Zapier Team → Activepieces, self-hosted
Switch. At $50 an hour, Activepieces saves you $539 over 3 years.
Worth doing only if your hour is worth less than
$67.06/hrBelow that rate, moving to Activepieces pays for itself inside 3 years. Above it, your time is worth more than the saving, and you should stay on Zapier Team.
Zapier Team is billed flat rather than per seat, so team size does not change this comparison.
Every figure on this page updates as you move these. Most comparisons of this kind quietly assume your time is free and your team never changes size.
What you pay now
| Zapier Team $69.00/month, flat, billed annual | $69.00 |
| Every month | $69.00 |
What the escape costs
| Vultr vc2-1c-2gb 1 vCPU · 2 GB RAM · 55 GB disk · 2 TB transfer · $300 of credit for your first 30 days via our referral link | $10.00 |
| Backblaze B2 backup 20 GB at $0.00695/GB/month | $0.14 |
| Your time 0.6 h/month keeping it patched and backed up | $30.00 |
| Every month | $40.14 |
| Migration, once 10 hours of your time, our estimate | $500.00 |
The same box elsewhere, if you already have an account. The arithmetic above uses the cheapest.
- Vultr $10.00 vc2-1c-2gb · used above · $300 of credit for your first 30 days
- Linode $12.00 Linode 2GB
- DigitalOcean $12.00 1 vCPU · 2 GB
The difference
| Saved each month | $28.86 |
| After one year | −$154 |
| After 3 years | $539 |
What you give up, and what you get
You lose
- Zapier's integration catalogue, which is an order of magnitude larger
- Someone else repairing an integration when a vendor changes their API
- Zapier's reliability record on unattended overnight runs
You gain
- Unmetered task volume, which is the entire argument
- A visual builder close enough to Zapier's that the team does not have to relearn it
- Pieces written in TypeScript that you can extend yourself
Read this before you decide
- Activepieces uses the MIT licence for its core with some enterprise features held back. Check which side of that line the features you need fall on.
- The $69 Zapier figure is its entry tier. If you are on Team because of task volume rather than seats, your real bill is higher and this comparison understates the saving.
- There is no automated import. Every workflow is rebuilt by hand.
Is the project alive?
activepieces/activepieces has 25,106 stars, was last pushed 0 days ago, and last cut a release (0.92.3) 7 days ago. Its licence is not one GitHub recognises automatically, so check the repository before you rely on it. We rate it active. We do not publish comparisons against software that has gone dormant, however good the arithmetic looks.
Every number above comes from one of these, on the date shown. The Zapier figure is the site's own wording: “Team Starting from $69 /month”.
| Zapier pricing page | 19 Oct 2026 |
| Vultr plan catalogue affiliate link | 19 Oct 2026 |
| Backblaze B2 pricing | 3 Sept 2026 |
| activepieces/activepieces activity | 19 Oct 2026 |
Hosting requirements (1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 25 GB disk), migration hours and maintenance hours are our estimates, not measurements. They are the numbers most worth arguing with, so we put them where you can see them. The cheapest plan meeting those requirements is selected automatically from Vultr, Vultr and Linode's live catalogues.