{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "motive-agents", "name": "Motive Agents", "vendor": "Motive Technologies, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://gomotive.com/products/platform/", "kind": "platform", "category": "workflow-automation", "summary": "Motive Agents are trigger-and-action automations inside Motive's fleet management platform. Fleet admins set conditions on safety, maintenance and idling data, and Agents send alerts, assign training, open work orders or have Motive's Atlas assistant call drivers.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/motive-agents", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/motive-agents.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/motive-agents.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/motive-agents.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Motive's Terms of Service (effective 7 July 2025, governed by California law, with AAA arbitration and a class action waiver for US customers). No open-source code or published package was found", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Agents are built and run in the Motive Fleet Dashboard by signed-in users. The Automations permission is given to Admin users by default and to other roles through Fleet User Permissions. No API key, OAuth scope, webhook or MCP tool for Agents was found. Motive's Public API (OAuth 2.0 or an X-Api-Key) and its hosted MCP server (OAuth, fleet admin accounts only) cover fleet data, not Agents.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Contact sales. Agents are available to existing Motive customers and the launch posts say to talk to a Motive representative. gomotive.com/pricing redirects to a contact form, and no price, add-on fee or trial for Agents was found. Training actions need a Workforce Management subscription and in-cab voice outreach needs AI Dashcam Plus.", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the launch posts, the help centre articles, the developer portal or the terms (checked 2026-10-20). Agents have no callable endpoint.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-20" }, "docsUrl": "https://helpcenter.gomotive.com/hc/en-us/articles/35740730387101-Automations", "capabilities": [ "automation.workflows" ], "tags": [ "not-for-agents", "official", "hosted", "closed-source", "sales-led", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-19", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 24.3, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1126, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1184, "categoryRank": 19, "methodology": "0.5", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 5, "maintenance": 35, "payments": 0, "reliability": 50, "schema": 7, "security": 35, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-20" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-18, -2. Motive's blog post \"Motive launches AI-powered Agents\" (dated 27 May 2026, last modified 18 October 2026) says \"Agents can be set up using guided workflows, pre-built templates, or natural language\", while the 19 October launch blog and press release list describing an Agent in plain language as \"Coming early 2027\". A current page presents a feature as available that the vendor's own launch says isn't, so the deduction is the minimum (https://gomotive.com/blog/ai-fleet-agents/, https://gomotive.com/blog/motive-launches-ai-agents/)" ], "verdict": "Agents let Motive fleet admins turn safety, maintenance and idling events into alerts, training, work orders and in-cab calls from the Fleet Dashboard, on a platform with a 99.99 per cent dashboard SLA and audited security reports. No API, webhook or MCP tool covers Agents, so an outside agent can't create, run or read them.", "bestFor": "Fleet operators already on Motive who want rules that act on telematics, safety and maintenance events without a person watching alerts.", "strengths": [ "Trigger, condition and action builder with templates for coaching, maintenance, fuel and safety, per the help centre", "Access is an Automations permission, held by Admin users by default and granted to other roles explicitly", "The hub shows who last changed each Agent, its last run and its runs in the last 30 days", "Public status page with incident history, and a 99.99 per cent monthly uptime SLA with credits for the Fleet Dashboard", "Trust centre lists SOC 2 Type II, SOC 1 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27701 and PCI DSS" ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, webhook or MCP tool an outside agent can use to create, run or read Agents", "Pricing is through sales, with no published price or trial for Agents", "A Motive page edited on 18 October says Agents can be set up in natural language, while the launch post lists that for early 2027", "Plain-language and goal-based Agents and the Motive-built library aren't available yet", "Safety events were delayed for about 17 hours on 6 and 7 October 2026, and Agents trigger on those events" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to call Motive Agents. They're built and run by people in the Motive Fleet Dashboard", "For Motive fleet data, use Motive's Public API or its MCP server instead, with the customer's admin authorisation", "Ask the fleet's Motive admin to set up or change an Agent, and describe the trigger, condition and action you need", "Expect Agents to place real calls to drivers and mark vehicles out of service, so confirm with the fleet manager before suggesting one" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.5", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 24.