Blue Prism Pricing

Mohamed Salah Baccouche - PeerSpot reviewer
Robotic Process Automation Consultant at Ernst & Young

The solution is not that expensive and a five-year license costs about 20k euros. A company that automates a lot will not view this as expensive in comparison to UiPath. 

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SZ
Department Chief at IBA Group

I am unable to compare pricing because I usually do not have access to the information.

In some cases, the client already has licenses and we assist them in installing the environment, while in other cases, they already have both the licenses and the environment set up.

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Ajay Nayak - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at Baxter International Inc.

To my knowledge, we get the license on a yearly basis. 

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Renjith Raghunathan - PeerSpot reviewer
RPA Team Lead Developer at Standard Chartered Bank

Blue Prism is an expensive solution, especially in Southeast Asia, while in Europe and the UK, it can be considered moderate in terms of cost.

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Gul Ansari - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect-Intelligent Automation at Kone Oyj

The tool’s licensing is on a monthly basis.

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SV
Assistant Vice President at Barclays Capital

The licensing is approximately $1,100.

I provide a warranty period of one year to any of the profits as an automation solution, it gives me a little less profit, but for a long-term perspective for example two to three years, I would say it is much more affordable as compared to the other.

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YZ
Business Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The billing is on a yearly basis. They send us the bill every year. My business unit is billed by the technology team, so I don't know exactly how much they pay. In my business unit, we have our first-year license costs, and then we have our ongoing costs. Our bots cost projected per license is $8,600. Our projected support cost for every year is about $38,000. Our operation agent costs anywhere between $50,000 to $55,000, so the saving is there, but it is still kind of expensive for us, but I'm looking at it from the technology kind of billing us for it. This is the cost that we have for our technology team, which is different from the licensing of Blue Prism.

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Amin Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Intelligent Automation Developer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I rate Blue Prism five out of 10 for affordability. Blue Prism costs much more than other RPA tools. It's expensive, and the maintenance costs are always high.

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Somasundaram N. - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at Finixel Technologies Private Limited

Pricing is on an annual basis. Blue Prism is around 8,000 GBP while other tools vary between 3,000 to 6,000 USD. 

The standard licensing fees for Blue Prism are around 3,000 to 4,000 USD for a partner. In addition to the tools, you have implementation costs to consider. There are no additional fees. 

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Sarath Gopinathan Nair - PeerSpot reviewer
RPA Developer at DigiStaff

I give the price of the solution a seven out of ten.

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Zameer Shaik - PeerSpot reviewer
RPA Lead at Aithinkers

The pricing or licensing costs of Blue Prism are around $15,000 per year, primarily based on the number of processors run in parallel.

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AS
Lead RPA at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We are on a yearly license. There are two types of licenses. One is for the VDI license and the other one is for the Blue Prism license. For HSBC we have yearly licenses. Altogether, I think $750 per annum needs to be paid for this VDI license and the Blue Prism license is different. 

Blue Prism is a bit higher priced compared to other payment-related or investment-related solutions. At the same time, it also provides more security than those solutions, specifically for the banking and insurance sectors. Moreover, this Blue Prism provides the flexibility to automate daily banking-related activities. 

So that's how Blue Prism is being used for the banking sector. Senior management team is looking into alternatives. For example, Alteryx is the one tool that is being introduced to HSBC. Currently, we are undergoing training for Alteryx and are exploring ways to cut down on costs.

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SP
Senior Member Technical at Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

For simple processes use UiPath and Automation Anywhere.

For medium to high complexity processes use Blue Prism.

For much complex process involving decision making and much more of AI use Work fusin.

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AY
RPA Developer at Wonderbot

The price of Blue Prism is high compared to others solutions. It would be helpful if they could provide a trial version for new users to try. Other vendors provide a community or trial version. There are not any hidden costs.

There are three different packages Blue Prism provides.

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Roshan James - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Leader - Software Engineering at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

It's an expensive product. For what they are providing in terms of capabilities and features for the price, I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten.

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it_user973275 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Innovation at Quantum AI

We really don't bear the costs. The cost is borne by the customer. It runs into about $100,000 per year per customer for Blue Prism. 

We need to add the hardware costs to set up the servers for the SQL server, and then we need to budget for about a week to set up the entire infrastructure. 

We need to add the cost of the people who will be working during this week. There are other costs, but it is the same for any tool. 

We normally budget around $30,000 for the first year for the hardware, setup, and people cost.

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RS
Ops Innovation Platform Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

I am aware of the pricing. When compared to most of its competition, it's almost near the same in terms of cost.

