Agentic Index
Atomicwork vs UiPath (2026)
Both govern agents carefully and they are aimed at different budgets and scopes, at 12 and 13.5 of 14. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
UiPath is the incumbent automation platform with Maestro orchestration, agent building, self healing and the AI Trust Layer, quoted through sales. Atomicwork deploys AI coworkers across IT, human resources, finance and legal, each with a role, budget, scoped access and audit trail, with bring your own models and pre production testing, from around 25,000 dollars a year. Per agent budgets is a governance idea nobody else has, and 25,000 is a fraction of an enterprise automation programme.
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Atomicwork and UiPath are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 969 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Atomicwork if
- Per agent budgets and scoped access is exactly the governance model you want.
- Employee service across IT, human resources, finance and legal is the scope.
- Twenty five thousand a year is a realistic starting commitment.
Choose UiPath if
- Documented coverage is the deepest in the index and your estate includes robots.
- Systems without APIs need screen level automation Atomicwork does not do.
- You are consolidating an existing automation programme, not starting a service desk one.
| At a glance | Atomicwork | UiPath |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Enterprise operations agent | Enterprise operations agent |
| Entry price | From $25,000/yr | Contact sales (Autopilot included; free tier to start) |
| Free / trial | Demo and pilot on request; no public free tier | Free Automation Cloud community tier and free training; Autopilot for everyone announced free to start |
| Pricing confidence | public partial | contact only |
| Feature | A Atomicwork |
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. |
Full / Explicit | 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. |
Partial | 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. |
Full / Explicit | 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 Atomicwork |
U UiPath |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
From $25,000/yr | Contact sales (Autopilot included; free tier to start) |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, partial | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
credits or outcomes, with coworker and user tiers | consumption and role (robots, agents, platform units) |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
High variable cost | High variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
No free tierTrial
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Free tierTrial
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Sales call |
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