Agentic Index
Altilia vs UiPath (2026)
UiPath documents the broadest capability coverage of any vendor in this index at 13.5 of 14, orchestrating agents, robots and people through Maestro with the AI Trust Layer for governance.
Altilia is the focused alternative at 11.5, agent native and grounded in a Knowledge Graph, without the automation estate underneath. The real question is not which is more capable, it is whether you need an automation platform at all: UiPath's advantage is coordinating agents with the robots and humans already in your processes, and that advantage is worth nothing if you have neither.
Choose Altilia if
- You are building agents in a business that never ran RPA, so the robot orchestration layer is dead weight.
- Knowledge Graph and RAG grounding is what you are actually buying.
- A focused platform with a shorter learning curve beats the most capable one your team will not fully use.
Choose UiPath if
- Agents have to work alongside existing robots and human approvals inside processes that already run.
- You want the deepest documented coverage available, including memory, evaluation, testing and governance.
- Buying from a public company with a large partner ecosystem lowers your delivery and hiring risk.
| At a glance | Altilia | UiPath |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Agent builder | Enterprise operations agent |
| Entry price | Contact sales | Contact sales (Autopilot included; free tier to start) |
| Free / trial | No public free tier or self serve trial. | Free Automation Cloud community tier and free training; Autopilot for everyone announced free to start |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | contact only |
| Feature | A Altilia |
U UiPath |
|---|---|---|
| Action & orchestration | ||
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
Partial | Full / Explicit |
| Knowledge & context | ||
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
Partial | Full / Explicit |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Solution readiness | ||
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Platform extensibility | ||
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
Partial | Full / Explicit |
| Specialist automation | ||
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
No / Not documented | Partial |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing | A Altilia |
U UiPath |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Contact sales | Contact sales (Autopilot included; free tier to start) |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
Enterprise license for the platform and agents; specifics undisclosed. | consumption and role (robots, agents, platform units) |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | High variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
No free tier
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Free tierTrial
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Sales call |