Activepieces vs Zapier (2026)

A catalog of 9,000+ apps, with 66,000+ triggers and actions exposed through Zapier MCP, is granted to each agent as named apps and actions that administrators can restrict per team.

Agents delegate work to each other, run as steps inside Zap workflows with deterministic steps around them, and keep version history on their instructions.

Breadth spans app events, schedules, webhooks and human initiated interfaces across the full piece library, which is why this moves from P.

Agents start on demand, on a schedule, from a Zap or from another app's trigger across the catalog, and the Chrome extension invokes them from any browser tab.

Corrected N>F on 29 September 2026: the August None found no knowledge feature; the agent docs now document a vector-backed knowledge base over uploaded files and tables.

Knowledge sources are a maintained index over uploaded files and connected apps, resynced every 24 hours and within an hour of new records, with up to 75,000 records.

Corrected F>P on 29 September 2026: the August Full rested on Tables holding state between runs, which is a database the builder uses rather than an agent memory layer meeting the Q78 clauses.

No first-party page documents agent memory or state retained across runs; agents draw context from knowledge sources, and Zapier states they may behave differently between runs.

A Needs action state pauses an agent at decision points the builder specifies, and administrators restrict apps and individual actions per team.

VERIFICATION FLAG: a SOC 2 Type II for the managed cloud is reported by several third party reviews but was not retrieved on any first party page; the site publishes no trust centre or compliance page. Graded F on the documented control surface, which is deep and named, with the attestation searched for and unconfirmed. Governance is paywalled to Team and Ultimate, which is a commercial gate rather than an absence of capability.

SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 are audited annually, beside SAML SSO and SCIM, app and action restrictions, audit trails with log streaming and automatic model training opt out for Enterprise.

Every execution and connection is logged with streaming to existing monitoring tools, each agent keeps a full task history, and every MCP action is recorded in History.

Zapier runs only on AWS in the United States with no region choice, and VPC Peering connects Zapier's cloud to private data sources rather than deploying Zapier into the customer's network.

Corrected N>P on 29 September 2026: the August None said no template library was offered as a product surface; the docs now document one, with categories but no named templates on the pages read.

About a hundred ready made agent templates, from lead enrichment to a GitHub PR auto reviewer, are listed in the agent templates hub.

Customer chooses the model and the provider, and can route through their own gateway; this is the buyer facing choice surface the F bar requires, not vendor internal routing.

Builders pick standard, advanced or premium model tiers or bring their own provider account, and AI model policies sit among the governance controls.

The Workflow API creates and lists Zaps over OAuth and a Zapier SDK is documented, while Zapier MCP exposes 66,000+ triggers and actions to outside AI clients.

Real customer facing testing of flows, but scoped to workflow debugging rather than agent evaluation; no scoring, regression suite or eval product.

A test panel, instruction version control and task history support iteration, but no scoring, test cases or regression runs measure one agent version against another.

Downgraded for consistency with the axis rule: Comp is non zero only when the agent operates software exposing no programmatic interface. Everything here runs through APIs, and the prior P carried no basis at all.

Web browsing here means search over HTTP, and the Chrome extension invokes Zapier's API-backed actions from a browser tab, so the agent never operates a rendered interface.