Automation Anywhere (AA) Pricing
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Prashant Mohare
Business Head of Intelligent Automation at CRG Solutions
Co-Pilot is not free. It has a user-based cost. If I have 100 users, I need to purchase 100 licenses. But for practice purposes, you can get the Community Edition where you can understand all the details for implementing Co-Pilot.
The pricing is reasonable.
View full review »Its usage is expensive for us because my user base is mostly in Manila and KL. The unit cost of labor is cheaper there than in the U.S. or Australia, which puts a bit more stress on how to get a positive ROI while continuing to use it.
I would rate it a six out of ten for pricing.
View full review »The cost of Automation Anywhere is fine.
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Automation Anywhere (AA)
April 2024
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Automation Anywhere's licensing cost is better than UiPath and Blue Prism. The licensing cost is a big factor because you might have 50 or more bots, and the per-bot license cost is about $5,000. That is the amount that you need to invest.
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reviewer289642
Program Manager, Automation Centre Of Excellence at a legal firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Similar to how competing products are priced, the solution has separate licenses for features that should be included in a bundle package. For example, the analytics dashboard and bot insights are sold as separate licenses.
No one wants to buy a product that is too complex because components are sold separately. Give longstanding customers these benefits as icing on the cake.
The solution is not the least or most expensive. Pricing is good and in the middle so I rate pricing a five out of ten.
View full review »RPA solutions are not cheap. There will be a large cost to implement any RPA solution but ROI can be huge and very quick if you are not timid. Do not go slow. Embrace the platform and it's huge potential and your RPA program will be a cash cow for your organization.
View full review »The pricing is fair and allows for scalability. This means we only pay for what we need, and if our needs increase, we can easily upgrade our plan.
View full review »Automation Anywhere pricing and licensing are competitive compared to the other automation vendors. Automation Anywhere gives us a platform to scale quickly without embedding a lot of costs on our end. It is reasonably priced.
View full review »The pricing is reasonable. The money you spend will be worth it.
View full review »The pricing model can be a bit more flexible. It mostly has the option for bundles. There is almost no possibility of adding single licenses to the bundle. I rate the pricing a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is very expensive.
View full review »The pricing is okay. We've established the value of bringing it into our organization. For scaling, you can't beat the price of adding a robot that provides basically unlimited scale.
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Logeshbabu Jothy
Head Transformer at FLSmidth
They are already coming out with a community license, which is really good. That's something that I wish to have.
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Sudhanshu Lal
VP of Automation Architecture at Accenture
The licensing isn't an area I can discuss in great detail.
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reviewer367378
Head of functional & technical architecture - Support functions Information System at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We obtained benefits from the original price prior to the acquisition and had to engage in negotiations due to the expansion of the usage scope. We were required to purchase licenses and bot runners, which determined the permissible run times for the bots. We successfully achieved a fair price worldwide.
View full review »The price for Automation Anywhere is reasonable compared to others, but there are some feature limitations. Specifically, the ability of one bot to support multiple VMs is an issue, distinguishing it from some other solutions.
Automation Anywhere is significantly expensive. The cost is at the highest end of the spectrum.
In addition to the licensing cost, let's say, $1,000, we also have to pay the OEM vendor fee, which can be around $150. Furthermore, we are responsible for the payment of managed services, and occasionally there are additional charges for maintenance.
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reviewer1874100
RPA Process Mining Coordinator at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
It depends. For example, for my group, we are centralizing the infrastructure in Paris. Our contract is signed with Automation Anywhere in France. The currency and the pricing of Automation Anywhere in France can appear beneficial and interesting for Germany and Scandinavian countries, but when we share our infra and are internally charging other countries such as Poland, Brazil, or some other country with a lower currency value as compared to Euro, it becomes less beneficial. They would prefer to sign the contract directly with Automation Anywhere because they will benefit from a price that is as per their local market.
The price works well for France, but it becomes a bit complex when you centralize it for all the countries or groups. In the international context, you have to propose something a little bit tailored for some countries, such as Romania or Brazil.
View full review »Compared to Microsoft, the solution is expensive. However, compared to UiPath, it's fairly low - maybe 25% less. Generally, within the market, the price is average. It's competitive.
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Harish Bennalli
Oracle DBA at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We purchase on a bot basis. Our costs are approximately $5,000.
View full review »Despite being less expensive than UiPath, Automation Anywhere remains cost-prohibitive for many small and medium-sized businesses.
View full review »The price for Automation Anywhere is high. I would rate the cost an eight out of ten, with ten being the highest cost.
View full review »I really enjoy the pricing options with Automation Anywhere, as they are able to flex their ability to adapt to the needs of the customer really well. I am sure the specifics for some pricing are on a partner-by-partner basis but providing the ability to scale the licenses, setup, and pricing to the customer is a huge benefit with Automation Anywhere.
Their technical support system and response times directly to a partner are really good.
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reviewer2272665
Team Lead Development at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
The price for Automation Anywhere is reasonable.
View full review »The product’s pricing is reasonable. The pricing depends upon the partner. We can get Runner, Attended, Unattended, IQ Bot, and Bot Insight licenses. The price is reasonable if we can get whatever the organization needs. There are no additional costs.
View full review »The pricing is still high. For every new feature, there is an additional charge.
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IshanDutta
RPA Specialist at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Automation Anywhere is expensive, making it suitable only for enterprise organizations. Although there are more affordable solutions available, they lack the comprehensive features of Automation Anywhere and cannot scale to meet the demands of large organizations.
