Blue Prism Cloud vs UiPath Platform comparison

SS&C Blue Prism and UiPath are both solutions in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category. SS&C Blue Prism is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.4, while UiPath is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6. SS&C Blue Prism holds a 1.3% mindshare in RPA, compared to UiPath’s 22.0% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of SS&C Blue Prism 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

UiPath Platform and Blue Prism Cloud are key players in the robotic process automation field, competing with distinctive advantages. Blue Prism Cloud has an edge due to its advanced features and higher user satisfaction, though it is priced higher than UiPath Platform, which is notable for superior customer support and cost-effectiveness. **Features** UiPath Platform enables operational enhancements through efficient core functionalities, user-friendly interface, and rapid deployment. Its focus on automation ease is evident with drag-and-drop capabilities and robust integration options with third-party applications. Blue Prism Cloud offers cutting-edge analytics, superior integration capabilities, and strong security measures. Its comprehensive features make it attractive for those seeking sophisticated automation tools, offering a competitive edge for complex and secure environments. **Room for Improvement** UiPath Platform needs to focus on enhancing customization, scalability, and integration with legacy systems. Users have expressed the need for improved performance speed, particularly with Excel activities. Blue Prism Cloud requires improvements in usability, documentation, and user-friendliness. Both platforms have distinct areas needing refinement to better serve diverse user needs. **Ease of Deployment and Customer Service** UiPath Platform is praised for its rapid deployment and responsive customer service, facilitating seamless initial setup and continuous support. In contrast, Blue Prism Cloud, although initially challenging due to a steeper learning curve, compensates with extensive training and resources post-deployment that gradually improve user experience. **Pricing and ROI** UiPath Platform is considered a cost-effective choice with lower initial setup costs, appealing to budget-focused users. It provides significant value and ease of implementation, making it ideal for those looking for affordability. On the other hand, Blue Prism Cloud, despite its higher cost, offers higher long-term ROI, which justifies the initial investment for users who prioritize substantial long-term benefits and scalability.

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Automate

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 Blue Prism Cloud is 1.3%, up from 1.1% 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.

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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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Keith Mcdowell

Chief Executive Officer at Keith F Kube and Associates

It helps us save on staff costs

I rate Blue Prism Cloud eight out of 10 for ease of setup. It's a cloud-based solution, so it isn't hard to set up. The deployment time is hard to quantify because I work for the government, and we need to go through all these internal reviews, but the technical part takes three to four weeks. The biggest challenge is security because we need to integrate it with Active Directory and set up VPN tunnels, security profiles, etc. We deployed Blue Prism in-house and used three people to set it up. One solution engineer is enough to maintain it.

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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 for my client are timing and scheduling."

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

"It gives us a central place to schedule tasks and run them distributed."

"I like the interface; it makes managing automation easy. We can set different schedules and templates for each task."

"We are still in the process of rolling it to production and tweaking it (our AD groups are a mess), but the improvements are priceless. Having users ID's created the same way every time without human error is the best part. We don't need to worry about why groups were not added, user rights not set to folders or missing a private folder being created, typos or just even knowing when things are done and logged."

"It's very easy to use. That's a big selling point for it. It has got a drag-and-drop interface, so you can quickly deploy bots."

"Fortra's Automate has effectively replaced the workload of an entire employee, saving us significant time and money."

"This tool has machine learning and voice recognition and computer vision, which are both quite useful aspects. These aren't available in other tools. It's a good addition to this tool and it gives the solution an edge on the market."

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"The ease of building automation and the development environment"

"Ability to see the blueprint of the design executed alongside the actual process."

"The product itself is quite mature."

"This product has additional functionality over Blue Prism Cloud Enterprise."

"It’s scalable."

"The primary focus lies in integrating the three major cloud platforms with Blue Prism Cloud: Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and GCP. This integration goes beyond security measures for the primary template policies. It also includes addressing compliance requirements. For instance, I can incorporate specific compliance templates and policies generated in Blue Prism and integrate them with local templates for ISO 27001 and GDPR, particularly concerning software tools and headsets. This integration eliminates the need for auditing and reviewing technical details individually. Instead, I can simply examine the container report. This approach proves beneficial when clients heavily rely on container environments."

"I would say that the stability of Blue Prism is superior to any of the competing products because of the maintainability of the features and the openness of the tool."

"Blue Prism is well known for being used in banking and security organizations. Its security is superior compared to UiPath and other RPA tools."

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"We use UiPath for web scraping. We extract data from websites, store them in boxes, and analyze them later."

"Studio is the most valuable feature from the aspect of developing a bot. It is very nice from the drag and drop perspective. It is very easy to follow and has low guidance from the technical aspect."

"The feature I like the most is ONEWEB UI automation. UiPath's OCR technology also works well. There is another feature called Action Center that lets you decide what happens after the data is captured."

"The artificial intelligence and document understanding features are very good and have been helpful when it comes to processing handwritten or unstructured, especially when there is a high volume and it is repetitive."

"The seamless integration with programming underneath, so if you choose to, you can get a bit technical with stuff. If there is something missing, you can make it yourself."

"This solution has reduced manual effort on our part. It's removed repetitive tasks which do not bring any value to the company."

"I primarily work with task capture, which has been valuable. We have created a template for ourselves and reused it for all these processes. Other departments also use it for their procedures, even if the process is not automated."

"Time-saving is the biggest area that has improved for us. We had users spending lots of time trying to get data from a system and then creating a file that was going to be used for our auditing purposes, which then gets submitted online. We definitely found some issues where an end-user was pulling data from different sources and then storing that data with lots of human touching that created issues."

