The approach to UiPath Prices is essentially based on the a payment of a fraction of the value that the software functionality can deliver.
The UiPath product range has grown a lot in recent years, although the core remains the software robot.
Licences are subscription based normally for 12 months but longer periods can be agreed. UiPath Prices are set on payment for the full period in advance.
UiPath will deal directly with Licences for large global companies plus national Governments, for all other organisations UiPath uses “Regional Distributors” with “Local Resellers”. This structure is designed to reflect the size of purchases being made as well as providing a cost effective service. UiPath sets the price for its licences.
As part of UiPath’s public financial statements it declares information about the UiPath Enterprise Licence success in terms of the number of clients with ARR greater than $1 Million. Such clients are a long way from the majority of clients who have annual UiPath costs in the $10,000 to $100,000 range.
Ether Solutions is an Authorised Reseller of UiPath licences.
Ether Solutions provides complete solutions of UiPath Licences and Implementation Services, but can equally provide just UiPath Licences where organisations perform their own implementation, or just Implementation services where businesses have already purchased UiPath Licences.
UiPath has introduced a “Direct” to business option for customers in the USA that is intended to be a “Self Service” model.
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Your business already has UiPath licences and you need a Renewal quote.
Ether Solutions understand that you want a competitive quote, sometimes because “Procurement” says it is necessary. Sometimes you are not convinced by the price from your current partner. Sometimes you want to see what other UiPath partners can offer.
Whatever the reason, contact us and we would be pleased to provide a Quote for UiPath licences and if you want to discuss options for development, support or additional licences, please call us 0845 643 4410 to chat.
Changes made in 2024, has created three plans. Namely:
They are intended to aligned with different market segments.
Free is aimed at micro businesses.
Pro is aimed at businesses that are starting on their Automation programme. The main sector being SME businesses. The plan has a relatively low starting price point and can provide access to various combinations of Robots. It does not currently provide access to any of the AI capabilities, such as those required for Document Undcrstanding.
Enterprise delivers access to all of the UiPath product options. Any combination is possible to meet the specific needs of each business.
There are three types of environment considered in the UiPath Price model. They are:
The UiPath Prices for licences being used in Non-Production environments are considerable cheaper than licences used in Production.
When considering the environment requirements it is often useful to think about the options provided by the UiPath Architecture.
The provision of the Free Plan (formerly known as the “Community Edition” licences) has been a key factor in the success of UiPath. These licences are free to use but only available for use by small organisations and individuals. The number of development Studio licences and production software robot licences is strictly limited. In return for the licences being free to use, UiPath releases new versions of its software to these Community Edition users, in order that “Real World” usage testing is achieved before the functionality is made available to paid licence users.
UiPath provides Trail Licences for businesses in order that they can undertake evaluations of the UiPath software. These licences are only available for a fixed duration. These licences are provided for free. They can be accessed by users under the Enterprise plan or the Pro plan. There is an initial allocation of multiple development and multiple robot licences, this is expected to provide sufficient capability for an evaluation of the UiPath technology to be complete however additional licences are required for a particular scenario please contact us for the arrangement required.
In most businesses effective governance policies requires that users do not share computer logons or use “Generic” logons. The Named User licence reflects this approach. This means that Named User licences cannot be assigned on a “day to day” basis but where somebody changes job role or leaves the organisation, the licence can be re-assigned to the appropriate individual.
UiPath no longer provides concurrent user based licences.
UiPath Prices for some functionality using Usage Licences. This is the case for its “Document Understanding” and other AI model functionality. The usage is measured in terms of the number of calls made by the software robots to the API routines that deliver the capability. There are thresholds in terms of the total number of calls and the rate of calls per hour.
This is one of the most complex parts of UiPath’s price book and often requires a discussion to examine particular situations.
The following table lists the product licences that are available on the UiPath Price List.
