Pipedream
Also known as: Pipedream Connect, Pipedream MCP, MCP Chat
Integration platform for AI agents and automations: 10,000+ prebuilt tools across 3,000+ APIs with managed OAuth through SDKs, an API and MCP, plus code-first workflows with triggers, approvals and event history.
Pipedream is an integration platform for AI agents and automations. Pipedream Connect gives an agent more than 10,000 prebuilt tools across 3,000+ APIs with fully managed OAuth and per-user credentials, through SDKs and an API, an MCP server for every app, or a proxy for raw API calls with tokens injected per user. Developers can deploy triggers for their users' accounts and receive each event at a webhook, and publish custom tools of their own.
Pipedream Workflows run prebuilt actions alongside Node.js, Python, Go or Bash steps with branching, parallel paths, delays and concurrency controls, key-value data stores that persist across runs, a managed headless browser for web automation, and a suspend step that waits for a person to approve before the rest of a workflow runs. Every execution is recorded in an event history with its logs. Pipedream states SOC 2 Type 2 with a report on request, signs HIPAA BAAs, supports SSO through Google Workspace, Okta or SAML, and runs on AWS in us-east-1, with dedicated networks available per workspace.
Workday acquired Pipedream in its fiscal 2026, as Workday's annual report states, and pipedream.com still sells Pipedream under its own name. Its homepage also shows Conduit, an AI connector gateway for companies, offered as early access.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://pipedream.com
Category
Agent infrastructure
Company status
acquired
Use cases & customers
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
More than 3,000 APIs and 10,000+ prebuilt triggers and actions with managed OAuth and per-user credentials, reached through Connect's SDKs (TypeScript, Python, Java) and API, an MCP server for every app, or the Connect proxy for raw API calls; custom components and tools; MCP guides for the Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini.
In practice
Your agent needs to act across Slack, GitHub, Stripe and a few hundred other systems and you do not want to build or maintain OAuth for any of them. One MCP server endpoint exposes the whole catalog with managed credentials.
You are shipping integrations inside your own product. Pipedream Connect provides the embeddable toolkit, approved OAuth client IDs and durable components so the integration surface is not a two year internal project.
A workflow needs logic no prebuilt action covers. Node.js, Python, Go or Bash run inline as a normal step, and billing is per compute second rather than per task.
Sources & related URLs
Agentic Index coverage score
11.0 / 14 capabilities · 79%
| Integrations & Tool Calling | Full |
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More than 10,000 prebuilt tools across 3,000+ APIs reach an agent through Pipedream Connect, with fully managed OAuth and per user credentials encrypted at rest, as prebuilt actions, through an MCP server for every app, or as raw API calls through the Connect proxy with tokens injected per user; customers publish their own custom tools beside the catalog. Sourcepipedream.com/docs/connect/mcpread 2026-09-22 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Full |
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Control flow in Pipedream Workflows is documented: steps sequence prebuilt actions and Node.js, Python, Go or Bash code, with if/else, switch, parallel branches, delay, filter and end, plus concurrency and throttling settings, error handling, and suspend, resume and rerun for long running or externally gated steps. Sourcepipedream.com/docs/workflows/building-workflows/control-flowread 2026-09-22 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Not documented |
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No retrieval, document ingestion, index or semantic search over the customer's content is documented. Data stores and file stores hold records and files that workflow code reads by key, and the integrations query other systems live, but no RAG layer of the product's own grounds work in company data. Sourcepipedream.com/docs/llms.txtread 2026-09-22 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Full |
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A workflow can stop for a person: $.flow.suspend pauses an execution until someone manually approves or cancels it, returning resume and cancel links the workflow can send by email or to any service, and paused executions are listed in Event History. Project access controls limit who can see and edit workflows. Sourcepipedream.com/docs/workflows/building-workflows/code/nodejs/rerunread 2026-09-22 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Full |
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SOC 2 compliance is demonstrated through annual third party audits, Pipedream states, with a SOC 2 Type 2 report on request, a published Drata security report, HIPAA BAAs and a GDPR Data Protection Addendum. On the access side it documents single sign on through Google Workspace, Okta or any SAML provider, domain verification, and project level access controls, and Connect credentials are encrypted at rest and never exposed to models. Sourcepipedream.com/docs/privacy-and-securityread 2026-09-22 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Full |
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Each run is recorded. The inspector lists every event a workflow received with its incoming data and execution logs, which can be replayed, and Event History shows all workflow executions across a workspace with stack traces, filterable by status (including errors and paused runs), workflow and time. The REST API returns workflow errors and emits, Connect lists recent trigger events and usage records, and event history is retained for a stated period by plan. An audit log and SIEM export are not documented. Sourcepipedream.com/docs/workflows/event-historyread 2026-09-22 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Full |
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Data stores persist JSON records across workflow executions, scoped to the workspace, readable and writable from workflow code and editable in the dashboard, with an optional time to live per record or no expiry, and plan limits stated. A workflow reads that store as context on its next run. It is a general key value store rather than memory built for agents, and records are not atomic across concurrent workers. Sourcepipedream.com/docs/workflows/data-management/data-storesread 2026-09-22 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Partial |
