Zapier is best for freelancers, solo founders and small teams. Its clearest advantage: Easiest no-code automation.
- Avoid if
- large teams running very high automation volume on a tight budget
- Cheapest useful plan
- $29.99/mo · Professional
- Free plan
- Yes
- Setup effort
- easy: 20 min
- Main limitation
- Task limits enforce quickly
- Easiest no-code automation
- Vast integration catalog
- Reliable platform
- large teams running very high automation volume on a tight budget
What it actually does
7000+ integrations, Zapier MCP, connecting Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor to your apps, Next Gen Zaps with an AI manager agent (early access), test steps, AI builder.
Before you pay
Free or Professional
The free plan runs 100 tasks a month, enough to test one or two simple automations. Professional is for anyone whose automations run every day: 750 tasks a month on the entry tier. A task is one action Zapier performs, so a five-step automation spends several tasks each time it runs.
What a year costs
Professional is $29.99 a month billed monthly for 750 tasks, $359.88 a year, or $19.99 a month on yearly billing, $239.88 a year. The pricing page opens on the yearly view, so the first figure you see is the committed one. Our first reading, on 10 August, took that yearly figure; the record holds the monthly price since 12 September, a correction rather than a price rise.
What we would check before paying
Count your tasks before choosing a tier: limits are reached quickly and the price rises with volume. Some premium apps add cost per task. If you are comfortable with more setup, Make and n8n count usage differently and are worth comparing.
The limits to know
- Task limits enforce quickly
- Premium apps add cost per task
- Can get pricey at scale
Pricing & billing commitment
- Rate on record
- $29.99/mo · Professional
- What that figure is
- Month-to-month rate per account, read on the vendor's monthly view. The plan is capped by an allowance (credits, tasks or minutes) rather than by time.
- Commitment
- None: payable one month at a time
- The vendor's exact condition
- $19.99/month for 750 tasks with yearly billing; $29.99/month with monthly billing
- Usage cap
- This plan is capped by an allowance (credits, tasks or minutes), not only by time. Going past it costs extra or stops the work, depending on the vendor.
The pricing page, as read
In practice
- Platforms
- Web
- Integrations
- 7000+ integrations
- Setup
- easy: 20 min
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Frequently asked questions
What is Zapier?
Zapier is a tool from Zapier, Inc., used mainly for app connections, task automation, AI workflows. Main features: 7000+ integrations, Zapier MCP, connecting Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor to your apps, Next Gen Zaps with an AI manager agent (early access). It has a permanent free plan; the paid entry point is $29.99/mo · Professional.
How much does Zapier cost?
The paid entry point is $29.99/mo · Professional. Month-to-month rate per account, read on the vendor's monthly view. The plan is capped by an allowance (credits, tasks or minutes) rather than by time. The exact condition attached to that figure: $19.99/month for 750 tasks with yearly billing; $29.99/month with monthly billing. Read on the official pricing page on 25.10.2026. Prices move quickly: confirm before subscribing.
Does Zapier have a free plan?
Yes. Zapier publishes a permanent free plan. Check this before settling on it: task limits enforce quickly.
What devices and tools does Zapier work with?
According to the vendor's documentation, Zapier runs on: Web. Documented integrations: 7000+ integrations. Listed from the official sources, not tested by us: check your own setup on the free plan.
How we checked this record
The evidence record
- Evidence level
- Vendor documented: Official documentation and pricing page reviewed and dated. No independent verification, no hands-on test recorded.
- Affiliate status
- No affiliate link on this record, no commission.
Hands-on test
No automated hands-on test has been completed for this review cycle. This record rests on the vendor's official documentation and pricing page, re-read and dated. We say so rather than imply otherwise.
The research record
Read on the vendor's monthly view, from France; screenshot kept
Read on the vendor's monthly view, from France
Corrected to the month-to-month figure already recorded in this record's own billing condition
Published by us from the vendor's annual view: our error, read on 2026-08-10
Sources
The official pages this record rests on. No tracking links here: these addresses name the vendor.
Evidence freshness
Each kind of check has its own clock and its own threshold. A price ages in weeks and a feature list in months; sharing one date between them would let an old review pass for a recent check.
| Check | When | State |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Checked 18 days ago | Fresh |
| Features | Checked 41 days ago | Fresh |
| Privacy & data | Never checked | Not independently checked |
| Hands-on test | Never checked | Not independently checked |
| Page review | Checked 94 days ago | Due soon |
What remains unverified
- No workflow was run inside the product. Everything here comes from the vendor's documentation and public pages.
- Data handling and the privacy policy were not independently verified during this research cycle. We therefore publish no conclusion about security or where data is stored.
- Export terms and the real cost of leaving are not on this record: we have not tested them.