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Microsoft Power Automate

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Microsoft's low-code automation platform, extended with Copilot Studio AI agents

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Microsoft's low-code automation platform, extended with Copilot Studio AI agents

What it can do

  • Orchestrate agent actions with generative AI (Copilot Studio)

    Supervised

    An agent's generative orchestrator reasons over an LLM and decides which tools and flows to call to complete a request, governed by admin-set model and capacity controls.

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  • Run agent flows as deterministic tools

    Supervised

    Power Automate flows are exposed as deterministic tools an agent calls at runtime; given the same input they produce the same output, keeping execution on rails.

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  • Automate UI and legacy apps via desktop flows (RPA)

    Autonomous

    Drives legacy and UI-only applications via attended (supervised) or unattended desktop flows.

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  • Author and operate automation in natural language (Copilot)

    Copilot

    Builds and edits flows from natural-language prompts, assisting a human author rather than acting independently.

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Overview

Microsoft Power Automate is the Power Platform automation product, spanning cloud flows and desktop-flow RPA. Its agentic capabilities live at the seam with Microsoft Copilot Studio, where deterministic flows become tools that an LLM-reasoning agent calls.

What it does

Agent flows are deterministic automations exposed as callable tools; a Copilot Studio agent's generative orchestrator decides which to invoke. Desktop flows automate legacy and UI apps (attended or unattended), and Copilot lets users author automation in natural language. LLM reasoning and model selection sit in Copilot Studio.

Integrations & setup

Native Microsoft 365, Dataverse, Teams, SharePoint, and Outlook plus 1,000+ connectors. MCP reached GA in Copilot Studio in May 2025; Dataverse can act as an MCP server.

Pricing

Power Automate Premium starts at $15/user/mo; Process is $150/bot/mo for unattended RPA. Agent flows consume Copilot Studio capacity billed separately.

Best for / not for

Best for enterprises already standardized on Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform. Less suited to teams wanting self-hosting or simple, predictable per-action pricing.

Alternatives

UiPath and Automation Anywhere are the closest RPA-plus-agents competitors.

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