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Register entry · Agent-building platforms · updated 26 Sept 2026
Activepieces
Activepieces is a no-code automation platform (a YC-backed Zapier alternative) that now bundles flows, AI agents, chat and tables in one workspace. The Community Edition core is MIT-licensed and self-hostable; paid plans add team controls, agents and chat on Activepieces Cloud (EU region, Frankfurt) or on the customer's own servers. Integrations ('pieces') are open-source TypeScript packages, and the platform exposes them over MCP.
What reviewers and users praise
- MIT-licensed core, which users contrast favourably with n8n's fair-code licence (Reddit, HN)
- Seen as cleaner and easier for less technical users (Reddit)
- Independent reviewers rate it well for privacy-conscious teams wanting self-hosting (agent-finder.co)
What they criticise
- Smaller integration catalogue and community than n8n, per users (Reddit)
- SOC 2 still in progress per the vendor's own pricing FAQ
- Security advisories in 2026 include an unauthenticated queue-dashboard exposure and a sandbox bypass
Experts vs the crowdneeds both scores
Experts—
Crowd54
| Price | Free, paid from $20 |
|---|---|
| Use it via | Web app, API, MCP server |
| Runs on | web, linux, macos, windows |
| Licence | MIT |
| Updated | Evidence collected 26 Sept 2026 |
How the rating was worked out
Weights for Agent-building platforms: adoption 35%, experts 35%, crowd 30%. Pillars without enough evidence are left out and the others re-weighted. The method.
| Adoption & momentumweight 35% | 81 | GitHub stars 25k → 73 · 31 releases in 90 days → 100reach × 0.7 + momentum × 0.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Expertsindependent reviews · weight 35% | — | Only 1 independent review (3 needed) |
| Crowdcommunity sample · weight 30% | 54 | 8 dated posts from reddit, hackernews: 4 positive · 1 mixed · 3 negative (positive + ½ mixed) ÷ n, averaged toward 50 for small samples |
| Rating | 68 | Provisional: low confidence (2 of 3 pillars, 8 community posts). |
Evidence checks. 1 review from tool directories, AI-written pages or unnamed authors not counted. 2 posts over the three-per-thread limit not counted. How evidence is checked.
Trust & safety
Seven dimensions graded A–D from documented facts. Overall: B.
n/e
Permission model
Not established from documentation.
n/e
Data access scope
Not established; Ultimate plan adds custom roles and SCIM. source
A
Data storage
Pricing FAQ: data can live in 'our EU cloud in Frankfurt, another region on request, or your own servers'; Community Edition is self-hostable. source
n/e
Data retention & training
No AI-training or retention statement found on pages reviewed.
C
Incident history (24 months)
9 GitHub security advisories published 2024-09-26 to 2026-09-26: 1 critical, 3 high, 4 medium, 1 low; fixes released. source
B
Compliance
Pricing FAQ (2026-09-26): 'Our SOC 2 program is in progress, so we will not claim a certification we do not hold yet.' A March 2025 LinkedIn post by a co-founder claimed SOC 2 Type II; the current vendor page is used. source
A
Transparency
Community Edition core under MIT with public GitHub releases; enterprise features in separately licensed folders (GitHub reports the repo licence as NOASSERTION for that reason). source
The experts
2 named independent reviews found; dated reviews from the last 12 months are scored.
- positive
Activepieces Review: Quick Verdict ; Best For, Small businesses and technical teams that value open-source flexibility and deployment control.
Noderidge · 21 Jul 2026 · noderidge.com - positive
Activepieces is the right tool for operations teams, developers, and growing businesses that are hitting unpredictable cost ceilings on Zapier
Aheri Systems · — · aherisystems.com
The crowd
8 coded posts from reddit, hackernews.
4 positive1 mixed3 negative
- positive
el plan gratuito del cloud es mucho mas generoso... es ilimitado siempre y cuando no se muy complejo. para pequenos proeyctos va como pina el Activepieces
r/n8n · 24 Jul 2026 · reddit.com - negative
I’ve tried both and stuck with n8n as a developer. Far more flexible and robust and easy to debug.
r/n8n · 6 Jun 2026 · reddit.com - positive
Activepieces is MIT, so you can do anything, including embed it in your own product and resell it.
r/n8n · 4 Jun 2026 · reddit.com - mixed
n8n has more connectors and a bigger community. Activepieces feels cleaner for certain use cases.
r/n8n · 13 Jun 2026 · reddit.com - negative
Has activepieces been abandoned? Their sales contact form has been broken for days.
r/automation · 22 Oct 2025 · reddit.com - positive
Try activepieces, they never did any bait and switch.
N8n added native persistent storage with DataTables · 2 Oct 2025 · news.ycombinator.com - positive
I cannot believe there has been no mention of things like n8n, activepieces and windmill in this thread.
A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong · 22 Feb 2026 · news.ycombinator.com - negative
We've tried N8N, zapier, windmill, activepieces, flowfuse, crosser and can't for the life of me get off node-red.
N8n added native persistent storage with DataTables · 12 Oct 2025 · news.ycombinator.com
Pricing
As published, checked 26 Sept 2026.
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Community Edition (self-hosted) | Free | MIT-licensed automation core. |
| Free (cloud) | Free | 100 credits a day; no card required. |
| Plus | $20 / monthly | 10,000 credits/month, up to 5 users, then $0.007/credit. |
| Team | $200 / monthly | 50,000 credits/month, 25 users. |
| Ultimate | Custom | Custom; SCIM, custom roles, audit logs to SIEM. |
Recent changes
Ranked alongside
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Sources
Every figure above traces to one of these, observed up to 26 Sept 2026.