MuleSoft Anypoint Platform vs. UiPath Automation Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Anypoint Platform
Score 8.1 out of 10
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The Anypoint Platform developed by MuleSoft and acquired by Salesforce in early 2018 is designed to connect apps, data, and devices anywhere, on-premises or in the cloud. This platform was built to offer out-of-the-box connectors as well as tools that architects and developers can adopt quickly to design, build and manage the entire lifecycle of their APIs, applications, and products.N/A
UiPath Automation Platform
Score 8.5 out of 10
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UiPath's agentic platform combines the company's Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution for automating repetitive tasks with agentic automation. By unifying agentic AI, automation, BPM, and process intelligence, the platform gives organizations control to design, run, and optimize new agentic processes.
$25
per month 1 user, 1 basic platform tier
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Automation Cloud Basic
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Anypoint Platform
Chose Anypoint Platform
Low-Code platform, AI integrations, Billing logic compared to Boomi and other tools are few points. We have validated our few business scenarios and observed huge performance difference which in turn gave us confidence to go ahead with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. The …
Chose Anypoint Platform
In this domain, this is the first one that I’ve been a part of.
Chose Anypoint Platform
I’ve also used IBM ACE. MuleSoft is a very versatile integration platform, and it also comes with a variety of automation tools. As a package, it’s one of the best options because all those functionalities are included as part of the license.
Chose Anypoint Platform
I’ve used a lot of other integration tools, and in comparison, Salesforce performs quite well. Since this platform is also integrated within Salesforce — and we use Salesforce heavily — it manages and functions very effectively.
Chose Anypoint Platform
AWS is a very good tool but still evolving and offers a small set of API management features. The main reason why we chose MuleSoft Anypoint Platform API Manager is because it is well suited with the APIs developed in Mule ESB.
Chose Anypoint Platform
Mulesoft is a more modern, flexible, and faster-performing integration suite than traditional providers.
Chose Anypoint Platform
Once we have moved all of our system integration APIs to the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, we will need to communicate with a wide variety of external systems. All of our business and service logic is stored in the aforementioned core systems. Anypoint Platform (and all of our …
Chose Anypoint Platform
Overall a better experience in pricing negotiation with the Sales team. The breadth of services offered by Mulesoft was really important and the expertise offered by our consulting partner influenced the decision. The overall deployment was completed well within the timelines. …
Chose Anypoint Platform
Once we use [MuleSoft] Anypoint Platform to host all our system integration APIS, we need to exchange data with a lot of different resources. Those listed systems are our main systems that hold all business and logic behind our service. The integration from Anypoint Platform …
Chose Anypoint Platform
We selected Mulesoft for speed of implementation. We did not have the luxury of time and needed a solution that can be learned and implemented within weeks so we can take advantage of newly formed partnerships. The training that was provided to use during our pre-sales and …
Chose Anypoint Platform
We believe Anypoint Platform is best in breed and has features that match nearly any other iPaaS offering. It also allows for accomplishing much more challenging and complex integrations due to the ability to connect to nearly any system, use custom connectors, and embed …
Chose Anypoint Platform
The main problem with this software is the different connector type that is used for different protocols except for a different SAP connector. There is only one connector called SAP. It will be great if there will have a different connectors like idoc, RFC, proxy, etc.
Chose Anypoint Platform
Anypoint has tons of capabilities baked in one platform, and other competitors like Built.io or Workato may not have all those like Anypoint Exchange. However where these products shine are in usability, as it's ridiculously easy to build integrations using Built.io. I was …
Chose Anypoint Platform
Anypoint Platform is really very easy to adopt for application integration. Simple UI and easy data weave language allows user to focus on business portion only. The API management and deployment of application are hassle free. We have selected Anypoint platform because it is …
Chose Anypoint Platform
Dell Boomi is kind of similar in drag and drop implementation. However, it doesn't have as many connectors (shapes in Dell Boomi). Moreover, it also doesn't have deployment stuff on its own.

