Agentic Index
Dataiku vs UiPath (2026)
Both orchestrate agents at enterprise scale from opposite starting assets, at 12 and 13.5 of 14.
UiPath comes from automation, orchestrating agents, robots and people with Maestro, self healing and the AI Trust Layer. Dataiku comes from data science and machine learning, adding an agentic layer for building and governing agents, free community edition then enterprise. UiPath is stronger where the work is a process; Dataiku is stronger where the work is a model, and the honest question is which of those your agents will mostly be doing.
Choose Dataiku if
- Your data science team is building the agents and the platform is where they already work.
- Agents reasoning over models and datasets is the primary use case.
- A free community edition lets the team start without procurement.
Choose UiPath if
- Documented coverage is the deepest in the index and process automation is the work.
- Robots alongside agents is what your estate requires.
- The AI Trust Layer is the governance framework your risk function will recognize.
| At a glance | Dataiku | UiPath |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Multi-agent platform | Enterprise operations agent |
| Entry price | Free community edition; paid enterprise editions priced by users and capabilities through sales | Contact sales (Autopilot included; free tier to start) |
| Free / trial | Free community edition available; enterprise editions and trials through sales | Free Automation Cloud community tier and free training; Autopilot for everyone announced free to start |
| Pricing confidence | public partial | contact only |
| Feature |  Dataiku |
 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. |
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 | Dataiku |
UiPath |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Free community edition; paid enterprise editions priced by users and capabilities through sales | 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 |
users and platform capabilities | 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 |
Free tierTrial
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Free tierTrial
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Sales call |