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Automation & workflows

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Automation & workflows

27 tools

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Activepieces

An open-source automation builder you can self-host, connecting apps into flows the same way Zapier does, with MCP support for wiring in AI agents.

Free · from $20/month

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Albato

A Zapier-style automation platform that also lets you embed its integrations inside your own product, so your customers get automation without leaving your app.

Free · from $22/mo

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Apify

A marketplace of ready-made web scrapers and automation "actors" you run without writing code, for pulling structured data off websites that don't offer an API of their own.

Free · from $19/month

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Axiom.ai

Records what you click and type in the browser, then replays it as a scheduled bot without writing any code.

From $15/month

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Bardeen

A browser extension agent that scrapes web pages, fills in CRM records and runs repetitive browser tasks on a schedule or a trigger.

From $10/month

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Beam AI

Pre-built AI agents for finance, operations and support processes, with human approval steps built into the workflow.

Free · from $50/month

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Browse AI

Point it at any website and it extracts the data you want on a repeating schedule, with no scraping code to write or maintain.

Free · from $19/month

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Cassidy AI

Builds AI assistants and automated workflows trained on your own company documents and tools, so answers and actions draw from what your business actually knows.

Free tier

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Dify

An open-source, visual builder for AI apps and agent workflows, with a knowledge base you can query behind them.

Free · from $590/year per workspace

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Gumloop

A node-based canvas where each step is an AI action — research, classify, extract, write — chained together into one automated workflow.

Free · from $37/month

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IFTTT

The original if-this-then-that automation service — one trigger, one action, running quietly across smart devices, social accounts and apps without you watching it.

Free · from $4.99/month

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Integrately

A library of ready-made, one-click automations between more than 1,200 apps, built for people who want a connection working now rather than building it step by step.

Free · from $19.99/month

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Latenode

Low-code automation with an AI step builder and headless browser actions, priced by execution seconds rather than per-task credits.

Free · from $0.00012/CPU

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Lindy

Build a standing AI assistant that handles inbox triage, scheduling and CRM updates continuously, rather than a one-off automation you trigger by hand.

From $29.99/month per user

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Make.com

A hosted place to build workflows that run on somebody else's servers — triggered by an event, on a schedule, or by a webhook — so the work happens whether or not your laptop is open.

Free · from $9/mo

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Microsoft Power Automate

Builds automations across Microsoft 365 and over a thousand other apps, including desktop robots that click through old software with no API of its own.

Free · from $15/user/month

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MindStudio

A no-code builder for custom AI workers — a chatbot, a document processor, a scheduled task — that you configure with a visual flow instead of writing code, then hand to your team as a finished tool.

Free · from $16/month

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n8n

A workflow automation platform you can either pay n8n to host or run on your own server, priced by how many times your workflows execute rather than by how many people use them.

Free tier

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Octoparse

Point-and-click web scraping with ready-made templates for common sites, and scheduled cloud runs so it keeps pulling data without you.

Free · from $69/month

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Pipefy

A no-code process manager for approvals and intake — expense requests, onboarding, procurement — where AI drafts the workflow instead of you designing it from a blank canvas.

Free tier

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Sintra AI

A pack of named AI assistants — social media, support, email, bookkeeping and more — built for a small business running with a lean team.

From $15.60/month

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Stack AI

A drag-and-drop builder for AI assistants that answer from your own documents, with the access controls an enterprise IT team asks for before letting one connect to real data.

Free tier

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Supadata

An API that turns videos from YouTube, TikTok and other platforms into transcripts, and turns web pages into clean text, for AI workflows to read.

Free · from $5/month

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Taskade

A combined workspace for projects, notes and AI agents, where an agent can be assigned to a task the same way you would assign it to a person.

Free · from $10/month

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Tines

An automation platform built for security teams' audit and approval needs, now used more broadly for workflows that need a visible paper trail.

Free tier

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UiPath

Software robots that click through the same screens a human would, automating legacy systems that have no API — now steered by AI agents rather than only fixed scripts.

Free · from $25/month

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Zapier

A hosted service that connects thousands of business apps so an event in one triggers work in another, without anyone sitting there to make it happen.

Free · from $19.99/mo

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