Power Automate Process’s Unattended RPA problem

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When Power Automate Process is used in Unattended RPA, can I just purchase one Power Automate Process as long as it’s not executing multiple processes on multiple computers at the same time?
If I have a process that needs to be executed using Unattended RPA mode, do I need to check the option at the location indicated in the figure below for this process? or is it only required for DPA?
3. Previously, in order to use a Unattended RPA, in addition to purchasing a fully automated license, a per user license was also required. However, now, if you only need Power Automate Process, can a user design RPA without a per user license? If so, when calling Power Automate Desktop processes, will attended mode be unavailable?

4.If I have a machine group that executes one Unattended RPA process and this machine group has five computers, do I need to purchase one Power Automate Process or five?

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1. Yes. A single Process license will cover 1 concurrent unattended desktop flow.

2. This would be needed if you have a cloud flow that does not run a desktop flow. In such a case, you would need to have a Process license for each flow like that. If your cloud flows do call desktop flows, you're good to go.

3. You do not need a Premium license in addition to the Process license. But if the user does not have a Premium license, attended flows will not be available, including running the flow from the PAD console directly on the machine.

4. If you have a machine group and a single license, only one flow will still run anyway at the same time, regardless of the number of machines in the group. If you want to run more than one desktop flow concurrently, you need a Process license for each concurrent run slot.

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Hi Agnius super thanks your reply, but I stiil have little confused
1. If I stagger the execution times of the processes, do I just need to purchase one Power Automate Process license?
3."running the flow from the PAD console directly on the machine"So, designing the processes and registering the machines are both fine? The only limitation comes in the execution mode based on different licenses, it's correct?

In that case, for the Power Automate Premium and Power Automate Process licenses, if used in RPA, the only difference lies in the Unattended mode or Attended mode, right? Everything else is the same, isn't it?

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1. Yes. If you're fine with running one unattended desktop flow at a time, and having no attended desktop flows, or cloud flows that do not run any desktop flows, you're good to go with a single PA Process license.

3. Yes, that is correct.

The major difference (apart from the attended/unattended desktop flows which you mentioned) also lies in the fact that a Premium license is assigned to a user and spans across the environments that the user has access to, while the Process license is assigned to an environment and applies to all users who have access to that environment. So, if you have several environments (DEV/TEST/PROD), a single Process license will not be enough. In cases like those, I would recommend getting Premium licenses for the developers working in DEV/TEST environments and getting a Process license for the PROD environment.

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Hi @Agnius , If I have Power Automate process license can I develop and run desktop flows in Attended and unattended mode within same environment? or Do I need to purchase per user License for development and running flow in Attended mode ?

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Yes. The Process license only supports unattended desktop flows. If you also want attended desktop flows, you need the Premium license, too.

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Thanks @Agnius But I still have a doubt whether Can I Develop desktop flow using Process license and run it in unattended mode? or will I need Power Automate premium for development?

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Yes, but only in a single environment, as the Process license is assigned per environment. So, if you want to have a DEV and PROD environment setup or something like that, you will still need a Premium license for development in other environments.

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