{ "data": { "a": { "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": 447, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "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": 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": 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", "foundry-local", "microsoft-advertising-api", "microsoft-excel-graph", "outlook-mail-graph" ], "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": "2026-10-09T17:14:24.630531053Z" } ], "pypiWeekly": 11057, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://microsoft.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "expired", "expires": "2026-09-23T16:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:40:16.790821018Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/released-versions/Microsoft-Dataverse", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:41:19.805144047Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "feb16a164566" }, { "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/productoffering/MicrosoftPowerPlatform/MCA", "kind": "terms", "status": 502, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:52:24.060666925Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T18:52:24.060666925Z" } }, "answer": "Microsoft Power Automate scores 62 (B) on agent readiness against Prismatic's 59.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Prismatic leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "prismatic", "name": "Prismatic", "vendor": "Prismatic Software Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://prismatic.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "workflow-automation", "summary": "Prismatic is an embedded integration platform for B2B software companies. Teams build integrations in a low-code designer or in TypeScript, deploy them to customers, and manage them through a GraphQL API, the Prism CLI and MCP servers.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prismatic", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prismatic.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prismatic.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/prismatic.json", "repo": "https://github.com/prismatic-io/prism", "license": "Proprietary service. The Prism CLI, the Spectral and embedded SDKs, the Prism MCP dev server and the Claude Code skills on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.prismatic.io/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@prismatic-io/prism" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@prismatic-io/prism-mcp" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@prismatic-io/spectral" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@prismatic-io/embedded" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "Access starts with a person creating an account, by free trial or contract, and logging in through the browser (`prism login`). The API takes that user's JWT as a Bearer token. `prism me:token --type refresh` prints a refresh token for headless use, exchanged at `/auth/refresh` for an access token valid for 7 days. Tokens have no scopes of their own and act with the user's role. The hosted MCP flow server uses MCP OAuth or the same Bearer token, and embedded end users get a JWT signed by the customer's backend.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public prices. The pricing page lists Scale, Enterprise and Custom plans with volume per-instance pricing, each ending in a demo request. A free trial exists, and the Terms of Use set it at 30 days unless stated otherwise at signup. Whether the trial needs a card could not be read because the signup form is drawn by script. Contracts set fair use limits in gigabyte-seconds of compute per instance per month (checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the API docs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 29, "npmWeekly": 8416, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://prismatic.io/docs/api/", "llmsTxt": "https://prismatic.io/docs/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.github.prismatic-io/prism-mcp", "capabilities": [ "automation.workflows", "automation.embedded", "automation.apps", "automation.code", "automation.webhooks", "automation.auth", "agent.tools" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "enterprise", "graphql", "mcp", "cli", "oauth", "llms-txt", "typescript", "sales-led", "status-page", "soc2", "webhooks", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59.1, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 561, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 0, "reliability": 67, "schema": 75, "security": 59, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The GraphQL API covers 120 queries and 124 mutations with typed inputs, cursor pagination and Markdown documentation, and tokens follow seven user roles. No price is published, paid use runs under an agreement that is not public, and no API rate limit or idempotency key was found in the reviewed documentation.", "bestFor": "A B2B software company that wants to build integrations once, deploy them per customer and let an in-app agent call them as MCP tools.", "strengths": [ "GraphQL API with 120 documented queries and 124 mutations, field selection, cursor pagination and per-query filters", "Every docs page has a Markdown twin, indexed by `llms.txt` at prismatic.io/docs/llms.txt", "Hosted MCP flow server in seven regions, with OAuth 2.0 and endpoints scoped to one integration or one instance", "Seven organisation roles, including a read-only guest and a third-party role limited to named integrations, components or customers", "Dated changelog with ten entries from 20 August to 1 October 2026, and CLI and SDK releases in the same weeks" ], "weaknesses": [ "No prices on the pricing page. All three plans end in a demo request", "Paid use is governed by a separate agreement that is not published. The public terms cover the website and 30-day trials", "No API rate limit, `Retry-After` behaviour or idempotency key found in the reviewed documentation", "API tokens carry the whole role of the user who created them, and revoking one refresh token revokes all of that user's", "Mutation failures return HTTP 200 with an `errors` array of field and message, with no error codes" ], "agentNotes": [ "Have a person run `prism login` once, then store the output of `prism me:token --type refresh` as `PRISM_REFRESH_TOKEN`. Access tokens last 7 days", "Read the `errors` array on every mutation. A failed mutation still returns HTTP 200", "Pass `sortBy` with `CREATED_AT` when paging. Without a sort order pages can repeat or skip records", "Use the regional host for the tenant, such as `app.eu-west-1.prismatic.io` and `mcp.eu-west-1.prismatic.io`", "Create a guest user for a read-only agent, because tokens have no scopes of their own" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 0, "reliability": 67, "schema": 75, "security": 59, "transparency": 40 }, "provenanceScore": 89 