response time, grow business and achieve compliance. AutomationEdge provides ready Bots and development environment to build new Bots.

AutomationEdge

UiPath Platform offers an intuitive automation solution with its user-friendly interface and low-code/no-code capabilities, empowering users to efficiently automate processes without technical expertise. It integrates seamlessly with applications and enhances productivity through attended and unattended automation.

UiPath Platform stands out for its scalability and operational control, especially through Orchestrator, which effectively manages bots and processes. AI-driven features like Document Understanding and OCR streamline data handling, reduce human error, and increase productivity. With support from a robust community and UiPath Academy, users benefit from ongoing skill development and learning. The platform's integration with tools such as Salesforce and ServiceNow ensures flexibility, and its Automation Cloud simplifies deployment and maintenance. Despite these strengths, UiPath users have highlighted areas for improvement such as licensing complexities, documentation clarity, and support responsiveness. They also seek enhanced integration with AI, machine learning, and external systems, combined with improved stability and more intuitive design.

What are the key features of UiPath Platform?

Intuitive Interface: Drag-and-drop design eases automation for non-experts.
Orchestrator Management: Effective bot and process management for operational control.
AI-Driven Features: Document Understanding and OCR optimize data processes.
Extensive Integrations: Connects with Salesforce, SAP, Excel, Oracle, and CRM.
Automation Cloud: Simplifies deployment and streamlines maintenance operations.

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Time Savings: Automation reduces time spent on repetitive tasks.
Cost Efficiency: Decreases operational costs by minimizing manual labor.
Productivity Boost: Attended/unattended automation increases productivity.
Comprehensive Training: UiPath Academy and community resources support user growth.

Organizations adopt UiPath in finance, HR, IT, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors to automate repetitive and data-intensive tasks. Automation in invoice processing, data entry, and document management is common. Its integration with systems like SAP, Excel, Oracle, and CRM enhances efficiency, enabling businesses to reduce errors and manual effort, while focusing on strategic activities with both cloud and on-premises deployment options.

UiPath

Sample Customers

Aldergrove Financial Group, Preferred Health Professionals, Mindbeam Technologies, First Credit Union in British Columbia, Vestcom International, Prime Liberty Benefits, University of Tampa, CNLBancshares, World Precision Instruments, BJ's Restaurants, Globe Pequot Press, Accudata Technologies, Norton Healthcare, Pacific Toxicology Laboratories

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