Activepieces is an open-source automation platform the author discovered on…

Brief

Activepieces is an open-source automation platform the author discovered on 2026-06-06 and says replaced their $800/month Zapier spend. It provides 200+ integrations, AI nodes with native LLM calls, MIT-licensed core, and runs in cloud or self-hosted form (one Docker container). The author argues self-hosting yields effectively unlimited, unmetered tasks.

I'm done paying Zapier $800 a month after finding this.

It's called Activepieces. An open-source automation platform with AI-powered nodes and a visual builder that looks suspiciously like Zapier.

• 200+ integrations
• AI nodes (LLM calls native to the workflow)
• Self-host or cloud
• MIT-licensed core
• Unlimited tasks when self-hosted

What you usually pay for vs Activepieces:

Zapier Professional → $73/month (2k tasks)
Zapier Team → $103/month
Zapier Company → $738/month
Make Pro → $29/month (10k ops)

Activepieces → one Docker container, unlimited tasks.

The reason it actually works:

Zapier prices per "task" because every run hits their cloud. Activepieces runs on your server, so a task is just a function call. There's nothing to meter.