{
    "title": "Zapier Alternatives 2027: 8 Paid, Free & Open-Source",
    "url": "https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/zapier/",
    "summary": "The best Zapier alternatives in 2027 are Make (best overall), Activepieces (best free plan: 1,000 credits a month) and n8n (best open source, Sustainable Use License (source-available, not OSI-approved)). Zapier itself starts at $19.99/mo. Zekai checked these prices on vendor pages on 11 Nov 2026; 5 more are compared below, including 3 open source.",
    "tool": {
        "name": "Zapier",
        "starting_price": "$19.99/mo",
        "free_plan": "100 tasks a month, 1 user",
        "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
        "pricing_url": "https://zapier.com/pricing"
    },
    "task": "Workflow automation (no-code)",
    "prices_checked": "2026-11-11",
    "date_modified": "2026-11-11",
    "alternatives": [
        {
            "name": "Make",
            "type": "Free",
            "starting_price": "Free plan; paid price not published",
            "free_plan_limit": "1,000 credits a month",
            "best_for": "Visual scenario builder with credit billing",
            "difference": "Make bills in credits, with most actions using 1 credit and some advanced AI features using more; its Free plan includes 1,000 credits a month against Zapier's 100 free tasks.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.make.com/en/pricing",
            "website": "https://www.make.com",
            "zekai_score": 8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/make/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Power Automate",
            "type": "Paid",
            "starting_price": "$15/user/mo billed yearly",
            "free_plan_limit": "No free plan",
            "best_for": "Microsoft-centred flows with desktop bots",
            "difference": "Power Automate Premium is $15 per user a month billed yearly, plus bot plans at $150 and $215 a month for unattended desktop flows, which Zapier's pricing page does not list.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/products/power-automate/pricing",
            "website": "https://powerautomate.microsoft.com",
            "zekai_score": 8.5,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/power-automate/"
        },
        {
            "name": "n8n",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "€20/mo billed yearly (hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "Sustainable Use License (source-available, not OSI-approved)",
            "best_for": "Self-hostable workflows with unlimited users",
            "difference": "n8n counts one execution per whole workflow run regardless of nodes, and Starter is €20 a month billed yearly for 2.5K executions; Zapier counts each successful action step as a task.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://n8n.io/pricing/",
            "website": "https://n8n.io",
            "repository": "https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/n8n/",
            "last_release": "2026-10-26",
            "zekai_score": 9.3,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/n8n/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Gumloop",
            "type": "Paid",
            "starting_price": "$37/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "No free plan",
            "best_for": "AI-agent workflows on a shared credit pool",
            "difference": "Gumloop's Pro plan starts at $37 a month with 20k credits and unlimited seats after a 14-day trial; its pricing page lists no free plan.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.gumloop.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://www.gumloop.com",
            "zekai_score": 8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/gumloop/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Activepieces",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "$20/mo (hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "MIT",
            "best_for": "MIT-licensed no-code automation, self-hostable",
            "difference": "Activepieces' Free plan gives 1,000 credits a month for up to 5 users, a run costs 1 credit regardless of step count, and the MIT-licensed core can be self-hosted.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.activepieces.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://www.activepieces.com",
            "repository": "https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/activepieces/",
            "zekai_score": 8.2,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/activepieces/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Windmill",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "$20/builder/mo (hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "AGPL-3.0",
            "best_for": "Code-first workflows in Python, TypeScript, Go",
            "difference": "Windmill is code-first: scripts in Python, TypeScript or Go form the flows, the free AGPL-3.0 Community Edition has unlimited executions, and a builder seat is $20 a month.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.windmill.dev/pricing",
            "website": "https://www.windmill.dev",
            "repository": "https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/windmill/",
            "last_release": "2026-10-30",
            "zekai_score": 7.5,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/windmill/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Sim",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "$25/user/mo (hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "Apache-2.0",
            "best_for": "Open-source AI agent workflow builder",
            "difference": "Sim is an Apache-2.0 platform for AI agent workflows; its Pro plan is $25 per user a month with 6,000 credits, whereas Zapier Professional serves one user.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.sim.ai/pricing",
            "website": "https://www.sim.ai",
            "repository": "https://github.com/simstudioai/sim",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/sim/",
            "zekai_score": 8.2,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/sim/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Langflow",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "MIT",
            "best_for": "Visual builder for multi-agent AI flows",
            "difference": "Langflow is an MIT-licensed visual builder for AI agent flows that installs with uv on Python 3.10-3.14 or Docker; running it yourself means no per-task billing.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://github.com/langflow-ai/langflow",
            "website": "https://www.langflow.org",
            "repository": "https://github.com/langflow-ai/langflow",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/langflow/",
            "zekai_score": 8.8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/langflow/"
        }
    ],
    "faq": [
        {
            "q": "What is the best alternative to Zapier in 2027?",
            "a": "Make is the best overall Zapier alternative on this page (Free plan; paid price not published). For no cost, Activepieces has a free plan (1,000 credits a month, up to 5 users). To self-host, n8n is open source (Sustainable Use License (source-available, not OSI-approved))."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a free version of Zapier?",
            "a": "Yes. Zapier has a free plan: 100 tasks a month, 1 user. Paid plans start at $19.99/mo, checked on 11 Nov 2026."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a 100% free alternative to Zapier?",
            "a": "Yes. n8n, Activepieces, Windmill, Sim, Langflow are open source and free to self-host. Make has a free plan with limits, shown in the table."
        },
        {
            "q": "What is cheaper than Zapier?",
            "a": "Power Automate starts at $15/user/mo billed yearly, against $19.99/mo for Zapier, as listed on each vendor's pricing page on 11 Nov 2026."
        },
        {
            "q": "How much do Zapier alternatives cost for a team of 5?",
            "a": "If each of 5 people buys the entry paid plan, at the prices Zekai checked on 11 Nov 2026, the monthly cost is Power Automate $75/mo, n8n $100/mo, Activepieces $100/mo, against Zapier $99.95/mo for Zapier. Team and business plans can cost more per seat. The Zekai Cost Finder on this page recalculates for any team size."
        },
        {
            "q": "Which is better, Make or Zapier?",
            "a": "Make bills in credits, with most actions using 1 credit and some advanced AI features using more; its Free plan includes 1,000 credits a month against Zapier's 100 free tasks. Choose Make if you run many-step scenarios and want free monthly volume measured in credits instead of tasks. Stay with Zapier if you want Zapier's own Tables and Forms products alongside your workflows in one account."
        },
        {
            "q": "Why are people leaving Zapier?",
            "a": "The documented reasons are: Zapier moved Starter customers onto Professional in April 2024; a community member noted the legacy Starter plan had 1,000 tasks while the same-price Professional tier has 750 (2 Apr 2024); Zapier's pricing page states that when tasks run out without pay-per-task billing on, Zaps pause until the next usage period, and one MCP tool call uses two tasks (11 Nov 2026). Each is sourced in the section above."
        },
        {
            "q": "What is better than Zapier?",
            "a": "It depends on the job: Make suits visual multi-step scenarios, n8n and Activepieces suit self-hosting, and Power Automate suits Microsoft environments. The table above compares each on price and free limits."
        }
    ],
    "publisher": "Zekai (zekaiwork.com) — independently reviewed; prices read on vendor pages on the dates shown.",
    "licence": "Free to quote with a link to https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/zapier/. Bulk copying or republishing the dataset is not permitted."
}