Zapier
Build and scale AI workflows and agents across 9,000+ apps with Zapier—the most connected AI orchestration platform. Trusted by 3 million+ businesses.
Zapier is commercial workflow automation software made by Zapier. Its English Wikipedia article has about 1.5k readers a month on phones.
- Made by
- Zapier
- Wikipedia readers on phones
- 1.5k a month
- Source code
- Closed
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- No-code automation connecting thousands of apps with triggers and actions, plus tables, forms and AI steps.
- Adopt it when
- A non-technical team wants to connect SaaS apps quickly and the widest app catalogue matters most.
- Watch out
- Task-based pricing gets expensive at volume, and complex logic is awkward.
- Ready for
- Production-ready
- Runs as
- Cloud service
- What the license allows
- Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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