Best Free Plans for Workflow Automation Tools
With workflow automation tools you can send data across apps and trigger actions. The simplest workflows usually consist of an trigger and an action. For example, a user filled out a newsletter form on your website. The automation platform is thereby triggered and forwards the email adress to your email marketing platform, where it gets added to the newsletter list.
Advanced automation tools can modify, filter and enhance the data by themselves to fit your needs.
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Pretty new service. Easy to use. Impressive number of integrations (about 200), but sometimes with limited functionality. Code blocks are supported. Extra execution can be purchased on the free plan.
Free plan
1000 Tasks / Month
1 User
1 Project
Unlimited flows
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Zapier is the #1 tool in this space. There are thousands of integrations. Code blocks are supported and polling for triggers is free. The new Interfaces and Tables features (included in free tier) let you build small apps.
Free plan
100 Tasks / Month
1 User
15 min Polling Interval
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This used to be "Integromat" before it got aquired. Now it's geared more torwards enterprise. No custom code execution in the free plan. Does have a lot of integrations.
Free plan
1,000 Ops / Month (1 Op = 1 Workflow Step)
2 Scenarios (Workflows)
Unlimited users
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Pipedream is great for devs, who want the flexibility of code whithout the boilerplate and setup. You use a visual workflow builder, but you can switch to code view at any point. NPM packages are supported. There is a persitent data store and task queue.
Free plan
10 Credits ( = 10 Executions) / Days
3 Workflows
3 Accounts (Authenticated Integrations)
1 Data Store
1 Data Queue