Power Automate vs Custom Development: Proven Smart Guide
Power Automate makes automation look like a Tuesday afternoon of clicking, and for a large class of processes that is exactly right. For another class it becomes the flow nobody can change, debug or licence affordably eighteen months later. This guide compares Power Automate against custom workflow development on the things that actually decide it: where each wins outright, how the licensing meter behaves past the pilot, five-year total cost, governance and ALM, throughput ceilings, security, and the hybrid pattern mature teams settle on — with four comparison tables, a five-question test and a 90-day plan to replace the guess with evidence.
