Automation Anywhere vs AI Agents: Why Your 'Smart' Bot Is Still Copy-Pasting Like a Human
Your company spent $750 per month on Automation Anywhere. You got one unattended bot and one bot developer. You still have three people copy-pasting data from Excel into Salesforce every day. This is absurd. Manual data entry costs U.S. companies $28,500 per employee annually. You are burning that money just to avoid writing one automation script.
Automation Anywhere Is Still 2020
Automation Anywhere calls itself 'agentic automation.' It's not. It's RPA with a marketing budget. You drag and drop a bot. It clicks buttons. You hardcode every step. If a website changes, your bot breaks. You need a developer to fix it. That's not agentic. That's not AI. That's a very expensive macro recorder. The real problem is that Automation Anywhere pricing is structured around bot licenses, not results. You pay per bot, per month. The more users you have, the more licenses you buy. You're paying for potential, not productivity. Meanwhile, your employees are still doing the work.
AI Agents Actually Do Things
- ●AI agents don't click buttons. They understand what to do.
- ●They handle unexpected errors. 'The button moved to the right' is not an edge case.
- ●They can learn from mistakes without you writing code.
- ●They work across browsers, desktop apps, and terminals.
- ●They can execute in parallel on cloud VMs for speed.
OSWorld 2026 benchmark: OpenAI Operator scored 38%. Anthropic Claude Computer Use scored 72%. Coasty scored 82%. That's not a typo. Your 'smart' automation tool fails 62% of basic tasks. The next best option fails 28%.
The ROI Math Doesn't Work
Let's do the math. Automation Anywhere Cloud Starter Pack: $750 per month. That's $9,000 per year for one bot and one developer. If your data entry person costs $70,000 per year, you just bought them a $9,000 assistant that still needs human supervision. RPA maintenance runs 20-30% of initial development cost annually. AI agent maintenance runs 10-15%. The gap widens over time. RPA breaks more often as systems change. AI agents adapt. You're paying more for something that breaks more often. That is not a good deal.
Why Coasty Exists
Coasty is the only AI computer use agent that actually works. We scored 82% on OSWorld, the leading benchmark for multimodal agents. That's higher than OpenAI and Anthropic. Why? Because we control real desktops, browsers, and terminals. We don't just make API calls. We see what you see. We click what you click. We type what you type. You get a true computer-using AI that can automate any task, not just the ones you pre-programmed. Coasty runs on desktop apps, cloud VMs, and even agent swarms for parallel execution. Free tier available. BYOK supported. Start automating today and stop paying people to copy-paste.
Your company is wasting money on Automation Anywhere and still doing manual work. That's not automation. That's expensive software that doesn't work. AI computer use agents are here. They actually do things. They handle errors. They learn. They scale. Coasty is the #1 computer use agent on OSWorld at 82%. If you care about ROI, you'll stop buying licenses and start building real automation. Visit coasty.ai to see what a computer use agent can actually do.