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ShripadMhaddalkar
Director of Operations at XLNC Technologies
The pricing and licensing of Automation Anywhere plays an important rule in the Indian market because in the Indian market $10,000 USD is too much. Hence, the pricing tends to go down depending on the customer relationship with the partner: A starter pack is $10,000 and an enterprise pack is $100,000. If you go through an implementation partner, you can get good deals. They can save some money.
An annual contract is really beneficial for support.
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SHARDUL VASAVADA
Sales Director at Tecnoprism
Initially, they charged a premium, but now the rest of the vendors have increased their overall pricing and Automation Anywhere is not that high at this time. It's pretty viable.
I work in APAC, India and Asia Pacific countries, and customers here are very price-conscious. Every time I get a chance to work with Automation Anywhere, I tell them that I want a starter pack at a relatively low cost so that the customer can get started. But for customers based in Europe, The Middle East, or North America, Automation Anywhere is pretty competitive.
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HoussamHammoud
Product Manager at Automation and AI Tools
The Automation Anywhere license is affordable and not complex. In our region, we have the option to implement the solution on-premises or in a sandbox since nothing is in the cloud. This aspect makes the license even more cost-effective.
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Principa8942
Principal Analyst at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
As our team size increases, we may get some more licenses for the tool.
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Mahendhiran A.
Software Engineer(RPA) Certified Advanced RPA in Professional Automation Anywhere at Prodapt
The solution itself is free unless we want to add the support option but we have to pay for the bots we use. There are two types of payment options: monthly or quarterly licenses for the bot agents.
View full review »1. Setup cost is minimal as AAE Control Room is hosted in the cloud. Also, with AAE no dedicated setups need to be run and installed
2. Licensing cost is relatively less compared to other solutions on the market
3. Pricing stands out well compared to other solutions
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VikramAbhishekSah
Associate Consultant at Ernst & Young
Costs are ok. IQ Bot is too expensive. Bot Vision should come for free as one can easily use a number of other visualization options for free. There is no point in paying too much for too little.
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Brian Dsouza
Sr IS Manager at Amgen Inc.
Roughly, as of today, it is around $250,000 annually.
View full review »It is cost-efficient in terms of licensing. I found their support good when I was working for the airline client. However, I hear from my managers here that the support price for Tier 3 or premium is a little higher. That is why we are not going for Automation Anywhere. Its price was okay for our client, but for us, it seems expensive.
View full review »I don't deal with purchasing, but I know that Automation Anywhere is more cost-effective than Blue Prism. I won't say the cost is low, but I can say that it's cost-effective.
View full review »It is not cheap, but we are able to get an ROI. I would rate it a seven out of ten in terms of pricing.
There are no costs in addition to licensing, but we had to pay our partner for one-time implementation.
View full review »# Licensing: One of the components of key drivers for us to renew our contract is AI or automation. As an organization, we are moving toward smarter operations.
Our pricing a year ago was $600 per license, but I am not sure of our current licensing cost.
# Set up cost: Additional costs will be for the machines and the number of machines that you are using. You can deploy virtually as well as on physical machines. In both the situations, you do need to allocate a certain budget for securing the machines and where the software will be installed and running.
# Dedicated Machines: The machines cannot be used for anything else, because only a certain bot can run at a certain time. You need to be very particular about your scheduling of running the bots, and while the bot is running nobody can use the machine. You cannot have an agent working on a machine and the bot running in the background. The machine has to be completely dedicated.
# Network Bandwidth and Disk Space: Then there are the network bandwidth requirements and disk space requirements, which are additional costs apart from the licensing and software costs. The developer is also going to charge you for their coding time too.
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Shashi Pagadala
Manager of RPA Development at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It has good licensing costs which are average for the market.
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Ronaldo Firmo
Automation COE Manager at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
Automation Anywhere is costlier than the general competition. I believe that it is consistent with their market share and with the benefits AA has to offer.
View full review »Automation Anywhere is generally more expensive than Power Automate, but they may offer a better price for large volume consumption.
On a scale of one to ten with ten being the most expensive, I rate the price of Automation Anywhere an eight out of ten.
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reviewer2212380
Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The pricing for Automation Anywhere is reasonable.
View full review »It is not too expensive, but there are many tools available in the market that can provide the same functionality at a cheaper price.
I have done some research on the automation market, and I see that there are many automation platforms. There are also open-source ones. Every organization wants to reduce the costs. Organizations are now considering cheaper platforms such as Microsoft Power Automate. Even my current organization is considering migrating to an open-source solution.
View full review »I would rate Automation Anywhere's cost a six out of ten, with ten being the most expensive.
View full review »The cost of Automation Anywhere is high in Turkey due to the weak economy.
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Uchechi Sylvanus
Team Lead, Process Improvement at Fidelity Bank Plc
We don't have a lot of processes. If we want to expand we can change the license to allow it. Currently our license, we can only have 10,000 bots, on all processes. If we have approximately 10,000 bot processes on the control we'll be able to manage the processes in the control room. Five and ten people should be able to manage 10,000 bots.
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Aman_Kumar
Technical Analyst at Tesco India
I am using that Automation Anywhere Master Certification for version 11. Recently, this has been updated in Automation Anywhere University. Until this month, it's free to use. There are no charges. That's why I would like to complete it this month.
We are waiting for them to release version A2019 version of Automation Anywhere University.
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Businessb9e8
Business Transformation Manager at a maritime company with 10,001+ employees
Yearly, our licensing costs are about $90,000 to $100,000. There will be additional licensing costs when we add more Bot Runners to our infrastructure.
