Power Automation is now free for all Windows 10 users

Microsoft pricing is hard to understand until it gets to bundled or free. Their cloud version is neat but I’m not sure I know the price. It could be $0 or $500/year and it wouldn’t surprise me.

I just looked it up [0] and it’s $15/month/user, or $40/month if I want RPA, or $500/month for 5 flows.

This is in addition to the azure fees for whatever you do in your flow.

I wonder who pays these amounts since basically it’s just an azure api composer. This is just software that should at most be a one time fee. I wonder who pays for this at scale.

For comparison Office365 including email and a terabyte of storage is only $100/year, almost half this price. This would be like if Microsoft charged $100/month to run cron jobs on your machine.

I expect automate cloud will be free soon.

[0] https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/

I might give cracking with dnspy a go but I already have a pretty good desktop automation workflow going on with python

I’m glad it is now because power automate is more accessible for my work colleagues then huginn is.

Now that RPA is pretty much free and part of the operating system, would companies still pay for RPA?