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BotFarm vs Microsoft Power Automate comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 2024

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

BotFarm
Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
24th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Power Automate
Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
133
Ranking in other categories
Process Mining (3rd), Agentic Automation (3rd), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, the mindshare of BotFarm is 0.8%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Power Automate is 11.5%, down from 20.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Microsoft Power Automate11.5%
BotFarm0.8%
Other87.7%
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
 

Featured Reviews

Rajneesh Prajapati - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Rpa Consultant at Accely Consulting
Automation has streamlined client data extraction and has improved reporting for business decisions
I work as a developer, and my manager is responsible for the research and analytics for the project with the client and business users. I am satisfied with BotFarm. I would rate my experience with BotFarm an eight out of ten. I do not see any room for improvement for BotFarm. I am using AI tools such as Amazon, Microsoft Azure, and ChatGPT. I am not using AI-powered bots in BotFarm. I am a partner with Automation Anywhere.
Ayobami Shobaloju - PeerSpot reviewer
Customer Solution Provider at Wema Bank
Automating processes has saved time and improved communication
Something frustrates me concerning Microsoft Power Automate, and that is about the integration with Microsoft Forms and Excel. The issue now is that I don't get my responses synchronized automatically, and that frustrates me a lot. If the team could take this as feedback, the synchronization of the feedback responses from the forms and the Excel sheets should be seamless. This synchronization issue happens frequently, and it causes a lot of delays in the sense that the mails that ought to go out to the agents fail at some point. I have to reload these responses so that the agents can get their responses as when submitted. What I notice is that the responses don't go out without proper synchronization, so I reload the field responses, and this works afterwards. I would say probably a seamless walkthrough process for new users would be beneficial. For those using it for the first time, a seamless walkthrough process would be fine.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Automation Anywhere provides a very flexible UI."
"The ability to drag and drop various components and the customizability are good features."
"The entire backend system structure is something that I found really valuable."
"BotFarm has been working perfectly fine with our business model. Its scalability is the most valuable feature. We can easily scale out bots on a need basis. Portability is another valuable feature. We work with different payment systems like Visa and MasterCard and have bots for them. Because of BotFarm, we are able to reuse these bots."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the Excel automation and support for SharePoint."
"The system is stable and very little maintenance is required, assuming the bots process is perfectly designed."
"The solution is very stable. We don't have issues with bugs or glitches."
"The best feature is that it doesn't require any other connectivity."
"The most valuable feature is that it easily integrates with other Microsoft products, so it has multiple connectors. You can create solutions that connect to Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and OneDrive."
"Its integration with the Office 365 ecosystem is most valuable. We use a lot of ready-to-use templates."
"The most valuable feature is that it is very easy to use."
"It helps with the feedback mechanism, where we need to determine the relevant team and obtain their email addresses."
"Microsoft Power Automate offers over 200 connectors that enhance the user experience."
"The solution helps automate manual tasks and interacts with multiple applications."
"The engineers on-site can generate an automated report that takes approximately 10 minutes, while before it took them two days."
 