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reviewer1299609
Director - Transformation & Consulting at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
They all are very competitive today. At the end of the day, it boils down to the negotiations that happen and what type of partner you are. Are you a premium partner or are you a preferred partner or a gold partner? Prices are very standardized. There could be a little bit of deviation, but they are comparable. It is a pretty saturated market because everybody has been doing our RPA for the last decade, so they are pretty competitive in pricing.
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reviewer1871820
ICT Manager at a transportation company with 201-500 employees
The licensing cost for Automation Anywhere is high.
View full review »The pricing of AA is similar to UiPath.
View full review »Based on what I've heard, it's costly, but I don't know much about its pricing or licensing. I'm not a part of that.
View full review »IQ Bots are very costly. It's not a sustainable bot for us as of now. We will look for better, alternate options for that.
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Sujay Ghosh
Team Lead at Accenture
Approximately, for a developer, it is around $750 for a license a year. For Bot Runners, it is about $550.
View full review »As an RPA developer, I do not personally have much to say about this topic. I find the license pricing to be competitive and reflective of the pricing models throughout the RPA space, and I believe there is a lot of value in continuing to maintain the free community edition platform.
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Mahaan Pai
IT Analyst at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I don't know exactly what the pricing schemes are for the product as this type of negotiation is not my responsibility, but I think the basic pricing comes to $15,000. We have many employees and perhaps not so many doing Bot development and deployment. The Bots can service a lot of people and I think the rest of the pricing is based on usage.
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Reginald Christian
Head IT Operations and Infrastructure at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
More than 40 to 50 percent of the IT budget will be for the cost of automation projects in the coming years since these projects enhance operations add value.
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Matthew Wilde
Director of Shared Services at iHeartMedia
We purchased AA through ISG and have done both annual renewals and a multi-year renewal, the latter recently. It has been very easy to add bots on an as-needed basis.
There are no additional costs from Automation Anywhere, but there is obviously the infrastructure costs for the VMs.
View full review »If you look at the capital expenditure, Automation Anywhere is number two to UiPath. But if you take a long-term view, on a scalable model of a large number of bots coming out, it slowly goes on to become the costliest tool. There is something they can do about that.
I did a cost comparison on short-term basis, long-term basis, CapEx versus OpEx, and Automation Anywhere is the costliest. Surprisingly, Blue Prism becomes the cheapest, if you look at the long-term view.
That's because of the licensing terms, the pricing policy, and the engagement models. Blue Prism doesn't want you to buy just one license. They want you to sign up for the long-term, for at least a minimum block of ten licenses. Automation Anywhere can give you a single license, so the capital expenditure is low. But as you go on, the OpEx, the regular increase in the number of licenses and the price per, starts to add up.
The capital expenditure goes out right at the point of buying the tool. For Automation Anywhere, I would need to spend $20,000. UiPath can give me something for $6,000, while Blue Prism will come in at $300,000. If I'm just experimenting, or I don't have a need for a large number of bots, or I can optimize my design to run bots sequentially on the same machine, Automation Anywhere vs UiPath is quite comparable.
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George-Bennett
VP Business Development at Ampliforce
We're paying a monthly subscription fee for the bot and for services. There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee.
View full review »We are not into advisory. We only use the tool.
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Manohar-Reddy
Performance & Functional Automation Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
The licensing cost is approximately $4,000 USD, which is a seed license. You can have as many licenses as you want but the moment you start using them, they charge for them. For example, if you have purchased two hundred and fifty licenses to use over one thousand machines then at any point, only two hundred and fifty users can log in.
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Infrastr17d7
Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Our annual licensing costs are about $500,000.
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reviewer2268915
Head of Sales at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I don't have any thoughts on pricing or licensing.
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Swati Srivastava.
Technical Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The licensing cost could be improved. It costs a lot. At the very least, the developer licenses and the control panels should be made free to enterprises, and the production environment licensed. Production should bear the cost; we would be okay with that, but not the development side.
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reviewer1584543
Automation and AI Specialist at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees
Automation Anywhere is expensive. They should consider lowering the price to make Automation Anywhere more affordable to SMEs, which comprise a huge segment. The license is annual, not monthly. You need to pay for some of the advanced features, such as document automation, which doesn't come with the base package.
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Joel Samuel
Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We're paying for a yearly package for Automation Anywhere (AA). It's not a standard license. It's a license package, e.g. it comes with the fee for automation, or the license for the product, and anything beyond that, we pay a base fee, and whether we utilize it or not, it's paid for, and it has to be allocated. That's the current deal we have. What would be better is for them to have different packages for different types of organization.
View full review »Very flexible.
View full review »The cost can be reduced a little for users.
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Sagakumar Gangipelly
Sr. Software Engineer at Ryan India Tax
Currently, we are using attended automation. We do have unattended bots but are in the process of procuring some other licenses. In future, we will make a few bots unattended as well.
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Venkata Sreedhar Nalam
Technical Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Automation Anywhere University is pretty good. They make it available free for everyone. You can download and learn from it. The courses are tailor-made. It's pretty decent. One can just go through the courses and start developing bots straightaway.
View full review »I think it's $5,500 per license.
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Dimitris Papageorgiou
Partner at Ernst & Young
I've seen the price vary by opportunity cost, in essence, for Automation Anywhere. If they think that the client is going to scale and adopt a tool, the price could change. There is variability based on how quickly and how substantially you want to invest in it.
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BPMan456
BPM Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We're just starting to renew our license, and we were quoted $115,000 without the IQ Bot.
