Microsoft Power Automate 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Microsoft Power Automate

4.4

(231)

FrontRunner 2026

Pricing

Starting at $15.00 per month

About Microsoft Power Automate

Power Automate by Microsoft is an advanced automation platform that provides a diverse range of capabilities such as BPA, DPA, RPA, process/task mining, and AI-powered automation. With Power Automate, users can efficiently manage their workflows and automate tasks across a variety of applications and services. The platform empowers users to simplify repetitive tasks and assign duties to teams through its embedded AI capabilities.

Microsoft Power Automate allows users to prioritize and mark tasks like sent emails as high/low priority. Administrators can also use event-based triggers to automatically perform actions such as archiving a tweet containing specific keywords. It also offers other features such as multiple workflows, third-party integrations, data loss prevention, custom policies, and more.

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Microsoft Power Automate Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $15.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Power Automate Premium

$15.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

Unlimited cloud flows (DPA) and desktop flows (RPA) in attended mode
50 MB Power Automate Process Mining data storage
5,000 AI Builder credits
Dataverse entitlements of 250 MB database and 2 GB file

Power Automate Process

$150.00

per month

Plan includes:

Cloud flows (DPA)
Desktop flows (RPA) in unattended mode
200 MB file capacity

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Microsoft Power Automate Features

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Access Controls/Permissions
Alerts/Notifications
Approval Process Control
Collaboration Tools
Compliance Tracking
Document Management
Drag & Drop
Forms Management
Reporting/Analytics
Search/Filter
Third-Party Integrations
More features of Microsoft Power Automate
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
AI/Machine Learning
API
Attended Automation
Audit Trail
Auto Extraction
Business Process Automation
Business Process Control
Chatbot
Code-free Development
Configurable Workflow
Customer Segmentation
Customizable Fields
Customizable Templates
Data Aggregation and Publishing
Data Capture and Transfer
Data Connectors
Data Extraction
Data Import/Export
Data Mapping
Data Storage Management
Data Synchronization
Data Transformation
Data Verification
Document Automation
ETL
Forms Automation
Graphical Workflow Editor
Image Extraction
Image Recognition
Integration into Third Party Applications
Integrations Management
Job Scheduling
Machine Learning
Mobile Access
Mobile App
Monitoring
Multi-Language
Multiple Data Sources
Natural Language Processing
No-Code
Optical Character Recognition
Predictive Analytics
Process Builder
Process Control
Process Modeling & Designing
Process/Workflow Automation
Project Workflow
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Monitoring
Reporting & Statistics
Role-Based Permissions
Rules-Based Workflow
Scheduling
Sentiment Analysis
Task Management
Task Progress Tracking
Templates
Trend Analysis
Unattended Automation
User Management
Version Control
Visual Analytics
Workflow Configuration
Workflow Management

Microsoft Power Automate Integrations

Microsoft SharePoint

Integration rated 4.5 from 47 reviews

OneDrive

Integration rated 4.8 from 19 reviews

Microsoft Excel

Integration rated 4.7 from 18 reviews

Microsoft 365

Integration rated 4.8 from 15 reviews

Microsoft Power BI

Integration rated 4.6 from 14 reviews

Microsoft Outlook

Integration rated 4.9 from 13 reviews

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Microsoft Power Automate User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

57%

34%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.0

Value for money

4.3

Customer support

3.9

Functionality

4.4

Eric T.

Verified reviewer

Automotive

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Power Automate: Puts the Power into RPA

The most complex of my processes, is pulling data from PostgreSQL using a PowerQuery in Excel. The data is refreshed, saved to a CSV and then uploaded via Filezilla to an FTP. It is a daily process triggered by Task Scheduler.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Power Automate brings the "power" to RPA! I have several daily processes that run reports, pull data and publish to FTP sites. At the heart of this process is Power Automate. I have used various other tools, and Power Automate stands above all of the rest when it comes to flexibility and the ability to customize processes.

Cons:

In the beginning, Power Automate can be daunting because it is so powerful. Once I figured out how PA worked, I have been able to quickly generate, modify and deploy several complex processes. It does take time to learn, but once you have it, you are off and running.

Reasons for choosing Microsoft Power Automate

The cost of Zapier was too high. But the real benefit to Power Automate was that I can customize the workflow and create very specific tasks, then use a tool like FileZilla to finish the upload. Cloud-based tools didn't have that kind of flexibility.

rizi m.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

Quick Review on Power Automate

Overall, Power Automate is a powerful tool for streamlining business processes, though it requires careful design for reliability.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Power Automate simplifies repetitive tasks with low-code automation, integrates well with Microsoft 365, and boosts productivity.

Cons:

Debugging complex flows can be frustrating, with limited error detail and inconsistent behavior in large workflows.

Reasons for switching to Microsoft Power Automate

for tighter Microsoft 365 integration, better licensing value (especially with Microsoft E5 plans), broader connector ecosystem, and native support for Dataverse and Azure services—offering a more unified and scalable automation platform within the Microsoft ecosystem.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

I like it, but can be difficult for beginers

Previously 4

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I use power automate to practice and improve my knowledge, I like to use it and integrate with BI and Sharepoint

Cons:

Learning curve may be complicated, That was my opinion in last review, and I'm still thinking the same

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Great for making work life a bit easier!

