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UiPath

Orchestrate AI agents, RPA robots, and people on one governed automation platform

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Last reviewed 2026-06-18

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UiPath is an enterprise automation platform best known for robotic process automation (RPA): software robots that execute rule-based work across applications, screens, and APIs. In 2025 it added an LLM-powered agentic tier that runs alongside the robots, summarized in its own framing as "agents think, robots do, people lead." Agents understand a prompt, set a goal, plan, call tools (including existing robots), and pull humans in when needed. The agentic layer includes Agent Builder (authoring and evaluating agents against ground-truth datasets), Maestro (orchestrating agents, robots, models, and people across long-running processes), and Autopilot (a conversational agent). A "controlled agency" governance model wraps it with guardrails, auditability, and human supervision. It sells to large enterprises, often through automation centers of excellence.

What it can do

  • Build and evaluate AI agents (Agent Builder)

    Supervised

    Authors LLM-powered agents and evaluates them against ground-truth datasets in Studio Web, with humans supervising at design time.

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  • Orchestrate agents, robots, and people (Maestro)

    Supervised

    Coordinates agents, deterministic robots, models, and human steps across long-running business processes with checkpoints.

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  • Connect agents to external tools via MCP

    Supervised

    Reached GA in November 2025, letting agents call external tools through UiPath-hosted and remote MCP servers under governance.

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  • Run deterministic RPA robots as agent tools

    Autonomous

    Existing scripted robots execute rule-based work and can be invoked by agents as reliable, repeatable tools.

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Strengths

  • +Mature deterministic RPA foundation underneath the new AI layer
  • +Strong governance posture (controlled agency, auditability) fits regulated enterprises
  • +Genuinely model-agnostic and standards-leaning, with MCP GA and A2A support

Limitations

  • −Pricing is mostly opaque; only a $25/mo Basic tier is public, with agent-unit economics undisclosed
  • −Rapid agent-tooling churn through 2025 (Agent Builder migrated into Studio Web)
  • −Real autonomy is bounded and governed, not drop-in autonomous workers

Overview

UiPath is a long-established enterprise automation platform (founded 2005) best known for RPA. In 2025 it added an agentic AI tier (Agents, Agent Builder, Maestro, Autopilot) that runs alongside its deterministic robots under the banner "agents think, robots do, people lead."

What it does

Agent Builder authors and evaluates LLM-powered agents; Maestro orchestrates agents, robots, models, and people across long-running processes; Autopilot is a conversational agent. Agents can plan and call tools, including existing RPA robots, while a controlled-agency governance model enforces guardrails and human supervision.

Integrations & setup

Deep enterprise connectivity (Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow) plus model routing across Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, and Amazon Bedrock. MCP reached GA in November 2025, and UiPath announced A2A support via a Google partnership.

Pricing

A $25/mo Basic tier is public; Standard and Enterprise are contact-sales, and agent-unit consumption economics are not published.

Best for / not for

Best for large, often regulated enterprises with automation centers of excellence that want governed agents layered on a mature RPA estate. Less suited to small teams seeking cheap, self-serve automation.

Alternatives

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

What people are saying

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FAQ

Is UiPath autonomous?+

Its RPA robots are deterministic and run autonomously on scripted rails. The new LLM agents reason and plan, but UiPath wraps them in a controlled-agency model with guardrails and human supervision, so in practice the agentic layer operates as a supervised agent.

Does UiPath support MCP?+

Yes. MCP reached general availability in November 2025, with UiPath-hosted and remote MCP server types, letting agents call external tools under governance.

Sources

Last reviewed 2026-06-18

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