Microsoft Power Automate Pricing & Free Plan Limits
Complete pricing breakdown for Microsoft Power Automate including all plans, hidden costs, and limitations.
Pricing score: 45/100
Is Microsoft Power Automate free?
Yes — the Free / Microsoft 365 included plan costs nothing.
The free plan includes
- Cloud flows with standard connectors
- Low performance profile (about 6,000 actions per day per user across flows)
- Copilot-assisted flow building
Free plan limits
- Users: 1 flow owner per license
- Standard connectors only, 15-minute polling on the Free plan (5 minutes on Microsoft 365 plans), Low performance profile with 5,000 apply-to-each items and 5-second minimum postpone interval, no premium connectors, no desktop RPA unattended
Watch out: Premium, on-premises and custom connectors need a paid license; flows with no trigger for 90 days can be turned off; continuously failing or throttled flows are turned off after 14 days
Plans & Pricing
- Cloud flows with standard connectors
- Low performance profile (about 6,000 actions per day per user across flows)
- Copilot-assisted flow building
User limit: 1 flow owner per license
- 30-day free trial (per pricing page)
- UI-based cloud flows
- Standard connectors
User limit: 1 user
- Cloud flows with premium connectors
- Attended desktop flows (RPA)
- Process and task mining (50 MB)
- Medium performance profile
User limit: Per user
Storage: 250 MB Dataverse database and 2 GB file
- Cloud flows
- Unattended desktop flows (RPA)
- High performance profile (250,000 actions per day)
User limit: Per bot
Storage: 50 MB Dataverse database and 200 MB file
- Everything in Process
- Microsoft-hosted Azure virtual machine
User limit: Per bot
Storage: 50 MB Dataverse database and 200 MB file
- Process mining
- 2 GB Dataverse database and 1 TB file
User limit: Per tenant
Storage: 100 GB data storage
Pricing Issues Reported by Users
Power Automate licensing is confusing and hard to predict
G2 reviewers repeatedly call the licensing model complex and not transparent. Which plan covers a flow depends on the connector, the trigger type and who runs it, and the Microsoft 365 plan does not cover premium connectors.
Premium connectors need a paid license
Standard connectors come with Microsoft 365, but premium, on-premises and custom connectors need a Power Automate Premium or Process license. Microsoft documents that users running or editing such flows need their own license for manual flows, and a 90-day trial ends in failures.
Why is Power Automate so expensive for small teams?
Premium is $15 per user per month billed yearly and Process is $150 per bot per month. Reviewers say small businesses feel the cost of premium features most, and sharing one flow across many users pushes teams toward per-flow licensing.
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