| Product | Description |
| Studio | UiPath’s complete automation designer featuring hundreds of pre-built “Activities” to create automations. |
| StudioX | Provides an easy to use, no code designer for rapid automation creation by Citizen Developers. |
| StudioPro | Extends the Studio range of capabilities to enable mobile development and test automation features. |
| Software Robot | There are two forms of Robot. The “Attended” form, where the robot executes alongside a user in the same User session. This provides the capability for direct interaction with the user during their daily work. The “UnAttended” form, is where the software robot executes in its own session without any user interaction, typically processing work from an Orchestrator queue or being assigned activity through an Orchestrator schedule. |
| Orchestrator | Provides the core infrastructure to manage the deployment of automation work to UnAttended software robots through the use of scheduling and queues. This is facilitated by the management of credentials, asset values and execution parameters, plus the capture of log information from the robot executions. |
| Automation Cloud | UiPath provides a hosted implementation of the Orchestrator software which is effectively a SaaS configuration. “Cloud” versions of the robot licences are required to make use of the Automation Cloud but there is no additional licence required for its use. |
| Automated Testing | UiPath provides complete automated testing functionality that can be used with any application as well as with UiPath software robots. UiPath Prices for the testing functionality follow a similar arrangement to the software robots in that there are development licences and execution licences. |
| Process Mining | UiPath provides Process Mining software that can be used to monitor activity in an environment and identify activity which is a candidate for automation. |
| UiPath Apps | Provides a low-code application development platform to build and share enterprise grade applications. |
| UiPath Action Center | Provides a user console for task management of “Human in the loop” activities that interface with actions for UnAttended software robot tasks. |
| UiPath Test Manager | Provides the ability to manage test cases and services to connect to other testing tools. |
| Chatbot | UiPath provides Chatbot functionality where a user can engage in conversational dialogue using normal text, dialogue assisted options, etc. in order to resolve queries, request actions, etc. |
| AI Robot | UiPath provides AI (Artificial Intelligence) capability which includes the ability to build and use models, exploit Machine Learning (ML) skills, in order to deliver advanced processing capabilities. |
| Cloud Elements | UiPath has recently acquired the “Cloud Elements” software to exploit the range of integrations the technology provides. The way UiPath Prices will be amended to reflect this additional software is not yet known. |
When considering the purchase of UiPath software robot licences, it is important to view the UiPath Price as a “Potential capacity for work”. For instance, a software robot licence can operate 24 hours a day 7 days a week, that is the maximum capacity of the licence. This does not mean that the robot has to perform the same task for the whole time. In most practical situations, the software robot will be allocated many different tasks to perform during any given week. Clearly the maximum benefit from the software robot will be gain when the whole capacity is used and this is why the UiPath Price for the subscription licence is normally only a small fraction of the benefit value gained from its usage.
UiPath has traditionally offered both On-Premise licences and Cloud licences. Essentially the difference being where the UiPath product software is deployed, either on servers operated by UiPath in the Cloud, or on servers operated within client controlled networks which could be located at physical data centres and / or privately configured clouds.
In most scenarios the price for the UiPath software licence is the same.
UiPath is encouraging more usage of the UiPath products on its own cloud. For example, the introduction of Studio Web hosted on UiPath Servers is aimed at moving the development activity under UiPath’s supervision.
Within the UiPath cloud, there is the concept of “Tenant”. Each tenant provides an environment that is isolated from other tenants. Licences cannot be used across tenants but they can be manually assigned / re-assigned between tenants.
For a first project, a typical purchase is:
This provides the capability to develop an Automation Process, to deploy it for Production operational execution using both schedule and queue based events, plus the capability for two people to execute additional processing to deal with exceptions, etc.
Where the initial automation will require the extraction of data from documents using “Document Understanding”, there will be a need to obtain AI Usage Units in addition to the Robot licences.
From mid 2025, UiPath is requiring all new customers to purchase a “Platform” licence as part of its change to its pricing metrics. This effectively increases the lowest price level for customers starting on their automation journey. Contact us to see how it impacts your plans for an automation project.
The actual price of a UiPath licence is confidential, just like many other leading software products and cannot be published on web sites.
To get an indication of prices, have a look at the bundles of services and licences that Ether Solutions offer.
Prices start at the equivalent to employing a person for 40 hours a week on UK Minimum Wage.
From the above it is clear that there are many options and factors to consider. The information on the ROI Calculator page provides a general indication but please contact us for a detailed discussion and quote.
For any business investing automation, the UiPath licence costs are one element but there are also other elements from the business process being automated and the people involved in the activity. Ether Solutions 90 Automation Method provides some details on an approach which can enable to the full costs to be considered.
A UiPath solution will have costs directly from the UiPath subscription licences, the cost of the environment where the automations are executing, plus the costs associated with the development and support of the automations.
The minimum configuration for a UiPath implementation is a UiPath Studio licence and a UiPath Un-Attended Robot subscription or a number UiPath Attended Robot subscriptions.
The entry level for an initial deployment can be compared to the cost of employing one person on minimum wage for 40 hours a week (circa £25,000). The UiPath cost being approximately £15,000 and the creation of a simple automation being £10,000. Ether Solutions offer a Bronze Package as an entry level option.
There are many options and factors to consider. The information on the ROI Calculator page provides a general indication but please contact us for a detailed discussion and quote.
When considering the costs for an initial UiPath automation project the impact on the people and the process as well as the technology costs are part of the analysis. The on-going UiPath costs for annual subscription and the technical skills for the support of automations will be factors in year 2 of operation when the initial automation development costs paid in year 1 will not re-occur.
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