Power Automate versus Workato

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)
• Workato Quote only
  • Standard: Vendor quotation required
  • Business MCP: Vendor quotation required
  • Enterprise MCP: Vendor quotation required
  • Workato ONE: 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.

Workato Triggers do not count as Tasks, whatever the connector; Each action step counts as 1 Task, in any connector; Control-flow steps (IF, loops, Stop job, error handlers) do not count; steps inside them count each time they run, once per loop iteration; Successful steps count even if the job later fails; Document-processing pages and Event streams events are measured separately, not as Tasks; A bulk or batch action counts as 1 Task however many records it processes; AI by Workato action steps count as more than one Task each, at a rate set in your contract

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

Workato Usage draws on one purchased balance of Workato credits shared by workflows, document processing and agents.Standard: 1 concurrent job; 30-day log retentionBusiness MCP: 1 concurrent jobEnterprise MCP: 15 concurrent jobs; flexible 90-day log retentionWorkato ONE: 30 concurrent jobs

Premium integrations

Power Automate The 30-day free trial covers UI-based cloud flows and standard connectors.

Workato 1,200+ pre-built connectors included for every user; Unlimited workspaces and usersEnterprise MCP: Data pipelines, Event streams, Intelligent document processing, AI by Workato

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.

Workato Connecting on-premises apps and databases requires an on-premises gateway (agent).Business MCP: 3 on-premises agentsEnterprise MCP: 10 on-premises agentsWorkato ONE: 30 on-premises agents

AI charges

Power Automate AI-powered runtime such as agents is outside the request limits and consumes Copilot Credits.

Workato Genies (agents) are measured per prompt sent, by users or by systems; Skills are included when a Genie invokes them and billed as Tasks when invoked over MCP

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

Workato No overage rate is published; Workato offers to help forecast usage and prevent overconsumption.

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.
• Workato Concurrency: 1 job at a time on Standard and Business MCP, 15 on Enterprise MCP, 30 on Workato ONE

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 Workato for your seats, usage and term.
• Ask Workato about trigger polling; our sources do not establish it yet.

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