Laiye Automation (formerly UiBot)
Laiye's RPA suite, formerly UiBot, now succeeded by agentic APA
Overview
Laiye Automation (formerly UiBot) is Laiye's RPA suite — Creator for building robots visually or in Python, Worker to run them and Commander to manage them — now succeeded by Laiye APA, which adds agentic automation and imports existing processes. Free Community editions for Windows; enterprise and private deployment by quote.
Pricing
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- Laiye APA Community Edition
- Legacy RPA Community Edition for non-commercial use
- Some functional and quantity limits
- Private deployment
- Import of existing Laiye RPA processes
- Commander management
What you can produce with Laiye Automation (formerly UiBot)
- Creator studio for visual and Python automation
- Attended and unattended Worker robots
- Commander central management
- LLM, SAP and Office 365 commands
- Laiye APA agentic automation (successor)
- Private deployment for enterprises
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 and has now been folded into Laiye's agentic APA product. Its analyst and market-share claims are its own citations, and no independent reviews were found. Existing UiBot users should plan a move to APA; new buyers should evaluate APA directly.
What we found
Laiye Automation, known until November 2025 as UiBot, is the robotic process automation suite from the Chinese company Laiye (来也科技). Developers build software robots in its Creator studio using a visual flow designer or Python, with a Python 3.12 engine, .NET plugin conversion, commands for SAP, Office 365, Exchange and SharePoint, and large-language-model commands; robots then run attended or unattended on Worker and are scheduled and managed centrally through Commander. Laiye's newer Agentic Process Automation product, APA, is now its main offering: a Community Edition arrived in February 2026, later versions added self-healing of interface elements, and an Enterprise Edition released in August 2026 can import existing Laiye RPA processes. APA is the only automation product on Laiye's download page, and the old uibot.com.cn site now redirects to Laiye.
UiBot launched in January 2019 after Laiye merged with Awesome Technology, and is headquartered in Beijing's Wangjing Science Park. Laiye has raised several rounds, including a Series C co-led by Lightspeed in 2020 and a Series C+ led by Ping An Global Voyager Fund in 2021, and acquired the chatbot company Mindsay in 2022. It says it has over a million registered developers and serves more than 300 Fortune 500 and China Top 500 companies, and cites IDC as ranking it first in China's APA market in 2025 and Gartner as recognising it in its RPA Magic Quadrant — figures it reports rather than ones we checked at source. Laiye has a Singapore office, and its published case studies include Tan Chong Insure in Malaysia, which automated car-insurance renewals across more than 90 offices.
Community editions are free to download for 64-bit Windows 10 and later; the legacy RPA Community Edition is free for non-commercial use, with some functional and quantity limits. Enterprise editions, including private deployment, are sold through sales with no published prices.
PeerSpot has collected no reviews of the product. Laiye Automation suits Chinese and Southeast Asian enterprises wanting RPA with an agentic upgrade path.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
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