OpenAdapt vs. Power Automate: where Microsoft's advantage ends
On 2026-08-26, Microsoft lists Power Automate Premium at $15 per user per month, Process at $150 per bot, and Hosted Process at $215 per bot, all paid yearly. Those plans cover cloud flows, attended or unattended desktop automation, and a Microsoft-hosted VM at the top tier. The published pricing is unusually clear for enterprise automation. That price buys access to an ecosystem along with the recorder. The Microsoft path is hard to beat Work that starts in Outlook, passes through Excel or Dataverse, needs an approval in Teams, and ends in SharePoint already has machine interfaces inside Power Automate. A connector can move the data without opening a page or finding a button. ...