# Activepieces vs Tray.io: Pricing & Features (2026) By Lin Rodriguez · 2026-10-25 · Source: https://www.activepieces.com/blog/activepieces-vs-trayio-pricing-features-2026 --- Choose the open source option if your team will run the automation tool itself or wants prices it can read before talking to anyone: the core is MIT-licensed and Plus costs $20 a month, letting you compare options without sales involvement. Choose Tray.io if you want a vendor-managed enterprise platform and are happy to buy through sales. ## The short answer and the table ### Who each tool is for If you are a small or mid-sized team, or a product company, that wants an open source tool to self-host or pay for on a published plan, the open source option gives you an **MIT-licensed core** to self-host and Free, Plus and Team plans with prices you can read, with unlimited flows on every plan, including free. ![Activepieces self-serve cloud plans and their monthly prices](https://ap-marketing-media.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/2860d3ca-48df-4dbc-a60e-74f7a9c914e6/activepieces-vs-tray-io-pricing-features-2026-st-5c3c14b5.svg "Source: Activepieces") Tray.io is for larger organisations that want a managed platform with a vendor relationship, and are comfortable with a quoted contract. ### At-a-glance comparison table | | Activepieces | Tray.io | |---|---|---| | Built for | Teams that want to own and run their automation | Enterprises that want a managed platform | | Hosting | Self-host or vendor cloud | Vendor-hosted; self-hosting quoted by sales | | Licence | MIT-licensed core, with a commercial enterprise edition | Proprietary | | Pricing | Free at $0, Plus at $20 and Team at $200 a month, published on its pricing page | Quoted by sales | | SSO | Included on higher paid plans; beyond that, via sales | Quoted by sales | | AI agents | Built-in agent features | Built-in agent features; packaging quoted by sales | | Integrations | 744 integrations in an open source piece library, extendable by you | Managed connector library; scope quoted by sales | | Embedding | Embed option for your own product; enterprise terms via sales | Embedded offering; quoted by sales | Where a cell says "quoted by sales", the vendor doesn't publish the answer, so budget time for a call. For the open source tool, the MIT licence on the core and a Free plan at $0 let you test a real deployment before involving anyone, which means you can show value before asking for resources. We checked each vendor's own public pages on 2026-10-25. Anything not published there reads "quoted by sales" rather than a guess. We make no SOC 2 claim for the open source tool, so if that certification's a hard requirement, confirm its current status with the vendor directly. ## The five criteria that decide this choice A missing certification is one of five questions that separate these tools: - hosting - price and buying route - admin and security - AI agents - embedding Each criterion comes down to one question you can put to either vendor: - Hosting: who runs and patches it? - Price and buying route: what does it cost, and can you buy it without talking to anyone? - Admin and security: what controls does your security team get? - AI agents: can it run agents against your own systems? - Embedding: can you put it inside your own product? If you self-host, your team owns uptime, upgrades and patching, and your data stays in your network. If the vendor hosts it, you hand that work over and accept their release schedule. When the price is published and self-serve, you can start today and budget in advance. A sales-quoted price means a procurement cycle and a negotiated figure. Tray.io's sold the second way, so ask for a quote early and compare it against published plans on the same usage. Check which tier unlocks single sign-on, role controls and audit trails, because these are often gated behind higher plans. Then ask for certifications in writing instead of relying on a marketing page, since your review will. Ask what an agent can actually do here: - which tools it can call - which models it can use - where its data goes An agent feature that can't reach your systems, or sends data somewhere you can't approve, is a demo and not a deployment. ## Hosting and licence: self-host Activepieces or use Tray.io's cloud If you want to own the servers, self-host the MIT-licensed Activepieces core; if you want nobody on your team patching anything, Tray.io's vendor-run cloud is your only way to buy it. The table shows who carries each operational job in each option. | | Activepieces self-hosted | Activepieces cloud | Tray.io cloud | |---|---|---|---| | Deployment options | Your own servers or cloud account | Vendor-hosted | Vendor-hosted only | | Licence terms | MIT-licensed core; enterprise features under a commercial licence | Subscription, from a Free plan at $0 | Proprietary subscription, quoted by sales | | Who patches and upgrades | You | Activepieces | Tray | | Where data lives | Wherever you deploy | Vendor infrastructure | Vendor infrastructure | | Operations burden | Yours: uptime, backups, upgrades | Minimal | Minimal | ![What it costs to host Activepieces yourself each month](https://ap-marketing-media.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/1b009364-b203-48bb-9e07-b0b0727319b9/activepieces-vs-tray-io-pricing-features-2026-st-d8d0351d.svg "Source: StackRates") Only the self-hosted column puts data location in your hands, which matters if a contract or regulator names a region. Only it also costs you pager duty. Choosing it doesn't mean settling for a lesser product, though: Activepieces keeps its enterprise controls in the air-gapped build, where single sign-on, SCIM, custom RBAC and audit logs, along with release management and secret managers, behave as they do in the managed cloud, and regulated and public-sector organisations run that edition in production today. You can read the code and run it without a licence fee, because the Activepieces core is open source. Hosting's cheap: - [StackRates](https://stackrates.ai/run/activepieces/) puts a budget VPS at 5 $ a month and an OVHcloud VPS at 5.35 $, so a small team's server bill is lunch money. - A managed host runs 15 $ a month, which buys you less server administration. - GCP Cloud Run reaches 83 $ a month, so a cloud-native setup costs about sixteen times the budget VPS. ![Sealed building with no entry for visitor](https://ap-marketing-media.