Informatica is way behind Dell Boomi and Anypoint Platform, but users are still using it …
Chose Anypoint Platform
Compared to Dell Boomi the API management suite of Mulesoft is much mature, however if its only about the integration , then i would always go for Dell Boomi, as there is no infrastructure setup that needs to be done from the developer's end.

APIGEE api management is as good as …
Chose Anypoint Platform
The main reason why we chose Anypoint API Manager is because it is well suited with the APIs developed in Mule ESB. AWS, on the other hand, is a very good tool but still evolving and offers a small set of API management features.
Chose Anypoint Platform
API led architecture focus with a decent API ecosystem for developer collaboration, policy management and declarative implementation. Batch processing, visualization, Anypoint MQ and ObjectStore leave a lot to be explored. Multiple deployment models make it worth considering.
Chose Anypoint Platform
It enables customers to expose their APIs in a very simple and fast way. It can be used by non-expert developers. It is compliant with all major connection and data representation world standard.
Chose Anypoint Platform
TIBCO BusinessWorks and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
Chose Anypoint Platform
We provide options to customers to choose from the best tools. Customers are the decision makers. Personally, because of open-source and large community base, MuleSoft is the repo in the market.
Chose Anypoint Platform
It is a powerful tool with smart intelligence. The drag and drop feature makes my work easy. The tool has great connecting support which is the best reason to use the tool on a daily basis. Powerful functionality with designing and implementing APIs. Hosted on public IP.
UiPath Automation Platform
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
The only one reason why I chose you automation on top of other automation tools because of its seamless support with.net, which actually makes it very development friendly from the point of the developer who is coming with the .net background.
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
We use UiPath along many other systems for event detection and orchestration or automation of business processes.

Among them are: Splunk, Celonis, Bizagi, Tableau.
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
The tool' interface is simple and clean, so with some exploration within the tool, it will provide the usability that was intended. Other tools can also do the same, but the interface that is clear, simple, and easy to use is the main key to why I chose this tool, and it has …
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
Ease of use: UiPath Automation Platform has a drag-and-drop interface that makes it easy to create and manage automation workflows. It also has a large community of developers who have created pre-built automation components that can be easily integrated into workflows. …
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
Robocorp is also a robotic process automation tool but employees need to know python language to work in Robocorp. Where as in UiPath the user need not to know any coding languages deeply, only needs some basic logical knowledge. Also UiPath's drag and drop functionality make …
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
Easier to use and easier to develop the processes. Cost-effective solution. Less downtime as compared with others.
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
UiPath was chosen by [my] organization because of its cost effectiveness, security, trading market feature, and services. UiPath is truly market leader. It's like, happy customer and happy service. Anyone [that] wants [to] start learning UiPath [should] first go for the academy …
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform is a more enterprise-level tool that can be used to automate heavy and complex processes.
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
Had a pre-existing relationship with UiPath so they were the obvious 1st choice
Reviews on internal/ operational efficiencies also were greater in the case of UiPath
AI/ ML, NLP were the final reasons why we went ahead with UiPath
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
It has community version to help us get familiar with the function before we can decide to go the the enterprise version
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
UiPath has become a right and solid choice for automation in our organization because of being feature-rich and it provides the workflow of automation and improved productivity. It can extract texts from documents, process images, excel automation, web automation, etc is easily …
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
Due to [easy] availability of UiPath developer training and tool availability
Also development cost is less as compared to other tool such as Bp , AA
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
As compared to other RPA Tool or solutions, UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform is very easy to use. As it has all the redefined activities like click, double click, open browser etc. which will help us to quickly automate the process and also move the process to the next level for …
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
In today's competitive era, which thrives on having more innovative RPA platforms, there is no shortage of options when trying to choose an RPA tool. When compared with automation anywhere, UiPath Studio has the upper hand, as it has more pre-built AI and ML capabilities and …
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
I have worked in many companies as an RPA developer and always with UiPath. At first, UiPath was not the leader, it competed mainly with BluePrism or others such as Automation Anywhere. Many of the companies which worked with BluePrism already has migrated to UiPath. It is the …
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
It has an easy to use interface that allows business users to create their own flows and run their own flows. Managing the flow is easier. Maintaining the flow has become easier after the recent release with cloud. The licensing has been simplified after the cloud option of …
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
Easy to use because it is drag and drop platform. If you have only a basic understanding of any programming language then it is very simple to use. UiPath works on back end and front end both. No need of a technical background. Recording is most important thing in UiPath.
