Robotic process automation (RPA) tools in 2026

Commercial robotic process automation (RPA) tools

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   UiPath UiPath

   Transform enterprise operations with the UiPath Platform™ for business orchestration and automation, enabling AI agents, robots, and people to deliver secure, compliant outcomes at scale.

   Framework or platform Production-ready A large organisation has many repetitive processes in legacy systems without APIs and will fund an automation centre of excellence.

   1.6k readers a month Since 2005 Commercial
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   Automation Anywhere Automation Anywhere

   The industry's most advanced, most deployed agentic process automation system combines the power of AI, Automation, and RPA to deliver secure end-to-end enterprise agentic automation for mission-critical processes.

   Framework or platform Production-ready An enterprise wants browser-based RPA development and cloud-managed bots as an alternative to UiPath.

   315 readers a month Since 2003 Commercial
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   Blue Prism SS&C Technologies

   SS&C Blue Prism fuels the world’s top businesses with agentic automation that’s trusted, tested and ready to run. Leaders in Agentic AI, RPA & BPM

   Framework or platform Production-ready A bank or regulated enterprise wants tightly governed, IT-controlled automation.

   194 readers a month Since 2001 Commercial

New open-source projects

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   Droidline KnifeLemon

   Android automation from code. Test your apps on real phones, script the tasks you repeat, run a shelf of phones, or let an AI agent use one, from Python, Node.js, the CLI, HTTP or Appium clients. No ADB, no USB cable, no root.

   Developer tool Experimental You want to test apps on real phones, script repeated phone tasks or let an AI agent use a phone without cabling.

   ★ 445 MIT Go Active, pushed 3 days ago
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   OpenBrowser sheying2013

   本地指纹浏览器 · 多环境隔离 · 代理 / 指纹 / 同步 / RPA

   Complete system Experimental You legitimately manage many separate accounts, for example for ad or store operations, and need isolated profiles.

   ★ 780 MIT JavaScript Active, pushed 8 days ago

Open-source robotic process automation (RPA) tools

Complete systems you can adopt 4

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   Skyvern Skyvern-AI

   Automate browser based workflows with AI

   Complete system Usable You need to automate tasks across many websites without APIs, such as portals, quotes or applications, and selector-based scripts keep breaking.

   ★ 23k AGPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed today
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   AstronRPA iflytek

   Agent-ready RPA suite with out-of-the-box automation tools. Built for individuals and enterprises.

   Complete system Usable You need open-source desktop automation on Windows, especially against Chinese business software like Kingdee or YonYou.

   ★ 5.3k Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed 8 days ago
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   autoMate yuruotong1

   Like Manus, Computer Use Agent(CUA) and Omniparser, we are computer-using agents.AI-driven local automation assistant that uses natural language to make computers work by themselves

   Complete system Experimental You want to experiment with an AI agent driving your own PC for repetitive tasks.

   ★ 4k MIT Python Active, pushed 2 months ago
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   OpenAdapt OpenAdaptAI

   For EHRs, payer portals, and any app your team clicks through. A person or an agent shows the task; OpenAdapt turns it into a local program that repeats the steps with no model calls, checks each save, and stops when something doesn't match.

   Complete system Usable You have repetitive click-through work in apps without APIs, including over Citrix or RDP, and want deterministic replay rather than an AI agent guessing each time.

   ★ 1.9k MIT Python Active, pushed today

Frameworks and platforms to build on 1

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   RobotFramework robotframework

   Generic automation framework for acceptance testing and RPA

   Framework or platform Production-ready QA or automation teams want readable keyword-style test cases that testers and developers can share.

   ★ 12k Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed today

Building blocks for your own system 2

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   RobotGo go-vgo

   RobotGo, Go Native cross-platform RPA, GUI automation, Auto test and Computer use @vcaesar

   Building block Usable You write desktop automation or computer-use tooling in Go.

   ★ 11k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed 6 days ago
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   Rpaframework robocorp

   Collection of open-source libraries and tools for Robotic Process Automation (RPA), designed to be used with both Robot Framework and Python

   Building block Production-ready You write RPA bots in Python or Robot Framework and want ready libraries for common office tasks.

   ★ 1.6k Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed today

Developer tools 3

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   TagUI aisingapore

   Free RPA tool by AI Singapore

   Developer tool Usable You want free, scriptable RPA for simple repetitive web and desktop tasks without buying UiPath.

   ★ 6.3k Apache-2.0 PHP Active, pushed today
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   Workflow Use browser-use

   ⚙️ Create and run workflows (RPA 2.0)

   Developer tool Experimental You automate the same web tasks repeatedly and want them cheaper and more predictable than running an AI agent every time.

   ★ 4.2k AGPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed 3 days ago
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   OSWorld xlang-ai

   [NeurIPS 2024] OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments

   Developer tool Usable You research or build computer-use agents and need a standard way to measure them.

   ★ 3.2k Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed today

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Open-source licenses

• Permissive: 21. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
• Network copyleft: 5. Like GPL, and running a changed version as a web service counts as distributing it, so its users get the source too.
• Weak copyleft: 2. Changes to the licensed files must be shared, but you can link them into a closed program.
• Strong copyleft: 2. If you distribute the program or anything built on it, you must release the whole source under the same license.

Languages

Python 17, TypeScript 6, JavaScript 3, Go 2, PHP 1 and C# 1.