TOOL COMPARISONS
Automation tools, compared honestly
Real pricing, real task limits, and the trade-offs the marketing pages leave out. Starting with the tool most teams try first.
TOOL COMPARISONS
Real pricing, real task limits, and the trade-offs the marketing pages leave out. Starting with the tool most teams try first.
Founded in 2011 by Wade Foster, Bryan Helmig, and Mike Knoop, Zapier connects over 9,000 apps for workflow automation. Here's what actually shapes the buying decision.
FREE TIER
Single-step Zaps only, no multi-step workflows. Enough to test an idea, not enough to run a real process on.
ENTRY PAID TIER
Starts at 750 tasks a month, priced from roughly $20/month billed annually. Unlocks multi-step Zaps and premium app connections.
TEAM TIER
Starts at 2,000 tasks a month, priced from roughly $69/month billed annually. Adds shared workspaces and user management.
A Zapier task is one action step that runs, not one Zap. A workflow with three action steps that fires once burns three tasks. Budgeting by "how many Zaps do I need" instead of "steps times how often they run" is the most common reason people hit their plan's task limit earlier than expected.
Pricing changes over time and scales with task volume well beyond the entry tiers shown here. Check Zapier's own pricing page for current, full-scale numbers.
DEFINITION
Triggers, actions, filters, and paths, with a real example.
PRICING
What counts as a task, and what happens at your limit.
COMPARISON
Tasks vs credits, and where each platform wins.
ALTERNATIVES
Make changes the unit. n8n changes who owns the infrastructure.
There's a genuine free plan, capped at 100 tasks a month and single-step Zaps only. It's enough to test whether automation solves your problem, not enough to run a business process on.
Each action step that runs counts as one task. A Zap with three action steps that fires once uses three tasks, not one, which catches a lot of people budgeting by "number of Zaps" instead of steps times runs.
No. This is an independent comparison site. Pricing and feature details are sourced from Zapier's own public pages and cited accordingly.