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Hosting is on AWS in the us-east-1 region, and Virtual Private Clouds run a workspace's workflows (and, separately, Connect tool calls) in a dedicated isolated network with static egress IPs unique to that workspace. That isolates the network on the hosted platform, but only one region is stated, and no region choice or self hosted option is documented. Sourcepipedream.com/docs/privacy-and-securityread 2026-09-22 |
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| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Not documented |
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Prebuilt triggers and actions and the source available component registry are integration capability rather than packaged assets. Workflows can be shared as templates through a link, so one account can copy another's workflow, but the documentation carries no catalog of ready made workflows, templates or agents that Pipedream publishes for buyers to adopt. Sourcepipedream.com/docs/workflows/building-workflows/sharingread 2026-09-22 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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Work starts without a person asking: workflows run on app event sources across the catalog, HTTP requests and schedules, and Connect lets a developer deploy triggers for its users' accounts that deliver each emitted event to the customer's webhook, with signed deliveries and a list of recent events per trigger. Sourcepipedream.com/docs/connect/components/triggersread 2026-09-22 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Full |
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Pipedream serves its tools to whatever model the customer runs: its MCP guides cover the Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Gemini, any MCP client such as ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor can connect, and the model is chosen and keyed by the customer. Pipedream names no model of its own for these tools, so buyers bring their own providers and keys. Sourcepipedream.com/docs/connect/mcpread 2026-09-22 |
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| APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Full |
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Pipedream is callable from outside through the Connect API (apps, accounts, users, actions, triggers, projects, OAuth clients and usage) with TypeScript, Python and Java SDKs, a REST API for workflows, sources and webhooks with a published OpenAPI specification, and a CLI; it serves an MCP server for every integrated app, and developers publish custom components and tools to the registry. Sourcepipedream.com/docs/connect/api-reference/introductionread 2026-09-22 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Partial |
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Testing before release is covered: workflows can be built, configured and tested with an AI assistant, test events run steps in the builder free of charge, the inspector replays past events, and Connect separates development and production environments. No scored test cases, pass rate or other comparable result for evaluating a change is documented. Sourcepipedream.com/docs/workflows/building-workflows/build-with-airead 2026-09-22 |
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| Browser & Computer Use | Full |
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Pipedream ships its own @pipedream/browsers package that starts a Chromium instance inside its Node.js execution environment and hands a workflow step a Puppeteer or Playwright browser, documented for scraping, screenshots and programmatically interacting with websites, including JavaScript heavy ones. The browser is bundled and run by Pipedream's runtime, so a workflow drives a real browser through it. Sourcepipedream.com/docs/workflows/building-workflows/code/nodejs/browser-automationread 2026-09-22 |
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Recent platform changes
Pipedream put Workflows into maintenance mode and will shut down Workflows and its String AI builder on March 31, 2027, deleting all Workflows data, connected account credentials included, by April 30, 2027. New Workflows signups are closed and no new features will ship. Connect, the MCP servers and the API proxy are unaffected and are now the company's focus.
Bears on: Workflow orchestration
View sourcePricing
Free plan (daily credit limit); paid plans on pipedream.com/pricing; credits per 30 seconds of compute
Credits (one per 30 seconds of compute at 256MB); Connect adds end users who connect accounts
Included quota
Free plan: a daily credit limit, a limited number of active workflows and connected accounts, community support; Connect's full feature set in development.
What is public
The free plan's limits and the credit and end-user billing model are published in the docs; plan prices sit on a pricing page that renders in the browser.
Billing mechanics
Credit-based: one credit per 30 seconds of compute per workflow segment at 256MB, scaled by memory; Connect adds end-user billing. The free plan caps daily credits.
Cost watchouts
Credits scale with compute time and memory, so long-running or high-memory steps cost more, and Connect adds a charge per end user who connects an account. Production use of Connect requires a paid plan.
Variable cost rationale
Compute second metering ties cost directly to workload shape rather than headcount, which is cheaper for fast workflows and more expensive for long running agent loops, and agent workloads are exactly the case where run duration is hardest to predict in advance.
Additional watchouts
Plan prices sit on pipedream.com/pricing and are not reproduced here, so check that page or ask sales for current prices.
Overage / add-ons
Credits per 30 seconds of compute at 256MB, doubling with memory; development and test runs are free.
Sales call required
Mixed (some tiers require a call)
Free / trial
Free plan with a daily credit limit; Connect free in development; a free trial of Advanced plan features
Lowest paid plan
Listed on pipedream.com/pricing; not readable here
Commercial notes
Workday acquired Pipedream in its fiscal 2026 (Workday's annual report); pipedream.com still sells Pipedream under its own name.
Key ambiguities
Plan prices sit on pipedream.com/pricing, a page that renders in the browser, and are not reproduced here, so check that page for current prices. Workday acquired Pipedream in fiscal 2026 and has announced no change to plans.
Missing data
Plan prices from pipedream.com/pricing.
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