# Robotic process automation for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "RPA platform" and as "robotic process automation software", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Added to the October 2026 Edition on October 4, 2026; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b-run3), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/operations/robotic-process-automation/enterprise/

**Standing:** UiPath leads with 58% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 55 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UiPath | 58% | 16% | 76 |
| 2 | Microsoft Power Automate | 22% | 18% | 66 |
| 3 | Automation Anywhere | 11% | 15% | 68 |
| 4 | SS&C Blue Prism | 4% | 8% | 39 |
| 5 | Blue Prism | 4% | 38% | 24 |
| 6 | Pega | 0% | 27% | 15 |

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: UiPath; alternatives Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Automate, Pega, SAP Build Process Automation
- GPT-5.4 mini: UiPath; alternatives Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Automate, SS&C Blue Prism
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: UiPath; alternatives Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Automate, SS&C Blue Prism
- Perplexity Sonar: UiPath; alternatives Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Automate, Pega, SS&C Blue Prism
- Grok 4.1 Fast: UiPath; alternatives Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Automate, SS&C Blue Prism
- Mistral Small: UiPath; alternatives Automation Anywhere, SS&C Blue Prism
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: UiPath; alternatives Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Automate, Pega, SAP Build Process Automation
- Llama 4 Maverick: UiPath; alternatives Automation Anywhere, Pega Robotic Automation
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: UiPath; alternatives Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Automate, SS&C Blue Prism
- Kimi K2: Automation Anywhere, UiPath; alternatives Microsoft Power Automate, Pega, SS&C Blue Prism
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: UiPath; alternatives Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Automate, SS&C Blue Prism
- MiniMax M2.5: Microsoft Power Automate, UiPath; alternatives Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, Pega
- GPT-6 Luna: UiPath; alternatives Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Automate
- Muse Glimmer 30B: UiPath; alternatives Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Automate, SS&C Blue Prism

## Sources the answers cite

79 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- blueprism.com: 49 answers, 74 citations
- kanerika.com: 39 answers, 55 citations
- resources.rework.com: 23 answers, 25 citations
- cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com: 22 answers, 23 citations
- g2.com: 22 answers, 23 citations
- 2hatslogic.com: 22 answers, 22 citations
- turbotic.com: 21 answers, 21 citations
- datamation.com: 20 answers, 20 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://blueprism.com/guides/robotic-process-automation-rpa/best-software (34 answers)
- https://kanerika.com/blogs/rpa-tools (23 answers)
- https://2hatslogic.com/blog/top-rpa-tools-compared (21 answers)
- https://turbotic.com/resources/blog/enterprise-rpa-vendors-ranked-performance (21 answers)
- https://datamation.com/artificial-intelligence/top-15-robotic-process-automation-rpa-companies (20 answers)
- https://layer3labs.io/guides/rpa-software-and-vendors-compared (18 answers)
- https://g2.com/categories/robotic-process-automation-rpa (15 answers)
- https://auxis.com/learn/rpa/top-rpa-tools (14 answers)
- https://resources.rework.com/tools/automation/best-rpa-software-2026 (14 answers)
- https://kanerika.com/blogs/blue-prism-vs-uipath (13 answers)

## Warned against

- Microsoft Power Automate: 12 of 66 labels negative. "Microsoft Power Automate is an excellent, leader-tier platform, but *only* when fully backed by Premium enterprise cloud orchestration" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt)
- UiPath: 12 of 76 labels negative. "UiPath's own filing notes increasing competition from adjacent platforms and warns customers may be cautious about investing if the platform is hard to integrate into business architecture." (GPT-5.4 mini, negative prompt)
- Automation Anywhere: 10 of 68 labels negative. "traditional licensing models (like UiPath or Automation Anywhere's standard per-user/per-bot licenses) present a massive budget risk" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt)
- Blue Prism: 9 of 24 labels negative. "SS&C Blue Prism (only if you've already invested heavily in its ecosystem — otherwise, consider the acquisition risk)" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://it-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://it-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, it-ai-index.com.