Automation Anywhere

Goal-driven AI agents that orchestrate RPA bots, APIs, and people

Product with AI agentsSupervised

Last reviewed 2026-06-18

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Automation Anywhere is a long-standing enterprise RPA vendor (Automation 360) that has layered an agentic AI system on top of its bot platform. Its Agentic Process Automation (APA) System unifies goal-based AI agents, RPA bots, APIs, documents, and human expertise into one orchestrated platform for large enterprises automating complex cross-system workflows. The agentic layer runs on a Process Reasoning Engine for reasoning, planning, and orchestration, plus AI Agent Studio for low-code agent building and governance. Agents connect to enterprise data and external foundation models (model-agnostic), call bots and APIs as actions, and run under AI Guardrails (sensitive-data masking, toxicity analysis), audit logging, role-based access, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.

What it can do

  • Build goal-driven AI agents (AI Agent Studio)

    Supervised

    Low-code building and governance of agents that pursue a goal, with human-in-the-loop checkpoints and guardrails.

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  • Reason and orchestrate across systems (Process Reasoning Engine)

    Supervised

    Plans and orchestrates work across applications, bots, and APIs, deciding which actions to take to reach a goal.

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  • Execute deterministic RPA bots (Automation 360)

    Autonomous

    Runs scripted software robots that perform rule-based work reliably and can be invoked as actions by agents.

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  • Govern and audit agents (AI Guardrails)

    Supervised

    Masks sensitive data, analyzes toxicity, logs actions, and enforces role-based access as an oversight layer over agent behavior.

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Strengths

  • +Governance-first with broad compliance coverage (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, GDPR, RBAC, AI Guardrails)
  • +Genuinely model-agnostic across Bedrock, Vertex, and Azure OpenAI
  • +Hybrid agents plus deterministic RPA extends existing bot investments

Limitations

  • −Marketing autonomy claims (agents that "self-heal without manual direction") overstate real supervised deployments
  • −MCP support is inbound-only today: it can be called as a server but cannot yet call external MCP servers as a client
  • −Opaque, quote-based pricing for the agentic tier

Overview

Automation Anywhere is a long-standing enterprise RPA vendor (founded 2003) that layered an Agentic Process Automation System over its Automation 360 bot platform, unifying AI agents, RPA bots, APIs, documents, and human expertise.

What it does

A Process Reasoning Engine handles reasoning, planning, and orchestration; AI Agent Studio is the low-code building and governance surface. Agents connect to enterprise data and external foundation models, call bots and APIs as actions, and run under AI Guardrails with masking, audit logging, RBAC, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints. The Mozart orchestrator stitches it together.

Integrations & setup

Model-agnostic via Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI, and OpenAI direct, plus its own bots, document automation, and Bot Store connectors. External assistants can call its automations via MCP.

Pricing

No public price list for the agentic or enterprise tiers; a free Community Edition exists, and agentic pricing is quote-based.

Best for / not for

Best for large, regulated enterprises that need governance-first automation and want to extend an existing bot estate. Less suited to teams wanting transparent self-serve pricing or fully unattended autonomy out of the box.

Alternatives

UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate are the closest RPA-plus-agents competitors.

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FAQ

Is Automation Anywhere fully autonomous?+

No. Its underlying RPA bots are deterministic, and the new AI agents reason and plan but run under guardrails, data masking, exception handling, and human oversight, so in practice the agentic layer is a supervised agent.

Does it support MCP?+

Partially. It can expose its automations as an MCP server (inbound), but as of this review the outbound MCP client that would let it call external MCP servers was not yet implemented.

Sources

Last reviewed 2026-06-18

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