Agentic Index
Celonis vs UiPath (2026)
Celonis and UiPath are compared constantly but do different jobs: Celonis is process intelligence, mining your systems to show where work actually breaks, sold enterprise only on multi year contracts with no public pricing (one unverified third party estimate put a one year subscription near thirty thousand dollars), while UiPath is automation execution, the robots and agents that then do the work, licensed by consumption and role through Automation Cloud or Automation Suite. Many enterprises run both: Celonis to find and prioritize the problems, UiPath to automate the fixes. If you must pick a starting point, start where your pain is: visibility or execution.
| At a glance | Celonis | UiPath |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Enterprise operations agent | Enterprise operations agent |
| Entry price | Contact sales; no public pricing. Enterprise, multi year contracts. | Contact sales (Autopilot included; free tier to start) |
| Free / trial | Free academic and trial tiers exist historically; enterprise platform is quote based | Free Automation Cloud community tier and free training; Autopilot for everyone announced free to start |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | contact only |
| Feature |
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Celonis
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UiPath
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| 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. |
Partial | 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 |
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Celonis
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UiPath
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Contact sales; no public pricing. Enterprise, multi year contracts. | 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 |
not disclosed; enterprise platform subscription | 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 |
Choose Celonis if
- You do not yet know where your processes leak time and money; visibility comes first.
- Process mining evidence is how you will build the business case for automation.
- Continuous process monitoring across ERP and core systems is the standing need.
Choose UiPath if
- You already know what to automate and need execution capacity now.
- A developer ecosystem for building and maintaining automations matters most.
- Agentic features layered on your existing automation estate is the near term win.