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install --global @prismatic-io/prism", "http": "curl https://app.prismatic.io/api --request POST --header \"Authorization: Bearer ${PRISMATIC_API_TOKEN}\" --header \"Content-Type: application/json\" --data '{\"query\": \"query { integrations { nodes { id name }}}\"}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add-json prismatic '{\"type\":\"stdio\",\"command\":\"npx\",\"args\":[\"-y\",\"mcp-remote\",\"https://mcp.prismatic.io/mcp\"]}'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "prism": { "args": [ "-y", "@prismatic-io/prism-mcp", "." ], "command": "npx", "env": { "PRISMATIC_URL": "https://app.prismatic.io" }, "type": "stdio" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/automation.workflows", "tool": "https://letme.dev/prismatic" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Prismatic Software Inc.", "domain": "prismatic.io", "domainRegistered": "2016-07-09", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://prismatic.io/legal/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://www.prismatic-status.io", "changelog": "https://prismatic.io/docs/changelog/", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Terms of Use (last updated 17 March 2023) name Prismatic Software Inc., 5013 S Louise Ave #122, Sioux Falls, SD 57108, and are governed by South Dakota law.", "No terms link is recorded. The Terms of Use at https://prismatic.io/legal/terms/ are website terms that also cover trial accounts, and they say non-trial use of the Services is subject to a separate agreement, which is not published.", "The Privacy Policy (last updated 26 June 2024) covers the website and the web application at app.prismatic.io.", "security.txt at https://prismatic.io/.well-known/security.txt names security@prismatic.io and a PGP key and expires on 16 June 2027.", "The API, the regional hosts and the MCP flow server are all on prismatic.io subdomains. The status page is on prismatic-status.io and the trust centre on trust-prismatic.io.", "RDAP for prismatic.io gives a registration date of 2016-07-09." ], "score": 89 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prismatic.json", "live": { "slug": "prismatic", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.prismatic.io/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T04:41:00.321828491Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 303, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 298, "p95ms24h": 389, "samples24h": 133, "samples30d": 133, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 48, "ok": 48 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.prismatic-status.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T04:41:27.506843443Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "prismatic-io/prism", "version": "v10.5.0", "released": "2026-09-30", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:14:48.08709817Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.prismatic-io/prism-mcp", "version": "1.5.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-10T03:11:32.438759038Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@prismatic-io/embedded", "version": "4.14.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:14:46.07500175Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@prismatic-io/prism", "version": "10.5.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:14:41.869797583Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@prismatic-io/prism-mcp", "version": "1.5.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:14:42.93328997Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@prismatic-io/spectral", "version": "10.34.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:14:44.108249111Z" } ], "githubStars": 29, "npmWeekly": 8416, "pages": [ { "url": "https://prismatic.io/docs/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:43:50.569023777Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "8f4fb9151364" }, { "url": "https://prismatic.io/legal/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:43:53.22345549Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6521c9b1a5d9" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T04:41:27.506843443Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Microsoft", "b": "Prismatic Software Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://mcp.prismatic.io/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under the Microsoft Product Terms for Microsoft Power Platform", "b": "Proprietary service. The Prism CLI, the Spectral and embedded SDKs, the Prism MCP dev server and the Claude Code skills on GitHub are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.github.prismatic-io/prism-mcp", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-02", "b": "2026-10-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-01", "b": "2024-06-26", "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": "11k PyPI/wk", "b": "29 stars, 8.4k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Microsoft Power Automate scores 62 (B) on agent readiness against Prismatic's 59.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Prismatic leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Microsoft Power Automate or Prismatic?" }, { "answer": "Microsoft Power Automate takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Prismatic uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Microsoft Power Automate and Prismatic need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Microsoft Power Automate. Prismatic has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.prismatic.io/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call Microsoft Power Automate and Prismatic without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 69 against 63", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 0", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 65" ], "also": null, "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" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 68", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 76" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "A B2B software company that wants to build integrations once, deploy them per customer and let an in-app agent call them as MCP tools.", "slug": "prismatic", "watchFor": "No prices on the pricing page. 