Kognitos vs UiPath (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Kognitos if

• Fits if you run finance or operations processes and want them written down in plain English
• Makes sense if you want to try a free workspace before any contract

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you need a published price, as paid use is quoted by sales
• Watch out: the free workspace's limits are not stated on the pages read
• Tight if you want short terms, since contracts are annual or multi-year and shorter terms are for pilots
• Watch out: the security claims on the page, such as SOC 2 and HIPAA, are the vendor's own

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

Kognitos

• Paid pricing is not published. The FAQ describes consumption-based pricing, and a quote comes from the sales team.
• The vendor offers enterprise contracts with annual and multi-year terms; shorter terms are mentioned only for pilots and mid-market.
• Security claims such as SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR readiness come from the vendor's own FAQ.
• The free workspace's limits are not stated on the pages read.

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.

Kognitos

English as Code

Automations are written as plain-English instructions rather than code or screen-scraping bots, so business users can build and maintain them.

Exception handling

When an agent meets an exception it pauses, a person answers in plain English, and the run resumes from where it stopped. The vendor says the answer is kept for next time.

Deterministic execution

The vendor says agents follow the process as defined and log each decision, and it describes the engine as neurosymbolic rather than a pure language-model agent.

Prebuilt AI Employees and apps

The navigation lists 61 AI Employee roles and more than 100 apps, with solutions for finance, banking, healthcare and manufacturing.

Enterprise system connections

The FAQ says Kognitos connects to SAP and more than 200 other enterprise systems, including Oracle, NetSuite, Workday and Salesforce.

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.

Kognitos

• Free workspace$0

  Sign up, build automations in plain English and run them without a paid engagement. The FAQ does not state usage limits.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Consumption-based: priced by transactions processed and agent complexity, with annual or multi-year contracts, quoted by sales.

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.