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IBM Robotic Process Automation

Not Agent-Ready Yet
Agent-Ready SaaS Index · ibm.com · scored 2026-05-09 · rubric v2.0
Score 26 / 100
Robotic Process Automation RPA
Public API

IBM Robotic Process Automation scores 26/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; a free entry path exists.

See IBM Robotic Process Automation pricing summaryLive pricing page
Pricing
IBM Robotic Process Automation pricing
As of 2026-05-09 · www.ibm.com/products/robotic-process-automation/pricing
Base
Sales
$981/mo
flat
Attended bots
Unattended bots
Studio (build environment)
Optical character recognition (OCR)
Intelligent virtual agent (IVA)
Score breakdown · rubric v2.0
How IBM Robotic Process Automation scores on the agent-ready dimensions

Public pricing visibility

15 / 15

Self-serve checkout

0 / 15

Public API + docs

0 / 20

Usage-based / metered pricing

0 / 20

Free entry path

7 / 7

No sales call required

2 / 7

Card / wallet / x402 payment

2 / 6

Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)

0 / 10

Total
26 / 100
Effective pricing
What it actually costs at typical scale
1 bot, standard usage
$981/mo
· Base plan· Monthly billing
Confidence: high
Agent purchase verdict
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Sales-gated
LLM score: 15/100

Can create account

Yes

Can enter payment method

No

Can upgrade plan

No

Can buy more usage

No

Can cancel online

No

Payment methods

invoice

Human approval recommended

Yes

Pricing transparency

partial

Purchase motion

sales_led

Demo required

Unknown

Quote required

Yes

Annual commit required

Unknown

Auto-renewal mentioned

No

Cancellation policy visible

No

Refund policy visible

No

Invoice payment available

Yes

Purchase orders supported

Yes

MSA required

Yes

DPA available

Unknown

Security review required

Unknown

Trial

30 days (no card)

Competitive intel
Positioning & ecosystem

Buyer persona

enterprise

Value claims
ROI estimator
Agent purchase simulation
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from IBM Robotic Process Automation?
✓

Discover price

✓

Select a plan

✗

Pay per task

✓

Avoid a sales call

✗

API docs without auth

✗

Estimate cost upfront

Analysis
Pros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-06. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.
✓ For an AI agent
  • Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
  • Every advertised tier is self-serve; no tier requires scheduling a call.
◐ Opportunities for the provider
  • No per-unit price was advertised, so an agent has no way to estimate the cost of a single task.
  • API documentation is gated or absent; an agent cannot inspect the integration surface without authentication.
  • No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
One-line fix
How IBM Robotic Process Automation could lift its score

Add a per-unit price (e.g. $X / 1K calls) to the pricing page so an agent can compute its own cost before committing.

pricing_visible

true

headline_phrasing

Pricing — No-cost, 30-day trial to build bots, intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) and dashboards with IBM® Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

tier_count

1

lowest_paid_entry_usd

null

free_tier

false

free_tier_terms

null

per_unit_price

null

annual_required

false

self_serve_paid_tiers

0

sales_only_tiers

0

public_api_docs_url

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en

api_docs_auth_walled

false

ai_pricing_json_present

false

agents_txt_present

false

anonymous_purchase_path

false

per_unit_classification

null

usage_headline_present

false

custom_tier_present

false

agent_friendly

{"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":false,"sitemap_xml":false,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false}

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Agent-Ready Spec
IBM Robotic Process Automation
Not Agent-Ready Yet

26

/ 100 (rubric v2.0)
Category

Robotic Process Automation RPA

Pricing model

Not advertised

Tier count

1

Free tier

No

Lowest paid entry

Sales-led

Self-serve / sales-only tiers

0 / 0

Public API docs

Public

Anonymous purchase path

No

Machine-readable pricing

Not published

Last refreshed

2026-05-09

Pricing intelligenceInsights extracted from www.ibm.com/products/robotic-process-automation/pricing
Pricing model

Tier-based subscription

Agent-purchase verdict
Sales-gated
15/100 · v2.1
Canonical answer

IBM Robotic Process Automation pricing starts at $981/mo for the base plan; free 30‑day trial available; paid plans up to $981/mo. Billed monthly.

Cheapest entry

Free 30‑day trial (Free)

Actions
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Verdict reflects Not Agent-Ready Yet status under rubric v2.0. Source observed at https://www.ibm.com/products/robotic-process-automation/pricing.
Agent-friendly features0 of 7 present
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.

ai-pricing.json

agents.txt

llms.txt

sitemap.xml

MCP Server Card

Agent Skills

x402 / MPP

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