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Automation Anywhere vs Automate

Automation Anywhere and Automate both land on Depends.

Automate

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Depends
Confidence: Low

Buy only if you're a mid-size or enterprise IT team automating repetitive back-office tasks and can absorb implementation services costs; evidence here is thin, hence low confidence.

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Automation Anywhere versus Automate
CompareAutomation AnywhereAutomate
VerdictDependsDepends
Best forLarge enterprises automating mission-critical back-office processesMid-size and enterprise IT/ops teams
Who it's not forSmall teams needing simple task automationSmall teams needing a simple task or contact list
PrivacyPublic trust center and CSA STAR listing; a handful of CVEs, mostly affecting on-prem deployments.No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.
Support qualityNo direct support-quality evidence foundNo support reviews found
Public sentimentEnterprise reviewers praise platform breadth while Reddit developers question pricing, aggressive AI-agent sales, and adoption.²Vendor-published pages cite positive RPA user reviews, but these sources contain little independent verbatim feedback on this specific product.13
Biggest gotchaEnterprise quote-only pricing; PeerSpot users say it's expensive⁴No public pricing tiers; expect a sales-led quote and negotiation13

Pick Automation Anywhere when

  • Large enterprises automating mission-critical back-office processes
  • IT teams automating legacy systems
  • Organizations with a dedicated automation CoE
  • Docs-heavy processes needing intelligent document processing

When Automation Anywhere is not a fit

  • Small teams needing simple task automation
  • Startups without admin budget or a CoE
  • Buyers wanting transparent, published pricing
  • Lightweight workflow automation . use Zapier-class tools

Pick Automate when

  • Mid-size and enterprise IT/ops teams
  • Repetitive back-office task automation (RPA)
  • Orgs with budget for implementation partners

When Automate is not a fit

  • Small teams needing a simple task or contact list
  • Non-technical users wanting no-code SaaS automations
  • Anyone requiring published pricing before talking to sales
  • Teams without capacity to maintain RPA bots over time

Sources

  1. Automation Anywhere Products | 5,811 Reviews on G2g2.com
    review
  2. Automation Anywhere Agentic Process Automation Reviews - G2g2.com
    review
  3. Automation Anywhere Pushing Agents Too Hard? - Reddit r/rpareddit.com
    review
  4. Pricing and costs question - PeerSpotpeerspot.com
    review
  5. ABBYY vs Automation Anywhere - Gartner Peer Insightsgartner.com
    review
  6. Automat vs Automation Anywhere: A Practical Comparisonrunautomat.com
    review
  7. CVE-2024-6922: Automation 360 SSRF - Rapid7rapid7.com
    security
  8. Log4j CVE-2025-68161 on Prem A360 v38 - Communitycommunity.automationanywhere.com
    security
  9. 61% of Q4 Software Bookings from AI - Press Releaseautomationanywhere.com
    news
  10. Automation Anywhere Series B Financing - PR Newswireprnewswire.com
    news
  11. Automation Anywhere homeautomationanywhere.com
    official
  12. Automation Anywhere Trust Centerautomationanywhere.com
    official
  13. Automate Reviews . G2g2.com
    review
  14. Automate Implementation . G2g2.com
    review
  15. RPA User Reviews . Automate by Fortraautomate.fortra.com
    official
  16. Automate Integrates Critical Applications . Case Studyautomate.fortra.com
    official