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
We performed extensive research prior to the selection of UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform. We compared several leading tools according to pre-selected criteria such as ease of use, ROI, cost to implement, Infrastructure requirements, etc. UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform has …
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
Uipath is better at PDF reading and string manipulation over Blue Prism. However, debugging of codes and implementation is easier in Blue Prism. Both have the same academy to study the tool. But UiPath offers a wide variety of search results when you need help. UiPath is also …
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
UiPath supports low code/ No code that is useful in easily making process automation. UiPath robots are also quite more robust and reliable in terms of performance and provide better output in less time as compared to others. Not only this, UiPath has a widespread community …
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
In my opinion, UiPath is leading the market in RPAs by making it a fairly easy and simple to use platform. Workfusion, on the other hand, is more complex; Blue Prism is not up to date with the market. Also, getting trained in UiPath is fairly easy when compared to other tools.
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
I chose to use Uipath Enterprise RPA Paltform primarily because it is the current market leader in the RPA field. I also like UiPath because of the level of development speed, flexibility and scalability it provides that is unrivalled by other RPA tools, which are only now …
Chose UiPath Automation Platform
UiPath has a flow-diagram-based code editor, which makes it easier for a developer to debug the code. The Drag and Drop Feature of UiPath helps in reducing dependency to memorize the code syntax. Citrix Automation Capabilities in UiPath is much better compared to other tools …
Features
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Cloud Data Integration
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MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
9.5
Ratings
17% above category average
UiPath Automation Platform
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Pre-built connectors9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Connector modification9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for real-time and batch integration9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Data quality services9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Data security features9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring console9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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8.9
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Likelihood to Renew
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Usability
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Availability
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Performance
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Online Training
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Implementation Rating
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Configurability
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is best tool in the market for developing APIs with complex structures communicating with various different types of applications including web applications as well as legacy applications. Also applications including database connectivity for fetching and updating data in the DB tables. I cant think of any scenario which MuleSoft Anypoint Platform could not be used for developing the integrations.
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UiPath Enterprise RPA is one of the most advanced robotic automation solution in the market and has capabilities lot more than a regular AI tool as it also take care of your unattended data and workflows equally efficient. This can be a very appropriate and useful tool for the organizations who have to go through management of set workflows and data in their routine business needs.
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Pros
  • Provides wide range of popular connectors like salesforce, netsuite, sftp and many more. A user can easily integrate with those services using specific connector.
  • Support API development using RAML and desing tool. The platform is very good in data type classification.
  • Cloud deployment and post deployment monitoring is easy. A user can configure application worker as per need. Alert and notifications are real time.
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  • UiPath is actually easy to learn, the training material is effective and to the point. UiPath certainly has the capabilities to automate manual repetitive tasks that involve any platform, with a stronger preference for websites.
  • There is room from improvement when dealing with Excel automation, but the solution is to create Excel macros and have the robot to call it, making it a great team solution.
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Cons
  • Has more features than what we really need so we're paying for more than we use. Sort of like paying for an Abrams tank when all we really need is a Toyota Corolla.
  • Not a value product, tends to be expensive.
  • Takes a while for developers to learn to use Mulesoft Anypoint.
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  • Sometimes it is difficult to find the objects locators using UiPath especially on Legacy Platforms.
  • The licencing cost per user is higher when compared to other RPA tools available in market.
  • Non availability of maximize option in Property edit box, argument value edit box is another flaw.
