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Prices and features checked against each vendor on September 28, 2026.
Zapier is the best-known no-code automation service, connecting thousands of apps through workflows called Zaps and, more recently, adding Tables, Interfaces, Chatbots and Agents as separate products. As of September 2026 the pricing page lists a Free plan with 100 tasks a month and two-step Zaps only, Professional from $29.99 per month, or $19.99 billed annually, for 750 tasks, Team from $103.50 per month, or $69 annually, for 2,000 tasks with up to 25 users, and a custom Enterprise plan with annual task limits. Both paid tiers scale up to 2 million tasks a month at several thousand dollars.
Task pricing is the reason most people leave. Zapier's help center defines a task as each successful run of an action step, so a five-step Zap that fires 100 times a month consumes 400 or more tasks, and the 750 tasks on the entry Professional tier go quickly once you automate anything with real volume. Multi-step Zaps, premium apps and webhooks are all locked behind Professional, which means the Free plan cannot do much beyond a single trigger and action, and Team starts at $103.50 per month for 2,000 tasks. Polling is every 2 minutes on Professional and 1 minute on Team, so instant triggers depend on the app supporting them.
The second reason is that Zapier's newer AI products are billed separately. Agents have their own free tier and a Pro tier at roughly $33.33 per month on annual billing, and Chatbots are priced from about $13.33 to $66.67 per month, so a stack that uses Zaps, an agent and a chatbot ends up with three line items. Several alternatives below count operations differently, do not charge for internal steps like filters and formatters, or can be self-hosted for the price of a small server.
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Best for: People who want a visual builder with more included volume per dollar and 1-minute scheduling on the first paid plan.
Make is a visual automation builder where you draw scenarios on a canvas, with routers, filters, error handling and an API. The Free plan includes 1,000 credits a month, two active scenarios and a 15-minute minimum interval; the Make plan is $9 per month, with at least 15 percent off on annual billing, for 5,000 credits, unlimited active scenarios, a 1-minute interval, custom variables, full-text log search and AI Agents in beta; the Company tier is custom priced with 24/7 support and overage protection. At $9 for 5,000 credits it is a much lower entry point than Zapier Professional at $29.99 for 750 tasks, though credits and tasks are not counted identically.
Best for: Technical teams who want per-execution pricing with unlimited steps, or a free self-hosted option.
n8n is a node-based automation platform with a free, self-hosted Community edition on GitHub and a hosted cloud service. The cloud plans are Starter at 20 euros per month billed annually for 2,500 workflow executions, Pro at 50 euros per month for 10,000 executions, Business at 667 euros per month for 40,000 executions, and Enterprise on request. Every plan counts a full workflow run as one execution regardless of how many steps it contains, which is the opposite of Zapier's per-action task model and the main reason multi-step automations cost less here. Self-hosting removes the execution limit entirely at the cost of running it yourself.
Best for: Small businesses that want a Zapier-style tool with more tasks per dollar and ready-made one-click automations.
Integrately is a task-based automation service with a large library of pre-built automations and a Zapier-like editor. The Free plan includes 100 tasks with 15-minute updates and five premium apps; Starter is $19.99 per month billed annually for 2,000 tasks, 5-minute updates, webhooks and multi-step automations for a single user; Professional is $39 per month for 10,000 tasks with 2-minute updates, unlimited apps, branching logic and a scheduler; Growth is $99 per month for 30,000 tasks with unlimited users, and Business is $239 per month for 150,000 tasks. Starter offers nearly three times the tasks of Zapier Professional at the annual price.
Best for: Individuals automating personal apps and smart-home devices for a few dollars a month.
IFTTT connects consumer apps and devices with simple applets and is much cheaper than Zapier for personal use. The Free plan allows 2 applets with standard speeds and unlimited runs; Pro is $2.99 per month, or $35.88 per year, for 20 applets with the fastest speeds, multi-action applets, webhooks and increased rate limits; Pro+ is $8.99 per month, or $107.88 per year, for unlimited applets plus AI services, multiple account connections and queries with filter code. It is not built for business data pipelines, but for a person who used Zapier for a handful of personal automations it removes the task ceiling for under $10.
Best for: Buyers who resent paying for filters and formatters, or who want a lifetime deal instead of a subscription.
Pabbly Connect is a multi-step automation platform whose pricing page states that internal apps such as Filter, Router, Text Formatter, Iterator, Delay and Email Parser do not count as tasks, so only external actions consume your allowance. The page prices in Indian rupees: a Free plan with 100 tasks a month, a Standard plan with 10,000 tasks a month, an Unlimited plan, and one-time lifetime plans with 3,000, 10,000 or 20,000 tasks a month forever, so check the vendor's pricing page for the amount in your currency. All plans include unlimited workflows, unlimited team members, instant webhooks and unlimited premium apps.
Best for: Organizations on Microsoft 365 that want cloud flows plus desktop automation under a per-user license.
Power Automate is Microsoft's automation service for cloud flows, attended and unattended desktop flows, and process mining, and it is priced per user or per bot rather than per task. Power Automate Premium is $15 per user per month paid yearly and covers cloud flows, attended desktop flows and process and task mining with 50 MB of storage; Power Automate Process is $150 per bot per month paid yearly for unattended desktop flows with a Microsoft-hosted virtual machine option; a Process Mining add-on is $5,000 per tenant per month. It makes most sense when the apps you are connecting are already Microsoft ones.
Best for: Teams that were paying for Zapier Agents and want an AI teammate that works from Slack with credits per user.
Lindy is an AI teammate that lives in Slack, runs scheduled routines, manages meetings, connects to thousands of tools and supports approvals and computer use, which overlaps with what Zapier Agents and Chatbots offer as add-ons. Plans are Plus at $29.99 per user per month with 3,000 credits, Pro at $99.99 per user with 15,000 credits, Max at $199.99 per user with 35,000 credits, and Enterprise with HIPAA support and pooled usage. Lindy's page describes everyday asks costing 2 to 250 credits and deep work costing 250 to 1,000, so the monthly allowance goes further on simple tasks. It replaces the agent layer rather than the classic trigger-and-action Zap.
For most small businesses, Make at $9 per month for 5,000 credits or Integrately Starter at $19.99 for 2,000 tasks will cut the bill without a change in approach. Teams with a developer should try n8n, where a whole multi-step run is one execution and self-hosting is free. Personal users should move to IFTTT Pro at $2.99, Microsoft shops should price Power Automate Premium at $15 per user, and anyone who bought Zapier for its Agents add-on should compare Lindy.