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 5, "maintenance": 35, "payments": 0, "reliability": 50, "schema": 7, "security": 35, "transparency": 38 }, "provenanceScore": 80 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/automation.workflows", "tool": "https://letme.dev/motive-agents" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Motive Technologies, Inc.", "domain": "gomotive.com", "domainRegistered": "2005-03-28", "domainNote": "RDAP for gomotive.com gives a registration date of 2005-03-28.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://gomotive.com/legal/terms-of-service/", "privacy": "https://gomotive.com/legal/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://status.gomotive.com/", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-20", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service are effective 7 July 2025 and keep a dated list of changes. Product data is governed by the terms and the Data Protection Addendum they incorporate.", "The privacy policy (last reviewed 15 June 2026) covers the website only and says Motive's business products are governed by the Terms of Service.", "gomotive.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The trust centre gives security@gomotive.com for reports.", "The developer portal's ReadMe changelog shows no entries, and no changelog for Agents was found." ], "score": 80 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/motive-agents.json", "live": { "slug": "motive-agents", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.gomotive.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-21T00:37:20.980462698Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://gomotive.com/legal/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-21T00:49:28.667179216Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a5ca220d0f3b" }, { "url": "https://gomotive.com/legal/terms-of-service/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-21T00:49:32.8754578Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "19015041a5cb" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-21T00:49:32.8754578Z" } }, "answer": "Microsoft Power Automate scores 62 (B) on agent readiness against Motive Agents's 24.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "power-automate", "name": "Microsoft Power Automate", "vendor": "Microsoft", "vendorUrl": "https://www.microsoft.com/power-platform/products/power-automate", "kind": "http-api", "category": "workflow-automation", "summary": "Microsoft's workflow builder for cloud flows across Microsoft 365, Dataverse and third-party connectors. Outside agents list, create, update and delete solution-aware flows through the Dataverse Web API, and start a flow through its HTTP request trigger.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/power-automate", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/power-automate.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/power-automate.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/power-automate.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the Microsoft Product Terms for Microsoft Power Platform", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "nuget", "name": "Microsoft.PowerPlatform.Dataverse.Client" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "PowerPlatform-Dataverse-Client" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 through Microsoft Entra ID for flow management. A person registers an app in the tenant and an administrator creates an application user with a Dataverse security role, or a user signs in with delegated access. The read-only Power Platform API takes a token for `https://api.powerplatform.com` with `.default`. A flow's HTTP request trigger has three modes. Any user in my tenant (the default for new flows) and Specific users in my tenant take an Entra bearer token with audience `https://service.flow.microsoft.com/`, and the second can name service principal object IDs. The legacy Anyone mode needs only the trigger URL, which carries a shared access signature as `sig=`. No API-key path for management.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Power Automate Premium is $15 a user a month, Process $150 a bot a month and Hosted Process $215 a bot a month, all paid yearly, per the pricing page. API calls carry no separate charge and count against daily Power Platform request allowances (40,000 per Premium user, 250,000 per Process licence, a 25,000 tenant pool for unlicensed service principals). A flow owned by a service principal that uses premium connectors needs a Process licence or a designated licensed co-owner. To start without a contract there is a Free licence limited to standard connectors, a self-serve 90-day trial, and the Power Apps Developer Plan with a free Dataverse environment and 750 flow runs a month. Card requirements were not stated (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$15 / seat-mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Power Automate code docs, the Power Platform API reference or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 10702, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/manage-flows-with-code", "capabilities": [ "automation.workflows", "automation.apps", "automation.webhooks" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "oauth", "enterprise", "odata", "dotnet", "python", "closed-source", "sla", "audit-log", "freemium", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-02", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 508, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1184, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.5", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 25, "reliability": 63, "schema": 68, "security": 61, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Cloud flows in a solution are rows an agent can read and write through the Dataverse Web API under Entra ID OAuth and security roles, with published limits and a 99.9 per cent SLA. Flows under My flows can't be managed in code, a flow's body is one hand-built JSON string, and setup needs a tenant administrator.", "bestFor": "Organisations already on Microsoft 365 and Dataverse that want an agent to inventory, deploy or adjust flows inside existing roles and solutions.", "strengths": [ "Solution-aware cloud flows are rows in the Dataverse `workflows` table, with documented list, create, update, delete, share, export and import calls", "Service protection limits are published (6,000 requests per user in five minutes) and 429 responses carry `Retry-After`", "The SLA of 1 October 2026 pays a 25 per cent credit below 99.9 per cent uptime for Power Automate", "Each run of a solution flow is a `flowruns` row with status, error code and message, kept 28 days by default", "A service principal can own flows, and new HTTP request triggers default to callers signed in to the tenant" ], "weaknesses": [ "Flows under My flows can't be managed in code, and Microsoft calls the `api.flow.microsoft.com` API unsupported", "A flow's definition travels as `clientdata`, one string of encoded JSON with connection references the caller builds by hand", "No documented call runs, cancels or resubmits a flow. Starting one means an HTTP request trigger built into the flow", "The legacy Anyone trigger mode carries its signature in the URL query string as `sig=`", "Power Automate's own released versions page stops at version 2508.2 of August 2025, and service health needs an admin sign-in" ], "agentNotes": [ "Filter `workflows` on `category eq 5` for cloud flows, and add `$select`, because `clientdata` holds the whole definition", "Flows created through the API start with `statecode` 0 (off). The docs say to turn the flow on before use", "Put the flow in a solution first. Flows that sit only under My flows are outside the supported API", "On 429 wait the `Retry-After` seconds. Reads of `flowruns` count against the daily Power Platform request allowance", "Treat an HTTP trigger URL with `sig=` as a secret, and prefer the tenant or named-user trigger modes with a bearer token for `https://service.flow.microsoft.com/`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.5", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 25, "reliability": 63, "schema": 68, "security": 61, "transparency": 62 }, "provenanceScore": 89 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://$DATAVERSE_ORG.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.2/workflows?\\$filter=category%20eq%205%20and%20statecode%20eq%201\u0026\\$select=name,workflowid,statecode\u0026\\$top=5\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $DATAVERSE_ACCESS_TOKEN\" \\\n -H \"Accept: application/json\" \\\n -H \"OData-MaxVersion: 4.0\" \\\n -H \"OData-Version: 4.0\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/automation.workflows", "tool": "https://letme.dev/power-automate" }, "sameCompany": [ "azure-foundry-fine-tuning", "azure-ai-content-safety", "azure-speech-to-text", "azure-text-to-speech", "microsoft-agent-framework", "microsoft-execution-containers", "microsoft-entra-agent-id", "azure-key-vault", "azure-document-intelligence", "azure-devops-mcp", "microsoft-learn-mcp", "playwright-mcp", "azure-mcp", "azure-maps", "azure-translator", "microsoft-graph-calendar", "azure-blob-storage", "onedrive-sharepoint", "microsoft-teams", "dynamics-365-sales", "copilot-studio-mcp", "foundry-local", "microsoft-decision-1", "microsoft-advertising-api", "microsoft-excel-graph", "outlook-mail-graph", "microsoft-graph-people" ], "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Power Automate Premium", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 15, "note": "paid yearly, 40,000 Power Platform requests a day" }, { "item": "Power Automate Process", "unit": "month", "usd": 150, "note": "per bot, paid yearly, 250,000 actions a day for one flow or a flow group" }, { "item": "Power Automate Hosted Process", "unit": "month", "usd": 215, "note": "per bot, paid yearly, with a Microsoft-hosted virtual machine" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Microsoft Corporation", "domain": "microsoft.com", "domainRegistered": "1991-05-02", "domainNote": "The management API answers on a dynamics.com host such as https://\u003corg\u003e.api.crm.dynamics.com, flow trigger URLs on logic.azure.com and the inventory API on api.powerplatform.com, all Microsoft domains. microsoft.com publishes a security.txt, but it passed its Expires date on 2026-09-23.