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Best value for complex, high-volume automation
Make offers substantially more logic per pound than Zapier: a proper canvas with routers, iterators and error branches, at a fraction of the per-operation cost. The trade is a steeper learning curve and a smaller app library.
Free plan
paid from $9/mo
Best app coverage and the easiest automation tool to adopt
Zapier is the broadest automation platform by a wide margin and the easiest for non-technical staff to adopt. Its per-task pricing is the most expensive in the category at volume, which is the trade for that coverage.
Free plan
paid from $19.99/mo
Best for developers gluing internal APIs together
Pipedream is an integration platform aimed squarely at developers: prebuilt components where convenient, Node, Python, Go or Bash where not. Enormously productive if you code, largely pointless if you do not.
Free plan
paid from $24/mo
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