Zapier
Automate AI workflows, agents, and apps across 9,000+ integrations with governed AI orchestration.
Zapier is an AI orchestration platform that connects AI tools, assistants, and developers to 9,000+ apps through MCP and SDK integrations. It enables teams to build AI workflows, agents, and chatbots with enterprise-grade governance, complete visibility, and centralized authentication. Trusted by 3 million+ businesses, it helps organizations automate processes safely while maintaining IT control and compliance.
How we scored it
A weighted average of the 4 dimensions below, each judged 0–10 from published pricing, vendor documentation and independent user feedback. We do not run hands-on tests, and no vendor has any say in a score.
2 further dimensions are not scored for this product yet, so they are left out of the average rather than counted as zero. How the score works.
What it actually costs
Intro pricing shown — see the renewal note for what you'll pay after the introductory term. We don't hide the second-act price.
Free
Free forever; 100 tasks per month; Unlimited Zaps, Tables, and Forms; Two-step Zaps; Zapier Copilot.
Professional
Displayed as "Starting from $19.99/month"; includes multi-step Zaps, Unlimited Premium apps, Webhooks, email and live chat support, AI fields, conditional form logic.
Team
Displayed as "Starting from $69/month"; key features list includes 25 users, shared Zaps/folders, shared app connections, SAML SSO, priority support.
What to check before you commit to Zapier
A tool is judged on what it costs once it is adopted, not what it costs to try. These are the four things that change that number.
The price once it is adopted
At $19.99 a seat, five people is $99.95 a month ($1199.40 a year) and ten is $199.90 ($2398.80 a year). Tools are bought one seat at a time and paid for by the dozen.
Where the usage ceiling sits
Credits, generations, exports and API calls are the lines that run out mid-month. Find what happens when you hit the cap — hard stop, throttle, or an overage rate you have not budgeted for.
What the free tier is really for
A free tier is an evaluation, not a plan. Check which limit you would hit first in real use, because that is the one that decides when you start paying.
Getting your work back out
Export formats decide how reversible this decision is. A tool that only exports to its own format costs more to leave than its price suggests.
These are the checks we apply across developer tools, in the same order, so two pages can be compared line for line.
How much does Zapier really cost?
Our calculation from the vendor's published prices — not a figure the vendor advertises.
The headline price covers an allowance. Cost rises with what you use, so the figure to plan around is your expected volume, not the entry price. Plans use task-based (pay-per-task / task tiers) billing; plan price grants a task allowance per month and higher usage increases cost by selecting larger task tiers or add-ons.
We have not verified whether this plan is charged per seat, so a team cost would be a guess.
- The vendor does not publish a renewal price, so three-year totals assume today's price holds.
- No annual price recorded, so annual figures are twelve times the monthly price.
Work out your own cost
- Whether this plan is charged per seat is not published, so the figure below is for one subscription.
- No renewal increase is published, so today's price is held flat.
Zapier against the field
The highest-scoring alternatives in the same category, compared on the figures we hold for all of them.
| ZapierThis page | Supabase | GitHub | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ReviewCost score | 7.7/10 | 8.8/10 | 8.6/10 |
| Cheapest plan | Free | — | — |
| From | — | — | — |
| Renews at | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Biggest strength | — | Postgres foundation means you're not locked into a proprietary database — you can self-host or migrate if needed | GitHub Copilot demonstrably accelerates development — customers like Duolingo report 25% speed gains and Mercado Libre cuts coding time by 50% |
| Biggest drawback | — | Dashboard can be overwhelming for developers new to Postgres — the SQL editor and migration tools assume some database literacy | Pricing can become punitive at scale — enterprise features and Copilot seats add up quickly for larger teams, making alternatives like GitLab worth evaluating |
Prices are the published figures at the time of writing and change often. Renewal pricing is shown where the vendor publishes it. See how we review.
What people ask about Zapier
Straight answers to what buyers actually ask, drawn from the documentation and published user reports.
Is Zapier actually providing AI orchestration or just API connectivity to AI services?
How do I estimate my monthly task consumption accurately?
Should I choose Zapier over Make or n8n in 2026?
Can Zapier handle business-critical workflows reliably?
What does the free tier actually let me do?
Page history
- Published
- 12 September 2026
- Last updated
- 1 October 2026
- Pricing checked against vendor
- 1 October 2026
Sources & verification
Pricing on this page was taken from the vendor's published pricing page on 1 October 2026.
- What’s included in Zapier's Free plan?Official documentation · Zapier Help Center · read 1 October 2026
- Plans & Pricing | ZapierOfficial pricing page · Zapier · read 1 October 2026