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/productoffering/MicrosoftPowerPlatform/MCA", "privacy": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement", "statusPage": "https://status.cloud.microsoft", "changelog": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/released-versions/Microsoft-Dataverse", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms link is the Microsoft Product Terms page for Microsoft Power Platform under the Microsoft Customer Agreement, which names Power Automate Premium, Process and Hosted Process. It showed no effective date.", "The Microsoft privacy statement was last updated in September 2026 and says customer agreements control for enterprise and developer products. Customer data is governed by the Products and Services Data Protection Addendum, published as a .docx download, which we did not read.", "www.microsoft.com/.well-known/security.txt carries Expires 2026-09-23T16:00:00.000Z when read on 2026-10-08, with MSRC as the contact.", "status.cloud.microsoft rendered only a title for our reader. Tenant service health is in the Power Platform and Microsoft 365 admin centres behind an admin sign-in.", "The changelog link is the weekly Dataverse service update page, because flow management runs on Dataverse. Power Automate's own released versions page (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/released-versions/power-automate) lists nothing after version 2508.2 of August 2025.", "RDAP for microsoft.com gives a registration date of 1991-05-02. dynamics.com, azure.com and powerplatform.com were not looked up." ], "score": 89 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/power-automate.json", "live": { "slug": "power-automate", "versions": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "PowerPlatform-Dataverse-Client", "version": "1.1.0", "released": "2026-10-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-20T05:17:52.13580692Z" } ], "pypiWeekly": 16839, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://microsoft.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "expired", "expires": "2026-09-23T16:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-20T15:57:46.11329722Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "microsoft.com", "registered": "1991-05-02", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/microsoft.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T13:35:57.721764763Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/released-versions/Microsoft-Dataverse", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-21T00:51:16.249257793Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-15T21:29:47.192126688Z", "fingerprint": "3d936586e331" }, { "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/productoffering/MicrosoftPowerPlatform/MCA", "kind": "terms", "status": 502, "checkedAt": "2026-10-21T01:04:42.543611854Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-21T01:04:42.543611854Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Motive Technologies, Inc.", "b": "Microsoft", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Motive's Terms of Service (effective 7 July 2025, governed by California law, with AAA arbitration and a class action waiver for US customers). No open-source code or published package was found", "b": "Proprietary service under the Microsoft Product Terms for Microsoft Power Platform", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-19", "b": "2026-10-02", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "2026-09-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "11k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2/5 (4)", "b": "2.5/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Microsoft Power Automate scores 62 (B) on agent readiness against Motive Agents's 24.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Motive Agents or Microsoft Power Automate?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Motive Agents. No hosted endpoint is listed for Microsoft Power Automate.", "question": "Can an agent call Motive Agents and Microsoft Power Automate without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Fleet operators already on Motive who want rules that act on telematics, safety and maintenance events without a person watching alerts.", "slug": "motive-agents", "watchFor": "No API, webhook or MCP tool an outside agent can use to create, run or read Agents" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 63 against 50", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 68 against 7", "Agent ergonomics, 69 against 5", "Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 35", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 0", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 76 against 35", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 59" ], "also": [ "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.5 against 2.0 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "Organisations already on Microsoft 365 and Dataverse that want an agent to inventory, deploy or adjust flows inside existing roles and solutions.", "slug": "power-automate", "watchFor": "Flows under My flows can't be managed in code, and Microsoft calls the `api.flow.microsoft.com` API unsupported" } ], "job": { "capability": "automation.workflows", "name": "Workflow automation" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/activepieces-vs-motive-agents.json", "title": "Activepieces API + MCP vs Motive Agents", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/activepieces-vs-motive-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/activepieces-vs-power-automate.json", "title": "Activepieces API + MCP vs Microsoft Power Automate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/activepieces-vs-power-automate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/copilot-studio-mcp-vs-motive-agents.json", "title": "Microsoft Copilot Studio MCP vs Motive Agents", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/copilot-studio-mcp-vs-motive-agents" }, { "json": 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/motive-agents.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/motive-agents.json\n- Microsoft Power Automate: grade B, 62/100, rank #508 of 1184. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/power-automate.