The IQ Bot is another $30,000. This is with very limited pages, as we go through our first projects. The majority of the cost was for ten days of onsite training.
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William "Sonny" Kocak
Sr. RPA Developer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Automation Anywhere's pricing is competitive. That's obviously something that attracted our company to it. They're very well priced. I can't speak to let's say UiPath or Blue Prism. I do know Pega vs Automation Anywhere is somewhat comparable, but Pega also requires a lot more infrastructure and a lot more experience to get up and running. There's a bigger upfront cost to get Pega and they also want to push their case management, so even if you go RPA, they're going to want to get you to do the case management side of things as well.
View full review »It is expensive. I would rate Automation Anywhere an eight out of ten in terms of pricing.
They bill for every IQ bot that you have. We do not use IQ Bot, but we have a license, and they bill for every thousand pages.
View full review »Setup: A2019 is very easy. A single installer does it all.
Cost: Cheaper compared to Blue Prism and UiPath Orchestrator.
Licensing: Floating licensing
View full review »The setup cost is less than other solutions in market
View full review »Automation Anywhere provided the best quality for products like iPhones.
View full review »The costs are just a one-time cost, but the amount of savings it will generate is uncountable. So it's better to invest in something now, learn and start saving your time, effort, and money in the future.
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reviewer1452099
Senior Consultant at Capgemini
So far so good.
When it comes to 2019 and the AA cloud I think many are skeptical about the pricing and support model.
For example, we are already on our own cloud, AWS and azure so as a cost-effective solution we would obviously want to choose our own platform for hosting. Be it IAAS, PAAS, SAAS etc.
Now that AA is proposing a cloud as well, we are still in the thinking phase of the costing model to see if this fits us better in terms of revenue and margins.
We are looking forward to experiencing the AA cloud soon.
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Mithun Kumar
Advisory Council Member at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our costs are approximately between $5,000 to $10,000 per license.
They have a ridiculously expensive bot licensing structure, especially for the Asian region.
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Deepika Bale
Specialist Quality Operations at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
This solution costs approximately $3,500 USD per license. For a large company, this cost would not matter, although if I had a very small organization and I wanted to automate a small process then this would be a bit costly.
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BPMan456
BPM Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It looks like it will be right around $115,000, not counting IQ Bot, which we won't renew until later.
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SeniorIT8b1c
Senior IT Design Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have 10 licenses right now.
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reviewer1802079
Costing & Finance Systems Senior Specialist at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is subscription-based. They have different schemes. The price depends on how you negotiate with the local partner or local representative in your country.
View full review »Automation Anywhere is expensive.
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Tianyuan Zheng
Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are a partner of Automation Anywhere and find the pricing to be reasonable. There is an additional cost for using OCR.
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Jane Adams
Information Technology Specialist at RBC
It's affordable and this accords all users a chance to use the platform and grow their portfolio and withstand competition in their respective industries and markets over their rivals.
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AnkitAnand
Senior Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
As far as costs, it depends on your use. We started with a basic department pack, which is over 10K. The additional costs depend on the scale of the engagement and how it pans out. We customize to our needs on the go.
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Abhineet Sood
Consultant at Zs
The number of licenses that required when evaluating a solution was not a hundred bot licenses or Bot Runner machines. At that time, we were not looking at scale and that is where Automation Anywhere helped us.
Including the AWS setup and everything per license, it costs us around $10,000 on an annual basis. I believe that is pretty reasonable considering the teams that we have.
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SeniorCo515c
Senior Consultant at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
I don't agree with the IQ Bot licensing costs, which depends on the consumption of the document rather than per bot or user. This is confusing for me, because most of the cases for us in a possible future scenario, there would be a lot of invalid data to be scanned to get to real data. E.g., we would have to supply approximately 100 pages of scanned data to extract two pages of original data. In these type of cases, the IQ Bot might be a costly venture.
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Software66b3
Software Engineer at The Travelers Companies, Inc.
The nice part about being on the software development side is that we have don't have to deal with licenses etc. I've had to in the past. Put it this way: It becomes easier and easier to sell when they can see what we're doing.
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Solution1ddf
Solution Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Costs varies per client.
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reviewer2243580
Digital Technologies Manager at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
These types of companies, in automation, need to evaluate their business models. They sell it by license, but if they could charge by case or by interaction, that might be better. Right now, it's expensive when you want to scale or use them for simple processes.
View full review »Pricing depends upon the number of licenses required by the company. They can implement using the community version. If their business can be automated based upon the business process workload they can decide a number of Bot runner and Developer licenses are required.
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Kumaran Dayalan
VP of Corporate Finance at Refinitiv
We are currently negotiating a contract. Depending upon that, we will definitely look at increasing usage.
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BIManagec9cf
Business Transformation Manager at a maritime company with 10,001+ employees
Licensing is done on a yearly basis. There are some additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees. There are a couple of add-ons we've looked at: The IQ Bot for OCR and machine-learning were add-ons, as well as the Bot Insights - the analytics.
We got The Bot Insights rolled in immediately, on a trial basis. The Meta Bots, if not immediately, we had added on very early on. The IQ Bot is something that we've been looking into recently. We have not yet purchased that license. We have run a PoC with it and are looking into adding that on.
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Jian Chen
Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our annual licensing costs are around $100,000 a year.
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Automati7e97
Associate Director, Healthcare Technology Solutions at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
Our annual license is somewhere in the neighborhood of $115,000.
