About Best Process Automation

Best Process Automation ranks the software companies use to automate business processes: connecting apps, routing approvals, operating legacy desktop systems with robots, and handing work to AI agents. It scores 14 platforms, from Zapier and Make to UiPath and Pega, on one published rubric. Industrial control systems such as DCS, PLC and SCADA are outside its scope.

Who publishes it

Best Process Automation is run by the company named in the imprint. Corrections and questions go to [email protected].

How scores are set

Each review ends every criterion note with the evidence behind its number, and a score changes only when a cited source changes. Every change is dated in the changelog.

The site earns from affiliate programs. Five of the 14 platforms run one. Zapier pays a one-time fixed amount per qualified referral¹. Make pays 35% of subscription payments for 12 months², and one answer on its affiliate page says 24 months³. n8n pays 30% for 12 months⁴, Lindy 30% in the first year and 15% in the second⁵, and Gumloop 20% for up to 12 months⁶. Pipefy runs a referral partner program that pays 0%, 20% or 30% by partner tier⁷. The other eight platforms pay the publisher nothing.

Make ranks first on its rubric scores alone, 8.3 out of 10, and its 35% is the highest percentage among these programs. Microsoft Power Automate pays the publisher nothing and ranks second, at 8.1. Commission terms never enter a score, a position or a pick, and no platform is left off a page because it pays nothing.

• Scores come from the rubric on the methodology page. No vendor sees a score before it is published.
• No company pays to be listed or to change a score.
• Every fact and price links to the source it came from, with the date it was checked.

Disclosure

The site makes money through affiliate links. When you follow a link to a vendor and sign up for a paid plan, some vendors pay this site a commission. Those links carry rel="sponsored" in the page code. A commission never changes a score or a position: scores come from the published rubric, and vendors without an affiliate program are scored by the same rules.

Corrections

If a fact is wrong, email [email protected] with a link to the source. Corrections are checked within five business days and recorded in the changelog.