Automation Anywhere vs StepFun

Automation Anywhere — Infrastructure · Private · 2 of 2 figures sourced  |  StepFun — Foundation Models · Private · $10B valuation · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

Aligned comparison

FieldAutomation AnywhereStepFun
Sizenot disclosed$10B valuation
Employees2,200—
Founded20032023 20 yrs later
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryInfrastructureFoundation Models
Stack layerAgent platform, Application, Data service, Developer tool, Infrastructure service, PlatformAI agent, API service, Application, Developer tool, Model API
HeadquartersSan Jose, USAShanghai, China

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Agent orchestrationCode generationKnowledge retrievalWorkflow automation

Not verified for StepFun · 4

Data analysisDocument extractionEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safety

Recorded for Automation Anywhere. StepFun’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Automation Anywhere · 8

Agentic codingImage generationModel inferenceSpeech to textText generationText to speechVoice agentSearch answers

Recorded for StepFun. Automation Anywhere’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Automation Anywhere

Application

Automation Co-PilotApplication

A conversational generative-AI assistant embedded inside business applications such as SAP, Workday and Salesforce that turns natural-language requests into built and deployed automations, using the Process Reasoning Engine for business context.

Document AutomationApplication

Intelligent document processing that uses natural language processing, computer vision and generative AI to classify, extract and validate data from structured, semi-structured and unstructured documents including handwriting, barcodes and free-form text.

Process DiscoveryApplication

Records how work is actually done on employees' screens with computer vision, uses AI to uncover every process variation and map it, redacts personal data through a Privacy Enhanced Gateway, and ranks which processes to automate next. Part of the Agentic Process Automation Platform.

Developer tool

Automation Anywhere CodeDeveloper tool

A generative automation builder that takes intent from plain language, SOPs, BPMN diagrams, screenshots or voice, produces a structured plan for review, then generates agents, API tasks, processes, forms and bots as governed production automations.

Automator AIDeveloper tool

A set of generative-AI tools for the people who build automations on Automation Anywhere's platform: Autopilot turns process documents into ready-to-deploy automations, Co-Pilot for Automators builds steps from natural-language prompts, and Generative Recorder adds a GenAI fallback so workflows keep running when a screen changes. Part of the Agentic Process Automation Platform.

Process SimulationDeveloper tool

A test environment that runs an end-to-end workflow before it goes live: simulation mode generates test data and models each step's output without touching live systems, AI proposes extra scenarios and edge cases across APIs, bots, agents and human steps, and the results point at gaps and broken branches to fix. Part of the Agentic Process Automation Platform.

StepFun

Application

阶跃AI (StepFun AI)Application

StepFun's consumer AI assistant, available on the web and as Windows and macOS desktop clients, offering web search, knowledge-base Q&A, image creation, tool use and speech recognition.

Developer tool

阶跃星辰 AI Studio (StepFun AI Studio)Developer tool

A browser-based workspace for building, testing and deploying AI applications on StepFun's models, with a playground, a showcase library of example apps and a personal asset library.

No counterpart

Automation Anywhere sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for StepFun yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Agent platform

AI Agent StudioAgent platform

A low-code workspace for building, testing and governing goal-driven AI agents that connect to third-party foundation models from AWS, Google Cloud, Azure OpenAI and OpenAI, with built-in AI Guardrails for data masking and toxicity checks.

Platform

Agentic Process Automation PlatformPlatform

The vendor's umbrella platform combining goal-driven AI agents, RPA, APIs and human-in-the-loop review to orchestrate enterprise workflows; sold as licensable modules including AI Agent Studio, Automation Co-Pilot, Automator AI, Document Automation, Process Discovery, Process Reasoning Engine and the Mozart Orchestrator, each recorded separately.

Mozart OrchestratorPlatform

Coordinates autonomous AI agents across bots, systems, data and human touchpoints with goal-driven, self-healing workflow execution.

Infrastructure service

EnterpriseClawInfrastructure service

A governance and runtime layer that deploys, manages and secures AI agents from any framework - including OpenClaw, Claude Code, LangChain, CrewAI and custom Python - locally behind the enterprise firewall using existing bot runner controls, credentials, audit trails and AI guardrails.

Process Reasoning EngineInfrastructure service

The reasoning layer the vendor calls the AI brain of its Agentic Process Automation System, trained on over 450 million agent and automation executions, which performs real-time dynamic reasoning and goal-driven orchestration of AI agents, automations and people.

Data service

Context Intelligence GraphData service

A vendor-agnostic context layer that grounds AI agents and workflows in role-based enterprise business rules, policies, SOPs, systems of record and knowledge bases, including unstructured documents with tables, forms and layout, and self-learns from process execution.

StepFun sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Automation Anywhere yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

Step PlanAPI service

A subscription service from the StepFun Open Platform that supplies a monthly Credit pool for calling StepFun's flagship models from third-party coding tools and agent clients such as Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, Cline and Zed.

AI agent

StepClawAI agent

A one-click cloud-deployed AI agent offered inside the 阶跃AI assistant that interprets instructions and carries out tasks autonomously.

Model API

StepFun Open PlatformModel API

API access to StepFun's text, vision, speech and image models, with credit packages and enterprise plans.