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Architec82e8
Architecht at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I'm not sure what the monthly licensing cost is, as that is taken care of by another team, but I would say it's around $100,000.
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VpIsGlob37e5
VP IS Global Development at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have a three-year contract with Automation Anywhere.
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Brian Walling
Global IT Director at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Cost is the biggest area in need of improvement for Automation Anywhere. Annually it's $250,000. That's what deterred us right away. We stopped using it as a primary solution because of the costs. We did not apply hardware to that, because we've already got the cost baked into our infrastructure. Otherwise, there would have been hardware costs on top of that. If we really took a full, all-in cost for Automation Anywhere, it would have been much higher. But we don't do it that way.
There are three big, heavy-hitters in RPA, with Automation Anywhere probably being the premier, followed by Blue Prism, and then UiPath. Of those three, Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere are very expensive, but the accomplishments are the same. UiPath is pretty affordable as a buy-in, with the accomplishments being the same.
Overall, each has its own uniqueness, strengths, and weaknesses, but when it comes to looking at it on the financial side, Automation Anywhere is probably one of the most expensive to have an all on-prem solution. We're all about on-prem. It was very expensive to stand that up.
We went with UiPath.
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reviewer2241156
Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is quite expensive. Not every organization can consider this option. That's one reason they might go with real integration via API.
There are additional support costs. We didn't buy the support because we have a capable team that is doing the job.
View full review »Licensing for Automation Anywhere (AA) is paid on a yearly basis. Out of all the RPA tools, it has the most value for money, e.g. what you pay is what you get.
On a scale of one to five, with one being cheap and five being expensive, I'm rating the price of Automation Anywhere (AA) a three. It's not as expensive, but it's not that cheap, too. If you'll use it long term, then it's better, but the company that you're selling it to, they have to trust you, and you should also have knowledge about the sales.
View full review »Cost Licensing is little high.
View full review »The setup cost, pricing and/or licensing of AA sounds reasonable considering its capability.
View full review »In terms of pricing, this is a good product.
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reviewer1452870
Associate Director - Projects at Cognizant
The setup cost depends on multiple factors, so you need to get details before choosing.
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Ankit Singh
Software Engineer at Capgemini
Setup cost is a bit okay, but once it is up, it can give a great amount of ROI.
View full review »In the Indian market, I feel that for mid-size companies, such as ourselves, that having multiple bots costs a lot. If Automation Anywhere wants to expand in the Indian market, they will need to look at their pricing.
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Reviewer93480
Director of Business Process Improvement at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Price is where I'm least satisfied. Other vendors are more willing to offer discounts.
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Anil S.
Technical Architect at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
I believe it is $10,000 for Bot Creator.
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SeniorDi7ec0
Senior Director, Digital Transformation at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
On a yearly basis, our licensing costs are about $80,000. We bought a package and when we tried to get this high-availability to work we bought some extra Bot Runners. I know that if we buy IQ Bot there's an additional cost for that but we haven't gotten there yet.
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Sunil Ranka
Founder at Predikly
The cost is anywhere between $10,000 and $100,000.
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Srihari Hari
Solutions Architect at Emids
When you compare the cost of Automation Anywhere with UiPath and Blue Prism, those others are much less. Licensing-wise, UiPath wins the deal.
View full review »Although the initial implementation cost of Automation Anywhere is relatively high compared to other options, its annual subscription cost is lower than UiPath's, which has the opposite pricing structure.
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Anurag Vishnoi
Head of Robotics Process Automation at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The solution is cost-effective in comparison to others. However, you need to pay for the control room for each environment. You also need developer licenses and even runners are required for test and pre-production environments.
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reviewer1166259
Enterprise Automation Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
While the RPA is still competitively priced, usually IQ Bot is expensive. That's what we have seen.
For the OCR, my understanding is that it's a one-time cost. I've seen instances where it's $15,000 or so and on top of that there is some cost on every document processed or maybe a bunch of documents. Per every 1,000 documents processed there is a cost that is recurring. That said, the initial one-time cost is quite high.
View full review »Automation anywhere is best suited for processes that have high volume and are repetitive.
They offer good discounts when purchased in bulk or they provide extra bit runner runners with the existing prices.
The setup cost basically depends on usage. They can be installed both on-premises or on the cloud depending upon the user's requirement.
View full review »While calculating the setup cost you should account for the server, virtual machines, product licenses, maintenance costs, and running costs.
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Kalyan Bitra
CTO at SAge IT inc
One of the important from the community side of it is the Bot Store, which is one of the biggest factors that I can think of. It is like a marketplace.
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Bill Weathersby
Board member at Transform AI
No one is balking at the cost. They are market rates and will change, but no one is saying, "That is ridiculous or impossible." They are saying, "Show me the ROI and prove that the cost is accurate."
One of the things that will be good for the community will be to get the free version to download, which came out just a month ago called Community Edition. So, you can actually download it and try it for yourself.
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Jiajan Shen
Project Management Officer at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
We have a few licenses. They cost roughly $10,000 each.
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AutoMan9843
Automation Manager - Nordic at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We just did a round of price comparison on a global scale and found it's so hard to compare the license prices. But, Automation Anywhere, in general, is on the same price level as the other vendors, a bit lower in some cases.
If we're thinking about the list prices, the Enterprise platform license fee is quite high. If you have five Bot Runner licenses, five bot creator licenses, a Control Room, and an Enterprise License fee, Automation Anywhere is much more expensive than the others. But if you have a global agreement with them, the Enterprise platform fee is shared between all the entities that are using Automation Anywhere. In that scenario, it would be a lot cheaper. The prices are quite okay.
