Activepieces

Activepieces is an open-source, no-code business automation platform positioned as a privacy-friendly alternative to Zapier and Make. It lets users build multi-step automated workflows — connecting SaaS apps, internal tools, and AI models through triggers, actions, and conditional logic — without writing code. The project has gained significant traction on GitHub (over 22,000 stars), driven by teams that want to own their automation stack rather than route sensitive data through a third-party SaaS. Activepieces ships with connectors for popular services (Slack, Gmail, HubSpot, Notion, and others) and includes a growing set of AI-focused pieces for calling LLMs and agent frameworks inside workflows. It can be self-hosted via Docker or used as a managed cloud edition. The core differentiator versus Zapier is the open-source model: organizations subject to data-residency rules, strict compliance, or simply cost pressure at scale can run Activepieces on their own infrastructure and avoid per-task pricing. The trade-off is a smaller connector catalog than Zapier's 6,000+ app ecosystem and a younger community, though the gap is narrowing as the project ships connectors at a steady cadence. It fits teams that have outgrown Zapier's pricing tiers or that require self-hosting for compliance reasons.