Buyers prioritizing public-company financial transparency (UiPath better), Microsoft-anchored shops where Power Automate bundle wins on price, or buyers wanting agentic-first architecture (covered separately in AI Agent Platforms).
Mid-market and enterprise (500-25,000 employees) wanting a UiPath alternative with cleaner cloud-native architecture and credible AI co-pilot, buyers willing to accept private-company valuation risk and IPO-timing uncertainty.
Why we say this
Editorial pulled these weaknesses from Automation Anywhere’s product card in our Top 10 RPA Software for 2026:
- ! Last public valuation $6.8B (2019); softened in down-round talk
- ! IPO timing pushed multiple times
- ! CEO turnover 2022-2024 (Mihir Shukla → Chris Riley → others)
- ! Lighter market share than UiPath
- ! Renewal pricing aggression flagged by customers
- ! Public-company financial transparency lacking vs UiPath
If Automation Anywhere is wrong for you, consider these instead
Same Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, different best-fit buyer.
Best for
Microsoft-anchored organizations (any size) where M365 E5 is already deployed and RPA is one workflow tool inside the Microsoft platform, particularly attended-bot, citizen-developer, or departmental use cases that do not require deep enterprise CoE governance.
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SharePoint and Microsoft 365 anchored organizations (200-5,000 employees) wanting workflow + RPA + process discovery in one vendor, particularly departmental and citizen-developer use cases.
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Large enterprises (1,000-100,000+ employees) with serious RPA programs already running 50+ bots, organizations that need a deep, mature, multi-modal automation platform and can absorb the strategic risk of UiPath being mid-pivot from classic RPA to AI-agent orchestration.
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Last updated 2026-05-09. Editorial verdict based on the published Top 10 RPA Software for 2026 ranking. Disagree? Tell us.