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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. 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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. 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Its keyword libraries reach browsers, desktop applications and mobile apps.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robot-framework", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robot-framework.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robot-framework.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/robot-framework.json", "repo": "https://github.com/robotframework/robotframework", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "robotframework" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account or key. The framework runs on the owner's machine. Credentials for the systems a suite touches come from variables, variable files or environment variables the owner supplies, and each library handles its own logins.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and open source under Apache-2.0, with nothing to buy and no hosted service from the foundation. Companies fund it through foundation membership (checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "library", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the source, the User Guide or robotframework.org (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 11939, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 775658, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html", "llmsTxt": "https://robotframework.org/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "desktop.scripting", "desktop.rpa", "mobile.control" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "cli", "python", "free", "no-card", "testing", "rpa", "llms-txt", "json-output" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 76.4, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 35, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 60, "reliability": 95, "schema": 86, "security": 50, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A stable 7.5 release, passing unit and acceptance tests, JSON schemas for results and library docs, and an llms.txt make it a dependable base for agent-written automation. Desktop and mobile control come from separate community libraries, there is no official MCP server, and no security policy or security.txt was found.", "bestFor": "Agents that write or run keyword-driven test and RPA suites across web, desktop and mobile through libraries.", "strengths": [ "Version 7.5 of 14 September 2026, marked Production/Stable on PyPI, with Python 3.8 to 3.15 listed", "Unit and acceptance test workflows on CPython and PyPy passed on master on 6 October 2026", "JSON schemas for run results, executable suites and Libdoc library specs are published in doc/schema", "robotframework.org serves llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a raw Markdown copy of each page", "Release notes have separate sections for backwards incompatible changes and deprecated functionality" ], "weaknesses": [ "Desktop and mobile control depend on separate libraries, such as AppiumLibrary and AutoItLibrary, maintained outside the core project", "No official MCP server. MCP servers for Robot Framework found on PyPI and Glama are community projects", "No SECURITY.md, no security.txt on robotframework.org and no published repository advisories", "robotframework.org still showed version 7.4.2 on 14 October 2026, a month after 7.5 shipped" ], "agentNotes": [ "Install with `pip install robotframework` and check with `robot --version`. Add the library for the target app, such as AppiumLibrary, separately", "Read the exit code. 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It names Google Analytics and keeps analytics data for 50 months.", "COPYRIGHT.txt reads Copyright 2008 to 2015 Nokia Networks and 2016 onwards Robot Framework Foundation." ], "score": 74 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robot-framework.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "Agent framework", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Automation Anywhere", "b": "Robot Framework Foundation", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://\u003ccontrol-room\u003e/mcp", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Automation Anywhere's customer agreement and product-specific terms", "b": "Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "3", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-07", "b": "2026-09-14", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2018-11-05", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-04-01", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "12k stars, 776k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Robot Framework scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Automation Anywhere's 50.9 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Automation Anywhere leads on security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Automation Anywhere or Robot Framework?" }, { "answer": "Automation Anywhere has a hosted endpoint at https://\u003ccontrol-room\u003e/mcp. No hosted endpoint is listed for Robot Framework.", "question": "Can an agent call Automation Anywhere and Robot Framework without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Automation Anywhere. Robot Framework is open source (Apache-2.0).", "question": "Are Automation Anywhere and Robot Framework open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 50" ], "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" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 95 against 35", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 86 against 55", "Agent ergonomics, 78 against 60", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 15", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 90 against 66" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "No key needed to call it", "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Agents that write or run keyword-driven test and RPA suites across web, desktop and mobile through libraries.", "slug": "robot-framework", "watchFor": "Desktop and mobile control depend on separate libraries, such as AppiumLibrary and AutoItLibrary, maintained outside the core project" } ], "job": { "capability": "desktop.rpa", "name": "Robotic process automation" }, "others": [ { "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-automation-anywhere.json", "title": "AutoIt vs Automation Anywhere", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-automation-anywhere" }, { "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-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-robot-framework.json", "title": "Robocorp vs Robot Framework", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/robocorp-vs-robot-framework" }, { "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/autohotkey-vs-robot-framework.json", "title": "AutoHotkey vs Robot Framework", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autohotkey-vs-robot-framework" }, { "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": [ { "automation-anywhere": 35, "by": 