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Tools/Activepieces vs Windmill
Activepieces

Activepieces

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Windmill

Windmill

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Activepieces vs Windmill — Comparison

Overview
What each tool does and who it's for

Activepieces

Activepieces is the best way to build a self-driven AI culture across HR, finance, marketing, sales and more — under the supervision of your IT ninjas

Use your theme, enter your email Build intelligent agents with enterprise integrations and precise control. Everything to drive AI adoption from day one. Monthly savings from automation IT oversight tools that enterprise teams need without slowing anyone down. Secure access with SAML 2.0 and Google. Connect your existing identity provider. Automatically sync users and groups from your identity provider. Fast onboarding. Granular role-based access control. Define exactly who can do what across your org. Our secure cloud or your infrastructure. Enterprise-grade either way. Fully managed. Start in minutes $0 per execution — run millions, pay the same Stands out for handling intricate workflows where others often fall short. Already managing some of my most critical automations. Offers a clean, intuitive automation builder that makes it easy for non-technical team members to create and manage flows. Handles multi-step logic and integrations more cleanly and keeps costs predictable, which helps a lot once things move past the prototype stage. The one I keep coming back to for the heavy lifting. Once you get the hang of it, this thing is a powerhouse. Already handling some of the most critical automations in my daily operations. The intuitive drag-and-drop workflow builder makes setting up automations very easy. The visual designer is approachable for beginners but powerful enough for advanced users. If you want control without vendor lock-in. Simply the best. Better than all the rest. The interface is friendly, you can find everything with an easy lookup, easy implementation, and it's comfortable to set the workflow and run it. A tool that is as simple as Zapier but with the more advanced options of Make (and cheaper!) is my dream. Allows users to seamlessly connect apps, APIs, and webhooks together to avoid menial tasks. Helps us do all this, at a much cheaper price. Simple, intuitive and all-in-one. UI/UX is very simple and grows on you. Super project! I used n8n, but your UI/UX is much cleaner. Completely transformed the way I handle my business operations. The user interface is top-notch, making it a breeze to set up automations even for non-tech-savvy individuals. Has come a long way and they continue to surprise and update their software. Very easy to integrate with apps, just like Zapier. Stands out for handling intricate workflows where others often fall short. Already managing some of my most critical automations. Offers a clean, intuitive automation builder that makes it easy for non-technical team members to create and manage flows. Handles multi-step logic and integrations more cleanly and keeps costs predictable, which helps a lot once things move past the prototype stage. The one I keep coming back to for the heavy lifting. Once you get the hang of it, this thing is a powerhouse. Already handling some of the most critical automations in my daily operations. The intuitive drag-and-drop workflow builder mak

Windmill

Trusted by 4,000+ organizations, including 300+ EE customers at scale:

Build mission-critical internal tools and data pipelines that integrate directly with your existing stack and resources. Use Windmill's WebIDE or work locally with your favorite editor, CLI and AI agent. Write scripts in 20+ languages (Python, TS, Go...) with full LSP support, auto-generated UI, managed dependencies and turn them into instant endpoints or hooks for pubsub events. Orchestrate your scripts into high-performance flows with full code flexibility, AI assistance, and sub-20ms overhead. Build powerful full-stack apps using Windmill as a backend and any framework as frontend. Git-based collaboration, auto-scaling infrastructure, and full observability. No DevOps glue required. We engineered Windmill to be the fastest orchestrator in the industry, ensuring your most demanding workloads never bottleneck. From a single-node VPS to 1,000-node K8s clusters, auto-scale on demand or isolate critical tasks with dedicated worker groups on Kubernetes and Docker. Open source and self-hostable. Your code, your data, your infrastructure. Normal code in mainstream languages, no custom or proprietary SDKs. Run it locally, generate it with LLMs, port it anytime. Focus on what matters: your business logic. Every possible integration and trigger with external systems is already built-in with enterprise-grade reliability. PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Kafka, and 100+ more. Granular RBAC, SSO, Secret Management, and comprehensive Audit Logs. Battle-tested reliability at scale in regulated industries with air-gapped support. We actually use Windmill's job engine to do a lot of the heavy lifting for us. We schedule future jobs into Windmill's job engine to handle some drip hydration tasks for our demo platform. We can build things very quickly in Windmill, iterate very quickly, and we can ship them into a nice front end portal. Windmill quickly became crucial at Photoroom. We self-hosted Windmill Enterprise Edition to run a large number of internal scripts and business-critical automations. Windmill made chatops and iterations over scripts incredibly easy. It proved very reliable for running and monitoring workloads at scale. On top of that, their support is incredibly fast. At Pave, we self-host Windmill Enterprise Edition to run 100+ scripts and 15+ crons. Our Windmill deployment interacts with half a dozen data stores to power all kinds of business-critical tasks and automations across several teams. It enables our engineering org to move quickly while keeping things secure and avoiding infrastructure sprawl. Our platform per se is built entirely upon Windmill. It was one of the few products that allowed us the flexibility of integrating with our own third-party Python library and having a graphical user interface already pre-baked - that was the main selling point of Windmill for us. Today, Windmill ranks among the most stable components of our infrastructure. At Investing.com, we use Windmill to orchestrate our AI workflows. The quick setup th

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Community Sentiment
How developers feel about each tool based on mentions and reviews

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Pricing

Activepieces

usage-based + subscription + contract + tiered

Pricing found: $5

Windmill

subscription + tiered

Pricing found: $170 /mo, $170 / mo

Features

Only in Activepieces (10)

AI Support AgentSmart Email AgentDaily Report AgentMeeting SummarizerInbox Zero BotDeadline TrackerLead ScorerDeal CloserSingle Sign-OnSCIM Provisioning

Only in Windmill (4)

Run at any scale with best performanceNo lock-inDo not reinvent the wheelSecurity and reliability at scale
Developer Ecosystem
5
GitHub Repos
37
468
GitHub Followers
276
20
npm Packages
20
3
HuggingFace Models
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Product Screenshots

Activepieces

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Windmill

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Company Intel
information technology & services
Industry
information technology & services
18
Employees
25
$1.7M
Funding
$0.1M
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Stage
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Supported Languages & Categories

Activepieces

enterprise automation solutionsopen source business automationopen source zapierzapier open source alternativezapier alternative

Windmill

AI/MLDevOpsSecurityDeveloper ToolsData
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