Activepieces — An open-source, AI-first workflow automation platform with 700+ integrations, free self-hosting under MIT, and cloud plans from $16/month.
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Best for: teams that want Zapier-style automation but need self-hosting, SOC 2/GDPR compliance, or freedom from per-task pricing
Pricing: Free self-hosted Community Edition or free cloud tier; Plus $16/month billed yearly, Team $166/month for 25 users, Ultimate custom.
- Activepieces' Community Edition is MIT-licensed and free to self-host with unlimited flows, runs, and users.
- Cloud Plus plan costs $16/month billed yearly for up to 5 users with 3x the free tier's credits.
- Cloud Team plan costs $166/month billed yearly for 25 users, with SSO and unlimited projects.
- Activepieces connects 700+ apps including Gmail, Slack, HubSpot, and OpenAI.
- The GitHub repository has 23.9k stars, with 60% of integration pieces community-contributed.
Limitations: AI agents, chat automation, and API access are excluded from the free self-hosted edition.; Team plan pricing jumps sharply from the 5-user Plus tier to the 25-user Team tier.; Smaller integration library than long-established competitors like Zapier.
Top alternatives: Zapier, Make, n8n, Pipedream, Workato — full list
What is Activepieces?
Activepieces is a workflow automation tool built to connect SaaS applications through triggers and actions, similar in shape to Zapier or n8n but released as open source. Teams build flows with a drag-and-drop builder, and the platform positions itself as "AI-first," offering an AI agent builder and a chat-to-automation feature that turns a natural-language request into a working flow. The project runs a dual-licensing model: the Community Edition is MIT-licensed and free to self-host with no cap on flows, runs, or users, but it strips out AI agents, chat automation, tables, MCP connectivity, and API access, along with team-management features like SSO and audit logs. Those pieces are reserved for Activepieces' paid Cloud tiers or a commercial license for self-hosted enterprise deployments. Activepieces targets both technical builders and non-technical staff across sales, marketing, support, finance, HR, IT, and engineering functions, and is positioned by its maintainers as a governed, auditable alternative to Zapier for teams that need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance or the ability to self-host for data residency reasons.
Activepieces is an open-source automation platform, backed by Y Combinator, that lets teams build no-code workflows connecting 700+ apps like Gmail, Slack, HubSpot, and OpenAI. The MIT-licensed Community Edition is free to self-host via Docker or Helm with unlimited flows, runs, and users, though it excludes AI agents, chat-to-automation, and admin features like SSO. Activepieces' hosted cloud starts free (unlimited flows with daily credits), moves to a Plus plan at $16/month (billed yearly) for up to 5 users with 3x the credits and bring-your-own AI keys, and a Team plan at $166/month for 25 users adding SSO and unlimited projects; Ultimate is custom-priced for enterprise governance. On Product Hunt it holds a 5.0/5 rating from 7 reviews, and the GitHub repo has 23.9k stars with 60% of its integration "pieces" community-contributed.
Standout feature: MIT-licensed Community Edition can be self-hosted for free with unlimited flows and runs, with no artificial cap on automation volume the way per-task pricing on closed competitors imposes.
Biggest weakness: The free self-hosted Community Edition excludes AI agents, chat-to-automation, API access, and admin controls like SSO and audit logs, so teams that want those features are pushed to a paid Cloud plan or commercial license despite the open-source branding.
Pros
- MIT-licensed Community Edition is genuinely free to self-host with unlimited flows, runs, and users.
- 700+ integrations including Gmail, Slack, HubSpot, and OpenAI, with 60% of pieces community-contributed.
- SOC 2 Type II and GDPR-compliant cloud hosting for teams that need it without self-hosting.
- AI agent builder and chat-to-automation for turning natural-language requests into flows.
Cons
- AI agents, chat automation, and API access are withheld from the free self-hosted edition.
- Team plan jumps to $166/month for 25 users, a steep step up from the $16/month Plus tier's 5-user cap.
- Enterprise features (SCIM, custom roles, audit logs) require contacting sales for custom Ultimate pricing.
- Younger project than Zapier or Make, so its integration library, while growing fast, is smaller than established competitors.
Activepieces pricing
Free tier · paid from $16/mo · verified from the vendor's pricing page
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Cloud-hosted; unlimited flows, daily credits, chat-to-automation, agents, tables, MCP, and API access. No card required. |
| Plus | $16/mo | Billed yearly; up to 5 users, 3x the credits of Free, pay-as-you-go overage, bring-your-own AI keys. |
| Team | $166/mo | Billed yearly; 25 included users ($25/user/month beyond that), unlimited separate projects, SSO, standard roles, email support. |
| Ultimate | Custom | Custom pricing; adds Git Sync, releases, SCIM, custom roles, audit logs, secrets managers, dedicated workers and support. |
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