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Microsoft Power Automate

Microsoft Power Automate is a workflow automation product from Microsoft that gives business teams tools to automate processes and approvals without writing code · microsoft.com ↗

#1Best rank (small business)
14/14Models named it
103First choices
40Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inRobotic process automation #1 small businessProcess mining #7Workflow orchestration #10Microsoft 365 management #29Managed file transfer #60ETL and ELT #63
What AI models recommend in RPA

Leads at small business. Ranked 2 of 54 for enterprise buyers.

The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.

Why models recommend it

“Prefer "fusion" platforms that combine RPA + API automation + AI agents (e.g., Power Automate, modern UiPath with agents, ServiceNow, or Workato)”Kimi K2 · Negative question · first choice
“focus your evaluation on established enterprise leaders with broad ecosystems: UiPath, Microsoft Power Automate, and Automation Anywhere”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“For the tightest budgets, Power Automate Desktop and UiPath Community Edition are completely free options for commercial use.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Start with a proof-of-concept using Microsoft Power Automate if you are on Microsoft 365. It provides the fastest path to ROI.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice

What gives them pause

“Licensing, environment management, permissions, and costs can become complicated as usage expands”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“UI needs improvement; AI/ML features lag (per TechRadar)... avoid if ecosystem fit is poor.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“Don’t assume it will be cheap just because your organization already uses Microsoft 365.”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
“Microsoft Power Automate for large, complex RPA estates... organizations can outgrow it”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Power Automate, over the 356 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

What the models named instead of Microsoft Power Automate →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on Microsoft Power Automate's own site, not checked by Gane.

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How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Microsoft Power Automate came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 323 of the 356 answers that named Microsoft Power Automate and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

toolradar.com112
g2.com104
gane.ai/indexpublisher (Gane)67
aimultiple.com65
peerspot.com56
zapier.com54
microsoft.comIts own site46
uipath.com45
automationatlas.io44
auxis.com41

521 of the 634 domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Power Automate came from a third party's page. Sixty-seven were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Microsoft Power Automate across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.511204
GPT-5.4 mini13004
Gemini 3.5 Flash42017
Perplexity Sonar34029
Grok 4.20342110
Mistral Small33118
DeepSeek V4 Flash432110
Llama 4 Maverick13116
Qwen 3.7 Flash45009
Kimi K2534012
GLM 4.7 FlashX25209
MiniMax M2.533017
GPT-6 Luna32016
Muse Glimmer 30B352111