Yingdao RPA 影刀 vs Laiye Automation (formerly UiBot)

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Yingdao RPA 影刀 China's low-code RPA for desktop, web and Android bots, free for perso... Visit Laiye Automation (formerly UiBot) Laiye's RPA suite, formerly UiBot, now succeeded by agentic APA Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7.6 / 10 7 / 10
Capability 8 7
Value for money 8 8
Ease of use 8 7
ASEAN readiness 5 4
API quality 6 6
Pricing Freemium Freemium
Free tier Community edition free: 1 user, personal/non-profit non-commercial use, Studio plus PC and mobile automation, partial runner, renew monthly Laiye APA Community Edition free download (Windows 10+ 64-bit); legacy RPA Community Edition free for non-commercial use, with some functional and quantity limits
Paid from Startup and Enterprise editions quoted on request Enterprise edition: contact sales (no published price)
Has API ✓ ✓
Open source ✗ ✗
Free to use ✓ ✓
Users — —
Founded 2020 2019
Maker Hangzhou Fencha Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州分叉智能科技有限公司) Laiye Technology (来也科技)
Verdict

Yingdao is an accessible, well-funded RPA platform that makes desktop and mobile automation practical for Chinese businesses without specialist developers, with a genuinely useful free edition for individuals. It is Chin...

Laiye Automation is a capable, established RPA platform with a free community edition and real enterprise and Southeast Asian deployments, but the UiBot product line went nearly three years without a community release an...

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