Best automation & workflow
7 tools we verified on 2026-11-05. Ordered by accessibility (free plan, then open source), not paid placement.
Our automation picks (verified facts, not ads)
Winners and skips from our verification data and editorial notes (updated 2026-11-05). Rankings below stay accessibility-sorted; this box is judgment.
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Activepieces Win for true open source + free planVerified free plan and a live public repo. Best default when you want inspectable automation without a credit-card trial.
Free plan: Yes · Open source: Yes · repo · Checked 2026-11-05
n8n Win for technical self-hostersFair-code (not OSI open source) with a free Community Edition and public source. Pick it when you want a visual builder plus code escape hatches — and you are fine with the fair-code licence.
Free plan: Yes · Open source: No — Source available (fair-code / not OSI open source) · repo · Checked 2026-11-05
Lindy Win for Slack-native AI employeeVerified $50 free credits (7 days). Actions with outside impact wait for approval by default. Skip if you need open source or seat-predictable OSS licensing.
Free plan: Yes · Open source: No · Checked 2026-11-05
Skip / wait
Gumloop Skip until free plan is statedOur last verify pass found no clear free-plan evidence on the official site. Fine product story; thin public pricing for a best-of ranking.
Free plan: Not stated · Open source: No · Checked 2026-11-05
Relevance AI Skip for self-serve buyers todayNo verified free plan on the official site in our check. Come back when public, self-serve pricing is easy to quote.
Free plan: Not stated · Open source: No · Checked 2026-11-05
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- Activepieces
Chat, agents, flows, tables, and 770+ apps in one workspace, so your whole team works with AI in the tools they already use. Open source at the core.
Free plan: Yes · Open source: Yes · Checked 2026-11-05
- Lindy
Lindy is the AI employee that connects to all your tools, knows everything about your company, and does real work for the whole team.
Free plan: Yes · Open source: No · Checked 2026-11-05
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MakeAutomate your work. Make allows you to visually build, scale and automate AI and agentic workflows. User friendly no-code integration tool. Try it now for free!
Free plan: Yes · Open source: No · Checked 2026-11-05
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Zapier AgentsCreate your custom AI agent in minutes. Equip your agents with live business data and have them do work across 8,000+ apps — on command and while you sleep.
Free plan: Yes · Open source: No · Checked 2026-11-05
- n8n
n8n is a workflow automation platform that uniquely combines AI capabilities with business process automation, giving technical teams the flexibility of code with the speed of no-code.
Free plan: Yes · Open source: Source available (fair-code) · Checked 2026-11-05
- Gumloop
Gumloop is the multiplayer AI agent builder. Let anyone at your company build agents with any AI model, any integration while IT controls access.
Free plan: Not stated · Open source: No · Checked 2026-11-05
- Relevance AI
Deliver maximum ROI through optimized specialist agents. Build agents for sales, customer success, marketing and HR, and run millions of daily tasks on one platform.
Free plan: Not stated · Open source: No · Checked 2026-11-05