IBM vs UiPath

IBM — Application · Public · $216.6B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  UiPath — Application · Public · $7.2B mkt cap · 5 of 5 figures sourced

Relationship

Overlaps on agent orchestration, agentic coding, data analysis and 4 more; smaller scale (public).

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

7 of 21 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

7 of 21 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, agentic coding, data analysis and 4 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship agent platform, application, developer tool and 1 more.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — UiPath: $7.2B market cap, against IBM's $216.6B market cap.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldIBMUiPath
Market cap$216.6B$7.2B UiPath has 30× smaller
Employees264,3003,981 UiPath has 66× fewer
Founded19112005 94 yrs later
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAPI service, Agent platform, Application, Data service, Developer tool, PlatformAgent platform, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersArmonk, USANew York, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 7

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingData analysisDocument extractionModel inferenceModel trainingWorkflow automation

Not verified for UiPath · 14

Code generationCode reviewCode searchCustomer supportData securityEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyKnowledge retrievalSpeech to textText generationText to speechThreat detection and responseVector searchVoice agent

Recorded for IBM. UiPath’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

UiPath has no capability IBM lacks, among the 7 recorded here.

Products, side by side

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

IBM

Application

IBM Guardium AI SecurityApplication

Protects enterprise data across AI agents, applications and endpoints against agentic-AI, regulatory and post-quantum risks.

IBM InstanaApplication

Full-stack application and infrastructure observability powered by agentic AI, including automatic discovery/mapping of GenAI workflows and AI-driven Smart Alerts to reduce alert fatigue.

IBM Robotic Process AutomationApplication

AI-driven robotic process automation for building intelligent bots that automate business processes, with AI-embedded resilience built into the RPA runtime.

IBM SPSS ModelerApplication

Visual data-science and machine-learning platform for building predictive models, with advanced algorithms, model deployment and open-source framework integration.

IBM Watson DiscoveryApplication

Document intelligence platform using OCR, NLP enrichments (entity/sentiment/emotion/category extraction) and LLM integration to automate information discovery from enterprise documents.

Agent platform

IBM Watson AssistantAgent platform

A conversational AI platform for building customer-support chatbots and virtual assistants deployed across voice and digital channels.

IBM watsonx OrchestrateAgent platform

Platform for building and running AI agents that call enterprise applications on a user's behalf.

Developer tool

IBM BobDeveloper tool

An AI coding agent that automates planning, code generation, review and verification across the software development lifecycle, including IBM Z mainframe modernization workflows.

IBM watsonx Code Assistant for ZDeveloper tool

A generative AI assistant for IBM Z mainframe application discovery, code generation, refactoring and modernization.

Platform

IBM ConcertPlatform

An agentic AI IT-operations platform that unifies observability, optimization and automated remediation across applications, infrastructure and networks.

IBM watsonx.aiPlatform

Studio for building, tuning and deploying model-based applications on IBM and third-party foundation models.

IBM watsonx.governancePlatform

A governance platform providing real-time visibility, policy enforcement and accountability tracking for AI models and agents across the AI lifecycle.

UiPath

Application

UiPath AutopilotApplication

Assistant that builds and runs automations from natural-language instructions inside the UiPath platform.

UiPath Communications MiningApplication

Extracts intent, sentiment and context data from messages and communications, part of the UiPath IXP platform.

UiPath Document UnderstandingApplication

Extracts and interprets data from documents using AI, part of the UiPath IXP platform.

UiPath IXPApplication

Intelligent Xtraction & Processing: classifies documents and communications of any layout, extracts and validates the fields, and hands the result to UiPath's agents and workflows as automation-ready data.

UiPath Maestro CaseApplication

Case-management capability of UiPath Maestro for document-heavy cases combining agents and people.

UiPath Maestro FlowApplication

Orchestrates AI agents and deterministic workflows together within UiPath Maestro.

UiPath Process IntelligenceApplication

Discovers and analyzes business processes to find automation opportunities.

UiPath ScreenPlayApplication

Executes interface automations from natural-language instructions.

Agent platform

UiPath MaestroAgent platform

Orchestrates agents, robots and people across a business process from one model of that process.

Developer tool

UiPath AI CenterDeveloper tool

Embeds machine-learning models into UiPath automations, with cloud or on-premises deployment and a 60-day free trial.

UiPath Test CloudDeveloper tool

Creates, executes and manages software tests with AI, for both automations and applications.

Platform

UiPath PlatformPlatform

Automation platform combining robotic process automation, orchestration and AI agents over enterprise workflows.

No counterpart

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

API service

IBM Watson Natural Language UnderstandingAPI service

Deep-learning text analytics service extracting entities, sentiment, emotion, concepts, semantic roles and custom classifications from unstructured text.

IBM Watson Speech to TextAPI service

A speech recognition API that converts audio into real-time or batch text for transcription, captioning and voice-analytics use cases.

IBM Watson Text to SpeechAPI service

A text-to-speech API that converts text into multilingual synthesized speech using neural voices.

Data service

IBM watsonx.dataData service

An open hybrid data lakehouse including a built-in Milvus vector database that unifies data access and automates governance for AI and analytics workloads.