Activepieces versus Power Automate

Price

• Activepieces From $20/mo
  • Free: no subscription charge
  • Plus: $20.00 monthly
  • Plus: $192.00 annual ($16/mo equivalent)
  • Team: $200.00 monthly
  • Team: $1,992.00 annual ($166/mo equivalent)
  • Ultimate: Vendor quotation required
• Power Automate From $180/yr per user
  • Premium: $180.00 annual per seat ($15/mo equivalent)
  • Process: $1,800.00 annual per unknown ($150/mo equivalent)
  • Hosted Process: $2,580.00 annual per unknown ($215/mo equivalent)

These prices use different billing periods and different billing units. Read each with its own unit and conditions; they do not add up to one total or a cheaper product.

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Usage definition

Activepieces One flow run uses one credit, however many steps it has.

Power Automate Power Platform requests: every connector call, HTTP action and built-in action (even initialising a variable or a compose step) counts, successful or failed, including retries and pagination.

Included volume

Activepieces Free: 1,000 creditsPlus: 10,000 credits per monthTeam: 50,000 credits per monthUltimate: Credits sized with you, reset yearly

Power Automate Premium: 40,000 Power Platform requests per user per 24 hoursProcess: 250,000 Power Platform requests per flow per 24 hours, independent of the users' licences; Up to 10 Process licences can be stacked on one flow, each adding 250,000 requests; Or one licence can be shared by up to 25 solution-aware flows in a flow group, without stacking

Premium integrations

Activepieces Apps without a ready-made piece can be reached through the HTTP piece or a webhook; pieces are open-source TypeScript.Embed: 760+ integrations, a flow builder and AI agents inside your own product under your own brand

Power Automate The 30-day free trial covers UI-based cloud flows and standard connectors.

Hosting responsibility

Activepieces Activepieces EU cloud in Frankfurt by default; Another region on request; Or your own servers; SOC 2 is in progress, not certifiedCommunity Edition: Self-hosted automation core

Power Automate Process: A bot runs one unattended desktop flow at a time on its assigned machine; concurrent runs need more bots.Hosted Process: Unattended automation on a Microsoft-managed virtual machine hosted on Azure.

AI charges

Activepieces AI steps add credits on top of the run: 2 on a fast model, 10 on a smart model, 20 on a frontier model; Agentic actions are 1 credit each; On Plus and higher, your own AI provider keys make every AI step 1 credit, with the model cost billed by your provider

Power Automate AI-powered runtime such as agents is outside the request limits and consumes Copilot Credits.

Overage charges

Activepieces Plus and Team keep running past the allowance at USD 0.007 per extra credit; on Free, runs past the quota wait until credits refresh; Ultimate uses a yearly pool.

Power Automate No per-request charge is listed; Microsoft may enforce limits by throttling; Capacity is added to the user or flow that exceeds its limit; Each Power Platform requests add-on raises a limit by 50,000 requests per 24 hours, and several can be assigned

Limits to check

• Activepieces Users: up to 5 on Free and Plus, 25 on Team, unlimited on Ultimate; Credits: 1,000 on Free, 10,000 a month on Plus, 50,000 a month on Team; Over the allowance, Free runs wait for tomorrow; Plus and Team pay USD 0.007 per credit
• Power Automate A cloud flow uses its owner's licence; if the owner leaves the organisation, the flow falls back to the Low performance profile.

Not verified yet

Every compared requirement has evidence for at least one.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Power Automate: trigger polling.

Not verified means our reviewed sources do not establish it. It does not mean a product lacks the capability or that it costs nothing.

Next steps

• Ask Activepieces about trigger polling; our sources do not establish it yet.

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