# Activepieces Embed Pricing: Real Costs in 2026 By Emeka Vantongeren · 2026-10-23 · Source: https://www.activepieces.com/blog/activepieces-embed-pricing-real-costs-in-2026 --- **[Activepieces](https://www.activepieces.com) Embed starts at $36k a year, sold by sales on an annual contract, so no self-serve plan buys it and the quote's the number to plan around.** Activepieces Embed is the enterprise product that lets a software company build Activepieces' open-source workflow automation builder into its own application, so its customers can create automations under the company's brand, and it is sold by quote on an annual contract. ![Application window containing an embedded workflow builder](https://ap-marketing-media.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/72ddc823-9f87-4205-ac30-8122b2a5f0ea/activepieces-embed-pricing-real-costs-in-2026-il-56ff3146.webp) ## Activepieces Embed pricing: the short answer and plan table ### What Embed means in one paragraph Embed lets you put the Activepieces workflow builder, with **760+ integrations**, inside your own product, so your customers build automations without leaving your app. The trade-off is commercial: you get a whitelabelled feature without building one, but you pay a contract price and rely on a vendor's roadmap. If you only automate your own team's work, you're buying the wrong product, and the free Community Edition or a self-serve plan may cover you. ### Every current plan in one table The table lists every plan. Team costs $200 a month, so $36k a year is roughly fifteen times that, and you should know what the extra buys before you open the sales form. | Plan | Monthly price | Included credits | Users / SSO | How bought | |---|---|---|---|---| | Free | $0 | 1,000 | Set on the pricing page | Self-serve | | Plus | $20 | 10,000 | Set on the pricing page | Self-serve | | Team | $200 | 50,000 | 25 users, SSO | Self-serve | | Ultimate | Quoted by sales | Set in the quote | Set in the quote | Sales | | Self-hosted enterprise | Quoted by sales | Set in the quote | Set in the quote | Sales | | Embed | From $36k a year | Set in the quote | Set in the quote | Sales, annual contract | When a workload regularly overruns Team, a negotiated allowance can be cheaper than overage, since credits beyond a plan's allowance **cost $0.007 each**. Table checked 23 October 2026. Re-verify the three quoted rows and the overage rate on the pricing page before budgeting, because only the quote's binding. ## What inputs drive your Embed quote Because only the quote binds you, it helps to know its four inputs: users or customer tenants, monthly credit volume, deployment model, and support level. Prepare these before the sales call, since each item changes the number for a different reason. - Users or customer tenants: every extra tenant is another isolated customer environment the vendor has to provision and stand behind. - Credit volume: heavier monthly usage means more compute and more cost to the vendor. - Deployment: hosted or self-managed changes who carries the infrastructure and operations burden. - Support level: faster response and named contacts commit vendor staff to your account. If you embed automation in a product, your customers are the tenants, and their count matters more than your internal headcount. Fifty customers with one workflow each cost the vendor more to isolate than one team with fifty workflows. ![Fifty small separate boxes, each holding one workflow of a single step, arranged in a grid, beside a single larger box…](https://ap-marketing-media.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/56f0a7f3-6695-4cc1-aab8-2d823c7347ab/activepieces-embed-pricing-real-costs-in-2026-il-815eae86.webp) Estimate from your busiest realistic month, not an average, so a launch spike doesn't turn into surprise overage. If you run on your own infrastructure, hosting cost shifts to you but the vendor takes on licensing and security review. Pay for the support tier your customers' expectations demand, not the highest one offered. ## What each plan costs at realistic usage Price by the credits you burn, not the tier that sounds safest. On published self-serve numbers, 5,000 a month costs $20, 40,000 costs $200, and 150,000 costs $900. The table below is an illustration built from list prices, so it shows where the cheapest fit changes, not a quote. | Credits a month | Cheapest fitting plan | Monthly | Annual | Headroom | Users | SSO | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 5,000 | Plus | $20 | $240 | 5,000 | Not listed | Not listed | | 40,000 | Team | $200 | $2,400 | 10,000 | 25 | Yes | | 150,000 | Team plus overage | $900 | $10,800 | None; 100,000 billed at $0.007 | 25 | Yes | Paying yearly trims the list prices. [Notelinker](https://www.notelinker.com/activepieces-pricing) puts Plus at $16–$20 a month and Team at $166–$200. That's roughly $48 a year saved on Plus and $408 on Team, so annual billing matters more the higher you go. ![What paying yearly saves on Activepieces Plus and Team](https://ap-marketing-media.