{ "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": "UiPath scores 68.2 (B) on agent readiness against AutoIt's 46.3 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. AutoIt leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "uipath", "name": "UiPath", "vendor": "UiPath", "vendorUrl": "https://www.uipath.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "desktop-automation", "summary": "UiPath is a robotic process automation platform whose hosted Orchestrator runs robots that operate desktop, web and Windows applications. Outside agents start and monitor jobs through the Orchestrator API or folder-scoped MCP servers in Automation Cloud.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/uipath", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/uipath.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/uipath.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/uipath.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the UiPath Master Software and Services Agreement, the Community Agreement for the free plan", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://cloud.uipath.com/{org}/{tenant}/agenthub_/mcp/{folderKey}/{slug}", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "uipath" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 throughout. MCP servers take a bearer token on every request from four sources. The MCP OAuth flow (authorisation server discovery, Client ID Metadata Documents or dynamic client registration, tokens bound to one server by RFC 8707 resource indicators, gated by an AI Trust Layer policy that is off unless an administrator enables it). Personal access tokens with chosen Orchestrator scopes and a lifetime of up to one year. External applications using client credentials (the only unattended route) or user scopes with PKCE. Interactive login through `uipath auth`, with one-hour tokens. The caller needs `MCPServers.View` in the folder, and Coded and Command servers also need `Jobs.Create`. Access is the intersection of token scopes and folder roles.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The Community plan is free with no time limit, by direct sign-up, with one tenant, one Pro and one Plus user, one Unattended Robot and a monthly Credits pool. Basic starts at $25 a month with two robots and limited agent calls, hosted in Europe. Standard (60-day free trial) and Enterprise are priced by sales, and user and robot licences are sold across tiers without published prices. Whether a card is needed for Community was not stated (checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "$25 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Orchestrator API guide, the MCP server pages or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.uipath.com/orchestrator/automation-cloud/latest/user-guide/about-mcp-servers", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.uipath.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "desktop.rpa", "desktop.orchestration", "desktop.control" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "oauth", "enterprise", "odata", "mcp", "python", "closed-source", "audit-log", "freemium", "llms-txt", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-12", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 237, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 25, "reliability": 62, "schema": 79, "security": 82, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Orchestrator exposes published RPA workflows, agents and API workflows as MCP tools over Streamable HTTP, with MCP OAuth, scoped PATs and an OpenAPI 3.0 API. Prices above the $25 Basic plan need a sales conversation, and the status page logged several multi-hour incidents between 10 September and 13 October 2026.", "bestFor": "An agent that needs to drive Windows desktop or legacy applications through robots a company already runs, started as MCP tools or API jobs.", "strengths": [ "Folder-scoped MCP servers turn chosen processes, agents and API workflows into tools at a URL of the form cloud.uipath.com/{org}/{tenant}/agenthub_/mcp/{folderKey}/{slug}", "MCP OAuth flow with Client ID Metadata Documents, dynamic registration and RFC 8707 resource binding, plus PATs scoped to OR.Jobs and OR.Execution", "Rate limits published per endpoint, with Retry-After and X-RateLimit-Remaining headers on 429 responses", "llms.txt index and a Markdown copy of every docs page by adding .md to the URL", "security.txt valid until 2028 pointing to a HackerOne programme, and SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 claimed for Automation Cloud" ], "weaknesses": [ "Standard and Enterprise prices are not published, and robot licences are sold through sales", "Status history shows robot job failures in Europe for over seven hours on 10 September 2026 and a certificate expiry hitting several services on 13 October 2026", "No idempotency key was found for StartJobs, and the MCP pages say nothing about readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "The OpenAPI document is served per tenant behind the Orchestrator URL, not as a public file", "Tools backed by Integration Service activities time out with PATs or client credentials and need user-context sign-in" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` on every MCP request. The `mcp-session-id` header carries no authentication", "Give a PAT both `OR.Execution` (list tools) and `OR.Jobs` (run tools), or tool listing or calls fail", "Use client credentials from an external application for unattended runs. It is the only method that needs no person at sign-in", "Add a folder header such as `X-UIPATH-FolderKey` to Orchestrator API calls on folder resources", "Read job outputs with `GET /odata/Jobs({key})`. `GET /odata/Jobs` returns InputArguments and OutputArguments as null and is limited to 100 calls a minute per tenant" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 68.