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Likelihood to Renew
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This platform has so much potential and have been garnering a lot of attention by proving benefits in terms of saving operational and manpower costs. I am sure with minute efforts we were able to achieve our ROI and the same is the case with many of our customers whom we have been working around Digital Automation initiatives.
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Usability
There’s a lot of learning curve at the beginning when it comes to building the code and everything. In terms of usability, I’d say once you get used to it, it’s fine — but it’s not very easy during the initial stages.
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There are two main reasons with this rating 1. UiPath Automation Platform requires the old school type of Change Weather management, Which actually eats a lot of time to manage and roll out the recent changes. There is not something kind of CI/CD when you are developing the things With UiPath Automation Platform. 2. Very high development and maintenance cost, which actually decrease its usability.
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Reliability and Availability
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Its a cloud based platform which is easily available and used
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Performance
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It has proved and provided good performance across platforms and technologies.
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Support Rating
Anypoint Platform support is very responsive. There is also a huge knowledge base and an active online forum where answers to most questions can be found. When needed support engages the engineering group so adequate solutions or workarounds are always provided.
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UiPath RPA has an exceptional studio interface. It has been a year and so since I am using UiPath RPA. Whether it is some my personal task to scrape information & links from the Journal or find a specific character string from multiple PDF collection using OCR, UiPath RPA has made its roots to our technological ecosystem
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Online Training
I have started with MuleSoft Fundamentals course provided by MuleSoft training at start. This was sufficient to do initial learning and get onboarded. The online documentation with different Runtime versions/deprecated functions and keywords are well documented. The automated solution provided by MuleSoft Anypoint Platform to upgrade 3.0 to 4.0 gave a good head start while learning MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and working altogether with Online training and documentations
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Video material supported by text. The training has evolved a lot in the past 3 years to become more attractive. Specific training tracks exist for the different roles in RPA development, where everyone is expected to learn basic development.
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Implementation Rating
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The implementation was quick and practical
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Alternatives Considered
Once we have moved all of our system integration APIs to the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, we will need to communicate with a wide variety of external systems. All of our business and service logic is stored in the aforementioned core systems. Anypoint Platform (and all of our APIs) makes it easy to connect to various other platforms. In order to link to these many other systems, connectors and/or components are utilized, and they are simple to configure and integrate.
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Ease of use: UiPath Automation Platform has a drag-and-drop interface that makes it easy to create and manage automation workflows. It also has a large community of developers who have created pre-built automation components that can be easily integrated into workflows. EdgeVerve AssistEdge, on the other hand, has a more complex interface that may require additional training. Scalability: UiPath Automation Platform is highly scalable, which means it can handle large volumes of data and processes. EdgeVerve AssistEdge is also scalable, but may not be as robust as UiPath Automation Platform.
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Scalability
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It can be widely used across various departments regardless of platform the product,processes, use cases are build on.
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Return on Investment
  • Mulesoft can be used to provide an integration platform to a large number of systems like Salesforce, ODBC, JDBC, SAP, Mongo DB, etc.
  • An excellent option to develop microservices and real-time integrations.
  • Not as robust in handling large data volumes, Informatica is better in that respect.
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  • One of the fully automated processes required 10 minutes of work by a consultant for each ticket. This means that after 8 hours of uninterrupted work (but no one can work continuously for 8 hours) the consultant would have closed 48 tickets. The robot for the same process takes 30 seconds, so in 8 hours it works 960 tickets.
  • A robot can work 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
  • The UiPath platform is composed of a server part called Orchestrator that provides all the tools to efficiently schedule the robots.
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Screenshot of Connect any endpoints using out-of-the-box connectors, dynamic connectivity to API specifications, or by building reusable connectors with Anypoint DevKit™.Screenshot of A reporting suite that provides a real-time view of API consumption trends and operational performance. Analytics provides insight into how your API is being used and informs forward-looking design decisions.Screenshot of A platform to engage with API developers and drive adoption. Share documentation, examples and manage developer access from a single platform.