Microsoft Power Automate vs Parseur

Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.

Microsoft Power Automate

Cloud workflows and desktop RPA in the Microsoft Power Platform

Free plan · from $15/mo

Parseur

Document and email parser that sends extracted data to other apps

Free plan · from $49/mo

Where they differ

Microsoft Power Automate starts at $15 per user / month, paid yearly. Parseur starts at $49 / month for 100 pages, or $468 a year billed annually.
Only Microsoft Power Automate lists a Windows app.
Microsoft Power Automate also covers templates.
Parseur also covers no-code.

In commonFree planWebPublic APIAI featuresWorkflow automation

	Microsoft Power Automate	Parseur
Pricing	Free plan	Free plan
Starts at	$15 per user / month, paid yearly	$49 / month for 100 pages, or $468 a year billed annually
Free plan	Power Automate Free license: create and run cloud flows with standard connectors only, without sharing them, plus desktop flows authored and run locally in attended mode.	20 pages every month (an email or spreadsheet counts as one page), 1 user and 90 days of document retention, with both parsing engines, the API and integrations. No credit card needed.
Free trial	30-day free trial per the pricing page; Microsoft's licensing docs describe a 90-day self-service trial license	None listed
Web
Windows
Made by	Microsoft	Parseur Pte. Ltd.
Price read from	microsoft.com	parseur.com
Checked	Oct 5, 2026	Oct 6, 2026

Microsoft Power Automate

Parseur

Turning recurring emails such as leads or order notifications into spreadsheet rows
Accounts payable teams extracting invoice and purchase order data
Developers who want a document extraction API with webhooks

Microsoft Power Automate

The free license and Microsoft 365 licenses cover standard connectors only; premium and custom connectors need Premium at $15 per user / month.
Unattended desktop flows need a Process license at $150 per bot / month, and the machine must be registered by a Premium user.
The desktop app runs only on Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server, and devices with ARM processors are not supported.
The standalone iOS and Android app reached end of support on August 31, 2026; Microsoft points mobile users to the browser portal and Teams.

Parseur

The free tier stops at 20 pages a month with 1 user and 90 days of document retention.
Multi-user accounts and Python post-processing need a Scale tier plan of 10,000 pages a month or more, which starts at $499 a month.
At 100% of the monthly quota new documents stop processing until renewal, an upgrade or a top-up. Unused credits on monthly plans do not carry over.
Data is processed and stored in the European Union, and the site lists HIPAA compliance as in progress.

Microsoft Power Automate

Cloud flows: Automated, scheduled and instant flows connect cloud apps, and on-premises services through a data gateway. Microsoft cites more than 1,400 prebuilt, certified connectors, and custom connectors can be built.
Desktop flows (RPA): Power Automate for desktop builds or records flows that operate Windows and web applications through their interfaces. Attended runs happen with a person present; unattended runs need a Process license.
Copilot authoring: Copilot in Power Automate creates, edits and extends flows from a natural-language description, in both the cloud designer and the desktop app.
Process and task mining: Analyzes how a process actually runs to find steps worth automating. Premium includes 50 MB of mining data per user, and a tenant-wide add-on provides 100 GB.
Microsoft 365 integration: Flows can be built and run from inside Teams, Excel, SharePoint and OneDrive. Microsoft 365 licenses include the right to create and run cloud flows with standard connectors.
Governance and hosted machines: Managed Environments and data loss prevention policies give admins control over flows. Hosted Process runs unattended bots on virtual machines that Microsoft manages.

Parseur

Document capture: Each workflow gets a mailbox with its own email address. Documents come in by forwarded email, drag-and-drop upload or the REST API, in more than 25 file formats.
AI and template parsing engines: Vision AI reads visual layouts, Text AI reads plain text, and templates handle fixed forms. All three can run in one mailbox, and table extraction covers line items.
Built-in OCR: Scans and photos are read by OCR that the vendor says covers more than 200 languages, including handwriting.
Normalization and validation: Dates, numbers, addresses and choice fields are formatted and checked against the mailbox schema. Scale tier plans add Python post-processing for custom logic.
Exports and integrations: Parsed data syncs to Google Sheets, downloads as Excel, CSV or JSON, or goes out by webhook and through Zapier, Make, Power Automate and n8n. These are included on every plan.
Logs, alerts and retention: Every processing step is logged, with alerts for failed documents, failed exports and quota limits. Retention is set per mailbox, from 1 day up to the plan's maximum.

Microsoft Power Automate

Power Automate Free$0
Free license described in Microsoft's licensing docs: cloud flows with standard connectors only, no sharing, and desktop flows run locally in attended mode.
Power Automate Premium$15
per user / month, paid yearly
Cloud flows with standard, premium and custom connectors, attended desktop flows, process and task mining with 50 MB of data, and 250 MB of Dataverse database capacity.
Power Automate Process$150
per bot / month, paid yearly
One bot for unattended desktop flows, or a license for a cloud flow that any number of users can run, with up to 250,000 actions a day.
Power Automate Hosted Process$215
per bot / month, paid yearly
Unattended desktop flows on a virtual machine that Microsoft manages and hosts on Azure, so there is no machine of your own to maintain.
Process Mining add-on$5,000
per tenant / month, paid yearly
Add-on for the Premium plan only: 100 GB of process mining data, with 2 GB of Dataverse database and 1 TB of file capacity.

Parseur

Free$0
20 pages a month, 1 user, unlimited mailboxes and fields, 90 days of document retention, and AI and self-serve support only.
Micro$49
per month for 100 pages; $468 a year when billed annually
Smallest Base tier plan: 1 user, 1 year of document retention, and chat and email support.
Mini$89
per month for 300 pages; $828 a year when billed annually
Base tier plan with 300 pages a month, 1 user and 1 year of document retention.
Starter$129
per month for 1,000 pages; $1,188 a year billed annually
Base tier plan with 1,000 pages a month, 1 user and 1 year of document retention.
Premium$269
per month for 3,000 pages; $2,388 a year billed annually
Largest Base tier plan: 3,000 pages a month, still limited to 1 user and without Python post-processing.
Pro$499
per month for 10,000 pages; $4,788 a year billed annually
First Scale tier plan: up to 100 users, Python post-processing, unlimited retention and priority support. Larger plans run to 250,000 pages at $8,499 a month.

Microsoft Power Automate

No public discounts listed.

Parseur

Annual discount
Save up to 25% with annual billing
The pricing page advertises up to 25% off for paying yearly: Micro is $468 a year against $49 a month. Credits on yearly plans stay valid for the whole year.