Pipedream versus Power Automate

Price

• Pipedream From $150/mo
  • Free: no subscription charge
  • Startup: $150.00 monthly
  • Startup: $1,188.00 annual ($99/mo equivalent)
  • Business: 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.

Documented for both

Usage definition

Pipedream External user: each distinct user of your app who connects at least one account; one user with five connected apps counts once; Usage credit: 30 seconds of compute for an action run, an MCP tool call, a Connect proxy request or an event emitted by a deployed trigger; Listing apps and accounts, configuring components and other management calls use no credits

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

Pipedream Development is free; serving real external users in production requires Startup.Free: Development only; a daily credit limit that cannot be exceeded and a limited number of connected accounts.Startup: 10,000 usage credits per month

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

Trigger polling

Pipedream An event source from the public registry, including a polling source, runs free when it triggers a workflow, on every plan; A private custom source is charged for all compute time, including the first 30 seconds

Power Automate Scheduled (recurrence) flows can run as often as every 60 seconds.

Premium integrations

Pipedream Managed auth for 3,000+ APIs, 10,000+ prebuilt tools and triggers, and MCP servers on every plan.Business: Volume pricing for users and usage; SSO, SCIM and HIPAA; Dedicated static egress IPs; SLAs and dedicated Slack support

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

AI charges

Pipedream AI agent tool calls through MCP use 1 credit per 30 seconds of compute, like any action.

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

Overage charges

Pipedream Credits above the included amount are added to the next billing period's invoice.Startup: USD 0.012 per credit beyond 10,000 a month, lower at higher volume; USD 2 a month per external user beyond 100

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

• Pipedream Pipedream Workflows and String shut down on March 31, 2027; Workflows are in maintenance mode: existing workflows run until then, with no new features; New Workflows sign-ups and subscriptions are no longer accepted; Pipedream Connect is not affected
• 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: hosting responsibility.

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 Pipedream about hosting responsibility; our sources do not establish it yet.

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