Power Automate
A maker builds the flow. AI actions and approvals are steps in it, and the maker's conditions decide what happens next.
Malleable vs. Power Automate
Power Automate builds flows across Microsoft 365, and Copilot can draft them. Malleable runs operations that reach past your tenant. Your team sets the steps, and anyone it needs can answer from a link.
In common: Both work across Microsoft 365 and other apps and mix AI with fixed steps.
The main difference
What happens when a case doesn't fit the flow?
Malleable
The AI works out what the case needs, at the steps where your team allows it. If something is missing, it looks it up or asks the right person. The fixed steps still run the same way every time.
Side by side
How they compare
Each row is something you can check in a demo, or in the other tool's docs.
Power Automate
Malleable
Fixed steps and AI judgment
Power Automate
A flow a maker draws. AI actions are steps in it, and the drawn paths decide what happens next.Malleable
An AI agent runs the whole operation and works out cases nobody planned for. Your team locks the steps that must run the same way every time.People outside your company
Power Automate
Approvals go only to people in your Microsoft tenant.Malleable
Anyone can answer from a secure link, with no account.Changing it
Power Automate
A maker edits the flow, then tests and deploys it.Malleable
Your team says what changed, in plain English. No builder needed.Already using Power Automate?
Keep the flows that work. A Malleable operation can start a flow with a web request, and a flow can start an operation the same way. No special connector needed.
When to choose Malleable
- The work crosses teams and waits on people, inside or outside your company.
- The same work comes up again and again, and parts of it need judgment.
- The people who run it need to change it themselves.