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The developer-grade open-source workflow platform — free to self-host with unlimited executions, cloud Team at $10 per seat.
For a solo founder who codes, the most powerful free automation platform here — the catch is exactly that: if you do not write code, it is not for you.
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Windmill is free and open source to self-host with unlimited executions, with cloud Team at $10 per seat per month — the developer's route through this job.
You write code (TypeScript, Python, SQL) and want workflows, schedules, approvals and internal apps on infrastructure you control, with no execution meter.
You want point-and-click app connections without code, or your stack needs a pre-built integration catalogue.
Workflows are built only from verified capabilities in our listing research — no vendor copy, nothing invented.
Starts A schedule fires hourly
You get Two systems in sync with no per-run bill
Executions are unlimited self-hosted, so chatty sync jobs cost nothing extra
Starts A flow reaches a step that changes production data
You get Dangerous automations with a human gate built in
Approval A named approver must submit the approval form before the action runs
Approval steps are a native flow feature, including self-approval controls on Enterprise
Starts An external service posts to a Windmill webhook or an email arrives
You get A production webhook endpoint without standing up a server
Email, Postgres, WebSocket, Kafka and SQS triggers are built in
Starts You open an app you built in the app builder
You get A bespoke internal tool instead of another SaaS subscription
Apps and flows share the same scripts and permissions model
Self-host in minutes with Docker, or start on the cloud free plan (1,000 executions/month) to learn the model.
Turn a script into a scheduled flow, add a retry policy and an approval step where the action is sensitive.
Enterprise bills builders at $20/month and standard workers at $50/month — the pricing page's simulator shows your exact total before you commit.
Time to first useful result: Half a day to a first production flow, for a developer · no-code 2/5
Two axes on paid tiers: seats and compute units (1 CU = 2 worker-GB-month; a standard 2GB worker = 1 CU at $50/worker/month). Self-hosted Community Edition: free, unlimited executions, up to 50 users and 3 workspaces, SSO capped at 10 users. Cloud: a free plan (1,000 executions/month per the vendor's comparison pages) and Team at $10 per seat/month with 10,000 executions per seat. Enterprise: from $120/month — builders $20/month, non-builders and external JWT users $10/month, plus compute; a worked example on the pricing page (1 builder + 3 CU) totals $170/month. Non-profits and universities get 40% off Enterprise; Pro is limited to organisations under 10 employees and $250k revenue (self-hosted).
$0/month — free and open source, unlimited executions
Flat / month · $0/mo for one person
$10/seat/month — 10,000 executions per seat
Per seat / month · $10/mo for one person
From $120/month — builders $20/month, non-builders $10/month, plus compute at $50 per standard worker/month
Per seat / month · $120/mo for one person
| Plan | Published price | Solo monthly | Billed by | Limits & overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community (self-hosted)Solo pick | $0/month — free and open source, unlimited executions | $0/mo | Flat / month | SSO capped at 10 users · 10 GiB workspace storage quota · Community support on Discord |
| Cloud Team | $10/seat/month — 10,000 executions per seat | $10/mo | Per seat / month | Governance features (uncapped SSO, audit logs) need Enterprise |
| Enterprise | From $120/month — builders $20/month, non-builders $10/month, plus compute at $50 per standard worker/month | $120/mo | Per seat / month | Worked example on the pricing page: 1 builder + 3 CU = $170/month · Committed terms for seats and compute |
Seats and compute, not executions: adding builders ($20/month each) and workers ($50/month each) is the ladder, and Enterprise starts at $120/month before either. Executions themselves are unlimited on self-hosted and Enterprise.
Price record · 2026-11-07: Checked 2026-11-07 on windmill.dev/pricing, read directly this run across its Cloud / Self-hosted and Monthly / Annually states: Community Edition free and open source with unlimited executions (max 50 users, 3 workspaces, SSO for 10 users); Enterprise from $120/month with builders at $20/month, non-builders/external JWT users at $10/month, guests free for the first 100 per 30 days then 4 guests = 1 seat, compute at $50 per standard worker (1 CU = 2 worker-GB-month) — the page's own worked example totals $170/month for 1 builder + 3 CU. The Cloud Free (1,000 executions/month) and Team ($10/seat/month, 10,000 executions per seat) figures are stated on the vendor's own official comparison page on windmill.dev, read this run via search, because the pricing page's cloud toggle state does not extract as text. One-month Enterprise trial per the same page. No price changed.
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, Windmill is free and open source to self-host with unlimited executions, its cloud has a free plan and a Team plan at $10 per seat per month with 10,000 executions per seat, and Enterprise starts from $120/month with public per-seat and per-worker pricing — a builder seat at $20/month, non-builders at $10, and compute at $50 per standard worker. It is a different species from the no-code connectors in this job: you write scripts in TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, SQL and more, chain them into flows with a visual builder, add approval steps and schedules, and even generate internal apps — all from one platform that turns code into production workflows with ~10ms cold starts. Solo technical founders use it to automate the back office of a software business: sync jobs between a database and a CRM, scheduled data pipelines, webhook handlers, report generation, and admin tools they would otherwise build by hand. The trade is explicit: there is no giant pre-built app catalogue to click through — integrations are APIs you call from code — and a non-technical founder will not get far. For a founder who codes, the economics are hard to beat: self-hosted, executions are unlimited and the licence cost is zero.
Solo Fit stays the public score: the qualitative roll-up of these four published inputs under the How We Rank method. Unlimited free executions carry it; the 2/5 no-code score is the honest trade — this is a developer platform.
The difference: n8n is the friendlier self-hosted rival with a node catalogue and whole-run billing; Windmill is code-first, AGPL open source, and adds an internal-apps builder.
The difference: Make is visual and no-code with 3,000-plus apps; Windmill expects code but never meters executions on the free self-hosted edition.
The difference: Zapier is the opposite trade: zero code and 9,000-plus apps, paid per task — Windmill is free and unlimited if you can write the integration yourself.
Zero, if you self-host the Community Edition — it is free and open source with unlimited executions. On Windmill Cloud, the free plan covers 1,000 executions a month and Team is $10 per seat per month with 10,000 executions per seat; Enterprise starts at $120/month and is only needed for governance features like uncapped SSO and audit logs.
Publicly, by seats and compute: builders cost $20/month, non-builders and external JWT users $10/month, and a standard 2GB worker costs $50/month (1 compute unit = 2 worker-GB-month). The pricing page's own example — one builder plus three compute units — totals $170/month, and the first 100 app guests per 30 days are free.
Only for developers. It replaces trigger-and-action plumbing with scripts you write in TypeScript, Python, SQL and other languages, chained into flows with approvals and schedules — there is no catalogue of pre-built app connectors to click through.
One job of up to one second of compute; longer jobs count additional seconds per second of runtime, and a flow's executions are the sum of its steps. Most jobs take under 200ms, and on the self-hosted Community Edition executions are unlimited regardless.
Windmill 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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