Relay.app Alternatives: 6 We Priced for Agencies (2026)

What an Agency Actually Loses When the Workspace Goes

Six Alternatives, Priced on Each Vendor’s Own Page

• Activepieces — Free gives 100 credits a day with no rollover, so the paid tier is the real starting point. Plus is $20 a month for 10,000 credits and up to five users, with bring-your-own AI keys; Team is $200 for 50,000 credits, 25 users and SSO; overage is $0.007 a credit. A run is one credit however many steps it has, except AI steps, which cost 2, 10 or 20 credits depending on the model tier unless you supply your own key. The vendor’s own FAQ says the paid layer is what keeps “teams and clients separate”. The only published white-label price we found anywhere in this category belongs to its Embed product, from $36,000 a year.
• Make — Free includes 1,000 credits a month and a 15-minute minimum interval between runs. Above that, Core is listed at $12 a month, Pro at $21 and Teams at $38, each shown for 10,000 credits a month; Teams adds team roles and shared scenario templates. The pricing FAQ carries the line that matters most to anyone quoting older articles: “As of August 27, credits are the billing unit in Make.” Where the editor stops is covered in our Make notes.
• Gumloop — Pro starts at $37 a month with 20,000 credits, unlimited seats, unlimited teams, five concurrent workflow runs, an 8% orchestration fee on top and the option to bring your own model keys. Enterprise adds org-wide connector guardrails, role-based access control, SCIM/SAML and audit logs. On seats this is the most generous plan in the list; on credits it is metered, and no overage rate is published.
• n8n — Cloud Starter is $20 a month billed annually for 2,500 executions with unlimited steps and unlimited users, but only one shared project, which is the row that decides client separation. Pro is $50 for 10,000 executions and three shared projects; Business is $800 for 40,000 executions, six shared projects, SSO and Git-based version control. Self-hosted Community Edition is free with unlimited executions. Cloud data sits in Frankfurt, and Business overage is invoiced in €4,000 buckets of 300,000 executions. Our n8n page covers what the nodes do once the plan is settled.
• Pabbly Connect — the number that matters is a one-time $349 lifetime option sitting in the checkout, with monthly plans sold alongside it. The page’s own rule is that triggers and internal steps do not consume tasks and only action steps do, which is why its task counts are not comparable with Zapier’s on paper. It advertises 2,000+ integrations plus SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001:2022. The countdown clock on the lifetime banner is a marketing device, not an expiry you have to respect.
• Albato — Pro is $22 a month, or $15 billed annually, at 1,000 transactions with a single seat; extra transactions cost $0.0330 each and are priced 50% higher than the ones included in your package. The agency-oriented plan is listed as Teams (Coming soon) at $93 a month, $65 billed annually, from 5,000 transactions with five seats, shared workspaces and a three-minute update interval. If your client count needs per-client seats today, this one is a wait rather than a switch.
• Zapier, as the baseline most agencies are moving away from — Free is 100 tasks; Pro at 10,000 tasks is $129 a month billed annually and $193.50 monthly; Team, which includes 25 users, is $169 annually or $253.50 monthly. Exceeding the allowance switches you to pay-per-task billing, roughly three times more expensive on a monthly plan. The Zapier grid is otherwise clear.

Step by Step: Rebuild One Client’s Workflow in About an Hour

• Find your exports and open the JSON. Relay exported workflows, sequences and MCP servers as JSON and AI prompts, plus run history and tables as CSVs. Read the JSON as a specification of steps, field mappings and conditions — nothing else will read it for you.
• List credentials separately from steps. Every connected app needs a fresh OAuth grant, and each grant is best created in the client’s own name so the next vendor shutdown costs you nothing. Write down who owns each login before the first build, not after.
• Count the billable unit for this single workflow: steps that consume units, multiplied by runs a month. On Zapier every step counts; on n8n the entire run is one execution; on Make and Activepieces a run is one credit in most cases; on Pabbly only actions count.
• Rebuild the approval with a Wait node. “On Form Submitted” sends the assignee a form and resumes on their answer; “On Webhook Call” uses the $execution.resumeUrl generated at runtime, which is unique to each execution. The docs carry a caveat to design around: partial executions change the resume URL, so generate and send it inside the same execution that pauses.
• Run the new workflow beside the old run history CSV for one full cycle. The export is your test fixture — identical inputs should produce the client-visible output the account manager already signed off, and the CSV is how you prove it.
• Only then replicate across clients, giving each client its own project, workspace or instance. The wider build order — trigger, data layer, agent, reporting — is set out in our guide to marketing automation with AI agents, and the unit-by-unit billing differences behind this migration are laid out in Zapier vs Make vs n8n.

A Worked Example: 8 Clients, 16 Workflows, 6,000 Billable Actions (example)

Five Traps in Agency Automation Pricing

• Stale billing units — Make’s own FAQ dates the switch: credits became the billing unit on 27 August 2026. Roundups still print $9 or $10.59 a month for 10,000 operations, a unit the vendor no longer sells.
• The annual toggle — Zapier’s 10,000-task Pro tier is $129 a month billed annually and $193.50 billed monthly. That single toggle is a 50% gap, and it moves Make, Albato and Activepieces figures too. Quote one billing cycle or label the assumption.
• Seats versus units — Gumloop includes unlimited seats and n8n includes unlimited users on every cloud plan, while Albato gives Pro a single seat and Activepieces caps Plus at five. Seats are rarely the constraint and units almost always are; count the unit first.
• White-label priced at enterprise level — the only published white-label automation price we found is Activepieces Embed from $36,000 a year. Do not promise a client a branded automation portal before that number is in front of you.
• Overage spread — Activepieces charges $0.007 per extra credit against Albato’s $0.0330 per extra transaction, a 4.7x difference on the same overfull month. Read the overage row before the busy season, not after it.
• Lifetime deals with countdown timers — Pabbly’s one-time $349 option runs against a clock that resets. A lifetime payment bets on the vendor outliving your client contracts, and 2026 produced one counterexample.

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