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Cons

"The documentation is not that great."

"I would like to see some better web automation, a wizard like the one in the product WinAutomation would be very nice."

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

"They do not encrypt passwords, so this is an issue with HIPAA compliance."

"We really need a free development environment for customers. Building and testing automation on production isn't ideal."

"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."

"The vendor is currently working on a solution that allows us to automatically create a process that is based on a document that we receive via email."

"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."

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"Several things need improvement, like ease-of-use, adding tended robots, adding process recording, and updating the look and feel so it seems modern."

"The tool’s customer support should improve. There were instances where I tried to call them up and was put on hold. However, they do revert back through emails once a ticket has been issued. They should be quick with their responses on calls."

"The vendor does not make their pricing clear when you are searching for it, which is something that needs to be improved."

"Having more AI functionality would be an improvement."

"The product’s licensing cost is expensive compared to other tools in the market."

"Decipher, one of their solutions, is a waste of time."

"The solution is unable to read some UI components in legacy systems."

"Blue Prism might consider adding package options to allow users to come onboard in different ways that meet their needs rather than buying in to the whole package."

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"UiPath needs to improve its onboarding and operational excellence."

"On-premises deployment of UiPath requires a significant amount of RAM for optimal performance."

"I'm not sure if UiPath completely supports Slack automation. I've seen tutorials that show you can automate in Slack, however, I've had some real problems with the process."

"In the world of NextGen technology, it would be ideal if they could speed up their beta products."

"The graphics could always be improved."

"There is a big room for improvement when it comes to mobile automation. The Find Element activity is not present in mobile automation. There are activities to extract data, but we don't have data scraping in mobile automation. These activities are available for UI automation of web applications, but they are not available for mobile automation, which is a drawback when working on mobile automation with UiPath."

"The stability of the bots could be improved. The bots could be expanded to have more objects already prebuilt."

"I would like to see some use cases and additional information on the process mining and the OCR features that are being released."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is quite reasonable. We can run the process with one bot. The limitation is at the server level because they have some resources, and sometimes that is enough. It isn't too expensive, so you can get a good return off of one, and you can also have a pack of five bots that is quite competitive."

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

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

"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."

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

"While solutions like UiPath and Blue Prism cost around $11,000-$12,000 for each license, this product costs around $7,000 and you can keep it forever."

"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."

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"The licensing of the solution is on a subscription-based model and costs around 4,999 for one bot's license. If someone wants to increase the number of bots you want from Blue Prism, then they provide a discount."

"The default configuration does not include large-scale log injection, but if you require, such integration, it may incur additional costs per gigabyte. I don't have the exact pricing information for log injection, but it is possible that it varies depending on the volume of data. While there may be a basic service included, additional features might come at an extra cost. When working with cloud environments like VMs, calculating costs involves considering factors such as usage duration, network traffic, inbound and outbound data transfer, as well as network access control. The pricing structure for cloud coverage solutions follows a similar pattern, although specific pricing details would need to be obtained separately."

"Though I don't have many details, I think Blue Prism Cloud is an expensive product compared to the other tools in the market since you need to pay for resources like machines."

"We pay about $15,000 per quarter in licensing costs. We don't have to pay for any other extra costs. There isn't, for example, an extra cost for technical support. We just pay the licensing."

"I am not sure how we are set up today, but I recall we had an annual License."

"The price is very competitive when you are comparing to other providers."

"This solution comes at a medium to high price point. They need to work on their pricing to enable smaller enterprises to get the benefit of using the product."

"I would rate the pricing a five out of ten, with one being cheap and ten being expensive."

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"The ROI on all of our RPA use cases is from a throughput perspective. Processing time improvement is anywhere between 70 percent faster to 300 to 400 percent faster. For the right processes, there is even up to 7X to 10X improvement from a throughput perspective, even though it works through the UI."

"UiPath is a costly solution. Many of the clients choose another solution after hearing the price."

"It is one of those things where you pay for convenience. Pricing-wise, UiPath is definitely way more expensive than other solutions that we have seen, especially since we also have Microsoft Power Automate, which is one of the latest tools. UiPath is on the higher end, but it is one of those decisions, "Is it worth the investment? How much are you getting as an ROI?" That is usually how the conversation goes."

"UiPath's licensing costs can be high, and to maximize their value, customers need a clear plan for utilization."

"UiPath's pricing is expensive but reasonable for the quality of service that it provides."

"It would be nice if you could just buy the product instead of having the annual rate license renewals. It's expensive, but I guess we'll have to see what the ROI truly is."

"The cost for UiPath is affordable."

"Our license cost is reduced since we don't require any IT support."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Educational Organization

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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It's easy to use, the interface, the the the the queries is which we use. It's user friendly.

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What needs improvement with Blue Prism Cloud?

Decipher, one of their solutions, is a waste of time. Other than that, there's nothing specific I can think of.

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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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Blue Prism vs Blue Prism Cloud

Compared 16% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

SAP Intelligent RPA vs Blue Prism Cloud

Compared 15% of the time

Robocorp vs Blue Prism Cloud

Compared 13% of the time

ServiceNow Automation Engine vs Blue Prism Cloud

Compared 8% 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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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 2% of the time

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Also Known As

HelpSystems Automate, Automate

Blue Prism Thoughtonomy Virtual Workforce, Blue Prism Virtual Workforce, Thoughtonomy Virtual Workforce

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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

The Thoughtonomy Virtual Workforce is a highly flexible intelligent automation platform. It uses software to replicate the way people work in existing applications and systems, the processes they follow, and the decisions they make, to deliver automation without disruption.

SS&C Blue Prism

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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