Top 10 UiPath Alternatives

Businesses are increasingly encouraging remote and hybrid work environments leading to a shift towards automating IT tasks rather than traditional methods. 

Uipath, an automation tool, allows organizations to automate IT processes and streamline business processes, but there are certain limitations when it comes to handling complex programming tasks. However, you can opt for other alternatives to avail full functionality to enhance productivity and efficiency. 

Ui Path is an IT process automation tool designed to automate various web and desktop applications. It allows businesses to automate rule-based, repetitive tasks and configure app robots that automate manual tasks without interfering with your business operating system.

UiPath improves business productivity and employee efficiency and enhances the user experience by reducing the time it takes to achieve effective results by automating IT tasks. Furthermore, UiPath tracks down the risks signals so businesses can mitigate the security risks on time before it causes monetary and reputational loss to the organization.

However, there are certain drawbacks Uipath has, such as

• It only helps in programming complex tasks. 

• Even if you run the debugging process, it does not eliminate errors or bugs. 

• Limitation in options, you cannot go to the previous activity or next activity during run time, and you don't have any option to change data variables in the run time. 

• It doesn't automate, enable and disable logins and lacks centralized features to turn on and off the automation tasks. 

Let's walk through the best alternatives your organization can choose instead of Uipath. 

10 Best Alternatives of UiPath 

Every tool may not be compatible with an organization. Thus, determining which IT process automation software suits your business is necessary. Listed below are the 10 best alternative applications that come with similar capabilities to UiPath. 

1. Zluri

Zluri- a SaaS Management Platform that enhances business productivity by automating repetitive and tedious tasks. It reduces operational costs by eliminating manual processes, allowing businesses to invest in other necessary areas, such as SaaS licenses.

With Zluri, organizations can attain effective results by reducing the risk of human errors, which act as a bottleneck in business processes. Also, it securely controls the access permissions that help mitigate security risks, such as granting access when provisioning and revoking access upon deprovisioning.

Zluri efficiently manages access control; when a new employee joins the organization, it automatically grants authorized access to the employee. In addition, when the employee's role changes due to a promotion or switching departments, it revokes the existing access and grants new access per the role. 

Moreover, when the employee departs, Zluri revokes all the access so that the ex-employee doesn't have access to crucial data. 

Onboarding

Offboarding

Additionally, you can create an onboarding workflow that can be reused for other new hires of the same departments or roles. You can save the workflow in the playbook to run at a scheduled time. Also, it offers employees in-app suggestions that will help them choose approved SaaS apps. 

Furthermore, to enhance the employee experience, Zluri offers an Employee App Store. The employees can choose any required app and gain access to it without the approval of IT teams. It gives you a vast range of Saas apps, and you can even request apps that are not present in the app store. 

Pros

• With Zluri, you can integrate the custom system within 36 hours. 

• It allows you to connect with multiple compatible apps.

• It allows you to customize your workflow, such as onboarding workflow.

Customer Rating

• G2:4.8/5

• Capterra: 4.9/5

2. Appian

Appian is a low-code automation tool enabling businesses to build SaaS applications and workflow rapidly. It automates your entire business processes, people, data, and technology, all in a single workflow. As a result, this tool helps organizations optimize existing resources and improves business productivity.  

Furthermore, it expands the boundaries to automate IT processes to enhance the employee experience and increase their engagement. Appian tracks and analyses business requirements, regulatory changes, and inefficient IT tasks to adapt quickly to the changes and act effectively. Additionally, it helps the organization attain business goals efficiently in digital transformation.

Pros

• It builds the functioning application in a short duration.

• You can handle complex business logic with the help of process model capabilities. 

Cons

• Sometimes it can be challenging to use debugging features during development.

• It limits you to directly uploading files from your device at the time of test runs. Instead, you need to be present in an Appian environment. 

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.5/5

• Capterra- 4.2/5

3. Kissflow

Kissflow empowers IT teams to create workflow as per the business needs. It offers multiple templates to customize your workflow according to department, role, or position. It helps IT teams manage and visualize all workflow in a single dashboard. Additionally, this tool enables you to build unlimited automated SaaS applications with an easy-to-use and intuitive interface.

It enhances the end-user experience by reducing the complicated coding and complex mapping. Furthermore, this tool allows IT teams to create triggers to run an action instantly.

Pros

• It allows you to customize apps based on your needs.

• It is easy to design workflow processes such as deprovisioning.

Cons

• Sometimes, the app can be slow and doesn't show your app on the panel; you need to reload the page again.

• Lack of functions, such as being unable to add a hyperlink to a field and make it clickable. 

• Sometimes updating the tool to a new version invites bugs.

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.3/5

• Capterra- 3.9/5

4. Workato

Workato is an integration and automation tool that helps IT teams automate business processes and integrate applications without risking security and governance. As a result, it helps businesses to attain effective results from IT activities. 

This tool requires no coding to develop applications. It eliminates the manual work through the automation process, reducing the overall operational costs. Additionally, Workato helps IT to create integrations that are 5x faster than traditional platforms.

Pros

• You can use ready-made automation from its community library created by the developer in your IT processes.

• You can customize integrations to automate your business operations.  

Cons

• Lack of information on custom actions for applications.

