Alternatives to Zapier
Connect 7,000+ apps without code.
- What is Zapier?
- Zapier is a no-code automation service that connects SaaS apps so an event in one triggers actions in another.
- What does it do?
- Builds Zaps — a trigger in one app followed by a chain of actions in others — with filters, branching paths, delays, schedules and data formatting steps. Also offers stored tables and simple internal forms.
- Who is it for?
- Operations, marketing and sales people wiring tools together without engineering help. Developers who want version control, local testing and code-first workflows tend to find it limiting.
- What are the alternatives to Zapier?
- Make and IFTTT are visual counterparts; n8n, Activepieces, Windmill, Huginn and Node-RED can be self-hosted; Pipedream, Trigger.dev and Inngest are code-first and aimed at developers.
Pricing
$19.99/mo (Professional)
Freemium
About
Founded 2011
Remote (USA)
Founders
The people behind Zapier.
About Zapier
Zapier is the integration platform that defined the category and still leads it on integration breadth — 7,000+ apps, including obscure SaaS that no competitor will ever support. The reliability is excellent and the no-code surface is approachable. The trade-off: pricing is per-task and stacks fast, premium apps are gated to higher tiers, and the platform's not designed for complex branching workflows. For one-zap-here-and-there use, this is the right answer. For real workflow automation, n8n is the alternative founders increasingly reach for.
✓Best for
- Teams stitching 5–20 SaaS tools together with simple if-this-then-that flows
- Cases where you'd otherwise pay an engineer to write throwaway integration code
- Anyone whose required apps include 'long tail' SaaS that only Zapier supports
Top alternatives
Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with Zapier.
Visual automation platform.
Bigger competitor, much more visual + flexible than Zapier.
Self-hostable workflow automation.
Self-hostable, dev-friendly Zapier with fair-code licence.
Code + no-code workflow automation.
Smaller team, much more powerful for developers.
Open-source background jobs for devs.
Code-first alternative if you'd rather not click-build workflows.
Event-driven workflows for developers.
team — durable workflows in code.
Open-source dev platform for internal tools + workflows.
Self-hostable OSS alternative for technical teams.