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The open-source Zapier alternative you can self-host free forever — or take hosted at EUR20/month for 10,000 tasks.
The data-control pick: free forever if you self-host — the catch is a small catalogue and the server chores that come with the free route.
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Automatisch is free to self-host with unlimited flows, or hosted for you at €20/month for 10,000 tasks — the open-source route through a category that otherwise meters everything.
You want your automation data on your own infrastructure (or at least in the EU), your apps are mainstream, and a flat price matters more than catalogue size.
You rely on niche integrations, want AI steps inside workflows, or have no appetite for running a server on the free route.
Workflows are built only from verified capabilities in our listing research — no vendor copy, nothing invented.
Starts A new submission arrives via webhook or a connected form app
You get Submissions filed and announced without manual copying
The classic first automation, running on infrastructure you control
Starts A new order event fires in your store app
You get Alerts only for the orders that matter
Filters are part of the free edition, not a paid unlock
Starts A new customer is created in one app
You get One customer record, consistent everywhere
Multi-step flows are included in the free community edition
Start on the cloud trial to learn the builder; move to a self-hosted install when you are sure, or stay hosted for €20/month.
Pick a trigger, add steps, and use filters and formatters to shape the data between apps.
On the free route, updates and backups are yours — put the install on your regular maintenance rhythm.
Time to first useful result: Under an hour on the cloud plan; half a day to self-host properly · no-code 4/5
Priced in euros. Open-source community edition: free, self-hosted, unlimited connections and flows. Cloud (single user): €20/month hosted, 10,000 tasks/month, unlimited flows and steps, all integrations, with a free trial. Enterprise: €250-€550/month via the vendor's commercial arm (mation.work), hosted or self-hosted, unlimited users, integrations, flows and executions.
€0 — free self-hosted community edition
Flat / month · $0/mo for one person
€20/month — hosted, 10,000 tasks/month
Flat / month · $20/mo for one person
€250-€550/month — via mation.work
Flat / month · $250/mo for one person
| Plan | Published price | Solo monthly | Billed by | Limits & overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open SourceSolo pick | €0 — free self-hosted community edition | $0/mo | Flat / month | You run and maintain the server · Smaller integration catalogue |
| Single User (cloud) | €20/month — hosted, 10,000 tasks/month | $20/mo | Flat / month | Single user |
| Enterprise | €250-€550/month — via mation.work | $250/mo | Flat / month | Priced for organisations, not solo founders |
Low on the cloud plan: a flat €20 for 10,000 tasks, and the self-hosted edition has no meter at all. The real cost jump is operational — outgrowing a small self-hosted server, or stepping to the €250+ Enterprise tier for SSO.
Price record · 2026-11-07: Checked 2026-11-07 on automatisch.io/pricing (the page's cached copy served to this checker is dated 2025-12-28; the figures were corroborated against the vendor's current official site reads this run and no newer official price was published): Open Source free (unlimited connections/flows, multi-step flows, filters, formatters, webhooks, user management); Single User cloud €20/month (hosted, 10,000 tasks/month, unlimited flows and steps, all integrations, free trial offered); Enterprise €250-€550/month via mation.work. Prices are in euros — following this directory's convention for EUR-priced vendors (see n8n), the EUR face values are carried in the numeric USD fields and disclosed in every price text. Only one billing state is published (monthly); there is no annual toggle on the page.
The same fields on every deep listing in this job, so agents compare field by field. “Not verified” means our research has not confirmed it yet — it never means “doesn't have it.”
As of November 2026, Automatisch offers the rarest deal in this category: the full community edition is open source and free to self-host, with unlimited connections, unlimited flows, multi-step flows, filters, formatters, webhook support and user management — while the hosted single-user cloud plan costs €20/month for 10,000 tasks with all integrations included. Built in Berlin with GDPR compliance as a founding concern, it covers the everyday automation shape a solo founder needs: a trigger in one app, steps that move, format or filter the data, and an action in another, across a growing catalogue of mainstream services. There is no per-tier feature maze — the open-source edition and the cloud plan share the same core builder, and an Enterprise tier (€250-€550/month via its commercial arm) adds SSO, white labelling, VPN access to private networks and professional services for those who outgrow the simple offer. What you give up versus Zapier or Make is breadth and AI: the integration catalogue is far smaller, there are no built-in AI steps of the kind rivals added in 2025-26, and self-hosting means the updates, backups and uptime are yours. For a founder who values data control and a permanently free route over catalogue size, that is a fair trade.
Solo Fit stays the public score: the qualitative roll-up of these four published inputs under the How We Rank method. The free self-hosted route and flat cloud price carry it; catalogue breadth is the trade.
The difference: n8n is the more powerful self-hosted rival — code steps, AI nodes, whole-run billing — but its licence is source-available, not open source, and it expects more technical comfort.
The difference: Zapier's 9,000-plus apps dwarf Automatisch's catalogue and it needs no server — but every action is metered and there is no free self-hosted route.
The difference: Make's canvas and 3,000-plus apps are richer for branching jobs at $9/month entry; Automatisch wins on data control and its unlimited free edition.
Nothing, if you self-host the open-source community edition — it is free with unlimited flows and connections, and your only cost is a small server. The hosted Single User cloud plan is €20/month for 10,000 tasks with all integrations; Enterprise runs €250-€550/month and is not aimed at solo founders.
Operations: you install, update, back up and keep the server running yourself, and the integration catalogue is smaller than commercial rivals'. The builder itself — multi-step flows, filters, formatters, webhooks, user management — is fully included.
No built-in AI steps are published — it is a deterministic trigger-and-action builder in the classic Zapier shape. If your workflows need summarising, drafting or judgement steps, a rival with AI steps (or an external AI app connected as a step) is the better fit.
Automatisch is not in a published stack yet — stacks are edited buying guides, and memberships are added only when the combination has been worked through.
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