Blue Prism vs UiPath (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, UiPath grades higher than Blue Prism: 2.6 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 5, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 10, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Blue Prism grades higher on value for money. UiPath grades higher on the free plan, features and platforms. They get the same grade on ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Blue Prism
Enterprise robotic process automation, now SS&C Blue Prism
Free trial
UiPath
Enterprise platform for RPA, AI agents and process orchestration
Free plan · from $25/mo
Which one is for you
Pick Blue Prism if
- Fits if you are an enterprise team looking at RPA and want to try it first
- Works for someone who wants to learn on the local Learning Edition
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want a published price, as only Contact Us is offered
- Not for you if you are a small team, as it is sold to enterprises
- Watch out: supported operating systems are not listed on the pages read
- Watch out: the product is now branded SS&C Blue Prism, so older material may use another name
Pick UiPath if
- Fits if your company runs on old desktop apps, since the robots work the screens like a person would
- Works for IT teams that have to host it themselves, which Standard and Enterprise allow
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you just want two web apps to talk to each other, as that's a job for Zapier or n8n
- Not for you if you want to see a price first, because Standard and Enterprise are quoted by sales
- Tight if you're on Basic, with 2 robots, 1 tenant, European hosting only and unattended RPA as an add-on
- Watch out: the pricing page says Basic is changing soon and doesn't say what its $25 is charged per
- Pricey if you want self-healing automation, an extra on Standard, or live process monitoring, which needs Enterprise
How we grade them
| 2.0GPABlue PrismFair | 2.6GPAUiPathGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CNo prices or plans are published, and a guessed pricing address returns not found. It sits in the middle. | DBasic is $25 a month, the top of this category's range, and for that you get 2 robots, 1 tenant and European hosting only, with unattended RPA as an add-on. Everything people actually come to UiPath for, agents, document processing, Maestro, waits on Standard, and Standard's price comes from a sales call. |
| Free plan and trial | CA free trial of up to 30 days, plus a locally installed Learning Edition. The pages read do not state a card. | BCommunity is free forever: you build and run real automations in Studio, with Maestro Automate and Maestro Orchestrate, and ask the forum when you're stuck. One person could live on it. The listing doesn't print its limits, so how far it stretches we can't say. |
| Features | CDigital workers, a managed cloud edition and AI orchestration products, but the pages read do not say what the core build tools cover. | ARobots that work screens on Windows and Mac, Citrix and legacy systems included, then AI agents, document processing, process mining, and Maestro modeling a process in BPMN across robots, agents and people. A Healing Agent patches broken automations at runtime, at extra cost on Standard. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. Enterprise RPA means learning to build and run digital workers. | CNo rating on record, and this is a platform rather than an app. Robots, Studio, tenants, BPMN models: all of it wants learning before a single thing runs. Autopilot turning a plain-English prompt into a workflow is the one shortcut on offer. |
| Platforms and integrations | CWeb only on record. The pages do not list operating systems or integrations. | BStudio Web in a browser, desktop across Windows, Mac and Linux, and your own Kubernetes or Linux machines on Standard and Enterprise. It hooks up to Citrix, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault and coding assistants. No phone apps on the listing at all. |
| Best for | enterprise RPA with a trial | robots that work old desktop apps for big companies |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Blue Prism and UiPath. How we grade
Where they differ
- UiPath is self-hostable, according to its own site.
- UiPath also covers AI agents.
In commonWebAI featuresWorkflow automation
At a glance
| Blue Prism | UiPath | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | Not published | $25 per month (Basic plan; billing basis not stated) |
| Free plan | None | Community plan, free forever: build and run automations with UiPath Studio, Maestro Automate and Maestro Orchestrate, with support from the community forum. |
| Free trial | Free trial of up to 30 days, plus a locally installed Learning Edition. | 60-day free trial of the Standard plan |
| Web | ||
| macOS | ||
| Windows | ||
| Linux | ||
| Made by | Blue Prism Limited | UiPath |
| Price read from | Not confirmed | uipath.com |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Blue Prism
- No prices or plans are published, and a guessed pricing address returns not found.
- It is sold to enterprises; the site's main call to action is Contact Us.
- The pages we read do not list supported operating systems or whether a browser is the main way to build automations.
- The product is branded SS&C Blue Prism, and the parent company is SS&C Technologies.
UiPath
- Standard and Enterprise prices are not published; both are quoted by UiPath's sales team.
- Basic is capped at 5 Basic, 5 Plus and 1 Pro user, 2 robots and 1 tenant, and is hosted only in UiPath's European region.
- The pricing page says Basic is evolving and an updated plan is coming soon, and it does not state what the $25 starting price is charged per.
- Self-healing automation is an extra purchase on Standard, and live process monitoring, simulation and customer-managed encryption keys need Enterprise.
Key features
Blue Prism
- Digital workers
- Software robots that carry out business processes, managed from a central pool and orchestrated across teams.
- Managed cloud edition
- Blue Prism Cloud is a hosted, vendor-managed platform delivered from Microsoft Azure or AWS, with upgrades handled by the vendor.
- Security certifications
- The cloud product page says it is certified to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 (Type 2), with Cyber Essentials and HIPAA compliance.
- AI and orchestration products
- The product list includes AI Agents, AI Gateway, Automation Orchestrator, Capture, Decipher IDP, Process Intelligence and Email AI.
- Training and community
- Blue Prism University offers free training, and a community and a Digital Exchange sit alongside the documentation.
UiPath
- UI automation with robots
- Robots work with screens and data the way a person would, using AI Computer Vision and selectors on Windows and macOS, and reach legacy systems and virtual environments such as Citrix.
- Studio and Studio Web
- Automations are built low-code or code-first. Studio Web creates and edits them in the browser, and the desktop experience works across Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Agents and Maestro
- Agents handle variable work that fixed rules cannot. Maestro models a process in BPMN and orchestrates agents, robots, API workflows and human tasks within it.
- Autopilot and Healing Agent
- Autopilot turns natural-language prompts into workflows, code and expressions. Healing Agent suggests fixes for broken automations and repairs UI issues at runtime.
- Document processing and mining
- From the Standard plan, UiPath classifies and extracts data from documents and communications, and offers Process Mining, Task Mining and Automation Hub.
- Cloud, dedicated or self-hosted
- Automation Cloud is the SaaS version. Standard and Enterprise can instead be self-hosted on your own Kubernetes or Linux machines, and Enterprise can buy a dedicated cloud.
Plans
Blue Prism
Pricing could not be confirmed. See blueprism.com.
UiPath
Community$0
Free forever. Build and run automations with UiPath Studio, Maestro Automate and Maestro Orchestrate, with help from the community forum.
BasicFrom $25
per month; the page does not say what the price is per
Basic personal automations for up to 5 Basic, 5 Plus and 1 Pro user and 2 robots, hosted in the European region, with Bronze Support. Unattended RPA is an add-on.
StandardCustom
Adds agents, document processing, Maestro orchestration, governance controls and your own identity provider, with no limits on scale. Starts with a 60-day free trial.
EnterpriseCustom
Adds self-healing UI automation, live process monitoring and simulation, your own encryption keys and credential vaults, and multi-region hosting.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Blue Prism or UiPath?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Blue Prism has no price we could confirm, and UiPath starts at $25 per month (Basic plan; billing basis not stated).
Which has a free plan, Blue Prism or UiPath?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only UiPath has a free plan. Blue Prism does not, though it has a free trial.
Which platforms do Blue Prism and UiPath run on?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only UiPath lists macOS, Windows and Linux apps. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.