{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "autoit", "name": "AutoIt", "vendor": "AutoIt Consulting", "vendorUrl": "https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/", "kind": "sdk", "category": "desktop-automation", "summary": "AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language for automating the Windows GUI with simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window and control manipulation. Agents run scripts through `AutoIt3.exe`, and AutoItX exposes the same functions through a DLL and COM control.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autoit", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autoit.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autoit.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/autoit.json", "license": "Freeware under the AutoIt end-user licence agreement, source not published", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account, key or credential. Scripts and AutoItX calls run with the rights of the Windows user who starts them.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Freeware with nothing to buy. The licence allows unlimited installation, redistribution and commercial use, and forbids reverse engineering (checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the AutoIt overview, downloads or documentation pages (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/", "capabilities": [ "desktop.control", "desktop.scripting" ], "tags": [ "local", "windows", "cli", "scripting", "free", "no-auth", "closed-source", "com" ], "lastRelease": "2025-09-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 46.3, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 913, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 51, "maintenance": 20, "payments": 60, "reliability": 59, "schema": 52, "security": 20, "transparency": 57 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "An agent can run AutoIt scripts or single lines from the command line, or call AutoItX from C# or PowerShell, with each function's return values and `@error` codes documented. The source is closed, the last release was 7 September 2025, and scripts act with the full rights of the Windows user.", "bestFor": "An agent automating Windows desktop apps on one machine, and AutoItX lets C# or PowerShell code call the same functions.", "strengths": [ "`/AutoIt3ExecuteLine` runs one line of code without a script file", "AutoItX exposes the functions through a DLL and COM control with a C# assembly and PowerShell cmdlets", "Each function page documents return values and `@error` codes, with an example", "A script-breaking changes page lists what each release breaks", "Free for unlimited and commercial use with no account" ], "weaknesses": [ "Closed source under a licence that forbids reverse engineering", "Last release 3.3.18.0 on 7 September 2025, three years after 3.3.16.1", "Windows only, and scripts act with every right of the user who runs them", "No security policy or security.txt was found, and no public CI or tests", "114 active tickets on the bug tracker, some open for years" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pass `/ErrorStdOut` so a fatal error reaches stdout instead of a dialog", "Use `ConsoleWrite` for output an agent can capture, since `MsgBox` blocks an unattended run", "Check `@error` after each call. Functions report failure there, not by raising", "Install the official package from autoitscript.com. NuGet copies of AutoItX are third-party repackages" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 46.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 51, "maintenance": 20, "payments": 60, "reliability": 59, "schema": 52, "security": 20, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 69 }, "connect": { "headless": { "line": "AutoIt3.exe /ErrorStdOut /AutoIt3ExecuteLine \"ConsoleWrite(WinGetTitle('[ACTIVE]'))\"", "run": "AutoIt3.exe /ErrorStdOut script.au3 param1 param2" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/desktop.control", "tool": "https://letme.dev/autoit" }, "area": "developer", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "AutoIt Consulting Ltd", "domain": "autoitscript.com", "domainRegistered": "2004-05-05", "domainNote": "The site footer reads Copyright 2026 AutoIt Consulting Ltd, and the privacy policy says AutoIt Consulting is owned and operated by AutoIt Consulting Ltd. RDAP for autoitscript.com gives a registration date of 2004-05-05.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.autoitscript.com/site/about/terms-and-conditions/", "privacy": "https://www.autoitscript.com/site/about/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/history.htm", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The terms and the privacy policy cover the websites autoitscript.com and autoitconsulting.com. The software is governed by its end-user licence agreement at https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/license.htm.", "The privacy policy names Google and DoubleClick advertising and analytics on the website. It does not address the software.", "www.autoitscript.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 14 October 2026.", "robots.txt disallows /autoit3/files/, which holds downloads and betas. One request to that path was made by mistake during this check, its response was discarded unread, and no fact here comes from it." ], "score": 69 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autoit.json" }, "answer": "Automation Anywhere scores 50.9 (D) on agent readiness against AutoIt's 46.3 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. AutoIt leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "automation-anywhere", "name": "Automation Anywhere", "vendor": "Automation Anywhere", "vendorUrl": "https://www.automationanywhere.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "desktop-automation", "summary": "Automation Anywhere's Automation 360 is a cloud robotic process automation platform whose Control Room deploys bots that operate desktop and web applications. 