Microsoft Power Automate vs Zenphi

Microsoft Power Automate

• Organizations already licensed for Microsoft 365 or Dynamics 365
• Automating older Windows applications that have no API
• Approval processes that run through Teams and SharePoint

Zenphi

• Google Workspace admins automating onboarding, offboarding and access reviews
• Approval and document workflows that need a full audit trail
• Organizations that want a flat price that does not grow with user count

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.

Zenphi

• zenphi.com shows no plan prices. The figures here are from Zenphi's Google Cloud Marketplace listing, and a quote from its sales team may differ.
• Plans are sized by flows: 10 on Pro and 30 on Ultimate. Extra capacity is sold as Flow Packs, priced on request.
• Runs are not metered, but the Fair Use Policy sizes Pro for 3,000 flow runs a month and Ultimate for 9,000.
• AI steps use your own AI provider account or Zenphi AI credits, and document AI services such as invoice parsing are charged per page.

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.

Zenphi

Visual workflow builder

Workflows are assembled from drag-and-drop steps: triggers, conditions, forms, approvals, documents and integrations. Long processes can be split into reusable subflows.

ZAIA workflow assistant

ZAIA drafts a workflow from a plain-English description or an uploaded process diagram, and explains which step of a broken workflow failed and how to fix it.

AI steps and agents

Gemini, OpenAI or Claude models extract, classify and summarize inside a workflow. AI Studio builds agents that staff talk to in Google Chat and that trigger workflows.

Google Workspace actions

Gmail, Drive, Sheets, Docs, Forms, Calendar, Groups, Vault and the Admin Console are built-in actions, which covers admin work such as user provisioning and offboarding.

Approvals with an audit trail

Approval chains can be sequential, parallel or conditional, with deadlines and escalation. Approvers respond with one click from an email, and each decision is logged.

Documents, forms and tables

Documents, slides and PDFs are generated from Google Docs or Word templates, PDF forms can be filled, and Zenphi Forms and Tables collect and store workflow data.

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.

Zenphi

• Pro$600

  per organization / month on Google Cloud Marketplace, monthly term

  1 workspace and 10 flows, unlimited seats and guests under a fair use policy, AI agents, forms, tables, document generation and 60 days of audit history.

• Ultimate$2,084

  per month on Google Cloud Marketplace, 1-year subscription

  Up to 5 workspaces and 30 flows, a central admin panel, multi-region support, custom branding, priority support and 90 days of audit history.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Unlimited workspaces and flows under fair use, AI governance, an access audit trail, and private cloud or an on-premises gateway on application.

Microsoft Power Automate

No public discounts listed.

Zenphi

• Startups

  6 months free, then 6 months at 50% off

  Zenphi for Startups gives the Pro plan free for 6 months and then 6 months at half price to new customers under 2 years old with fewer than 10 employees and at most $2M raised.

• Education

  Discounts for educational institutions

  Zenphi's education page says it offers substantial discounts to educational institutions. The amount is not published.