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Zapier pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Zapier (zapier.com) is a automation platform. Plans priced by monthly task volume (each action step = 1 task, triggers free), with pay-per-task overage beyond the tier.. Free plan: Free: 100 tasks/mo, two-step Zaps only, 15-min polling, 1 user, no premium apps..

What Zapier costs

  • 1,000 runs: $119.50/mo (3,000 tasks (3 actions x 1,000 runs, trigger free). Pro 2,000-task tier $73.50 monthly + 1,000 pay-per-task tasks at $0.046 = $119.50, cheaper than the 5,000-task tier at $133.50. Overage rate from the pricing page's plan data (1.25x the tier's per-task rate).)
  • 10,000 runs: $433.50/mo (30,000 tasks. Pro 50,000-task tier $433.50 monthly beats Pro 20,000 ($283.50) + 10,000 x $0.0178 = $461.50.)
  • 25 customer accounts: no public price (Zapier embeds (Zap templates, Powered by Zapier) require each end customer to have their own Zapier account; no self-serve unified-API product billed to the startup.)

Plan compared: Professional 2,000 tasks + pay-per-task. Prices are USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12). Workflow platforms are priced at 1,000 and 10,000 runs a month of a four-step workflow (one trigger plus three app actions), converted into each vendor's own unit (tasks, operations, credits or executions); embedded and unified integration APIs are priced at 25 connected customer accounts.

What Zapier does

Core: Custom AI assistants, Schedules & event triggers, Prebuilt app integrations, Actions & customer data (partly), Multi-step workflows, Prebuilt app connectors.

Important: Human approval steps, Team workspace & sharing, Agent templates & gallery, AI answers for customers, Website chat widget (partly), Lead capture & qualification, Security & compliance, Logic and data tools, Webhooks and HTTP requests, Built-in AI steps, AI agents, AI workflow builder, Tools for external agents, Built-in tables and forms, Team collaboration and governance, Security and compliance (partly).

Also has: Autonomous multi-step tasks (partly), AI browser agent (partly), Code & file workspace (partly), Deep research reports (partly), Docs, slides & sites output (partly), Custom tools & MCP (partly), Company knowledge grounding (partly), Multi-agent orchestration (partly), Deploy via API & channels (partly), Multi-lab model choice (partly), SSO & compliance (partly), Grounded answers & guardrails (partly), Human handoff & escalation (partly), Runs in your help desk (partly), Email ticket automation (partly), WhatsApp & social messaging (partly), Conversation analytics (partly), Testing & answer correction (partly), Multilingual answers (partly), LLM model choice (partly), API & webhooks (partly), White-label & client workspaces (partly), Custom code steps (partly), Custom connector builder, Embedded integrations for SaaS (partly).

Zapier price hikes

Cheaper alternatives to Zapier

At 1,000 workflow runs a month, Zapier costs $119.50/mo. 2 automation platforms cost less:

  • Make: $10.59/mo (Core, 10,000 credits/mo), covers 94% of Zapier; missing or partial: Human approval steps (partly), Tools for external agents (partly), Built-in tables and forms (partly)
  • n8n: $27.84/mo (Starter (2,500 executions)), covers 93% of Zapier; missing or partial: Prebuilt app connectors (partly), Built-in AI steps (partly), Tools for external agents (partly)

Zapier alternatives: 2 automation platforms compared, at every size.

Other kinds of products that cover part of Zapier

  • Copy.ai (AI writing): covers 48% of Zapier; missing or partial: Prebuilt app connectors, Human approval steps (partly), Logic and data tools (partly), Webhooks and HTTP requests (partly), AI agents (partly)

Every change we logged

  • Mar 2025 · Limits cut: The Team plan went from unlimited users to a maximum of 25; unlimited users moved to the sales-led Enterprise plan. Team prices were unchanged.
  • May 2024 · Repriced: Zapier retired its Starter plan and folded its features into Professional, which now starts at the old Starter price of $19.99/mo (annual) for 750 tasks instead of $49/mo for 2,000 tasks.

Sources

Pricing page: zapier.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Tier prices taken from the plan data embedded in zapier.com/pricing (monthly = 1.5x annual); the pay-per-task rate comes from that data, not visible page text, so the ref point is $133.50 if overage is ignored. Changes from PricingSaaS; the web search for price-increase news could not be run (search budget exhausted).