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/57df96c7-8b40-4ff3-a973-28fbf02b2a3a/activepieces-embed-pricing-real-costs-in-2026-gr-e845c519.svg "Source: Notelinker") At 5,000 credits a month, Free is out because it stops at 1,000, so Plus at $20 is the floor, and it leaves half its 10,000 credits unused. At 40,000 credits a month, Plus would cost $20 plus $210 of overage, or $230. Team's $200 with 10,000 to spare, so it's cheaper and adds 25 users and SSO. At 150,000 credits a month, Team's 50,000 credits run out, and 100,000 more at $0.007 adds $700 to the $200 base. That's $10,800 a year with no headroom. Here a sales conversation is reasonable, because a negotiated plan can beat metered overage, and users, deployment and support will shape that quote. ## Hidden costs and limits teams hit before signing Five costs sit outside the sticker price: credit overage, SSO needs beyond the Team plan, the user cap, engineering time to embed, and self-hosting operations. Each one's a reason the quote you receive differs from the list price. ### Credit overage from loops and retries Metered plans charge per credit, and on Activepieces the allowance runs from 1,000 credits a month on Free to 50,000 on Team, consumed by runs, not by every business outcome. A loop over a large list or a retry policy on a flaky API multiplies step counts. Activepieces counts the run rather than the steps inside it: **a flow run is 1 credit** whether it has two steps or ten, so splitting a brittle two-step workaround into ten small, testable steps doesn't raise the bill. Zapier's pricing page bills per task, so the same refactor costs more there, and a model that rises with granularity taxes the builder for breaking work down properly. What you budget for on Activepieces is run volume, plus the extra credits AI steps use (2 for a fast model, 10 for a smart one, 20 for a frontier one, or 1 per AI step with your own keys). Budget against your worst-case run volume, not your average, and cap retries before launch. At the top of the self-serve range, Team has a user cap. If your rollout will pass that cap, or if your identity provider requirements go beyond what Team's SSO covers, you're into a sales conversation whatever your credit usage. ### Self-hosting and engineering time You pay in operations rather than licence fees on the free Community Edition, which costs nothing to license: upgrades, backups, monitoring, scaling and incident response all land on your team. For a small team, the engineering time to wire authentication, tenant separation and the user interface into your own product can exceed the licence fee it was meant to avoid, so price it in staff weeks. ![Tiny price tag in front of a tall pile of scaffolding and pipes](https://ap-marketing-media.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/a68e0505-328d-4927-a09b-b9adff985baa/activepieces-embed-pricing-real-costs-in-2026-il-814bb045.webp) If your procurement process requires a finished report, don't assume one: SOC 2 certification is in progress, not complete. Ask sales for the current status, a timeline, and what interim security documentation they can supply, and get the answer in writing before the contract is signed. ## When Community Edition is and isn't enough When your own staff are the users and you're willing to run it yourself, Community Edition's enough. It stops being enough when customers need it under your brand or you need vendor-backed controls and support. ### Where Community Edition is enough It carries an MIT licence, so you can run, modify and deploy it internally without a licensing negotiation. At about $5-20 a month for a small virtual server, the bill's close to nothing, but your team owns uptime, upgrades and backups. That suits internal automation, evaluation before a purchase decision, and teams with someone who already runs services. Read down the Community Edition column in the table below for what you'd have to supply yourself. It compares the three options on the points that decide this, and Community Edition wins on cost and loses on everything that depends on the vendor. | | Community Edition | Team | Embed | |---|---|---|---| | Cost | Free, plus your server | $200 a month | Quoted by sales, from $36k a year | | Who operates it | You | Vendor-hosted | Quoted by sales | | SSO | Not included | Included | Available | | Embedding under your brand | No | No | Yes | | Vendor support | Community only | Vendor-provided | Vendor-provided | ### Where it stops being enough Three needs push you out. Customer-facing embedding under your brand is the first, and it's the one that moves you to a sales-led contract. SSO beyond what Team covers is the second, and it means a conversation with sales. Enterprise controls and a vendor you can hold to a response are the third, because on the free edition a failed upgrade is your incident, with no one to escalate to. If none of those apply, start free and revisit when one does. ## Embedded automation alternatives compared on pricing model If you outgrow the free tier and need in-product integrations, most alternatives quote on request. Among the vendors compared here, only Pipedream Connect publishes pricing, so budgeting for the rest means a sales conversation, as it does for the product this article is about. The table below shows how the six differ. Three things shape a contract: whether you can see a price, whether you can host it yourself, and who carries the integration workload. Treat any unpublished price as "quote required" and confirm against the vendor's own page before you rely on a row. | Vendor | Pricing | Self-hostable | Who builds integrations | |---|---|---|---| | Zapier Embed | Quote required | No | Zapier maintains the catalogue | | Workato Embedded | Quote required | No | Workato connectors, plus your own recipes | | Tray.io | Quote required | No | Tray connectors, plus your own workflows | | Paragon | Quote required | Enterprise arrangements only | You build on Paragon's SDK | | Pipedream Connect | Public | No | Pipedream's app library, plus your own code | | Activepieces Embed | Quote required | Yes | 744 open-source pieces in an MIT-licensed core, roughly 