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Project Manager

Unlike other options, you need to buy a license. You cannot do a trial. At least, that was always the case a few years ago. With UiPath or Automation Anywhere, there are trial versions. It's a drawback for clients if it is still true that no trial option is on the table.

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NS
Process Automation Lead at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

The pricing is scalable for a enterprise-level solution. It's quite scalable and it's quite comparable with the market. If you really scale well over the number of licenses you have, you can achieve economies of scale and it comes out to be very cheap.

There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees. There is an option to increase your support levels by paying another 10 percent or 20 percent on your licenses, depending on how much support you want. We are still happy with the support.

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Dinesh  P - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The license is expensive, however, I cannot share the exact cost.

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BK
Tech Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Blue Prism has a higher cost with respect to RPA enablement, particularly if you are trying to start with RPA. If you are a middle-scale company, then the cost of robots and their overall infrastructure can become really huge. You would feel like this is really a costly affair to start with RPA.

So, Blue Prism has a higher cost if you are talking about middle-scale companies. However, if you're thinking of having more than 50 bots or 100 bots, perhaps this will have a lower impact on your cost. In general, Blue Prism is costly.

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Alin Mistode - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is costly. I rate the pricing a nine out of ten, with ten being the highest price. It was approximately 700 euros monthly. Additionally, there was 25% included on subscriptions for maintenance but the percentage varied from year to year.

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AG
Digital Strategy Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Its license is costlier than UiPath and AA. They should improve its price.

We have a two-year contract with them.

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RR
Senior SAP Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is enterprise software so we will try to maximize our usage during the available slots. We will get ROI with the high price since there will be some value added with automation. I think that after doing a cost-benefit analysis, we are on the positive side.

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AS
Vice President at YASH Technologies

Our customers pay for an annual license.

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QW
GRC Analyst at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees

I don't recall what it was. Initially, we had our licensing through the consultant, and when we stopped using them, we renegotiated licensing. Blue Prism gave us temporary licenses during the negotiation. When all things were said and done, it came out to a decent price even without the vendor. So, our management has been happy with that.

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AN
Solutions Architect at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

Our licensing fees are approximately $5,000 USD per year. The price is based upon the licensing model, where clients are assigned categories such as platinum, gold, and silver customers.

Everything is included with the cost of the license. 

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RR
Senior SAP Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

The cost of the solution is high. It should be lowered. They need to make it more affordable. 

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KG
Senior Manager , Digital Transformation, Strategy & Transformation at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We have an enterprise-grade license with Blue Prism and it depends upon your requirements. We ask for additional production bots, which is the main parameter for the license cost.

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MM
RPA Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

This is an expensive solution. I think Blue Prism has a licensing mode quite different from the other RPA tools.

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SM
Sr Mrg, IT at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We got a discounted price after negotiating with Blue Prism, as well as Automation Anywhere through our procurement. From a list-price perspective (due to the marketing strategy of Automation Anywhere), Automation Anywhere appears to be much cheaper compared to Blue Prism; however, if you do a detailed analysis in regards to the total pricing, I think both are pretty much at war with each other. Automation Anywhere has broken down the licensing costs into multiple factors, whereas Blue Prism is very straightforward — you purchase a production license, that's it. This looks much more expensive compared to Automation Anywhere prices, but with Automation Anywhere, you have to start from scratch. I'd say they are pretty much head-to-head with each other. 

With Blue Prism, there are no additional fees. The price depends on the number of processes that you run in production and you get a license for that. Also, the lower environments are free of cost. It's pretty straightforward.

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RP
Senior Specialist at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Blue Prism is pretty steep compared to the others, much more than Automation Anywhere. That can be a hindrance as well.

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Debharshi Bhattacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Consultant at a performing arts with 51-200 employees

I would rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten. 

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MC
Head of Transformation at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I chose Blue Prism because it is priced well. The pricing was right for me at that moment even though Automation Anywhere is better in other aspects.

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HH
Project Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

We tend to sign two or three-year contracts for licenses. Afterward, we may renew or tender a new company.

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JG
Director at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

This is an area that I don't have any visibility to. I am not accountable for any kind of licensing and pricing. Our sales team takes care of this.

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KR
Bank Employee at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is expensive for us. It should be cheaper for a market like ours. We are based in India.

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WL
Technology Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

This is a very expensive product and this is the reason that they're losing their market share.

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VM
Senior Business Analyst and Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is a bit higher in cost as compared to Automation Anywhere and UiPath. The rate also differs from client to client. Margins are also important when it comes to costing and licensing. There are some additional costs involved besides the standard licensing costs. You have the development team cost, which includes the project manager, development team, analyst, and testers. You also need a team manager. You also have the tools cost, architecture cost, platform cost, and the licensing cost of each bot.

