What the evidence answers

A reading of reviewed official documentation for Power Automate and Tray.ai. It is not a hands-on test, a ranking or a recommendation of one product.

Price

  • Power Automate From $180/yr per user
    • Premium: $180.00 annual per seat ($15/mo equivalent)
    • Process: $1,800.00 annual per unknown ($150/mo equivalent)
    • Hosted Process: $2,580.00 annual per unknown ($215/mo equivalent)
  • Tray.ai Quote only
    • Pro: Vendor quotation required
    • Team: Vendor quotation required
    • Enterprise: Vendor quotation required

A complete like-for-like price comparison is not established; the next checks say what is missing.

Documented for both

Usage definition
Power Automate Power Platform requests: every connector call, HTTP action and built-in action (even initialising a variable or a compose step) counts, successful or failed, including retries and pagination.
Tray.ai Every step that runs is a task, including the webhook trigger; Loop and boolean steps count each time they run, once per list item, plus the loop's final check; Example: a webhook delivering 2 records through Clearbit, a loop, a boolean and Slack used 9 tasks in one run
Included volume
Power Automate Premium: 40,000 Power Platform requests per user per 24 hoursProcess: 250,000 Power Platform requests per flow per 24 hours, independent of the users' licences; Up to 10 Process licences can be stacked on one flow, each adding 250,000 requests; Or one licence can be shared by up to 25 solution-aware flows in a flow group, without stacking
Tray.ai Task volume is a contracted entitlement, shown as an allowance line in the usage dashboard.Pro: 3 workspaces; 7-day insights and 7-day log retentionTeam: 20 workspaces; 30-day insights; 7-day log retention that can be extendedEnterprise: Unlimited workspaces; 180-day insights
Premium integrations
Power Automate The 30-day free trial covers UI-based cloud flows and standard connectors.
Tray.ai 700+ connectors and connector development are included in all plans.
Hosting responsibility
Power Automate Process: A bot runs one unattended desktop flow at a time on its assigned machine; concurrent runs need more bots.Hosted Process: Unattended automation on a Microsoft-managed virtual machine hosted on Azure.
Tray.ai Enterprise: Regional hosting, Advanced on-premise connectivity, SSO and HIPAA
AI charges
Power Automate AI-powered runtime such as agents is outside the request limits and consumes Copilot Credits.
Tray.ai AI connectors convert input and output tokens into tasks at a token-to-task ratio set in your contract, available from support.
Overage charges
Power Automate No per-request charge is listed; Microsoft may enforce limits by throttling; Capacity is added to the user or flow that exceeds its limit; Each Power Platform requests add-on raises a limit by 50,000 requests per 24 hours, and several can be assigned
Tray.ai Admins can cap monthly tasks per workspace, for example for sandbox or development workspaces; Retries are not charged

Limits to check

  • Power Automate A cloud flow uses its owner's licence; if the owner leaves the organisation, the flow falls back to the Low performance profile.
  • Tray.ai Pro allows 3 workspaces, Team 20 and Enterprise unlimited; regional hosting, log streaming and on-premise connectivity are Enterprise features.

Not verified yet

Every compared requirement has evidence for at least one.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Power Automate: trigger polling.

Not verified means our reviewed sources do not establish it. It does not mean a product lacks the capability or that it costs nothing.

Next steps

  • Request a written quote from Tray.ai for your seats, usage and term.
  • Ask Tray.ai about trigger polling; our sources do not establish it yet.
Documented scope and limits; unverified dimensions remain unknown.
RequirementPower AutomateTray.ai
Pricing
From $180/yr per user

Compare all 3 plans

Who it is for
Cloud flows, attended desktop flows (RPA) and process mining for individual users.

Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Microsoft Power Automate pricing page

One governed platform (Tray iPaaS) for integration, automation, MCP services and AI agents, sold by quote.

Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai iPaaS pricing page: plans, add-ons and FAQ

Coverage limits
A cloud flow uses its owner's licence; if the owner leaves the organisation, the flow falls back to the Low performance profile.

Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Microsoft Learn: Power Automate limits and configuration

Pro allows 3 workspaces, Team 20 and Enterprise unlimited; regional hosting, log streaming and on-premise connectivity are Enterprise features.

Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai iPaaS pricing page: plans, add-ons and FAQ

Usage definition
Power Platform requests: every connector call, HTTP action and built-in action (even initialising a variable or a compose step) counts, successful or failed, including retries and pagination.

Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Microsoft Learn: Power Platform request limits and allocations

Every step that runs is a task, including the webhook trigger; Loop and boolean steps count each time they run, once per list item, plus the loop's final check; Example: a webhook delivering 2 records through Clearbit, a loop, a boolean and Slack used 9 tasks in one run

Tray describes a task as roughly one workflow step each time it runs; a connector that makes several API calls in one step counts once. Retries are not charged. Each Connectivity API Call Connector request is 1 task.

Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai docs: usage and billing, what a task is

Included volume
  • Premium 40,000 Power Platform requests per user per 24 hours
  • Process 250,000 Power Platform requests per flow per 24 hours, independent of the users' licences; Up to 10 Process licences can be stacked on one flow, each adding 250,000 requests; Or one licence can be shared by up to 25 solution-aware flows in a flow group, without stacking
Task volume is a contracted entitlement, shown as an allowance line in the usage dashboard.

Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai docs: usage and billing, what a task is

  • Pro 3 workspaces; 7-day insights and 7-day log retention
  • Team 20 workspaces; 30-day insights; 7-day log retention that can be extended
  • Enterprise Unlimited workspaces; 180-day insights
Trigger polling
Scheduled (recurrence) flows can run as often as every 60 seconds.

Connector polling intervals are not stated.

Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Microsoft Learn: Power Automate limits and configuration

Not verified
Premium integrations
The 30-day free trial covers UI-based cloud flows and standard connectors.

Flows that use a custom connector need a premium or trial licence (Microsoft Learn limits page).

Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Microsoft Power Automate pricing page

700+ connectors and connector development are included in all plans.

Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai iPaaS pricing page: plans, add-ons and FAQ

Hosting responsibility
  • Process A bot runs one unattended desktop flow at a time on its assigned machine; concurrent runs need more bots.
  • Hosted Process Unattended automation on a Microsoft-managed virtual machine hosted on Azure.
  • Enterprise Regional hosting, Advanced on-premise connectivity, SSO and HIPAA
AI charges
AI-powered runtime such as agents is outside the request limits and consumes Copilot Credits.

Agent flows are metered through Microsoft Copilot Studio, not Power Platform requests. Copilot Studio is sold as prepaid Copilot Credit Commit Units, up to 20% cheaper bought up front, with pay-as-you-go coverage when prepaid credits run out; no credit price is shown.

Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Microsoft Learn: Power Platform request limits and allocations

AI connectors convert input and output tokens into tasks at a token-to-task ratio set in your contract, available from support.

Merlin Text Generation, Merlin Text Analysis and AI-Agent-Utils generate token usage; document processing (Merlin IDP) counts pages. Agent Development (Agent Gateway for MCP and Merlin Agent Builder) is an add-on.

Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai docs: usage and billing, what a task is

Overage charges
No per-request charge is listed; Microsoft may enforce limits by throttling; Capacity is added to the user or flow that exceeds its limit; Each Power Platform requests add-on raises a limit by 50,000 requests per 24 hours, and several can be assigned

A cloud flow that is throttled consistently for 14 days is turned off (Microsoft Learn limits page). The add-on price is not on the pricing page.

Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Microsoft Learn: Power Platform request limits and allocations

Admins can cap monthly tasks per workspace, for example for sandbox or development workspaces; Retries are not charged

Usage alerts go out at 80% and 100% of the task entitlement, which includes AI token tasks. No overage rate is published.

Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai docs: usage and billing, what a task is

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