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An administrator registers OAuth services in Settings, creates an OAuth client (regular web or single-page application) under Manage \u003e OAuth client, and enters the client ID, secret and URLs in the MCP client by hand, adding the client's redirect URL afterwards. Users sign in through the Control Room's OIDC or SAML identity provider, and RBAC decides which automations they can discover and run.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Community Edition is free with no credit card required, for students, developers and small businesses under the stated limits. Paid Automation 360 Cloud plans have no published prices on automationanywhere.com, and the A+ Tokens and Accelerators terms refer to order forms. Whether Community Edition includes Control Room API or MCP inbound access was not stated (checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Control Room API pages, the MCP inbound pages or the product-specific terms (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 3, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.automationanywhere.com/r/control-room-apis", "llmsTxt": "https://www.automationanywhere.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "desktop.rpa", "desktop.orchestration", "desktop.control" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "oauth", "enterprise", "mcp", "closed-source", "audit-log", "freemium" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 50.9, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 815, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 66, "payments": 15, "reliability": 35, "schema": 55, "security": 64, "transparency": 73 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The Control Room's /mcp endpoint gives an MCP client three standard tools to discover, run and read automations under RBAC, with each run in the audit log. No API rate limits, error catalogue, SLA or prices were found in public pages, and DiscoverAutomation and RunAutomation need an Enterprise licence with the Process Reasoning Engine in the US or Europe.", "bestFor": "A company already running Automation 360 bots that wants an assistant such as Copilot or Claude to find and start them.", "strengths": [ "MCP inbound at https://\u003ccontrol-room\u003e/mcp with DiscoverAutomation, RunAutomation, GetAutomationResult and custom inbound tools with typed input and output variables", "Each run started through MCP is logged as device acquired, bot sent, deployed and finished in the Control Room audit log", "Written API deprecation policy, with at least two years of support and at least a year's notice before end of life", "Filtering, sorting and pagination documented for list endpoints, with Swagger on every Control Room at /swagger/", "Community Edition is free with no credit card required" ], "weaknesses": [ "No API rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the public Control Room API pages", "The published response code table lists only generic HTTP statuses, with no error bodies", "DiscoverAutomation and RunAutomation need an Enterprise licence with the Process Reasoning Engine, supported in the US and Europe only", "Cloud prices are not published and no SLA was found in the product-specific terms", "MCP OAuth requires manual client setup in the Control Room and supports only the Manual OAuth type in the client" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call DiscoverAutomation with a specific query such as `Discover automations to create invoice in SAP`. It returns at most nine matches", "Keep the job ID from RunAutomation and poll GetAutomationResult until the status leaves Running/InProgress", "Send either `X-Authorization` with a token from the Authentication API or `Authorization: Bearer` from OAuth, never both in one request", "Match the case of every JSON parameter name. The Control Room API treats names as case-sensitive", "Use the v4 WLM endpoints. Eight v3 WLM endpoints were deprecated in v.43 and end with v.46" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 50.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 66, "payments": 15, "reliability": 35, "schema": 55, "security": 64, "transparency": 59 }, "provenanceScore": 86 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/desktop.rpa", "tool": "https://letme.dev/automation-anywhere" }, "area": "developer", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Automation Anywhere, Inc.", "domain": "automationanywhere.com", "domainRegistered": "2006-02-15", "domainNote": "Cloud Control Rooms answer on customer subdomains of automationanywhere.digital, for example https://abc-prod-automationanywhere.digital per the MCP docs. www.automationanywhere.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.automationanywhere.com/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://www.automationanywhere.com/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.automationanywhere.digital", "changelog": "https://docs.automationanywhere.com/r/automation-360/cloud-release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The terms link is the website terms, last modified 5 November 2018. Customer use is governed by the Intelligent Automation Agreement and product-specific terms at /legal/intelligent-automation-agreement and /legal/product-specific-terms.", "The privacy policy was last modified on 1 April 2026.", "The vulnerability disclosure policy sends reports to disclosure@automationanywhere.com, promises a response within five business days and allows monetary compensation at the company's discretion.", "The status site is a Site24x7 StatusIQ page. Incident entries were readable but their dates were not in the page we received.", "RDAP for automationanywhere.com gives a registration date of 2006-02-15." ], "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/automation-anywhere.json", "live": { "slug": "automation-anywhere", "probe": { "target": "https://\u003ccontrol-room\u003e/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T09:41:42.22842587Z", "lastOk": false, "lastStatus": 