What Enterprise RPA Costs, and Who Publishes Prices

Of the three biggest RPA platforms, only Microsoft publishes a real price list. UiPath publishes one number, for a tier so small it is not what anyone means by enterprise RPA. Automation Anywhere publishes nothing on its own site — its pricing URL returns a 404 — though it does list a single figure on AWS Marketplace: $126,000 for a twelve-month Automation 360 contract, with no disclosure of how much capacity that buys. All checked September 2026.

That asymmetry is the finding. If you are budgeting an RPA project, you can price Microsoft from a web page and you cannot price the other two without a sales call.

Microsoft Power Automate: fully published

From Microsoft's Power Automate pricing page, as of September 2026, paid yearly:

You can build a defensible three-year budget from that table without talking to anyone. Ten unattended bots is $18,000 a year at list. Whether you would pay list is another question, but you have a ceiling.

UiPath: one published number, and it is not the enterprise one

UiPath's pricing page, as of September 2026, shows three tiers for its Automation Cloud platform. Only one carries a price.

Basic starts at $25 per month. What that buys is tightly bounded: up to 5 Basic users, 5 Plus users and 1 Pro user, a maximum of 2 unattended robots, hosting in the European region only, limited agent calls, and a single tenant and folder.

Standard and Enterprise both say contact sales. Standard is where unlimited users and robots, document classification and extraction at scale, process orchestration, identity provider integration and multi-region deployment live. UiPath's Test Cloud tiers are also contact-sales.

So the honest statement is this: UiPath publishes a price for a five-to-eleven-person, two-robot, Europe-only configuration. Everything a US mid-market or enterprise buyer would actually deploy is unpriced. There is no published per-robot or per-developer list price anywhere on the page.

Nor on AWS. UiPath's Robot listing on AWS Marketplace shows no pricing table at all — the listing states that pricing and entitlements are managed through an external billing relationship with the vendor, with AWS supplying only the infrastructure. The marketplace route does not get you a number either.

Automation Anywhere: no pricing page, one marketplace figure

Automation Anywhere's own site has no working pricing page as of September 2026. The obvious URL returns a 404. The product and licensing documentation describes the license types in detail — Bot Creator, Citizen Developer, Attended Bot Runner, Unattended Bot Runner, plus volume-based and feature-based licenses — and attaches no dollar figure to any of them.

The one place a number exists is AWS Marketplace. The Agentic Process Automation System listing shows a single option: a 12-month contract for the Automation 360 dimension at $126,000.00.

Read that number carefully before you use it. The listing prices in "Units," which it defines as the measured quantity of automation capacity you consume against the platform, and it does not state how many Units $126,000 buys. It also says growth is handled by committing to more Units and that custom pricing is available through a private offer. So $126,000 is a real published list figure, and it is not a per-bot price, a per-user price, or a floor you can plan against. It is one point on a curve whose axis is undisclosed.

What the free tiers tell you

Automation Anywhere does publish clear numbers for its free tier, and they are instructive about who it thinks the platform is for. Per the Community Edition page, as of September 2026, the free edition allows a maximum of 5 machines per organization and up to 100 pages per month of Document Automation. Eligibility for small businesses is defined as fewer than 250 machines, fewer than 250 users, and less than $5 million in annual revenue.

UiPath's pricing page presents no permanent free tier, only trials on the Basic and Standard tiers. Microsoft's free offering is a Power Automate trial at $0, alongside the standard-connector rights seeded into Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

A public-filing sanity check

Since two of the three will not quote you, the closest thing to an outside read on enterprise RPA spend is UiPath's financials. UiPath is publicly traded, so the numbers are audited and dated.

In its fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2026 results, UiPath reported ARR of $1.853 billion as of January 31, 2026, up 11 percent year over year, and a dollar-based net retention rate of 107 percent.

Two things follow. A dollar-based net retention rate above 100 means existing customers, in aggregate, spend more this year than last — RPA contracts grow after signature, which matches how consumption-and-seat licensing behaves once automations proliferate. And note what the release does not contain: it reports total ARR and retention without breaking customers out by spend band, so you cannot derive an average contract value from it. The opacity extends to the filings.

Where this leaves a buyer

If you need a number today, Microsoft is the only one that gives you one. That is a real advantage during budget approval, independent of whether the product fits.

If you are comparing UiPath and Automation Anywhere, you are comparing two quotes, not two prices, and the quotes will be shaped by your negotiating position. Get both in writing, normalized to the same unit — number of unattended runners, number of developer seats, and the term length — before anyone builds a spreadsheet.

If someone shows you a per-bot figure for UiPath or Automation Anywhere, ask where it came from. Neither vendor publishes one. Figures circulating in comparison articles are inferred from customer anecdotes or reseller quotes, and are not verifiable against a vendor page.

Say it plainly: this one is not a tie

On price transparency specifically, Microsoft wins outright and the other two are roughly equally opaque, with Automation Anywhere marginally worse because its own site does not host a pricing page at all.

On capability the comparison is genuinely unsettled and this article does not resolve it. UiPath and Automation Anywhere are built around unattended, orchestrated bot fleets and document processing at volume; Power Automate reaches unattended RPA at $150 per bot per month but drags the rest of the Power Platform and Dataverse licensing behind it. Which one fits depends on what you are automating and what your estate already runs on.

Three questions to put in the RFP

• What is the list price of one unattended runner for one year, and what does that runner's throughput cap look like?
• If we are quoted in Units or credits, exactly how many Units does one run of a defined process consume, and what happens when we exceed the commitment mid-term?
• What is the renewal uplift cap written into the contract? A vendor whose net retention runs above 100 percent has a commercial expectation about year two, and you want that expectation on paper.