Cons

"The machine learning needs to be improved so that they perform better in terms of predictive analysis and sentiment analysis."
"I would like to see more process mining features to give us insight into them before we develop automation."
"The discovery suite that they just acquired could be included."
"BotFarm newer version has been difficult to install, we have been in contact with the support on this matter."
"I have called customer service three times and the experience has not been good. They do not offer 24/7 support, which forces us to wait till the next working day to solve a problem."
"The solution automation is incapable of interacting with our Pega software application development. It is based on the nested table concept and it is unable to read these tables. Several projects have been put on hold because of that."
"The only challenge that we have faced with BotFarm is that there is no continuous deployment. The whole world is moving to the DevOps model, but BotFarm is still not on the DevOps model. It should have integration with the DevOps model. The migration of the bots or bots pipeline is currently purely manual."
"When somebody is just learning this product it can be difficult for them to understand, so improvements to the user interface would be helpful."
"The solution is not actually satisfying the complex programs that we want to execute."
"The stability of the product is not very good and can even fail with simple projects."
"The solution's licensing model is very complex and not straightforward."
"They've already improved it, but I guess a testing suite would be nice to be able to test your automations in real time."
"The new designer is problematic and wastes development time. What can be developed in an hour typically takes 15 to 20 minutes longer with the new designer."
"It is mostly integrated with the Microsoft environment. Unlike UiPath, we cannot really use external tools with Microsoft Power Automate. There should be a possibility to integrate it with external tools or systems."
"This solution should be more resilient, with robots more capable of recovering after an error."
"The OCR part or scanning of documents is missing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The starter price is free."
"The license of this solution is on an annual basis. The price is fair. However, what we did initially was a POC, but now we are looking at moving from a POC to expanding it out further. I would appreciate some kind of discount."
"Automation Anywhere is more reasonable than Blue Prism and UiPath in terms of cost."
"We pay approximately $15,000 USD per year."
"Our licensing costs are approximately $3,000 USD annually."
"I am very happy with the pricing."
"The pricing is fair."
"Its price is quite high as compared to other solutions, but it has a lot of features and good stability. They should reduce its price."
"Currently, we are using the free license for testing. After everything is done, we'll buy the license."
"This solution can save money when used for simple tasks specifically using only Microsoft products."
"It depends and varies a lot according to the licensing terms. There is no cost to maintain if we have less than 10 forms. Microsoft only charges if there are more than 10 forms. So, most of the companies can survive without paying anything extra. It is included in the Office 365 licensing."
"Good price-quality relationship. Its features for its price were the best fit for our company."
"The licensing model is flexible in that you can pay per automation or per user. My client receives a discount because of the large number of users and pays approximately $15 for each one."
"Its licensing cost is comparatively less as compared to Automation Anywhere. We have bought a two-year license agreement."
"We are using the free version of Power Automate."
"You pay for use and if you want a premium connector or adapter, but a lot of things are available for free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Marketing Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Insurance Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise18
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business50
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise66
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BotFarm?
The product has increased efficiency and reduced the time spent on tasks.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BotFarm?
The product is slightly expensive. In comparison to competitor tools like UiPath, BotFarm's cost is greater. Our organization also works with UiPath and Microsoft products. Our company doesn't want...
What needs improvement with BotFarm?
The solution can improve the accuracy of hand-written data reading. In some situations, the data needs to be hand-written by the agents, and at our organization, we face some rare challenges with s...
RPA that Bots can run without centralized control?
Yes, Attended Bots which can run without centralized control Module. RPA Tools like Automation Anywhere, uiPath ,Power Automation they do support this.
How do I choose between UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate?
Microsoft‌ ‌Power‌ ‌Automate‌ ‌is‌ ‌intuitive‌ ‌and‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌integrate‌ ‌and‌ ‌use.‌ ‌I‌ ‌like‌ ‌that‌ ‌there‌ ‌is‌ ‌no‌ ‌coding‌ ‌experience‌ ‌necessary,‌ ‌and‌ ‌appreciate‌ ‌the‌ ‌automated‌...
How is Automation Anywhere compared to Microsoft Power Automate?
‌Neither‌ ‌solution‌ ‌requires‌ ‌any‌ ‌coding‌ ‌experience,‌ ‌and‌ ‌both‌ ‌are‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌use‌ ‌and‌ ‌have‌ ‌great‌ ‌drag-and‌ ‌drop‌ ‌functionality.‌ ‌The‌ ‌training‌ ‌and‌ ‌resources‌ ‌for‌ ‌A...
 

Also Known As

No data available
Power Automate, Microsoft Flow, MS Power Automate, WinAutomation by Softomotive, ProcessRobot by Softomotive, Minit
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Cisco, CocaCola Bottlers Japan, Macy's, Whirlpool, Unilever
1. Coca-Cola 2. General Electric 3. Siemens 4. Accenture 5. Deloitte 6. Johnson & Johnson 7. Ford 8. Nestle 9. Procter & Gamble 10. IBM 11. Amazon 12. Google 13. Microsoft 14. Adobe 15. Cisco 16. Oracle 17. SAP 18. Intel 19. HP 20. Dell 21. Verizon 22. AT&T 23. T-Mobile 24. Walmart 25. Target 26. Home Depot 27. McDonald's 28. Starbucks 29. Nike 30. Apple 31. Facebook 32. Twitter
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