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- No-code platform for building and deploying business AI agents
- Gumloop lets teams assemble autonomous agents and AI-powered workflows on a drag-and-drop canvas connected to common business tools, with usage-based credits and budget controls. It targets operations and go-to-market teams automating repetitive processes.
- Open-source developer platform turning scripts into workflows, APIs, and agents
- Windmill converts scripts in Python, TypeScript, Go, Bash, SQL, and other languages into webhooks, scheduled jobs, workflows, and internal UIs, with support for AI agent steps. It is open source and self-hostable, with a managed cloud option.
- Open-source automation platform with built-in AI agents
- Activepieces is an MIT-licensed, self-hostable alternative to Zapier with a no-code builder, a TypeScript framework for writing integration pieces, and native AI agent capabilities across 700+ apps. A hosted cloud with a free plan is also offered.
- Integration platform with MCP servers exposing 10,000+ tools to agents
- Pipedream connects thousands of APIs with code-level and no-code workflow steps, and its MCP servers let developers add thousands of app actions to an AI agent quickly. It includes an AI agent builder and a free tier for developers.
- Open-source TypeScript platform for durable AI agents and background jobs
- Trigger.dev runs long-running tasks and AI agents in TypeScript with retries, queues, and elastic scaling, surviving deploys and crashes without managing servers. It is Apache-2.0 licensed and self-hostable, with a usage-priced cloud that has a free tier.
- Durable functions and orchestration for workflows and AI agents
- Inngest embeds reliability into application code through durable step functions that can pause mid-execution, wait for input, and resume — a pattern aimed squarely at long-running agents. The dev server is open source and the hosted platform has a free tier.
- AI agents that act across Zapier's 9,000+ app integrations
- Zapier Agents lets users build AI teammates that use company knowledge and take actions across the thousands of applications in Zapier's ecosystem, running autonomously or on command. It sits on top of Zapier's established automation platform and has a free entry tier.