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 25, "reliability": 62, "schema": 79, "security": 82, "transparency": 57 }, "provenanceScore": 94 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST \"https://cloud.uipath.com/{org}/{tenant}/agenthub_/mcp/{folderKey}/{slug}\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $UIPATH_PAT\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"initialize\",\"params\":{...},\"id\":1}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/desktop.rpa", "tool": "https://letme.dev/uipath" }, "area": "developer", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Automation Cloud Basic", "unit": "month", "usd": 25, "note": "starting price, up to 5 Basic, 5 Plus and 1 Pro user, 2 robots, limited agent calls, hosted in Europe" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "UiPath Inc.", "domain": "uipath.com", "domainRegistered": "2011-10-26", "domainNote": "API and MCP endpoints answer on cloud.uipath.com. www.uipath.com/.well-known/security.txt names security@uipath.com and https://hackerone.com/uipath and expires on 2028-06-26.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.uipath.com/legal/trust-and-security/legal-terms", "privacy": "https://www.uipath.com/legal/trust-and-security/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.uipath.com", "changelog": "https://docs.uipath.com/orchestrator/automation-cloud/latest/release-notes/october-2026", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The legal terms page says paid products fall under the UiPath Master Software and Services Agreement signed with each customer, the Community plan under the Community Agreement (updated 27 July 2026) and trials and previews under the Master Evaluation Agreement (updated 12 June 2026). The MSSA itself is not public.", "The same page lists the privacy policy's last update as 30 November 2018. A Data Processing Agreement is published as a download, which we did not read.", "The legal entities named are UiPath SRL, Bucharest, and UiPath Inc., One Vanderbilt Ave., New York.", "status.uipath.com is an Atlassian Statuspage. Its robots.txt disallows /api/, so incident history was read from /history.rss.", "RDAP for uipath.com gives a registration date of 2011-10-26." ], "score": 94 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/uipath.json", "live": { "slug": "uipath", "probe": { "target": "https://cloud.uipath.com/{org}/{tenant}/agenthub_/mcp/{folderKey}/{slug}", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T09:42:11.862232308Z", "lastOk": false, "lastStatus": 500, "lastMs": 81, "lastNote": "server error", "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": "2026-10-14T08:08:01.334877924Z", "end": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "note": "HTTP 500 server error" } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.uipath.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T09:39:45.309729146Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T09:42:11.862232308Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "SDK + MCP", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "AutoIt Consulting", "b": "UiPath", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://cloud.uipath.com/{org}/{tenant}/agenthub_/mcp/{folderKey}/{slug}", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "OAuth", "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 the UiPath Master Software and Services Agreement, the Community Agreement for the free plan", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2025-09-07", "b": "2026-10-12", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no date given", "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": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "UiPath scores 68.2 (B) on agent readiness against AutoIt's 46.3 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. AutoIt leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, AutoIt or UiPath?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for AutoIt. UiPath has a hosted endpoint at https://cloud.uipath.com/{org}/{tenant}/agenthub_/mcp/{folderKey}/{slug}.", "question": "Can an agent call AutoIt and UiPath without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25" ], "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": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 79 against 52", "Agent ergonomics, 73 against 51", "Security \u0026 auth, 82 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 20", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 57" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "An agent that needs to drive Windows desktop or legacy applications through robots a company already runs, started as MCP tools or API jobs.", "slug": "uipath", "watchFor": "Standard and Enterprise prices are not published, and robot licences are sold through sales" } ], "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-uipath.json", "title": "AutoHotkey vs UiPath", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autohotkey-vs-uipath" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-automation-anywhere.json", "title": "AutoIt vs Automation Anywhere", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-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/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/robocorp-vs-uipath.json", "title": "Robocorp vs UiPath", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/robocorp-vs-uipath" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/robot-framework-vs-uipath.json", "title": "Robot Framework vs UiPath", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/robot-framework-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, "by": 3, "edge": "uipath", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "uipath": 62, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "autoit": 52, "by": 27, "edge": "uipath", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "uipath": 79, "weight": 13 }, { "autoit": 51, "by": 22, "edge": "uipath", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "uipath": 73, "weight": 13 }, { "autoit": 20, "by": 62, "edge": "uipath", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "uipath": 82, "weight": 14 }, { "autoit": 60, "by": 35, "edge": "autoit", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "uipath": 25, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "autoit": 20, "by": 60, "edge": "uipath", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "uipath": 80, "weight": 7 }, { "autoit": 57, "by": 19, "edge": "uipath", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "uipath": 76, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "UiPath scores 68.2 (B) on agent readiness against AutoIt's 46.3 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. AutoIt leads on 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.", "uipath": "Orchestrator exposes published RPA workflows, agents and API workflows as MCP tools over Streamable HTTP, with MCP OAuth, scoped PATs and an OpenAPI 3.0 API. Prices above the $25 Basic plan need a sales conversation, and the status page logged several multi-hour incidents between 10 September and 13 October 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-uipath", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-uipath.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-uipath.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-uipath.min.md" }, "markdown": "UiPath scores 68.2 (B) on agent readiness against AutoIt's 46.3 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. AutoIt leads on 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- UiPath: grade B, 68.2/100, rank #237 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/uipath.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/uipath.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- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25\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### UiPath (B)\n\nGood for: An agent that needs to drive Windows desktop or legacy applications through robots a company already runs, started as MCP tools or API jobs.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 79 against 52\n- Agent ergonomics, 73 against 51\n- Security \u0026 auth, 82 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 20\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 57\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Standard and Enterprise prices are not published, and robot licences are sold through sales\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | AutoIt | UiPath | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 59 | 62 | UiPath +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 52 | 79 | UiPath +27 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 51 | 73 | UiPath +22 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 20 | 82 | UiPath +62 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 25 | AutoIt +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 20 | 80 | UiPath +60 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 76 | UiPath +19 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **46.3 · D** | **68.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | AutoIt | UiPath |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | AutoIt Consulting | UiPath |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://cloud.uipath.com/{org}/{tenant}/agenthub_/mcp/{folderKey}/{slug}` |\n| Transports | | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Freeware under the AutoIt end-user licence agreement, source not published | Proprietary service under the UiPath Master Software and Services Agreement, the Community Agreement for the free plan |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2025-09-07 | 2026-10-12 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\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**UiPath.** Orchestrator exposes published RPA workflows, agents and API workflows as MCP tools over Streamable HTTP, with MCP OAuth, scoped PATs and an OpenAPI 3.0 API. Prices above the $25 Basic plan need a sales conversation, and the status page logged several multi-hour incidents between 10 September and 13 October 2026.\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### UiPath\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` on every MCP request. The `mcp-session-id` header carries no authentication\n2. Give a PAT both `OR.Execution` (list tools) and `OR.Jobs` (run tools), or tool listing or calls fail\n3. Use client credentials from an external application for unattended runs. It is the only method that needs no person at sign-in\n4. Add a folder header such as `X-UIPATH-FolderKey` to Orchestrator API calls on folder resources\n5. Read job outputs with `GET /odata/Jobs({key})`. `GET /odata/Jobs` returns InputArguments and OutputArguments as null and is limited to 100 calls a minute per tenant\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, AutoIt or UiPath?\n\nUiPath scores 68.2 (B) on agent readiness against AutoIt's 46.3 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. AutoIt leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Can an agent call AutoIt and UiPath without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for AutoIt. UiPath has a hosted endpoint at https://cloud.uipath.com/{org}/{tenant}/agenthub_/mcp/{folderKey}/{slug}.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-uipath.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-uipath.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"autoit\", \"b\": \"uipath\"}`. 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