• Limitations in bulk processing functionality, such as data replications.

• Sometimes you may encounter bugs during the integration.

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.7/5

• Capterra- 4.7/5 

5. Pega

Pega is a low-code tool to help organizations solve business challenges with the help of automation and integration to streamline the business process. This tool enables businesses to develop applications, case management, and enterprise-grade CRM in a single platform.

Furthermore, it identifies the requirements, tracks the inefficient IT process, and automates it to increase efficiency. Pega automates the workflow to reduce the complexity of handly the task and improves the engagement of employees by automating the services.

It encourages the organization to shift towards a low-code environment to improve productivity. Additionally, Pega reduces the development of application costs and maximizes return on investment technology.

Pros

• With its low-code development environment, it becomes easy to develop applications quickly.

• You can reuse the workflow instead of starting from scratch to create a new workflow for the same purpose. 

• It can help you build complex business solutions.

Cons

• Lack of troubleshooting capabilities. 

• Poor notification management requires remapping. 

• Limited access to SaaS tools.

• Sometimes you may come across a low response from the cloud, which impacts the configuration process and causes more errors. 

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.2/5

• Capterra- 4.2/5 

6. Now Platform by Service Now 

Now platform provides businesses with a system of actions. It uses a single data model that simplifies creating workflows and automating business processes. This tool's intelligent automation engine automates manual IT tasks, reduces SaaS costs, and speeds up the process. 

It is a unified platform that helps businesses optimize their IT resources and streamline their processes. This tool allows IT teams to develop app extensions with low code or no code. Additionally, the Now platform automates all digital operations to increase productivity, prevent issues, predict threats, and more. 

Pros 

• You can fully customize the automation process as per your needs with minimal configuration. 

• It provides you with all kinds of reports within a short period, such as app usage reports.  

Cons

• You may encounter glitches while using the app for asset management.

• Sometimes it isn't easy to find or recover the tasks because, after completion, the tasks disappear. 

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.0/5

7. Pipefy

Pipefy is the low-code workflow automation management platform that allows IT teams to automate provisioning and deprovisioning processes efficiently. It enhances visibility into the SaaS stack, improves speed, and provides high-quality results without the requirement of IT implementation. 

This tool improves productivity by optimizing the resources and centralizing the data for the ease of the IT team to monitor all the IT activities and reduce security and compliance risks. 

Pros 

• It generates reports regularly for an organization to make needful improvements in the IT processes.

• You can customize the workflow templates as per your needs.

Cons

• Lacks to manage approvals to access SaaS apps. 

• A limited number of employees can be added to one workflow. 

Customer Rating

• G2: 4.6/5

• Capterra: 4.6/5

8. ProcessMaker

ProcessMaker is a business process management software offering workflow automation and online app deployment on-premises and on the cloud. This tool improves efficiency organization-wide, optimization of operations and reports. In addition, it has AI-driven solutions that help in automating document processing.

This tool is capable of automating complex workflows within a few days. It provides drag-and-drop functionality for adding tasks, users, integrators, data, etc. ProcessMaker is a simple solution that is easily customizable, and it has advanced dashboards that provide complete visualization of KPI data. 

Pros 

• You can develop customized projects for monitoring and controlling the IT processes.

• It provides you with regular reports to monitor the workflow.

Cons

• Limitations in basic drag and drop functions that can be done in traditional coding. 

• Updating can be a complex process as you run through all the existing workflows to make sure they are not broken due to upgradation.  

• You need to have high coding knowledge to run complex features.

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.3/5

• Capterra- 4.5/5

9. Zapier

Zapier is an automation tool that helps to build custom workflows at an admirable speed. This tool can quickly move data between web applications, which enables employees pay attention to priority tasks. It eliminates all the redundant operations and allows the workforce to focus on more critical parts of the process. 

This tool can combine several actions and applications into a single Zap, meaning an automated workflow that triggers an app to follow a command. Furthermore, it streamlines all IT processes and creates more efficiency. For large organizations, Zapier provides tools that simplify collaboration and stringent security features. 

Pros

• It helps you solve difficult tasks with the help of built-in technology (helper).

• You can link multiple systems together quickly.  

Cons

• You cannot duplicate a step for repetitive use without duplication features. 

• Sometimes updating and deleting records can be challenging tasks.

Customer Rating 

• G2-4.5/5

• Cap 4.7/5

10. Celigo

Celigo is an iPaaS application that helps all sizes of businesses to integrate easily with their systems. It automates business operations, streamlines tasks, and synchronizes data by combining cloud solutions. 

This platform uses business logic for automating and optimizing business processes. Its business logic can be modified through configuration instead of using codes. Celigo uses customizable implementations for easy automation to meet business demands. For example, it automates employee onboarding, offboarding, and reconciliation processes between payment gateways and NetSuite and provides accurate, updated data. 

Pros

• You get the freedom to use connections through APIs when there is no particular integration.

• You can develop complex integration projects with multiple connections. 

Cons

• Sometimes due to updates, your business processes will get interrupted. 

• Limitations in error management, it gets difficult to understand which workflow run had an error and which were resolved. 

Customer Rating

• G2-4.6/5

• Capterra 4.7/5