View full review »Our customers pay for the Automation Anywhere (AA) license yearly, for the cloud version.
View full review »It's cheapest among the competition, although bargaining is a must.
Different licenses are for Bot Runner and Bot Creator, which saves on the cost.
View full review »We generally follow the Gain-Sharing Pricing model, which enables the customer to start getting the RPA benefits right from day one of their implementation.
View full review »AA comes at a more affordable price than the other tools.
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reviewer1452882
Senior Testing Consultant at Dark Horse Digital
The price is very reasonable.
View full review »Overall, the pricing of Automation Anywhere is good.
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Dhiraj Dedhia
Sr. RPA Consultant at Thirdware Solution Ltd.
The one-time setup cost can be fully recovered with the ROI achievement within six months, provided the implementation of bots is planned properly.
The pricing and licensing are definitely moderate to costly but easily recoverable by achieving ROI quickly.
Our setup cost was only procuring AWS instances but installations are performed in-house.
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Technica8809
Technical Lead at Verizon Communications
For Runner we paid around five-thousand dollars and for Creator we paid around three-thousand dollars.
The cost depends on the environment of an organization. I don't have the exact figures, but these are the production figures provided to me.
We don't have a license for cognitive document processing yet. We are identifying the use cases for it.
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Technica28f7
Application Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Annual licensing costs would be about $100,000.
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Bruno Rocha
Workforce Coordinator at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
Annually, we are paying almost one million reais.
View full review »Licensing is not done by us but by the server team. They provide the infra and they manage the installation and licensing because licensing is very costly. It's a very confidential thing. They cannot share the license with everyone.
If I compare it with Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere is cheaper. Blue Prism is very costly. Automation Anywhere's pricing follows the market, not less and not more.
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reviewer2338686
Electrical Engineering Trainee at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
Automation Anywhere is reasonably priced because it can sustain us for a long period.
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Bryson Heath
Data Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The setup cost is relatively low and is affordable while offering a quick ROI.
View full review »I feel the cost of licensing is very high for the A2019 version. There is nothing much to say about the setup cost.
View full review »Licensing is pretty straightforward with Automation Anywhere since creator licenses are unlimited and free if we select a certain package. Setup cost and pricing is also very reasonable which helped us in making all client projects economically viable
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reviewer1454214
Business Operations Associate at ZS Associates
It is the most economically friendly and it provides you with a lot of functions.
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reviewer1452876
Senior Operations Specialist at HCL Technologies
The setup and licensing cost is affordable, and it is not exaggerated like UiPath.
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reviewer1387335
RPA Program Manager at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
Each RPA Tool has its own limitation & benefits - For an early started UiPath may be a better option because the license cost is less but once you Scale & Try to move to advance complex Use Cases involving Cognitive it may not help much
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reviewer990828
Delivering Digital Workforce at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
They give us a good deal on the licensing because we bundle and customize things. If you ask to get a bulk business deal, you will receive more benefit. If you take other products from the suite, like IQ Bot, you can also receive a deal on the licensing.
We have also worked with them for so long now that we have developed a relationship.
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reviewer2315709
Digital Transformation Expert at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The pricing of the solution is flexible.
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Luiz Duhau
Technical Lead | WDG projects at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
It's the best RPA tool, but the pricing could be improved.
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reviewer1681449
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I'm not too sure about the pricing part, because our organizers handle that. I'm just a developer. We get the software already installed on our machine.
View full review »I advise others that even as of right now, the setup cost and licensing cost to automate bots on Automation Anywhere is steep but it is worth the investment!
View full review »Our advice is that anybody interested in this product should negotiate product bundles in order to reduce the cost of installation and setup. This product will ultimately help you to innovate and excel, and we recommend it.
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Bvs Siva
Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The licensing fees are approximately $10,000 USD for between five and ten users.
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Dona Manuel
Technical Lead at Titan company
The pricing strategy is one license, one creator. It is more complicated than that depending on the options you choose.
View full review »It takes a lot of effort to build up the internal infrastructure/topics like Virtual Machine/Security/development-Governance/Usecase-Management.
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André Scher
CEO at Auctus
Licensing costs range from $50,000 to $200,000.
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Asif Hussain
Senior Project Manager / RPA Architect at Royal Cyber Inc.
When I started working on it, it was difficult to obtain a trial version (barrier to entry). Now, they have a Community Edition, which may make it easy to get started.
View full review »This is a value for the money product.
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Sachin K
HR Manager at OMFYS Technologies India Pvt.Ltd
It is a very effective tool since it requires less coding and one can easily get trained on this tool with little knowledge of coding.
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Vince Marion Espinosa
Software Engineer Analyst at Accenture
I advise users or prospective buyers of this product to know more about the features they offer before diving in with this solution, pricing-wise. It is one of the most affordable RPA solutions, and as for licensing, they offer a community edition that greatly helps anyone who aspires to learn about the product before buying the enterprise solution. It will give them an overview of the features and functionalities that they will encounter when using the robot.
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Consulta48d2
Consultant at Ernst & Young
Automation Anywhere is a bit more expensive. This is one of the things that we face when we talk to small start ups in Bangalore. They want to do an RPA implementation, but don't have the money. UiPath is the answer.
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reviewer1180077
Lead Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We have purchased licenses, but are trying to obtain more bot programmer licenses. That should be happening in the next week.
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reviewer1641549
Associate Vice President at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The price of Automation Anywhere is a little higher than some of the competition, such as UiPath. However, depending on the use case and other factors we are able to receive some discounts.
