Leave Power Automate. Keep the flows.
Premium connectors, per-bot unattended RPA add-ons, and AI Builder credits turn a cheap-looking license into a stepped bill. We rebuild your cloud and desktop flows on infrastructure you own.
3-year savings (20 bots)
$168,000
vs Power Automate effective $4K/bot/yr
Why teams leave Power Automate
The four reasons we hear most often.
Reason 01
Premium connector + per-flow licensing
The moment a flow touches a premium connector (HTTP, SQL, most real systems), you're into per-user or per-flow Premium pricing. The free-looking tier rarely survives contact with production.
Reason 02
Unattended RPA add-on per bot
Power Automate Desktop unattended bots are a ~$150/bot/mo add-on on top of Premium. Effective per-bot cost lands near $4K/yr once you add hosted machines and AI Builder.
Reason 03
AI Builder credits
Document processing, prediction, and GPT actions consume AI Builder credit packs. Heavy use means a credit line item that refills monthly.
Reason 04
Tenant lock-in + opaque limits
Flows, connections, and DLP policies live in your Microsoft tenant with throttling and API-call limits that are hard to predict until you hit them.
The math
What Power Automate actually costs.
Public list pricing plus the add-ons most teams end up buying. Implementation and admin overhead extra.
| Line item | Cost |
|---|---|
Power Automate Premium | $15 / user / mo |
Unattended RPA add-on | $150 / bot / mo |
Hosted process / machine each | $215 / mo |
AI Builder credits | $500 / mo / pack |
| Real all-in | ~$4,200 effective per bot / yr, all-in |
What we migrate
Every record.
Every field.
Specifically, from Microsoft Power Automate. Nothing is left behind to "migrate later."
- Cloud flows (triggers, actions, connections)
- Desktop flows (Power Automate Desktop / UI automation)
- Premium + custom connector logic
- AI Builder models (doc processing, prediction)
- Environment variables and connection references
- Approvals and Teams/Outlook integrations
- Dataverse-backed tables where used
Our recommendation
Replace Power Automate with n8n (open source).
n8n is the closest open-source match to Power Automate's connect-the-apps model: a visual workflow builder with 400+ integrations, webhooks, and code steps — self-hosted, no premium-connector tax, no per-flow license. Desktop/UI flows we rebuild with Playwright; document AI runs on your own model keys. You keep the Microsoft 365 integrations via Graph API.
Not the right fit?
We also build fully bespoke automations, deploy Robot Framework / n8n / Temporal to other estates, and integrate with whatever you're keeping. The audit covers the choice.
Power Automate migration FAQ
Specific to Power Automate.
Other questions? Email us — that's a real address.
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