Zapier alternatives: six cheaper automation tools, priced at about 10,000 a month

Zapier alternatives: what 10,000 a month costs instead

Six automation tools cost less than Zapier at about 10,000 a month: Pabbly Connect Standard is $19 and Make Core $16, against Zapier Professional at $193.50 for 10,000 tasks, all billed monthly and read on October 30, 2026. A Zapier task is any successful action, and the units of the others differ, so the table names each tool's unit. An Applet is IFTTT's word for one automation.

The Try Pabbly Connect button below opens Pabbly's plans page, which lists the Pabbly Connect Standard and Unlimited prices in this table beside the Free plan.

Pabbly Connect: the same task rule on a flat plan

Pabbly Connect counts an action step on an external app as a task and leaves triggers free, the plain-workflow rule Zapier uses. Standard is $19 a month for 10,000 tasks, billed monthly, or $16 a month on the Yearly tab, billed as $194 for the year; Zapier Professional at 10,000 tasks is $129 a month, billed yearly.

Unlimited is $79 a month, billed monthly, for one business: the terms set a 100,000-task starting balance, and you can reset it once a day once 80% is used. Pabbly Connect also has a Free plan of 100 tasks a month. Pabbly Connect vs Zapier compares the two plan by plan.

Make and n8n: credits and executions

Make Core is $16 a month for 10,000 credits, billed monthly, and Make counts most actions as a credit, reading data from an app or webhook included. n8n Cloud Pro is $60 a month for 10,000 executions, billed monthly, and an execution is one run of the whole workflow; Community Edition is free to self-host. Zapier vs Make and n8n vs Zapier set each against Zapier.

Albato and Integrately: per-step plans with trials

Albato Pro is $110 a month for 10,000 transactions, billed monthly. A transaction is counted for each step that runs after the trigger, and extra transactions are priced 50% higher. Albato lists a 7-day and a 14-day trial. Integrately Professional is $49 a month for 10,000 tasks, billed monthly, and a task is an action, a condition or a data change. It has a 14-day trial.

IFTTT: the lowest sticker, for simple Applets

IFTTT Pro is $7.99 a month for 20,000 credits, billed monthly, the lowest paid monthly price in the table. Credits pay for Applet runs, MCP use and AI features. IFTTT does not say how many credits an Applet run uses, so Pro has no task equivalent. Its Free plan holds 1,000 credits.

Moving Zaps: count, rebuild, then cancel

A small business moving 15 existing Zaps, Zapier's word for workflows, needs to know which of its apps the new tool lists, how each workflow is rebuilt and what 50,000 tasks a month would cost. Pabbly's pages document no tool that imports a Zap, so each workflow is rebuilt by hand.

1. Count: open Zap history and read the Task usage tab, which lists up to 100 Zaps by tasks used. Count before you cancel, because Zap history is assured for only 60 days of run data.
2. List the apps: search each Zap's apps in the new tool's directory. Pabbly Connect cites 2,000+ integrations, and its Action Builder adds an API where an app is missing.
3. Rebuild each workflow, testing a first one on the Free plan (2 workflows of up to 2 steps), and cancel Zapier last. Zapier applies a downgrade at the end of the billing cycle, not at once.

At 50,000 a month, billed monthly:

• Zapier Professional, 50,000 tasks: $433.50.
• Pabbly Connect: no 50,000-task plan; Unlimited is $79, for one business.
• Make: no 50,000-credit tier; 80,000 credits on Core is $97.
• Albato Pro, 50,000 transactions: $240.
• Integrately: Growth, 30,000 tasks, $124; Business, 150,000 tasks, $299.
• IFTTT: Pro+, 100,000 credits, $19.99.
• n8n Cloud: the price above 10,000 executions is on n8n's pricing page.

Stay on Zapier when an app you rely on is listed only there or a team needs the 25 users of its Team plan. For what drives the Zapier bill, read why Zapier is so expensive.