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/power-automate.json\n- Best workflow automation platforms with APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/workflow-automation/index.md\n- All 154 workflows comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/workflow-automation/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Motive Agents (F)\n\nGood for: Fleet operators already on Motive who want rules that act on telematics, safety and maintenance events without a person watching alerts.\n\nWatch for: No API, webhook or MCP tool an outside agent can use to create, run or read Agents\n\n### Microsoft Power Automate (B)\n\nGood for: Organisations already on Microsoft 365 and Dataverse that want an agent to inventory, deploy or adjust flows inside existing roles and solutions.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 63 against 50\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 68 against 7\n- Agent ergonomics, 69 against 5\n- Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 35\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 76 against 35\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 59\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.5 against 2.0 out of 5\n\nWatch for: Flows under My flows can't be managed in code, and Microsoft calls the `api.flow.microsoft.com` API unsupported\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Motive Agents | Microsoft Power Automate | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 63 | Microsoft Power Automate +13 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 7 | 68 | Microsoft Power Automate +61 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 5 | 69 | Microsoft Power Automate +64 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 35 | 61 | Microsoft Power Automate +26 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 25 | Microsoft Power Automate +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 35 | 76 | Microsoft Power Automate +41 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 76 | Microsoft Power Automate +17 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **24.3 · F** | **62 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Motive Agents | Microsoft Power Automate |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Motive Technologies, Inc. | Microsoft |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Motive's Terms of Service (effective 7 July 2025, governed by California law, with AAA arbitration and a class action waiver for US customers). No open-source code or published package was found | Proprietary service under the Microsoft Product Terms for Microsoft Power Platform |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-02 |\n| Terms last updated | | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | | 2026-09-01 |\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 | 11k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Motive Agents.** Agents let Motive fleet admins turn safety, maintenance and idling events into alerts, training, work orders and in-cab calls from the Fleet Dashboard, on a platform with a 99.99 per cent dashboard SLA and audited security reports. No API, webhook or MCP tool covers Agents, so an outside agent can't create, run or read them.\n\n**Microsoft Power Automate.** Cloud flows in a solution are rows an agent can read and write through the Dataverse Web API under Entra ID OAuth and security roles, with published limits and a 99.9 per cent SLA. Flows under My flows can't be managed in code, a flow's body is one hand-built JSON string, and setup needs a tenant administrator.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Motive Agents\n\n1. Don't plan to call Motive Agents. They're built and run by people in the Motive Fleet Dashboard\n2. For Motive fleet data, use Motive's Public API or its MCP server instead, with the customer's admin authorisation\n3. Ask the fleet's Motive admin to set up or change an Agent, and describe the trigger, condition and action you need\n4. Expect Agents to place real calls to drivers and mark vehicles out of service, so confirm with the fleet manager before suggesting one\n\n### Microsoft Power Automate\n\n1. Filter `workflows` on `category eq 5` for cloud flows, and add `$select`, because `clientdata` holds the whole definition\n2. Flows created through the API start with `statecode` 0 (off). The docs say to turn the flow on before use\n3. Put the flow in a solution first. Flows that sit only under My flows are outside the supported API\n4. On 429 wait the `Retry-After` seconds. Reads of `flowruns` count against the daily Power Platform request allowance\n5. Treat an HTTP trigger URL with `sig=` as a secret, and prefer the tenant or named-user trigger modes with a bearer token for `https://service.flow.microsoft.com/`\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Motive Agents or Microsoft Power Automate?\n\nMicrosoft Power Automate scores 62 (B) on agent readiness against Motive Agents's 24.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Can an agent call Motive Agents and Microsoft Power Automate without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Motive Agents. No hosted endpoint is listed for Microsoft Power Automate.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/motive-agents-vs-power-automate.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/motive-agents-vs-power-automate.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"motive-agents\", \"b\": \"power-automate\"}`. 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