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/075491f8-bd4b-4aaa-abf8-7d08fa6dbf6c/activepieces-vs-tray-io-pricing-features-2026-il-333697e8.webp) None of these include staff time, and that's the real cost. You won't find a server bill with Tray.io, because there's no server to rent. It runs only as its own hosted cloud, on a proprietary licence with **pricing quoted by sales**. You pay for the contract instead, and you can't see the number before a sales conversation. If you have someone who already runs Docker and backups, self-hosting turns the infrastructure bill into a rounding error. If nobody does, a 5 $ server isn't cheap, because the first failed upgrade costs more than a year of hosting. ![Tiny server box beside a towering toolbox](https://ap-marketing-media.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/c0d7aab4-66b2-4f4d-b82c-c0a5340e1a62/activepieces-vs-tray-io-pricing-features-2026-il-10c14511.webp) In that case choose a vendor-run option, and weigh Tray.io's quoted price against Activepieces cloud's published one. Activepieces is the better fit for regulated or public-sector teams that must control where their data lives, judged on how much of the enterprise feature set they keep once they self-host. SSO, SCIM, custom RBAC, audit logs, release management and secret managers are the same list in the air-gapped build as in the managed cloud, so **full control costs no capability**. Tray.io's vendor-run cloud is the simpler route for teams that want nobody patching anything, but running on your own servers is only available by quote from sales, and for a contract or regulator that names a region, that decides it. ## Pricing compared: published self-serve plans against sales quotes Don't put these two numbers in one column as if they were equal. The open source tool's cloud publishes three self-serve prices; Tray.io's arrives only as a sales quote, so they are different kinds of figure. ### Self-serve plans and entry price The [Activepieces pricing page](https://www.activepieces.com/pricing) lists a Free tier at $0 per month, so you can build and run real workflows before anyone approves a budget. **Plus is $20 per month**, which sits under most teams' no-approval spending limit, so teams can adopt it without approval. ![Activepieces pricing page with four subscription tiers showing features and monthly costs](https://ap-marketing-media.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/5780ea9c-6ecc-45f7-99f2-8707dfb01930/vercel-pricing-in-2026-how-the-costs-scale-scree-22533578.webp) Team is $200 per month, a tenfold step that you only take when you need what that tier adds, so the price becomes part of your decision. You can write a published self-serve cost into a spreadsheet today, and you can't do that for Tray.io. ### Tray.io pricing as published Tray.io doesn't print a price you can add up. You contact sales, describe your workload, and receive a quote. That means your entry price depends on what you tell them and how the negotiation goes, and two buyers with similar needs can end up with different numbers. Don't set a $20 list price next to a quote and call the difference savings, since this would hide your actual pricing from customers. One's a public rate anyone can pay. The other's a negotiated contract that may include support, onboarding or admin features the cheaper plan doesn't. Compare like with like by asking the sales team for a written quote that names what's included, then price the published tier that covers the same needs. ### What each model costs as usage grows With flat tiers, your bill moves only when you cross into the next plan. Going from Plus to Team adds $180 per month, and you can see that jump before you commit, so budgeting's a lookup, not a forecast. ![Three plan cards arranged as ascending steps with a clear jump between the first two](https://ap-marketing-media.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/51eb1f8a-d17a-429c-b005-f84c0db62563/activepieces-vs-tray-io-pricing-features-2026-il-16c1efe4.webp) With a quote, growth is a renegotiation. You won't know the cost of doubling your usage until you ask, and renewal's when that conversation happens. ## SSO, admin controls and security posture The useful comparison's where you have to look: Tray.io puts these details behind a sales conversation and its trust page, while a self-serve tool lets you read the plan boundary before you talk to anyone. ### SSO and which plan unlocks it Expect the plan boundary to bite at single sign-on, because it tends to sit above the entry tier. Tray.io sells by quote, so you won't find a public table that says which package includes SSO; you ask in the sales process and get it written into the order. With a published-tier product, the same question's answerable before a call. That's the point worth checking: confirm the plan that includes SSO on the vendor's page, then compare it with the plan you would otherwise buy. If they differ, the real price's the higher one. ### Roles, audit and admin controls Once more than one team is building, roles matter more, because they decide who can edit a live workflow and who can only run or view it. Audit logs decide whether you can answer "who changed this, and when" after an incident. For each vendor, check three things: the role types available, whether audit logs exist on your plan, and whether admin controls such as workspace separation come with it or cost extra. Assume nothing carries across tiers until the page or your quote says so. ### Compliance claims each vendor makes Read compliance statements for what they say, not for what you hope they imply. Where a vendor's SOC 2 programme is in progress and not yet certified, a security review