9 Best Zapier Alternatives of 2026

Make is the natural next step for Zapier users whose workflows have outgrown a straight line. Scenarios are drawn on a visual canvas, and Make says it connects 3,500+ apps out of the box. Billing is in credits: each module action usually costs 1 credit, while the router and error handler modules (Rollback, Break, Resume, Commit, Ignore) cost nothing, so branching logic does not inflate the bill the way extra Zap steps can. The Free plan includes 1,000 credits a month. When credits run low you can buy bundles of 1,000 or 10,000 at your plan's fixed rate or turn on auto-purchase on Core, Pro and Teams, and incoming webhooks queue up rather than vanish if you do run out. Companies under 20 employees can apply for the Start-up Plan at 50% off Business. The pricing page did not show plan prices to us, so the starting price is pending, and AI steps can use more than 1 credit.

Activepieces is the alternative to try if Zapier's per-seat and per-task jumps are the main complaint. The Free plan includes 1,000 credits a month, unlimited flows and up to 5 users, with flows, agents, tables, MCPs and API access all available. Plus costs $20 flat per month for 10 times the Free allowance and still covers up to 5 users, then charges $0.007 per credit past the allowance. Team is $200 flat a month with 25 users, SSO and email support. Every plan lists cloud or on-prem hosting, and the 770+ pieces are open source, which helps teams that want to read or extend the integration code. The trade-offs are a smaller catalog than Make or Zapier, a daily reset on free credits, and a large gap between the Plus and Team tiers once a company needs more than 5 users.

n8n is the strongest pick for Zapier users whose bills grow because their workflows have many steps. Every plan is priced on monthly workflow executions, and n8n says each execution includes unlimited steps, so a long enrichment or AI chain counts once per run. All plans include unlimited users, workflows and every integration, and n8n states it only charges when a workflow runs from start to finish. The hosted Starter plan includes 2.5k executions and 5 concurrent runs with agents, MCP and AI nodes; Pro raises that to 10k executions and up to 50 concurrent. Business adds SSO, LDAP, Git version control and queue mode, but runs self-hosted only. The Community Edition is free on your own servers. Prices displayed in EUR from our location, so the USD entry price is pending, and the editor expects more technical comfort than Zapier.

Latenode takes a different route from Zapier's task model: it charges for how long workflows run, measured in CPU seconds, and says unlimited workflow steps do not multiply the bill. The Free plan includes 10,000 CPU seconds a month, which Latenode puts at up to 10,000 quick runs of about one second each, with 5 active workflows and 3 minutes per run. After that, pay as you go has no base fee and uses tiered rates starting at $0.00012 per CPU second; the vendor's own example puts 100,000 one-second runs at $10.80 a month. Scaling unlocks unlimited active scenarios, 5 parallel workers and 30-day run history. Builders can write JavaScript in any node, automate websites with a headless browser and use 335+ LLM models, and a migration calculator compares bills against Zapier, Make and n8n. Runtime billing is harder to forecast for slow API calls.

Albato is a close match for how Zapier works, at a lower price per month. The Free plan gives 100 transactions, 5 active automations with 2 steps each, unlimited apps and connections, and a 15-minute update interval. Pro costs $15 a month billed annually, or $22 month to month, includes 1K transactions and a 7-day trial, and removes the automation and step limits while adding data migration with auto replay, parallel scenario execution, Albato AI, AI Agents and a 5-minute update interval. Extra transactions on Pro cost $0.0330 each. Teams is $65 a month billed annually from 5K transactions with 5 seats, roles and projects, which suits agencies. Albato also sells an embedded iPaaS and a universal MCP that lets AI agents reach its 1,000+ connectors. The app catalog is smaller than Make's, so check niche apps first.

Integrately suits Zapier users who mostly connect common apps and would rather pick a ready automation than design one. The site advertises 20 million+ ready automations for 1,500+ apps that can be switched on in one click. The Free plan includes 100 tasks with single-step automations and a 15-minute interval. Starter is $19.99 a month billed annually for 2,000 tasks, multiple steps, 5-minute webhooks, branching with paths and routers, and 1 user. Professional is $39 a month billed annually for 10,000 tasks with unlimited automations and 2-minute intervals, and the page sets it against a popular alternative it says charges $129 for that volume. Growth and Business tiers add more tasks and an account manager. Live chat support runs 24*5 on every plan. Complex logic and data handling are thinner than on Make or n8n, so it fits simple, high-volume app syncs best.

Pabbly Connect targets Zapier's pricing head on, and its pricing page lists what Zapier charges next to each tier. A task is counted only when an action runs on an external app; internal apps such as Filter, Router, Text Formatter and Number Formatter are free, and the checks it makes for new data count as operations, which are unlimited. That makes workflows with lots of logic cheaper than the step count suggests. The Free plan gives 100 tasks a month with no credit card, the Standard plan includes 10,000 tasks a month, and every plan has unlimited workflows. Builders get a JavaScript and Python module and automatic re-execution of failed or skipped steps. Pabbly also offers multi-year and one-time payment options and a 30-day refund guarantee. Prices displayed in INR from our location, so the USD entry price is pending, and team members require a yearly plan.

Power Automate is the logical Zapier alternative for companies that already live in Microsoft 365. Premium costs $15.00 per user a month, paid yearly, and covers cloud flows with premium connectors, attended desktop flows for robotic process automation, and process and task mining with 50 MB of data stored. Because it is licensed per user, a heavy individual workflow does not hit a task cap the way it can on Zapier. Microsoft lists more than 1,000 API connectors plus custom connectors, native experiences in Teams, Excel and SharePoint, and Copilot for building flows from plain language. Unattended bots that run without a person are licensed separately: Process is $150.00 per bot a month and Hosted Process $215.00, both paid yearly. There is a 30-day trial. Licensing has more moving parts than Zapier, and outside the Microsoft stack it loses much of its appeal.

IFTTT is the cheap answer for people who used Zapier for personal automations rather than business processes. It connects 1,000+ services through Applets, and every plan, including Free, allows unlimited Applets with all features unlocked. Credits power Applet runs, MCP usage and AI features. Free includes 1,000 credits a month, Starter is $2.09 a month billed annually ($25.08 a year) for 5,000 credits with faster Applet speeds, Pro is $5.49 a month billed annually for 20,000 credits with priority speeds, and Pro+ is $13.99 a month billed annually for 100,000 credits, the fastest speeds and multiple accounts per service. Applets can include IFTTT's AI Agent, Summarizer and Translator. The trade-off is depth: IFTTT is designed around simple trigger and action pairs, so lead routing, data transformation or multi-branch business workflows belong on Make, n8n or Activepieces instead.