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AY
Director, Km & Bpo Innovation at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Blue Prism is less expensive than some of the other RPA solutions. The licensing fees depend on the number of users that you have.

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WF
ROM Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The price is low and it's reasonable, however, I expected more to be included in the product. Now, if I have to go and buy all these other extras, that price is going to go up. For instance, if I use OCR capability and I'm not using their product, the Decipher product, I have to go and buy an ABBYY license separately. That means I have to manage more licenses. It's not included in the package where I have a good OCR solution that works with it, I must now go and buy and manage separate licenses. It is just a nightmare.

If you look at the supply chain, you now need to get a separate license from another company if you want to buy licenses to OCR with Blue Prism. And that is where the cost increases and then the investment becomes a little bit more difficult to justify. 

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RN
Manager, Information Technology Automation Delivery at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Its price should be lower.

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BO
Doctoral Researcher at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

The big vendors should consider some sort of unbundled pricing model that allows them to price accordingly to a customer's needs. Because developing robots manually took too long, this solution gave us a lot of flexibility when it came to pricing. A lot of global vendors have a very big problem understanding the price structure or price requirements of frontier markets, like Africa.

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VT
Head of Strategic Alliances at Zensar Technologies

Its price is sometimes higher.

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AT
Development Lead For RI DMV Modernization at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

They work on a big partnership kind of program with our organization, and they also give us a lot of discounts. Its price is pretty much comparable to the other solutions like UiPath and Automation Anywhere.

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GT
Solutions Architect at ValueMomentum

Other than your infrastructure, in terms of servers that you have to set up, I don't think that there are any costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.

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ME
Senior IT Architekt at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Due to our financial structure, we need fixed costs. So, a license based on the usage would not be feasible. If we have a license model that is based on tasks per year or something else, it could create a very dynamic range of costs. Due to our public financial input, we have to know what it will cost. So, we have licenses per server. This helps us in planning, and we know exactly when we need additional servers. We can then request additional money for them.

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Emeka Uchendi - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at ITwize Technology Limited

The license for Blue Prism is very straightforward, we only need one license.

Overall Blue Prism is less expensive than competitors. If you look UiPath, they have different kinds of licenses which you need a combination of them to work for example, at the enterprise level, and it's more expensive. However, if you're only doing entry-level operations it is less expensive.

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SB
Chief Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

These prices are deal-specific, it will probably not be right to review negotiations with the vendor. Currently, there are no new licensing agreement changes for us.

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it_user1383903 - PeerSpot reviewer
RPA Project Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have a three-year contract that is paid on a yearly basis.

To my knowledge, there are no additional costs other than the standard licensing fee.

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KD
RPA Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

In the Philippines, fewer companies are using Blue Prism because of its cost. I don't know the price, but I know that its price is higher than UiPath.

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SK
RPA Developer at SDLC Partners

The licensing fees are low compared to other tools.

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PL
RPA Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I don't have an idea about Blue Prism, but I have an idea about UiPath. UiPath is scaling its business in different products. It has got products for intelligent document processing (IDP) to test or log integrations for chatbots. If you want to work on something like a true test automation, you have to buy a test book. In such cases, they have a predefined way of working with, implementing, or running things. This is where I see that UiPath might be a bit costly or expensive when compared to Blue Prism because UiPath charges for each and every product.

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JM
Lead RPA Developer at eclair Group

Blue Prism has a really simple licensing model, where the licenses are not confusing and there are no hidden costs the way there are in UiPath. 

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AmitDasgupta - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

There is a one-time purchase fee for this solution. Other competitors have more additional fees and we have found this solution to be the best cost-saving in the long run.

It would be a benefit if this solution had a trial version because currently, you have to pay in full to try it.

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DB
Managing Director of Automation at Foundry4

Licensing is on a yearly basis.

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MK
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AH
RPA Solution Architect - Lead Developer Individual Contributor at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Licensing is on an annual basis. The pricing is better than other platforms. 

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KK
Senior Software Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Blue Prism is quite costly.

The free version provides you with a free forum for a month, where UiPath provides you with a community edition with their free version.

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EE
RPA System Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The solution is expensive.

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KK
Manager Finance at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The price is on par with other products in the market.

Pricing could be better but everyone is charging based on the number of users.

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TS
RPA/IA Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Its pricing is okay. Its price is pretty similar to the price of other tools.

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Blue Prism
April 2024
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