How was this ever nonfree? Automate is pretty good but it’s been built into MacOS for many years.<p>Microsoft pricing is hard to understand until it gets to bundled or free. Their cloud version is neat but I’m not sure I know the price. It could be $0 or $500/year and it wouldn’t surprise me.<p>I just looked it up [0] and it’s $15/month/user, or $40/month if I want RPA, or $500/month for 5 flows.<p>This is in addition to the azure fees for whatever you do in your flow.<p>I wonder who pays these amounts since basically it’s just an azure api composer. This is just software that should at most be a one time fee. I wonder who pays for this at scale.<p>For comparison Office365 including email and a terabyte of storage is only $100/year, almost half this price. This would be like if Microsoft charged $100/month to run cron jobs on your machine.<p>I expect automate cloud will be free soon.<p>[0] <a href="https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/" rel="nofollow">https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/</a>