that requires a completed report can't rely on it today. Tray.io publishes its certifications on its own trust page, and that page, not a summary elsewhere, is the source to cite in your review. Before you shortlist, confirm on each vendor's page which plan includes SSO, the role types, whether audit logs exist, and the compliance statement (for the open source tool, SOC 2 in progress, not certified; Tray.io's from its trust page). ## AI agents, integration count and embedding Tray.io suits teams that want a vendor-run AI and embedding programme under one contract. The open source tool wins on open, community-built breadth and on prices you can read before talking to anyone. Both products let you put an AI step inside a workflow, but they sell it differently. Tray.io packages agent building as part of its sales-quoted platform, so you get a vendor-supported feature set and a vendor to call, and you find the cost out in a sales conversation. You can inspect how it behaves and run it on your own servers, because the open source tool treats AI as integrations and agent features inside the same open tool. If your security team wants one accountable vendor for agent behaviour, that favours Tray.io. If you want to audit and host it yourself, it favours the open tool. ### Number of integrations According to the [Mintlify docs for the open source piece library](https://www.mintlify.com/activepieces/activepieces/pieces/introduction), **19 of every 20 integrations are community-built**. That means the catalogue grows as fast as outside contributors need things, not as fast as one vendor's roadmap. ![How much of Activepieces' library the community builds](https://ap-marketing-media.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/f6800b03-2391-4448-8573-c7fce870f04a/activepieces-vs-tray-io-pricing-features-2026-on-49825936.svg "Source: Mintlify Activepieces docs") Quality varies from integration to integration and nobody at one company vouches for each. Check the three or four apps you actually depend on in each catalogue, including which actions and triggers exist, because counts tell you coverage, not depth. [Tray.io](https://tray.ai/connectors/all-integrations/)'s connectors are built and maintained by the vendor, which's the stronger position when you need guaranteed upkeep on a specific connector. To add a custom or community integration without waiting on anyone, an admin can install one from the NPM Registry by entering its package name and version. That openness is also a maintenance duty: someone on your side owns those versions. ![A modal dialog for installing a custom piece in Activepieces, with fields for package type, piece name, and version.](https://ap-marketing-media.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/a568b71d-b5b8-4e98-bcd9-834b9227ff0a/self-host-deepseek-r1-for-private-automation-202-7d9a246c.webp) ### Embedding in your own product Embedding means your customers build or run automations inside your app. Tray.io offers this as an enterprise product with a sales-led contract, which fits a company that wants onboarding and support around it. The open source tool offers embedding too, and its self-hosted route keeps the workflow engine inside your infrastructure. Either way, ask who maintains the embedded integrations after launch, because that cost lasts longer than the first integration. ## Verdict and next step for each buyer Pick the open source tool unless you specifically need a vendor-managed, sales-led enterprise platform, in which case Tray.io's the one built that way. ### Choose the open source tool if Your team, or a developer you trust, will run the automations and you want to see the price before talking to anyone. It's open source and can be self-hosted. You control where data lives and you're not tied to one vendor's roadmap. Self-serve plans are published, which lets you budget without a procurement cycle. Treating "open source" as "free of effort" is the common mistake: if nobody owns upgrades and uptime, self-hosting becomes a chore. Another is assuming SSO or embedding comes with the entry plans. Those, along with self-hosted enterprise, go through the sales form. ### Choose Tray.io if You want a vendor to operate the platform and you're comfortable buying through a sales conversation. Tray.io's quoted by sales, so there's no public price to compare, and you learn the real cost only after scoping. That suits organisations that already run procurement, want a named account contact, and would rather not carry the operational load. Don't start that conversation without a clear list of the workflows, the users and the embedding needs, because the quote follows whatever you scope. The order below keeps you from paying for enterprise process you don't need, and the step after it's the one that turns the decision into a purchase. 1. Decide who will run the platform day to day: your engineers, an operations owner, or the vendor. 2. Decide whether you need a vendor-managed, enterprise platform sold through a sales process. If not, carry on. 3. Look up the plans on [the vendor's pricing page](https://www.activepieces.com/pricing) and see whether a self-serve plan covers your workflows. 4. If you need self-hosted enterprise, SSO beyond Team, or embedding, use [the vendor's sales form](https://www.activepieces.com/sales). If step two came out as yes, your next move's a scoped request to Tray.io's sales team instead. ## Related reading - [No-Code Automation Statistics 2026: Adoption for Small Teams](https://www.activepieces.com/blog/no-code-automation-statistics-2026-adoption-for-small-teams) - [Activepieces vs Zapier Pricing for Self-Hosted Teams](https://www.activepieces.com/blog/activepieces-vs-zapier-pricing-for-self-hosted-teams) - [What is Tray Embedded? A 2026 Guide](https://www.activepieces.com/blog/what-is-tray-embedded-a-2026-guide) ## References - [StackRates](https://stackrates.ai/run/activepieces/) - [Activepieces](https://www.activepieces.com/pricing) - [Mintlify Activepieces docs](https://www.mintlify.com/activepieces/activepieces/pieces/introduction)