Dataiku vs UiPath (2026)

Agents call managed tools, API endpoints, OpenAPI specs, local and remote MCP servers, Knowledge Bank search, LLM Mesh queries, web search, inline code and plugin tools, over connections secured per group.

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Tools connect an agent's reasoning to real actions, giving it access to data in business applications and the ability to execute functions, and an agent can only act through tools it has been explicitly granted, described in the system prompt with when to use them. Integration Service adds an MCP Connector that lets workflows call tools from any compatible MCP server as a native activity, Database Hub to read and write systems such as SQL Server, Oracle and Databricks without custom code, and Relay to reach on premises systems from cloud automations.

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Structured visual agents define sequences with routing, delegation to other agents, parallel and for each branches, agentic loops and reflection blocks, alongside code agents and external agents from Snowflake Cortex, Databricks, AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI; Agent Hub can orchestrate a query across several agents.

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UiPath orchestrates agents of every origin, UiPath system agents, low-code agents, coded agents and external agents, inside one platform, where agents work alongside activities, other agents, apps, human tasks and Maestro for business process orchestration, and are managed, scheduled and monitored through Orchestrator.

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Agents run inside automation scenarios, which start on time based, dataset change, SQL query change, scenario completion or Python triggers without a person, and users reach agents in Slack (DM or mention), Microsoft Teams, Agent Hub, Agent Chat and through APIs.

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Agents deploy as processes in Orchestrator, which schedules and launches jobs through time triggers at regular intervals and queue triggers that start the automation whenever new items are added to a queue, so agents run without anyone asking.

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Knowledge Banks embed datasets and documents into vector stores that agents search through a Knowledge Bank Search tool with static, dynamic and agent inferred filters and document level security, with GraphRAG and automated RAG optimization also documented.

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An index added as agent context gives the agent access to a permissioned knowledge base of the customer's own content, and the builder configures the search strategy and scope that decide what the agent retrieves.

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Long term memory blocks store facts, such as preferences, and episodes from past conversations in memory banks, kept separately per user, shared by agents in a project through a default bank or split into named banks, and retrieved by LLM filtering and semantic search in later conversations. No retention period or delete path is stated.

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Agent memory, in preview, keeps memory spaces that several agents can share. Episodic memory holds the inputs, outputs and outcomes of past cases with the feedback attached to them, and items enter it when a person promotes feedback from an agent run. Escalation memory stores how a person resolved an escalation in Action Center.

Before each run a recall step embeds the current inputs, finds similar items and adds them to the agent's context as examples, and before raising an escalation the agent checks for a matching resolution. Memory items can be inspected, edited and deleted from the Memory spaces tab. Nothing is written to memory by the agent on its own, and no retention period or expiry is stated.

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Human approval set on a tool makes a visual agent pause before calling it and ask the user to confirm, optionally letting the person reviewing edit the tool inputs (not inside For Each, Parallel or Reflection sub sequences), and guardrails cover PII, prompt injection, toxicity, topic boundaries and bias.

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Escalations, powered by Action apps in Action Center, let a developer have the agent validate business details with a person before running a tool, request approval, or ask for manual assistance on a business exception. Each escalation carries a prompt that tells the agent when to raise it, and is routed to a specific user, to the least-loaded member of a group, to all group members, or round robin. Runtime Checker validates agent behavior against defined policies while the agent is running, not only when it was built, and an LLM as judge guardrail evaluates outputs against custom criteria.

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Dataiku offers SSO through SAML, OIDC, LDAP and Kerberos, MFA, user profiles, per project group and user permissions, connection security, user secrets and an audit trail. Its trust page lists ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27701, ISO 42001 and ISO 9001 certification, SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type II for Dataiku Cloud, and a HIPAA report.

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UiPath's trust portal publishes a SOC 2 Type 2 report, an ISO 27001 certificate, a HITRUST certificate, C5, IRAP, HIPAA and Spain's ENS certificate of conformity. The customer-facing controls on the agent layer are Automation Ops policies applied through the AI Trust Layer at tenant level, which control whether users can access and use agents across the organization.

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Every LLM Mesh call returns a nested trace of the agent's LLM calls, guardrail steps, inputs, outputs, tokens and cost, viewed in the Trace Explorer (tree, timeline and explorer views), and the evaluation trajectory explorer replays tool calls in order; an audit trail records user actions.

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Every agent run leaves a trace, a detailed record of the steps taken, data processed, decisions made and results generated, with timestamps, errors, inputs and outputs, so a failed tool call can be inspected at the exact step with its inputs, outputs and error. UiPath positions traces for debugging, performance analysis of latency, errors and throughput, and compliance and auditing as a verifiable record of what the agent did, when and how.

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Dataiku runs as fully managed Dataiku Cloud or is installed on the customer's own infrastructure (Linux, macOS, experimental Windows) with hybrid options through sales, with installation, cloud and container deployment guides; locally running Hugging Face models keep inference in house.

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UiPath comes in two delivery models, Automation Cloud, its cloud service, and Automation Suite, which runs the platform on the customer's own premises, each with its own documentation set. Automation Suite now runs on Linux with the full agentic AI stack, so agents, robots and people work inside infrastructure the enterprise already operates.

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Dataiku Solutions include named GenAI and agent solutions for separate jobs, Dynamic Selling Assistant, Supplier Management Assistant, Clinical Trial Intelligence Assistant, Medical Entity Extraction Assistant and Agentic Insights; Agent Hub distributes an organization's own governed agents and prompt library.

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UiPath ships agent templates, available on the Agents page in Automation Cloud and in UiPath Marketplace, each preconfigured for a specific task with a system prompt, activity tools with descriptions and starter evaluation sets, needing only minimum configuration to run and open to modification.

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Administrators define LLM Mesh connections to OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock and SageMaker, Microsoft Foundry, Google Vertex, Mistral, Cohere, NVIDIA NIM, Snowflake Cortex, Databricks foundation model APIs and locally running Hugging Face models, and agents pick from them, with cost control and rate limiting documented.

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The builder chooses the model for each agent at design time and refines that choice once evaluations show how different models perform on accuracy, stability, speed and cost, and a custom model can be configured for Context Grounding through the admin guide's LLM configuration.

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Agents are exposed as A2A servers at a per agent public API endpoint with well known URI discovery and bearer API key auth, in JSON-RPC and SSE modes, beside a documented MCP server, the public REST API, the Python API and LangChain integration on developer.dataiku.com, and a plugin system.

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With a UiPath SDK, developers build coded agents in their own IDE, package them and deploy them to Orchestrator as standard packages, where they run as processes under the same governance as other automations, and they can connect the project to Studio Web for debugging, evaluation and publishing.

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The Evaluate Agent recipe scores answers and the path taken, with ordered and unordered tool call checks, RAGAS based LLM judges, BERTScore and custom metrics, stores results for side by side version comparison, and Agent Review lets builders and SMEs run test cases against an agent version with human verdicts overriding the judge.

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Evaluations check agents against defined cases before and during release. An evaluation pairs an input with an evaluator that checks the agent's output or trajectory against the expected result, evaluation sets group evaluations, and each run produces a score from 0 to 100 with traces of the evaluation runs to diagnose failures and re-run. Evaluations can be created from correct past runs, and evaluation results guide model choice.

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The agent tool list covers APIs, MCP, knowledge search, code and an LLM side web search tool, with no browser or computer use tool documented.

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Robots operate real application interfaces in attended and unattended automation, and Healing Agent autonomously detects and recovers from UI automation failures caused by changing interfaces, network throughput and evolving UI frameworks, using just-in-time analysis of the automation to choose a recovery strategy.

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