0, "lastMs": 0, "lastNote": "DNS lookup failed", "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 0, "uptime30d": 0, "p50ms24h": 0, "p95ms24h": 0, "samples24h": 17, "samples30d": 17, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 17, "ok": 0 } ], "outages": [ { "start": "2026-10-14T08:07:20.705930222Z", "end": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "note": "DNS lookup failed" } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.automationanywhere.digital", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T08:52:44.216279023Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T09:41:42.22842587Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "SDK + MCP", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "AutoIt Consulting", "b": "Automation Anywhere", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://\u003ccontrol-room\u003e/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Freeware under the AutoIt end-user licence agreement, source not published", "b": "Proprietary service under Automation Anywhere's customer agreement and product-specific terms", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2025-09-07", "b": "2026-10-07", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2018-11-05", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-04-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Automation Anywhere scores 50.9 (D) on agent readiness against AutoIt's 46.3 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. AutoIt leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, AutoIt or Automation Anywhere?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for AutoIt. Automation Anywhere has a hosted endpoint at https://\u003ccontrol-room\u003e/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call AutoIt and Automation Anywhere without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 59 against 35", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 15" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it" ], "goodFor": "An agent automating Windows desktop apps on one machine, and AutoItX lets C# or PowerShell code call the same functions.", "slug": "autoit", "watchFor": "Closed source under a licence that forbids reverse engineering" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 60 against 51", "Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 66 against 20", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 57" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "A company already running Automation 360 bots that wants an assistant such as Copilot or Claude to find and start them.", "slug": "automation-anywhere", "watchFor": "No API rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the public Control Room API pages" } ], "job": { "capability": "desktop.control", "name": "Desktop app control" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autohotkey-vs-autoit.json", "title": "AutoHotkey vs AutoIt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autohotkey-vs-autoit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autohotkey-vs-automation-anywhere.json", "title": "AutoHotkey vs Automation Anywhere", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autohotkey-vs-automation-anywhere" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-robocorp.json", "title": "AutoIt vs Robocorp", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-robocorp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-uipath.json", "title": "AutoIt vs UiPath", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-uipath" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robocorp.json", "title": "Automation Anywhere vs Robocorp", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robocorp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robot-framework.json", "title": "Automation Anywhere vs Robot Framework", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robot-framework" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-uipath.json", "title": "Automation Anywhere vs UiPath", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-uipath" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-robot-framework.json", "title": "AutoIt vs Robot Framework", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-robot-framework" } ], "scores": [ { "autoit": 59, "automation-anywhere": 35, "by": 24, "edge": "autoit", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "autoit": 52, "automation-anywhere": 55, "by": 3, "edge": "automation-anywhere", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "autoit": 51, "automation-anywhere": 60, "by": 9, "edge": "automation-anywhere", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "autoit": 20, "automation-anywhere": 64, "by": 44, "edge": "automation-anywhere", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "autoit": 60, "automation-anywhere": 15, "by": 45, "edge": "autoit", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "autoit": 20, "automation-anywhere": 66, "by": 46, "edge": "automation-anywhere", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "autoit": 57, "automation-anywhere": 73, "by": 16, "edge": "automation-anywhere", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Automation Anywhere scores 50.9 (D) on agent readiness against AutoIt's 46.3 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. AutoIt leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do desktop app control.", "verdicts": { "autoit": "An agent can run AutoIt scripts or single lines from the command line, or call AutoItX from C# or PowerShell, with each function's return values and `@error` codes documented. The source is closed, the last release was 7 September 2025, and scripts act with the full rights of the Windows user.", "automation-anywhere": "The Control Room's /mcp endpoint gives an MCP client three standard tools to discover, run and read automations under RBAC, with each run in the audit log. No API rate limits, error catalogue, SLA or prices were found in public pages, and DiscoverAutomation and RunAutomation need an Enterprise licence with the Process Reasoning Engine in the US or Europe." