Activepieces Pricing: Cloud Plans, Free Tier, and Self-Hosted Costs

Buying path

For most automation builders, the primary entry point is the managed cloud service. The Free plan provides 100 credits refreshed daily for a single user, allowing technical teams to test triggers, visual flows, and AI agents without entering payment details. Because daily allowances do not accumulate across calendar days, individual builders running continuous production workflows generally start on the Plus plan. At $16 per month billed annually ($192 upfront) or $20 per month on monthly billing, Plus pools 10,000 monthly credits, supports up to five users, and unlocks Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) for commercial AI model providers.

Self-hosting introduces a fundamentally distinct operating track. The open-source Community Edition is distributed under the MIT license and allows unmetered workflow executions on your own servers without software licensing fees. However, choosing Community Edition transfers infrastructure provisioning, PostgreSQL database maintenance, container security, Redis queue management, and backup operations entirely to your engineering team. When multiple teams, departments, or external clients require isolated workspaces, single sign-on (SSO), and centralized secret management, organizations move to the managed Team tier ($166 per month billed annually) or contact sales for Enterprise Control.

Credit mechanics and AI billing

Activepieces calculates automation usage through platform credits. Unlike legacy integration platforms that bill each individual action step, a standard deterministic flow in Activepieces consumes exactly one credit per run regardless of whether the workflow executes two steps or fifty steps.

Workflow steps that interact with artificial intelligence models represent the primary exception to this single-credit rule when using platform-provided credentials. Activepieces bills AI steps according to the computational weight of the underlying model:

• Fast models: 2 credits per step
• Smart models: 10 credits per step
• Frontier models: 20 credits per step
• Autonomous agentic actions: 1 credit per tool call

On the Plus plan and above, builders can bypass these credit multipliers by configuring their own OpenAI, Anthropic, or compatible API keys. When you supply your own credentials, every AI step consumes only one platform credit, and token charges are billed directly by your model provider without platform markup.

Upgrade triggers and governance boundaries

Organizations typically encounter clear operational thresholds that dictate when to transition between Activepieces tiers:

• Moving from Free to Plus: Upgrade when daily credit resets disrupt scheduled batch jobs or when automated workflows must continue running through pay-as-you-go overage ($0.007 per credit) rather than pausing until tomorrow.
• Moving from Plus to Team: Transition to Team when your automation footprint expands beyond five collaborators, or when workflows require project-level isolation. Team includes 25 seats at a flat rate, 50,000 monthly credits, unlimited projects, and global connection sharing for shared service credentials.
• Moving from Team to Ultimate: Enterprise scale requires dedicated execution infrastructure, custom role-based access control (RBAC), SCIM directory synchronization, environment releases with Git synchronization, and immutable audit logs streamed to external SIEM tools.

Self-hosted vs managed cloud cost analysis

Evaluating Activepieces requires comparing direct subscription fees against total cost of ownership across deployment options:

• Community Edition ($0 software license): Delivers unmetered execution volume, complete data residency, and full TypeScript code extensibility. Operational expenses include virtual machine hosting, database administration, monitoring, and engineering maintenance hours.
• Activepieces Cloud (Plus $192/yr, Team $1,992/yr): Eliminates infrastructure labor, server updates, and worker tuning with turnkey scalability. Buyers pay predictable flat subscription fees with optional usage overages.
• Enterprise Control (Custom pricing): Combines self-hosted data isolation and private cloud execution with enterprise governance features, dedicated technical support, and negotiated service level agreements.