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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. ...

UiPath Orchestrator can provision, deploy, trigger, monitor, measure, and track attended and unattended robots. It connects to enterprise credential stores, retains an audit trail, and supports cloud or customer-managed deployment. That is the scope UiPath describes on its Orchestrator product page. OpenAdapt has no credible answer to “replace our entire UiPath program.” I wouldn’t offer one. A fleet needs a platform At a large organization, the robot is one component. Studio produces packages. Orchestrator assigns machines, schedules jobs, tracks queues, records audit events, and gives an operations team a central control surface. Attended robots help employees; unattended robots handle back-office work. ...

A team I would recognize anywhere runs four hundred UI automations against a system somebody else owns. The dashboard is green. The success rate has been 98-point-something for a year. Then a reconciliation turns up eleven records that were updated with values belonging to a different account, all in the same month, all in runs the dashboard counted as successes. Nothing crashed. No exception was thrown. Every one of those runs saw a confirmation banner and believed it. ...

Most software robots re-read the manual every single time they run. A person who has done a task a hundred times does not re-derive it on attempt 101. The robot does. A general computer-use agent looks at the screen, thinks, picks an action, looks again, thinks again, all the way to the end, every run. For a task nobody has seen before, that is exactly right. For the tenth-thousandth triage note in the same clinic, it is a strange thing to pay for: latency, model cost, and a plan that comes out slightly different each time. ...

A crashed bot is a support ticket. A bot that writes to the wrong record (or writes the wrong thing, or writes nothing at all) and then reports success is a different kind of problem, and almost nobody publishes a number for it. Nothing pages anyone. The dashboard is green. The error surfaces later, owned by whoever owns the record it landed in: a note in the wrong patient’s chart, a payment posted to the wrong loan. And the defining property is that the tool’s own verification passed. It confirmed that something was saved. It never checked whose record it was, or whether the database agrees with the banner. ...