Agentic Index
Coworker vs UiPath (2026)
Both put agents across the enterprise and they build on different foundations, at 12.5 and 13.5 of 14.
UiPath orchestrates agents, robots and people through the automation estate with governance built in. Coworker pairs an organizational memory knowledge graph with model routing, fifty plus read and write connectors, a no code builder and approval gates, at thirty dollars per user monthly. UiPath's foundation is the process; Coworker's is the memory, and thirty dollars a user is a different order of commitment from an automation platform.
Choose Coworker if
- Organizational memory is the asset, and agents without it keep asking the same questions.
- Thirty dollars per user is a fraction of an enterprise automation programme.
- Approval gates on agent actions is the governance you need first.
Choose UiPath if
- Documented coverage is the deepest in the index and robots are part of your estate.
- Legacy systems without APIs are the automation problem.
- The AI Trust Layer is the governance framework your risk function will recognize.
| At a glance | Coworker | UiPath |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Enterprise operations agent | Enterprise operations agent |
| Entry price | Thirty dollars per user per month (per vendor blog; agent builder included) | Contact sales (Autopilot included; free tier to start) |
| Free / trial | Run your first agent in minutes on connect; no explicit free tier documented | Free Automation Cloud community tier and free training; Autopilot for everyone announced free to start |
| Pricing confidence | public partial | contact only |
| Feature | C Coworker |
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. |
Full / Explicit | 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 | C Coworker |
U UiPath |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Thirty dollars per user per month (per vendor blog; agent builder included) | 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 |
per user per month; enterprise scoped separately | consumption and role (robots, agents, platform units) |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Low 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 |
Mixed | Sales call |