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Shantanu Devlekar
RPA Developer at OMFYS Technologies India Pvt.Ltd
I'm an RPA developer, so I don't have any idea about the cost or pricing but the licenses for developers and runner IQ Bot are pretty good.
View full review »We didn't look at other options while choosing Automation Anywhere.
View full review »It's very good in terms of cost and pricing.
View full review »With the newer cloud version of Automation Anywhere product, the setup cost has been cut down because the customer doesn't need to invest in new hardware.
Automation Anywhere is flexible in terms of costing and licensing.
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ShubhamSinghal
AI and RPA Practice Head at In2IT Technologies
The product starts at $10,000 and then it's up to you regarding how much you can consume. Comparatively speaking, the costs are higher for Automation Anywhere.
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Aishwary Nigam
Senior RPA Analyst at TATA consultancy
The licensing costs are a bit high, but the profits are very good.
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Matt Rethlake
RPA Business Analyst at Franklin Electric
The cost is affordable, which makes an easy barrier to entry for the RPA market.
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Prateek Kapoor
Global Intelligent Automation & Transformation Leader at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
They're very flexible around pricing and licensing.
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Abdallah Ramadan
Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Automation Anywhere is a subscription-based service. I think the price is reasonable.
View full review »There is a community version, which is free. they also have a yearly paid license.
View full review »The cost of this solution is a little bit high, but it is worth the price.
View full review »The licensing model and cost are very impressive. Now, you do not have to worry about infra setup cost like Server, Database as it comes free of cost with the A2019 cloud version.
View full review »Calculate the IQ Bot page count and usage.
Factor in the development as well as training time required for IQ Bot training and validation. The effort is easily underestimated.
View full review »The setup cost for this is onetime and licensing is based on your choice of product.
View full review »The installation is a bit of hectic process and also the price is more in market compared to other competitors.
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reviewer1452891
Product Manager at Thirdware Solution Ltd.
It's an ideal pricing model to customize the components based on everyone's needs.
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Navinkumar Sadasivam
Quality Analyst at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Small companies can't afford this cost as the pricing is a little higher.
View full review »Pricing is a bit high when compared to other available tools; however, the tool is worth the cost.
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Jayaraj Pachiyappan
Senior Analyst at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
It costs up to $1,200 per license.
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Dhaneel Shanthpure
Founder and CEO at Digigro
We are using the trial version. We are still trying to come to a conclusion about purchasing the product, which will take some time.
Their licensing processes are in par with most industry standards.
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reviewer1965888
Junior RPA developer at a tech services company with self employed
I think the pricing is reasonable, but clients often perceive it as expensive. This perception might change once we see the benefits, understand the full process, and realize what is required to achieve our goals.
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Saifuddin Dhankot
Support Engineer at MIndfields Global
The Sales team would take care about pricing, since other teams were also using AA. Licensing was modified based on the runners needed as per the projects. Number of developer licenses were fixed.
View full review »The pricing is reasonable and one can achieve ROI faster when compared to other tools.
View full review »There was a little confusion in terms of the setup costs for the pure cloud version because it was a bit misleading when we understood that all the Control rooms and the bot creators and runners would be on the cloud. The provisioning for the bot agents was not understood immediately.
View full review »I would like to highlight that AA has a bit more pricing range compared to other RPA tools. AA charge for control room. They charge for bot runners.
View full review »Cost-wise, it should be reduced.
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Amar S
Automation Project Manager at a performing arts with 10,001+ employees
We would advise going for Automation Anywhere as it is cost-efficient and easy in-terms of licensing form.
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Pavithra Bangera
Robotic Process Automation Developer at Mekkanos Limited
The cost of unattended bots is reasonable and when it comes to attended automation the licensing cost for Attended bot runners is a bit expensive. The overall price is not so expensive compared to other tools.
View full review »The pricing of AA is quite high as compared to other tools as it's one of the best RPA tools available in the market.
I am managing the entire cost, price, and licensing model for our project.
View full review »Looking at overall feasibility from features to costing perspective we have taken a call to go along with AA. Installation is easy however pricing etc. can be reduced a bit as it is still more for small business/automation.
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reviewer1165122
Sr. Program Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I am not aware of costs, but for every bot we have a license. That is what I know.
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Manohar-Reddy
Performance & Functional Automation Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Automation Anywhere's price is a little expensive. Moreover, it comes on like a single/set license. It should come in perpetual licenses. If a license is not getting used, then it has to be switched over to some other process. In cases like this, Automation Anywhere does not come up. I think they lose a lot of business because they do not use a perpetual model.
View full review »I can suggest Automation Anywhere.
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reviewer1452123
Business Analyst at Accenture
It's a great product, timely support, and guidance.
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Amirul Arifin
Head of Automation at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
You need to be mindful about the initial server costs if you go with an on-premise deployment model as the specification can surprise some of your stakeholders. For licensing, always try to get through reselling partners for getting more customized and better prices.
View full review »The price of this product is good.
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Prakasha S
Solution Architect at Accenture
The setup cost for AA is always fixed since the configuration won't change much for the different number of bots, the license cost is lower in AA,
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DilonDsouza
Sr Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
may not be able to comment here.
View full review »Know ahead of time what capabilities you are going to require and plan accordingly to determine the total number of user licenses and development licenses required.
View full review »The price between distributor and partner is different, especially in terms of the discount. We cannot lock the discount from partner to distribution, so we still have a different price.