60% community-contributed, plus your own | Read the last column first. It tells you whether you're buying catalogue breadth or control over what ships. Expect the quote to move with scale and support at Zapier Embed, Workato Embedded, Tray.io and Paragon, all of which price by negotiation, so a lower entry number can still end up costlier than it looks. Only one comparison point can be modelled without talking to anyone: Pipedream Connect. That makes it the fastest way to test whether embedding fits your budget before you open a procurement thread. If your needs are narrow, a handful of integrations written against vendor APIs avoids licence fees entirely. You pay in engineering time and ongoing maintenance, so the table above is a guide to which cost you'd rather carry. ## Take the next step on Activepieces pricing If you'd rather pay money than engineering time, go to the pricing page when a self-serve plan covers your need. Go to the sales form when you need self-hosted enterprise, SSO beyond the Team plan, Ultimate or Embed. ![A workflow automation builder displaying a multi-step sales automation flow with scheduling configuration panel.](https://ap-marketing-media.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/7bbed214-93b7-4246-8f28-4e8cf7407ab9/sales-to-customer-success-handoff-automation-gui-d1530f42.webp) ### Self-serve: the pricing page Start at https://www.activepieces.com/pricing if your need fits a published plan. Those plans, Free at $0, Plus at $20 and Team at $200 a month, show their price and limits openly, so you can decide without a conversation and move up a tier later if usage grows. ![Activepieces pricing page displaying four subscription tiers with features and costs.](https://ap-marketing-media.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/841ec84e-02e4-4761-aca2-e92f6d457f41/self-host-mistral-ai-enterprise-deployment-guide-c7d7dca9.webp) If the free Community Edition already covers what you run, you have no reason to book a call. A call only makes sense once you hit something the self-serve plans don't offer. ### Sales-led: what to bring to the sales form Arrive with your scale, deployment and support answers ready, because quotes at this level are driven by them. The sales team can only price what you can describe, and a vague request usually costs you a round of follow-up questions before any number appears. Prepare in this order: 1. Count your users, or your tenants if you're embedding the product for customers. This is the first thing a quote scales with. 2. Estimate monthly credits, including retries. Failed runs that re-execute consume credits too, so a count of successful runs alone will understate your bill. 3. Decide where it'll be hosted. Self-hosted and managed deployments are priced and supported differently, so settle this before the call. 4. State your support and compliance needs. Name the response times, audit requirements and security reviews your own customers or auditors expect, and ask what's available today rather than assuming it. 5. Submit the form at https://www.activepieces.com/sales. With those four answers in hand, the first call can go to the quote itself rather than discovery. You'll then be comparing a real figure against the cost of carrying the work yourself. ## Frequently asked questions Nothing in the published pricing confirms an Embed trial, because Embed's quoted through sales rather than started from a signup page. Ask for a proof-of-concept arrangement on the first call, and meanwhile test the builder on the free self-serve plan, so you're not paying for a quote just to learn whether the product fits. ### Is there a monthly option for Embed? No monthly option is published for Embed, which is sold as an annual contract. Monthly billing belongs to the self-serve plans, so if you need to start small or leave quickly, that's where the flexibility sits. If a monthly arrangement matters to you, raise it during the quote, since the contract term is part of what you're negotiating. On Plus and Team, usage beyond your included credits is billed per credit at a metered rate rather than stopping your flows. That keeps automations running, but a runaway flow now costs real money. Set a usage alert, and check the current overage rate on the pricing page before you rely on it in a budget. ### Can I self-host Activepieces for free? Yes, the open-source Community Edition (the free, self-run version of the platform) can be self-hosted at no licence cost. It covers you if your team is comfortable running its own infrastructure and doesn't need enterprise features such as SSO beyond what the self-serve tiers offer, or embedding in your own product. Once you need those, a paid self-hosted licence is quoted by sales, based on users, credits, deployment and support. There's no SOC 2 certification to point to today, because Activepieces isn't certified yet and the programme is in progress. If your procurement process requires a report, say so at the start of the sales conversation and ask where the programme stands, rather than assuming it'll be done by your contract date. ## Related reading - [Activepieces Enterprise Pricing: All Plans (2026)](https://www.activepieces.com/blog/activepieces-enterprise-pricing-all-plans-2026) - [Activepieces License Cost: Pricing by Plan (2026)](https://www.activepieces.com/blog/activepieces-license-cost-pricing-by-plan-2026) - [Activepieces Self Hosted Pricing: Plans and Costs 2026](https://www.activepieces.com/blog/activepieces-self-hosted-pricing-plans-and-costs-2026) ## References - [Notelinker](https://www.notelinker.com/activepieces-pricing)