9 Best RPA Software of 2026

Power Automate is the most predictable way to price desktop automation, which is why it sits second. Microsoft's pricing page lists Premium at $15.00 per user a month paid yearly for cloud flows and attended desktop flows, Process at $150.00 per bot a month for unattended desktop flows, and Hosted Process at $215.00 per bot a month for an unattended bot on a virtual machine that Microsoft manages on Azure. The product page says desktop automation uses RPA to automate legacy systems with prebuilt or custom user-interface actions, and cloud flows can draw on more than 1,000 API connectors when a system does have an API. Copilot helps write flows, and task and process mining help find candidates. The limits are clear too: the desktop app runs on Windows 10 and 11, and Microsoft describes Power Automate as a cloud service rather than an on-premises product. For a Microsoft shop with Windows-based legacy apps, the total cost is easy to model before talking to anyone.

UiPath ranks first for teams whose work lives in screens rather than APIs. Its RPA page says its robots use AI Computer Vision and selectors to interact with screens the way a person would, across Windows and macOS, and that they reach legacy systems and virtual environments like Citrix. That last point matters for banks, insurers and hospitals that publish old applications through Citrix. UiPath adds a Healing Agent that repairs broken UI steps at runtime and ScreenPlay, which turns plain-language instructions into UI automations. The pricing page lists a Community plan that is free forever, a Basic tier starting at $25 per month for limited-scale team automations hosted in Europe, and Standard and Enterprise tiers priced by sales, with a 60-day free trial on Standard. Unattended RPA is listed as an add-on for Basic. The catch is that a real enterprise rollout will land on Standard or Enterprise, so budget a sales cycle before you can compare totals.

Automation Anywhere is a full enterprise RPA system and ranks third because its capabilities are close to UiPath's while its pricing is opaque. Its RPA page says the platform can deploy across cloud, hybrid or on-premises, and that workloads and schedules are managed through a pure web-based Control Room with role-based access and full audit trails. The page pitches keeping legacy systems and applications in place while bots work around them. The integrations page lists packaged actions for SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, Microsoft 365 and more, plus open standards like REST and SOAP for systems without packages. A customer story describes Merck automating 64 business processes across 14 SAP systems. There is a free Cloud Community Edition for trying the platform. What is missing is a price: the pricing URLs we tried returned a not-found page, so every real deployment starts with a sales conversation. Teams that need on-premises control and strong governance should still shortlist it.

Robomotion earns fourth place on value. Its homepage describes robots that sign in, click, read and type across an ERP, bank, CRM, tax portal and help desk, even where there is no API, which is exactly the job on this list. Its pricing page is fully public: a Free plan with 50 daily credits, Solo at $49.00 a month, Pro at $129.00 a month with one production robot, and Team at $399.00 a month with two production robots, unlimited flows and document understanding. Extra robots cost $19 a month for application robots, $49 for development robots and $99 for production robots. Robots that run on machines you own have unlimited local execution time, so long nightly jobs do not add cost. You can build in a visual Flow Designer or ask for an automation from Microsoft 365 Copilot, Claude Code or Codex. Note that Solo has no production robot, so scheduled unattended work starts on Pro, and SSO or an SLA needs the self-hosted Enterprise plan.

ElectroNeek places fifth as a practical choice for firms that care about AS400 screens and older desktop software more than about brand names. Its use case list includes AS400 terminal automation, data migration from legacy systems and user onboarding across multiple systems, and its homepage cites 150+ integrations for both SaaS and desktop apps. The pricing page describes an RPA and Integrations package with unlimited attended and unattended bots, unlimited free RPA bots and IntegraBots workflows, SaaS and on-premises orchestration, document recognition and an AI co-pilot in the development tool. A separate document processing package lists 3000+ pre-trained models. Customer quotes on the homepage point to MSPs that chose it because it does not use the per-bot model of larger vendors. The weakness is transparency: the pricing page shows packages but no numbers, so you need a sales call, and the on-premises package is also sales-led.

SS&C Blue Prism is built for banks, insurers and public bodies where every bot action must be explainable. Its Enterprise page says the platform logs every action for audit trails, works within legacy and modern applications, and protects processing with strict user access controls, multilevel change approvals and a segregated, interference-free environment. Developers build in a no-code Design Studio and reuse objects across the business, and a Control Room assigns processes to digital workers with SLA-based orchestration. Its enhanced Application Modeler uses AI Surface Automation and Smart Vision to model GUIs without code, which helps with screens that classic selectors cannot read; SS&C says this increases use cases by 50% and cuts maintenance time by up to 80%. The product comes as Enterprise or as the fully managed Blue Prism Cloud. It ranks sixth because nothing about price is public and the setup is heavier than the self-serve tools above it.

Ui.Vision RPA is the low-cost way to automate a screen that offers no API and no accessible UI tree. Its desktop automation module uses image and text recognition to read words and images on your desktop, then clicks, drags and types on Windows, macOS and Linux. The browser extension covers Chrome, Edge and Firefox, imports Selenium IDE scripts, and a command line API lets Jenkins, Python, PowerShell or C# start macros. Ui.Vision says it is open source and free for personal and commercial use. The pricing page lists PRO at US$299 a year with email support and Enterprise from US$999 a year for up to five users with update management and priority support, plus an Enterprise Player licence at US$1499 for unlimited machines that replay macros. Version 10 adds an AI macro assistant and an MCP bridge. It ranks seventh because there is no central control room, and image-based steps need upkeep when a screen layout changes.

IBM Robotic Process Automation is a complete package that shows a real starting price, which is rare at this end of the market. IBM's pricing page lists a 30-day no-cost trial and both the SaaS and on-premises options starting at USD 981.00 per month, with a note that prices are indicative and vary by country. Every option includes attended bots, unattended bots, a Studio build environment, optical character recognition and intelligent virtual agents, and all run on the Windows OS. The SaaS version provides a multitenant cloud for the bot repository, scheduling, workload management, OCR and dashboards, while the on-premises version ships client and server components. IBM suggests pairing it with IBM Process Mining to choose what to automate. It ranks eighth because the entry price is high for one team, bots are Windows only, and the product page offers fewer details about legacy connectors than UiPath or Blue Prism.

Nintex RPA makes most sense as the bot layer for companies already running Nintex workflows. Its RPA page describes a drag-and-drop designer with no coding, over 200 advanced commands, and machine learning plus OCR that let robots use applications the way people do. Bots run attended, so staff can trigger help on demand, or unattended around the clock. Native integrations with Nintex Automation CE and K2 let a bot handle the screen steps inside a broader approval or document workflow. Nintex Desktop Guide is a different idea: it highlights the next required action on screen and blocks the user from skipping steps, which helps with training on old systems. On security, Nintex says it is the only RPA vendor with ISO 27701 certification and lists ISO 9001, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance. It ranks last here because prices go through a contact form and the AI and orchestration features are thinner than those of the top four.