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Ravindra Kumar Muduli
Senior RPA Developer at VIS Networks
Pricing is average and less than blue prism. But one thing I would like to add that post 1+ years completion only we can expect ROI because after taking license and putting RPA solutions into production will take lots of efforts and time. Thus in one or below one year time period we can't expect good ROI.
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Jiaming Deng
Developer at Normandy Insurance
I would like them to have better license management.
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SeniorMada6d
Senior Manager Development at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
If you are looking into Automation Anywhere, get the Community Edition and play with it.
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Kunal Goel
Digital Expert at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
It's cheaper than other similar solutions.
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KinjalDangeria
Director Of Services at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
There is an annual subscription for Automation Anywhere.
View full review »I do not have that much knowledge about cost/pricing or licensing details.
View full review »Regarding the price, licensing, and maintenance, Automation Anywhere provides its customers with its best and affordable value.
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reviewer1446603
Bot Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I don't have any information about the pricing or licensing on offer. It's my understanding that there's different pricing, depending on how many licenses a client needs. It's very flexible. If a client just needs a certain aspect, they can just get a license for that.
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RpaLead259a
RPA Lead at Juniper Networks
Our annual licensing costs for the entire company are $100,000.
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Swati-Srivastava
Associate Principal at Bristlecone
The licensing needs to be made simpler or shortened.
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Associatdd34
Associate Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
We have a developer license for this solution.
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ProductM6aa8
Product Manager at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
The Community Edition is also a good offering from the company.
View full review »License for AA, before investing in infrastructure list out and analyze the current setup, since AA can be implemented at a minimal cost as well without extra infra/setup.
View full review »I don't deal have cost specifics but I can say it is a tool that provides value for the money.
View full review »My only suggestion in terms of pricing is very generic and that is to consider that as much as RPA saves cost and does automation, please get a realistic estimation done on whether you are really achieving any ROI over your investment with RPA. Once you are sure about it, go for it.
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Shashikumar Kasarla
MTS IV Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We are not receiving the right information about their features, e.g. Automation Anywhere University, or anything that they are selling. They need to improve their documentation.
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ChiefITA7b2f
Chief IT Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Once the license is sold, the support could improve.
View full review »This is a comprehensive automation offering with a scalable architecture and flexible pricing models. This keeps the RPA TCO low and you can automate with confidence.
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reviewer1458816
DevOps at Centrax Systems
There is a free trial so that they can get an overview, and there are different licenses that are very affordable and can suit every business model.
View full review »If it is saving FTE and Generating a good ROI then it is Worth Investing.
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Punith Venkatesh
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I am not sure about the costs, but two Bot Runners and four Bot Creators may cost approximately 1CR.
View full review »Being one of the Bot Creators, I wasn't included in the breakdown, makeup, or negotiation of pricing or licensing. I only know the total cost.
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ProcessI4690
Process Improvement Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Pricing is too high for small-scale groups. The Control Room yearly fee is high, making it difficult to break even.
View full review »I usually advise them not to worry about the overall cost since the outcome will be profitable.
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Sharath Ganta
Lead at Aligned Automation
The price is a little bit high but the support is good.
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reviewer1442157
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Pricing is affordable and I would recommend beginning with the Starter Package.
View full review »We only deal in annual licenses. There are no pay-as-you-go licenses.
We would like them to change the license model of charging per bot.
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Krishna Kishore Paraselli
Senior Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Our licensing costs are setup on an annual basis.
View full review »I don't have much idea on this, as I am an RPA developer. I would suggest talking to a sales person about this.
View full review »I am not in charge regarding this matter.
View full review »First have hands on with Community Version and then figure out your requirements.
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ProjectMa81f
Project Manager -Learning and Development at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We purchased the commercial version with the license.
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Mayur Kacha
Development Consultant at Infogain
They're very flexible around pricing and licensing.
View full review »The cloud-based version comes at an increased cost, although our clients are happy with the new features and have not complained about the pricing. Precious things are valuable, and they know that.
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Software0742
Software Developer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Discuss the solution with other companies before purchasing.
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Chetankumar K
Lead Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
With the Community Edition, a new user to RPA can utilize the tool and start learning how to use it.
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Navinkumar Sadasivam
Quality Analyst at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Talk to your manager and try to procure an automation license for training. This will allow you to train people, so you can move to automation.
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Sankarlal M
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The control room access gives the ability to create different roles, which helps when purchasing additional licensing.
Their overall pricing falls in the middle of the market. Cost-wise, Automation Anywhere is quite expensive because of their analytics, IQ Bots, and MetaBots. For a standalone machine, the pricing is okay. When adding in the licensing for IQ Bots (or MetaBots), it can become quite costly.
They recently launched a Community Edition, which is okay, but they should have done this a long time ago.
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Yash Parikh
Project Manager at Nine A Business Connect
We are restricted to use one license on one PC. However, if my license is not working, I want to be able to use it somewhere else. This would be a nice improvement to the licensing, as other competitors in the market have better licensing terms.
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reviewer1462998
Technical Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Its price is competitive with all other products in the market.
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reviewer1468062
Senior RPA Developer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Considering the cost, it is a bit high, but worth the price because the output accuracy is high.
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reviewer1120545
Business Development at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Our clients are paying for a yearly subscription of Automation Anywhere (AA).
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Rpa5a1d
Tech Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It is expensive. Automation Anywhere has reduced the price slightly, as we have grown. However, the price is still excessive enough that we are engaged in PoCs on other tools.
View full review »The pricing is a bit higher.
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Developeec22
Developer at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Go to the market. You can see the difference between this tool and the others there.
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April 2024
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