Activepieces pricing explained
Self-hosted costs more than you think. Cloud charges by the task. Managed hosting gives you both in one predictable bill.
Self-hosting Activepieces: It's not free
Activepieces is open-source under an MIT license. Deploying it costs zero dollars. Using it costs real money in your time.
A typical self-hosted setup runs on a $5-20 per month VPS. Then you spend:
- Initial setup: 1-2 hours configuring Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, and SSL
- Automated backups: 30 minutes weekly to set up and test snapshot recovery
- Database maintenance: 2-4 hours per month tuning queries, managing connections, and freeing disk space
- Security updates: 1 hour per month applying OS patches and dependency updates
- Certificate renewal: 30 minutes quarterly managing SSL renewal (or 15 minutes to automate it)
- Monitoring: 30 minutes setting up alerts and on-call rotation
- Incident response: 2-4 hours when a backup fails, disk fills, or PostgreSQL locks up
Monthly time commitment: 4-6 hours.
At $100 per hour (your cost to hire this work out), that's $400-600 per month in hidden ops costs. Per year: $4,800-7,200.
That's the real price of "free."
Average monthly ops cost at $100/hr
Self-hosting is free until you count time spent on backups, updates, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Managed hosting reclaims those hours.
Three ways to run Activepieces
1. Activepieces Cloud (usage-based)
Activepieces' official managed SaaS:
| Tier | Price | Monthly Credits | Users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 100/day | 1 |
| Plus | $20 | 10,000 | 5 |
| Team | $200 | 50,000 | 25 |
| Ultimate | Custom | Yearly pool | Unlimited |
The catch: Overage costs $0.007 per credit. Hit your limit? Each extra credit costs less than a penny, but 10,000 overages = $70 surprise bill.
Best for: Teams embracing vendor tooling, needing instant multi-user team features, accepting pricing unpredictability.
Not best for: Founders who value cost predictability and data sovereignty.
2. Self-Hosted Open Source (MIT free)
Run Activepieces on your servers. Unlimited workflows, unlimited credits.
Hard costs: $5-20/month VPS or your own hardware.
Real costs: 4-6 hours per month ops work ($400-600 if outsourced).
Best for: GDPR-strict European companies, unlimited workflow scale without per-task overage risk, teams with in-house DevOps.
Not best for: Solo founders, non-technical teams, organizations without ops staff.
3. Managed Hosting (Opsily)
Open-source Activepieces. You don't run the servers.
Cost: Flat monthly rate: no per-task overages, no usage surprises.
Included:
- Automated daily backups to secure storage
- 24/7 monitoring and alerting
- Automatic security patches and feature updates
- SSL certificate management (auto-renewal)
- Redundant infrastructure
- EU data centers (Frankfurt) with ISO 27001 certification
- Email support
Best for: Founders and ops leads who want self-hosted control, EU data residency, and zero ops burden.
Not best for: Teams locked into Activepieces Cloud's team collaboration features (though Opsily includes basic team setup).
Side-by-side cost comparison
| Factor | Cloud SaaS | DIY Self-Hosted | Managed Hosting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup time | < 1 minute | 2 hours | 3 minutes |
| Monthly infrastructure | Included | $5-20/mo | Flat rate |
| Ops hours/month | 0 | 4-6 | 0 |
| Overage risk | Yes ($0.007/credit) | No | No |
| Data stays in EU | On request | Yes (your choice) | Yes (Frankfurt) |
| Backups automated | Yes | Your job | Yes |
| Monitoring automated | Yes | Your job | Yes |
| GDPR native | Partial | Yes | Yes |
| Team features | Built-in | Manual | Included |
| Support | Included | Community | Included |
| True annual cost | $240-2,400 | $60-240 + $4,800-7,200 ops | Flat monthly rate |
The verdict: DIY looks cheapest. Until you count your time. Then managed hosting pays for itself in 2-4 weeks.
Why managed Activepieces pricing without per-task overages
Open-source flexibility, without the DevOps tax.
Zero ops overhead
Backups, updates, monitoring, scaling: all handled. That 4-6 hours per month you were spending troubleshooting? Go build more automations. Or sleep. Or both.
EU data, GDPR native
Your Activepieces data lives in Frankfurt, Germany. ISO 27001-certified data center. No data leaves the EU. Self-hosting gives data control; managed hosting gives control without the ops burden.
Flat pricing, no per-task overages
Your monthly bill never changes. Run 10 workflows or 10,000. No $0.007-per-credit surprises. No shock charges. No Zapier pricing roulette.
Built for teams who need reliability
Opsily managed Activepieces plans
Find the right Activepieces pricing plan for your automation scale. All plans include German data centers, daily backups, 24/7 monitoring, and 99.9% uptime SLA.
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Trust and compliance
GDPR compliance. EU data residency. Automated backups. The security layer behind every Opsily Activepieces deployment.
GDPR compliant
Your workflow data stays in the EU. Frankfurt, Germany. Zero US data transfers. Full audit trail for compliance teams.
Secure German infrastructure
Your servers run in German data centers with enterprise-grade security in Frankfurt.
Daily automated backups
Every workflow, every database state, backed up daily to secure off-site storage. Restore any point in time. Zero data loss.
Automatic SSL certificates
HTTPS enabled on day one. Certificates auto-renewed 30 days before expiry. No manual work. No expiration surprises.
99.9% uptime SLA
Your automations run reliably. 24/7 monitoring. Redundant infrastructure. Automatic failover if anything goes wrong.
Questions about Activepieces pricing
Activepieces' cloud has a free tier: 100 credits per day, unlimited workflows, one user. Self-hosting the open-source version is completely free (MIT license). Managed hosting on Opsily starts at a flat monthly rate with no per-workflow overages or credit surprises. Free tier forces you to choose: vendor SaaS, ops burden yourself, or managed hosting.
Stop paying for ops overhead
Activepieces on Opsily: Open-source power, managed hosting simplicity. Deploy in 3 minutes. No credit card required.