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-automation-anywhere", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-automation-anywhere.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-automation-anywhere.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-automation-anywhere.min.md" }, "markdown": "Automation Anywhere scores 50.9 (D) on agent readiness against AutoIt's 46.3 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. AutoIt leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do desktop app control.\n\n- AutoIt: grade D, 46.3/100, rank #913 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autoit.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/autoit.json\n- Automation Anywhere: grade D, 50.9/100, rank #815 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/automation-anywhere.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/automation-anywhere.json\n- Best desktop and mobile app automation for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/desktop-automation/index.md\n- All 15 desktop comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/desktop-automation/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### AutoIt (D)\n\nGood for: An agent automating Windows desktop apps on one machine, and AutoItX lets C# or PowerShell code call the same functions.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 59 against 35\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 15\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n\nWatch for: Closed source under a licence that forbids reverse engineering\n\n### Automation Anywhere (D)\n\nGood for: A company already running Automation 360 bots that wants an assistant such as Copilot or Claude to find and start them.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 60 against 51\n- Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 66 against 20\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 57\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No API rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the public Control Room API pages\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | AutoIt | Automation Anywhere | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 59 | 35 | AutoIt +24 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 52 | 55 | Automation Anywhere +3 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 51 | 60 | Automation Anywhere +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 20 | 64 | Automation Anywhere +44 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 15 | AutoIt +45 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 20 | 66 | Automation Anywhere +46 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 73 | Automation Anywhere +16 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **46.3 · D** | **50.9 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | AutoIt | Automation Anywhere |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | AutoIt Consulting | Automation Anywhere |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://\u003ccontrol-room\u003e/mcp` |\n| Transports | | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Freeware under the AutoIt end-user licence agreement, source not published | Proprietary service under Automation Anywhere's customer agreement and product-specific terms |\n| Tools exposed | none | 3 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2025-09-07 | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2018-11-05 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-04-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**AutoIt.** An agent can run AutoIt scripts or single lines from the command line, or call AutoItX from C# or PowerShell, with each function's return values and `@error` codes documented. The source is closed, the last release was 7 September 2025, and scripts act with the full rights of the Windows user.\n\n**Automation Anywhere.** The Control Room's /mcp endpoint gives an MCP client three standard tools to discover, run and read automations under RBAC, with each run in the audit log. No API rate limits, error catalogue, SLA or prices were found in public pages, and DiscoverAutomation and RunAutomation need an Enterprise licence with the Process Reasoning Engine in the US or Europe.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### AutoIt\n\n1. Pass `/ErrorStdOut` so a fatal error reaches stdout instead of a dialog\n2. Use `ConsoleWrite` for output an agent can capture, since `MsgBox` blocks an unattended run\n3. Check `@error` after each call. Functions report failure there, not by raising\n4. Install the official package from autoitscript.com. NuGet copies of AutoItX are third-party repackages\n\n### Automation Anywhere\n\n1. Call DiscoverAutomation with a specific query such as `Discover automations to create invoice in SAP`. It returns at most nine matches\n2. Keep the job ID from RunAutomation and poll GetAutomationResult until the status leaves Running/InProgress\n3. Send either `X-Authorization` with a token from the Authentication API or `Authorization: Bearer` from OAuth, never both in one request\n4. Match the case of every JSON parameter name. The Control Room API treats names as case-sensitive\n5. Use the v4 WLM endpoints. Eight v3 WLM endpoints were deprecated in v.43 and end with v.46\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, AutoIt or Automation Anywhere?\n\nAutomation Anywhere scores 50.9 (D) on agent readiness against AutoIt's 46.3 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. AutoIt leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Can an agent call AutoIt and Automation Anywhere without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for AutoIt. 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