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What is Automation Anywhere
Automation Anywhere is an enterprise robotic process automation (RPA) platform used to build, run, and manage software bots that automate repetitive business and IT tasks across web and desktop applications. It targets operations, shared services, and IT teams that need attended and unattended automation, orchestration, and governance at scale. The platform includes a centralized control layer, bot development tools, and components for document-centric automation and AI-assisted automation workflows.
Enterprise-grade bot orchestration
The product provides centralized deployment, scheduling, and monitoring of attended and unattended automations. It supports role-based access controls and operational controls that help teams manage bot fleets across business units. These capabilities align with enterprise requirements for auditability and controlled change management in automation programs.
Broad integration and automation scope
Automation Anywhere supports automating tasks across common enterprise applications, web interfaces, and legacy desktop workflows. It offers reusable components and connectors that reduce the amount of custom scripting needed for typical automation patterns. This breadth is useful when automations must span multiple systems rather than a single analytics or ML environment.
Document automation capabilities
The platform includes intelligent document processing (IDP) capabilities to extract and structure data from documents for downstream workflows. This helps automate processes that start with invoices, forms, and other semi-structured inputs rather than clean database records. It enables end-to-end automation where document ingestion and RPA execution are managed within the same vendor ecosystem.
Licensing and TCO variability
Total cost can vary significantly based on bot types, runtime capacity, and add-on modules such as document processing or advanced AI features. Organizations may need to model usage carefully to avoid under- or over-provisioning. This can make budgeting less straightforward than tools focused narrowly on analytics or model development.
Complexity at scale
Enterprise deployments often require careful design for environments, credentials, exception handling, and bot lifecycle management. Teams typically need dedicated governance and operational roles to keep automations reliable and maintainable. Without this discipline, bot sprawl and brittle automations can increase support overhead.
Not a full analytics/ML platform
While it can incorporate AI services and document extraction, it is not designed to replace end-to-end data science platforms for model development, experimentation, and MLOps. Advanced statistical analysis, feature engineering pipelines, and large-scale model training typically remain in specialized data/ML tooling. As a result, teams may need additional platforms for heavy analytics and ML workloads.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Community Edition | Free | Full-featured Automation 360 Cloud Community Edition for students, developers and qualifying small businesses; no credit card required. Small-business limits: ≤250 machines OR ≤250 users OR ≤$5M revenue; small businesses limited to 5 machines and 100 pages/month for Document Automation. |
| Cloud Starter Pack | $750 per month | Includes one bot creator, one control room, and one unattended bot runner. Additional unattended bot runner: $500 per month each; additional attended bot runner: $125 per month each. |
| Advanced Pack | Contact sales (not publicly listed) | For medium and large enterprises; enterprise-grade governance, security, compliance and scale. |
| RPA Footprint Expansion Bot Pack (Bot Store example) | $6,500 per year | Example Bot Store pack price (annual subscription) for a bundle sold via Automation Anywhere Bot Store. |
| Enterprise / Support Plans (Orange, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Titanium) | Contact sales (not publicly listed) | Support tiers and advisory services listed on site; pricing not published publicly. |
Seller details
Automation Anywhere, Inc.
San Jose, California, USA
2003
Private
https://www.automationanywhere.com/
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