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"title": "Prismatic vs Tray.ai API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prismatic-vs-tray" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prismatic-vs-windmill.json", "title": "Prismatic vs Windmill API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prismatic-vs-windmill" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prismatic-vs-workato.json", "title": "Prismatic vs Workato API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prismatic-vs-workato" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paragon-vs-prismatic.json", "title": "Paragon ActionKit + MCP vs Prismatic", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paragon-vs-prismatic" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 4, "edge": "prismatic", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "power-automate": 63, "prismatic": 67, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "prismatic", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "power-automate": 68, "prismatic": 75, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "power-automate", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "power-automate": 69, "prismatic": 63, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "power-automate", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "power-automate": 61, "prismatic": 59, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 25, "edge": "power-automate", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "power-automate": 25, "prismatic": 0, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "prismatic", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "power-automate": 76, "prismatic": 83, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 11, "edge": "power-automate", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "power-automate": 76, "prismatic": 65, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Microsoft Power Automate scores 62 (B) on agent readiness against Prismatic's 59.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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No price is published, paid use runs under an agreement that is not public, and no API rate limit or idempotency key was found in the reviewed documentation." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/power-automate-vs-prismatic", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/power-automate-vs-prismatic.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/power-automate-vs-prismatic.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/power-automate-vs-prismatic.min.md" }, "markdown": "Microsoft Power Automate scores 62 (B) on agent readiness against Prismatic's 59.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Prismatic leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do workflow automation.\n\n- Microsoft Power Automate: grade B, 62/100, rank #447 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/power-automate.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/power-automate.json\n- Prismatic: grade C, 59.1/100, rank #561 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prismatic.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/prismatic.json\n- Best workflow automation platforms with APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/workflow-automation/index.md\n- All 108 workflows comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/workflow-automation/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\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- Agent ergonomics, 69 against 63\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 0\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 65\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### Prismatic (C)\n\nGood for: A B2B software company that wants to build integrations once, deploy them per customer and let an in-app agent call them as MCP tools.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 68\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 76\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: No prices on the pricing page. All three plans end in a demo request\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Microsoft Power Automate | Prismatic | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 63 | 67 | Prismatic +4 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 75 | Prismatic +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 63 | Microsoft Power Automate +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 59 | Microsoft Power Automate +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 0 | 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) | 76 | 83 | Prismatic +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 65 | Microsoft Power Automate +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **62 · B** | **59.1 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Microsoft Power Automate | Prismatic |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Microsoft | Prismatic Software Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.prismatic.io/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the Microsoft Product Terms for Microsoft Power Platform | Proprietary service. The Prism CLI, the Spectral and embedded SDKs, the Prism MCP dev server and the Claude Code skills on GitHub are MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.prismatic-io/prism-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-01 | 2024-06-26 |\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 | 11k PyPI/wk | 29 stars, 8.4k npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\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**Prismatic.** The GraphQL API covers 120 queries and 124 mutations with typed inputs, cursor pagination and Markdown documentation, and tokens follow seven user roles. No price is published, paid use runs under an agreement that is not public, and no API rate limit or idempotency key was found in the reviewed documentation.\n\n## Before you call either\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### Prismatic\n\n1. Have a person run `prism login` once, then store the output of `prism me:token --type refresh` as `PRISM_REFRESH_TOKEN`. Access tokens last 7 days\n2. Read the `errors` array on every mutation. A failed mutation still returns HTTP 200\n3. Pass `sortBy` with `CREATED_AT` when paging. Without a sort order pages can repeat or skip records\n4. Use the regional host for the tenant, such as `app.eu-west-1.prismatic.io` and `mcp.eu-west-1.prismatic.io`\n5. Create a guest user for a read-only agent, because tokens have no scopes of their own\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Microsoft Power Automate or Prismatic?\n\nMicrosoft Power Automate scores 62 (B) on agent readiness against Prismatic's 59.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Prismatic leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Microsoft Power Automate and Prismatic need an API key?\n\nMicrosoft Power Automate takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Prismatic uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Microsoft Power Automate and Prismatic without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Microsoft Power Automate. Prismatic has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.prismatic.io/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/power-automate-vs-prismatic.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/power-automate-vs-prismatic.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"power-automate\", \"b\": \"prismatic\"}`. 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