AI agents and automation

Automation platforms are priced by the unit of work, and the units are not comparable. One vendor counts tasks, another counts operations, a third counts executions. A self hosted option removes the meter entirely and replaces it with operational work.

Tools in AI Agents

n8n
AI Agents
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.
Pricing on the vendor site
Zapier
AI Agents
The automation layer for agentic AI
Pricing on the vendor site

What separates the tools here

The pricing unit is the axis nobody publishes a conversion for. A tool priced per task and a tool priced per operation can differ by an order of magnitude on the same workflow, and the only way to find out is to build the workflow.

Self hosting changes the shape of the question rather than answering it: the meter disappears and an operations burden appears.

What we publish here

Profiles only, for now.