Activepieces

About Activepieces

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Activepieces

All products by Activepieces reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

ActivepiecesAI Workflow Automation

AI automation platform with enterprise governance and predictable pricing

From $16/mo8.0/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Activepieces

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Activepieces's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.7 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Activepieces competes with, and how they differ.

n8n8.1/10

n8n is Activepieces' closest structural peer -- both are self-hostable, node-based automation platforms with visual and code-step building -- but n8n ships under a custom Sustainable Use ("fair-code") license that restricts commercial redistribution, while Activepieces' Community Edition is plain MIT.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Zapier7.6/10

Zapier is the closed-source, cloud-only SaaS market leader that Activepieces explicitly positions against as "the open source alternative" -- Zapier has no self-hosting option and bills per completed task across purchased task-bundle tiers, versus Activepieces' free self-hosted MIT edition.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Pipedream8.0/10

Pipedream targets developers directly with free-form Node/Python code steps and an SDK-first workflow builder ("code-level control when you need it"), a more code-centric entry point than Activepieces' no-code-first, TypeScript-pieces extensibility model.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Pabbly Connect7.6/10

Pabbly Connect competes on price rather than openness -- flat task-based subscriptions plus one-time lifetime-access plans undercut typical per-task SaaS pricing -- but it is closed-source, cloud-hosted only, with no self-hosting option.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Tray.ai7.8/10

Tray.ai targets large enterprises (customers include Cisco, Airbnb, and FedEx) with SOC 2/HIPAA compliance, RBAC, and a governed MCP/agent runtime, a heavier enterprise-governance play than Activepieces' open-source, self-hosted-first approach for SMBs and dev teams.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Activepieces's history, with sources.

1. Sep 16, 2025Milestone

   Featured in O'Reilly Radar as a top MCP server

   O'Reilly Radar's "MCP in Practice" listed Activepieces among the top 10 Model Context Protocol servers, noting its local open-source implementation lets AI agents delegate automation tasks without vendor lock-in.

   oreilly.com
2. Oct 29, 2024Launch

   AI Launch Week — Chat UI, Universal Text/Image AI, Image OCR

   Company blog post announcing new AI features shipped during launch week.

   activepieces.com
3. Sep 9, 2024Launch

   Launch Week I — AI Copilot for building flows, new piece selector

   Company blog post announcing AI Copilot and a redesigned piece selector.

   activepieces.com
4. Dec 3, 2022Milestone

   Public GitHub repository created (open-sourced under MIT license)

   The activepieces/activepieces repository was created on GitHub, per the GitHub API, marking the project's public open-source availability. As of Sept 2026 it has ~24,000 stars and ~4,100 forks.

   api.github.com
5. 2022Founded

   Founded — joined Y Combinator Summer 2022 batch

   Activepieces was founded by Ashraf Samhouri and Mohammad AbuAboud and participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch.

   ycombinator.com