60, "edge": "robot-framework", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "robot-framework": 95, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "automation-anywhere": 55, "by": 31, "edge": "robot-framework", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "robot-framework": 86, "weight": 13 }, { "automation-anywhere": 60, "by": 18, "edge": "robot-framework", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "robot-framework": 78, "weight": 13 }, { "automation-anywhere": 64, "by": 14, "edge": "automation-anywhere", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "robot-framework": 50, "weight": 14 }, { "automation-anywhere": 15, "by": 45, "edge": "robot-framework", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "robot-framework": 60, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "automation-anywhere": 66, "by": 24, "edge": "robot-framework", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "robot-framework": 90, "weight": 7 }, { "automation-anywhere": 73, "by": 3, "edge": "robot-framework", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "robot-framework": 76, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Robot Framework scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Automation Anywhere's 50.9 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Automation Anywhere leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do robotic process automation.", "verdicts": { "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.", "robot-framework": "A stable 7.5 release, passing unit and acceptance tests, JSON schemas for results and library docs, and an llms.txt make it a dependable base for agent-written automation. Desktop and mobile control come from separate community libraries, there is no official MCP server, and no security policy or security.txt was found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robot-framework", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robot-framework.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robot-framework.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robot-framework.min.md" }, "markdown": "Robot Framework scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Automation Anywhere's 50.9 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Automation Anywhere leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do robotic process automation.\n\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- Robot Framework: grade BB, 76.4/100, rank #35 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robot-framework.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/robot-framework.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### 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- Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 50\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### Robot Framework (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents that write or run keyword-driven test and RPA suites across web, desktop and mobile through libraries.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 95 against 35\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 86 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 60\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 15\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 90 against 66\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- No key needed to call it\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Desktop and mobile control depend on separate libraries, such as AppiumLibrary and AutoItLibrary, maintained outside the core project\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Automation Anywhere | Robot Framework | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 95 | Robot Framework +60 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 86 | Robot Framework +31 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 78 | Robot Framework +18 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 50 | Automation Anywhere +14 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 15 | 60 | Robot Framework +45 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 66 | 90 | Robot Framework +24 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 76 | Robot Framework +3 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **50.9 · D** | **76.4 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Automation Anywhere | Robot Framework |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Agent framework |\n| Vendor | Automation Anywhere | Robot Framework Foundation |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://\u003ccontrol-room\u003e/mcp` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Automation Anywhere's customer agreement and product-specific terms | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 3 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-14 |\n| Terms last updated | 2018-11-05 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-01 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Popularity | none | 12k stars, 776k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\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**Robot Framework.** A stable 7.5 release, passing unit and acceptance tests, JSON schemas for results and library docs, and an llms.txt make it a dependable base for agent-written automation. Desktop and mobile control come from separate community libraries, there is no official MCP server, and no security policy or security.txt was found.\n\n## Before you call either\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### Robot Framework\n\n1. Install with `pip install robotframework` and check with `robot --version`. Add the library for the target app, such as AppiumLibrary, separately\n2. Read the exit code. It is the number of failed tests or tasks up to 250, and 252, 253 or 255 mean bad input, a user stop or an internal error\n3. Use `--dryrun` to validate a suite without running keywords, and `--rerunfailed output.xml` to repeat only failures\n4. Convert results with `rebot --output output.json output.xml` for JSON that matches doc/schema/result.json\n5. Keep secrets out of keyword arguments, because log.html records arguments unless keywords are removed with `--removekeywords`\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Automation Anywhere or Robot Framework?\n\nRobot Framework scores 76.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Automation Anywhere's 50.9 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Automation Anywhere leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Can an agent call Automation Anywhere and Robot Framework without installing anything?\n\nAutomation Anywhere has a hosted endpoint at https://\u003ccontrol-room\u003e/mcp. No hosted endpoint is listed for Robot Framework.\n\n### Are Automation Anywhere and Robot Framework open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Automation Anywhere. Robot Framework is open source (Apache-2.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robot-framework.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robot-framework.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"automation-anywhere\", \"b\": \"robot-framework\"}`. 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