| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robotic process automation | IT operations and endpoint | 51% | 1 of 68 | 6% | 72 | endorsed leader | |
| Process mining | IT operations and endpoint | 5% | 6 of 61 | 7% | 14 | accepted challenger | |
| Workflow orchestration | Data platform | 2% | 10 of 79 | 12% | 16 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Intelligent document processing | Data platform | 0% | 66 of 89 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Nanonets at 32% |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“the best RPA platform is usually one of these two: 1. Microsoft Power Automate — best if your company already uses Microsoft 365/Windows and wants a low entry cost” GPT-5.4 mini · RPA · budget prompt · first choice
“mid-market companies evaluate Microsoft Power Automate (especially if you are already heavily invested in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · RPA · scale prompt · first choice
“If your company is already using Microsoft products, Power Automate is likely the most cost-effective and easiest to implement.” Mistral Small · RPA · budget prompt · first choice
“For most mid-market B2B companies, Microsoft Power Automate delivers the best balance of cost, speed to value, and capability” DeepSeek V4 Flash · RPA · direct prompt · first choice
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“if your environment is not already Microsoft-centric, because its value is strongest inside the Microsoft ecosystem, and costs can rise quickly” Perplexity Sonar · RPA · negative prompt · soft negative
“Be cautious for heavy non-Microsoft estates or complex attended/unattended enterprise governance.” Muse Glimmer 30B · RPA · negative prompt · soft negative
“30-day workflow duration limit... licensing... can get confusing, and it often needs an IT admin” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Orchestration · negative prompt · soft negative
“it may not be suitable for organizations that do not use Microsoft 365” Llama 4 Maverick · RPA · negative prompt · soft negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 314 of the 333 answers that named Microsoft Power Automate and are not a share of its labels.
738 of the 738 domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Power Automate came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
What Microsoft Power Automate's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: microsoft.com/bg-bg/microsoft-365/business/microsoft-powerapps, microsoft.com/bg-bg/microsoft-copilot/copilot-101/ai-automation, microsoft.com/sr-latn-rs/microsoft-copilot/copilot-101/ai-automation, microsoft.com/bg-bg/microsoft-copilot/copilot-101/workflow-automation, microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-copilot/copilot-101/workflow-automation. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Microsoft Power Automate's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Microsoft Power Automate, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Microsoft Power Automate by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
AI models recommend Microsoft Power Automate first in Robotic process automation this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.