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Microsoft Power Automate

40Judge labels
3First choices
6Negative labels
10 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
6% in Orchestration for enterprise buyers
Rank 17 of 86 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 10% of its 10 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In orchestration · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Microsoft Power Automate for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Workflow orchestrationData platform0%17 of 8610%10accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Microsoft Power Automate yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Microsoft Power Automate across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00202
DeepSeek V4 Flash00011
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00101
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX02103
MiniMax M2.500101

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct4 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative12 labelsNone
Budget-constrained9 labels3
Scale-constrained6 labelsNone
Negative9 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative40 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“If you're deeply invested in Microsoft 365: Choose Power Automate.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Orchestration · direct prompt · alternative
“Microsoft Power Automate if you're Microsoft 365-centric” Kimi K2 · Orchestration · scale prompt · alternative
“Microsoft‑heavy environments | Power Automate” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Orchestration · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

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.

“tie you into a single cloud or vendor ... risky if you need multi-cloud portability” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Orchestration · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Power Automate, over the 40 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Power Automate was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Apache Airflow30 of 402Not in the top three
Zapier26 of 4010Not in the top three
n8n26 of 403Not in the top three
Make25 of 406Not in the top three
Temporal24 of 403Not in the top three
Camunda21 of 402Not in the top three
Prefect21 of 401Not in the top three
Workato21 of 401Not in the top three
Dagster15 of 400Not in the top three
ServiceNow12 of 401Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Microsoft Power Automate. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 36 of the 40 answers that named Microsoft Power Automate and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

zapier.com33
elementum.ai24
teamwork.com21
wrike.com19
enate.io16
software.reibuys.com14
reddit.com13
thedigitalprojectmanager.com13
devopsschool.com12
automationatlas.io10

175 of the 175 domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Power Automate came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Microsoft Power Automate

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Microsoft Power Automate; a claim can dispute any of them.
Power Automate 5Azure Logic Apps / Microsoft Power Automate 1
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