Overall, Power Automate’s been a pretty smooth experience so far. The little workflow we set up for sending jobs to our system has been super handy, even though I haven’t poked around too much into everything else it can do just yet. I get the feeling there’s a lot more I could use it for, but I just haven’t had the time to play around with it. For now, it does what I need, doesn’t get in the way, and makes a few everyday tasks way easier.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

One of the biggest perks of using Microsoft Power Automate for us has been how easy it is to trigger jobs straight from Teams. We set up a simple button so we can right-click and send a job directly to our job-system email, and honestly, it’s been a game changer. Instead of jumping between apps or copying info manually, it’s all just one quick action. It feels small, but when you’re doing it multiple times a day, the time saved really adds up.

Cons:

I haven't really found any issues with this so far, it's been fairly seamless using it. My only gripe would be when the flow doesn't work randomly, which to be fair is barely any of the time, the error messages can be a bit vague. Honestly, when it doesn't work, normally sending the flow again just works!

Verified

Reviewer

Banking

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2025

Review of Power Automate from banking industry perspective

Overall I find Microsoft Power Automate to be a good RPA tool with a lot of future potential. Currently its features are a bit undeveloped compared to UiPath, but I can see they are improving. I find them to be easier to use and potentially save time when it comes to automatons that require less than three web applications than UiPath. Their customer service is what really gives me confidence that overtime this tool will out perform competition as they develop it further.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Microsoft Power Automate is very easy to learn for an automation software, the user interface is simple and its has native compatibility with all Microsoft office applications. In addition the pre-built API connectors are very easy to use compared to competition products like UiPath. The customer support from Microsoft has been really great in my experience, they always have staff available to help debug issues and explain limitations and ways to overcome them. Another positive point about Power Automate is that it is a new and actively being improved based on user feedback. I have had representatives get back to me about issues I faced and how they raised a complaint so that it gets fixed during future patches. From an enterprise standpoint, Power Automate is also cheaper to make automation with than UiPath, while requiring the same type of infrastructure. Since Power Automate is part of Microsoft, its much easier to get security approvals within the bank and use the software. The representatives tend to be quite knowledgeable and already have a working relation with the security team.

Cons:

Microsoft Power Automate currently has a few issues when developing RPA projects of high complexity. Some projects that require multiple web applications (More than 2) tend to run slower on power automate than in UiPath. This causes some issues in reaching SLA and planning how many virtual machines are required for a given process to complete enough cases within the given time. The time trigger in cloud automation is also an aspect that is a bit underdeveloped. Its not easy to set a time for production code based on business requirements while being able to change in in a config during testing. This leads to code changes having to be made. Microsoft support has already confirmed that they would look into this issue. Since Power Automate works on cloud and desktop flows, it often requires Vnet to be set-up for API usage which is extra infrastructure set-up and cost compared to desktop only RPA tools.

Reasons for switching to Microsoft Power Automate

We are investigating other products such as Power Automate to expand operations and see which is most efficient for which task based on time spend, reporting, bugs, and cost.

Norman B.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

Excellent Automation tool Integrated Across Microsoft Ecosystem

Power Automate is a very easy tool to pick up and use with a plethora of triggers, actions and connections ready to use out of the box.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I liked the ease of integration of Power Automate across the Microsoft, Azure and Office 365 ecosystem.

Cons:

The limitation of only a month's worth of flow run history isn't ideal, however a SharePoint list can be used to persist and log data to work around this.

Reasons for switching to Microsoft Power Automate

Our existing Microsoft licenses already gave us access to Power Automate.

Eric M.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2025

Power Automate Review

Overall it has been reliable the stuff we setup we have not had any maintenance issues with most notably automate emails with a power app integration

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Power automate interface makes the learning curve not as steep as you would think. Most of our team was able to pick it up quickly.

Cons:

We were trying to automate an excel refresh and we’re struggling to get it to work.You would think this is a common task

Reasons for switching to Microsoft Power Automate

When I switched jobs and my new company had Microsoft suite

Brenton T.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

Power Automate is a great tool to automate your everyday work

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

You can create flows for everyday work items. It helps automate items in your everyday work, whether that be notifying someone a document has been submitted or ready for another person to edit or for approval on something.

Cons:

It can take a while to learn how to use Microsoft Power Automate. There are a lot of connectors and actions which can be hard to work out which one to use in certain scenarios.

Reasons for choosing Microsoft Power Automate

Cheaper costs for the business and easier integration with Microsoft 365 eco system.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2025

Power Automate is the bomb!

My experience so far with Power Automate has been great, up there with all other workflow applications.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love how easily it integrates with SharePoint, it has all the functionality of most other workflow engines.

Cons:

The limited functionality in 'free' version.

Reasons for choosing Microsoft Power Automate

Microsoft Power Automate I believe is cheaper than Nintex. Also every time Nintex release an update things seem to break.

Reasons for switching to Microsoft Power Automate

Nintex very expensive and can be quite buggy every time they do an update.

Calvin K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Power Automate - Fast For Simple Tasks

I used Power Automate to deploy workflow automations in SharePoint and as well as to facilitate integrations. The built-in connectors made it extremely easy to deploy working flows, but scaling out took more effort to optimize. In addition, once the workflows got more complicated, it became more difficult to debug and deal with complex flows.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The best part of Power Automate is the low code integration and visualization, making it easy for people who do not have much development experience and allow for fast time to value. This makes it easy to connect to different Microsoft products using connectors. In addition, it allows for the automation of business processes via schedules or event triggers.

Cons:

The performance of Power Automate can be irregular, with execution time of the same flow varying wildly. It works well for smaller data sets and tasks, but can become cumbersome when dealing with larger data sets. Finally, it's difficult to debug if something has gone wrong.

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