# Activepieces vs Kestra

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Activepieces

| Attribute | Activepieces | Kestra |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 71.7 (55% (medium)) | 59 (54% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"An open-source workflow automation system enabling teams to build visual automations connecting their business apps, with native AI support, flexible deployment options (cloud or self-hosted), and support for over 280 integrations. It is indexed under AI Workflow Automation.","source":"https://www.activepieces.com/blog/workato-pricing","question":"What is Activepieces?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Activepieces offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $5 per active_flow per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.activepieces.com/blog/workato-pricing","question":"Is Activepieces free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Activepieces. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.activepieces.com/blog/workato-pricing","question":"What platforms does Activepieces support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Activepieces can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.activepieces.com/blog/workato-pricing","question":"Can Activepieces be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 13 integrations for Activepieces, including Google Sheets, HubSpot, Stripe, Slack, APITemplate.io, Claude, Cursor and Google Workspace, plus 5 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.activepieces.com/blog/workato-pricing","question":"What does Activepieces integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Activepieces. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Activepieces not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.activepieces.com/blog/compliance-automation-tools","question":"What security certifications does Activepieces have?","confidence":0.7}]` | `[{"answer":"An open-source platform designed for orchestrating complex, long-running workflows across data pipelines, AI systems, and infrastructure operations. Supports multiple languages and deployment models (cloud, self-hosted, air-gapped), with built-in reliability features like retries, backfills, and comprehensive observability. It is indexed under Data Engineering Tools.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"What is Kestra?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Kestra offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Open Source, Kestra Cloud and Kestra Enterprise. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"Is Kestra free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Kestra supports the web, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"What platforms does Kestra support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Kestra can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise, air-gapped and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"Can Kestra be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 40 integrations for Kestra, including Ansible, dbt, Spark, Airbyte, Dremio, Arrow Flight SQL, Git and Kubernetes, plus 32 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"What does Kestra integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Kestra. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Kestra not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://kestra.io/docs/configuration/security-and-secrets","question":"What security certifications does Kestra have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Kestra is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"Where is Kestra available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An open-source automation platform that combines AI agents, visual workflows, and 760+ app integrations, deployable on cloud infrastructure or self-hosted for maximum control and data security. | A language-agnostic platform that lets teams define and run business-critical workflows declaratively as code, with built-in scheduling, event-driven triggers, retries, failure handling, and full observability across cloud, on-premise, and air-gapped deployments. |
| features.capabilities | `{"soc2_type_ii":true,"pricing_model":"flat_monthly_unlimited","builder_ui_architecture":"visual_node_canvas","custom_http_webhook_catch_and_triggering":true,"native_llm_nodes_anthropic_openai_gemini":true,"on_premise_self_hosted_deployment_option":true,"bring_your_own_key_byok_for_llm_inference":true,"web_scraping_and_browser_automation_nodes":true,"sub_workflow_calling_and_reusable_templates":true,"human_in_the_loop_approval_steps_via_slack_email":true,"unstructured_document_extraction_pdf_image_to_json":true}` | `{"cdc":false,"role":"orchestrator","lineage":true,"paradigm":"both","iso_27001":false,"dbt_native":true,"data_quality":true,"elt_pushdown":true,"python_first":true,"soc2_type_ii":true,"managed_cloud":true,"connector_count":"1900+","self_hosted_oss":true,"incremental_runs":true,"distributed_executor":true,"builder_ui_architecture":"visual_node_canvas","custom_http_webhook_catch_and_triggering":true,"native_llm_nodes_anthropic_openai_gemini":true,"on_premise_self_hosted_deployment_option":true,"bring_your_own_key_byok_for_llm_inference":true,"web_scraping_and_browser_automation_nodes":false,"sub_workflow_calling_and_reusable_templates":true,"human_in_the_loop_approval_steps_via_slack_email":true,"dynamic_conditional_routing_via_llm_classification":true,"unstructured_document_extraction_pdf_image_to_json":true}` |
| integrations.count | 760 | 2,000 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Google Sheets"},{"name":"HubSpot"},{"name":"Stripe"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"APITemplate.io"},{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"Google Workspace"},{"name":"OpenAI","native":true,"category":"ai"},{"name":"Discord","native":true,"category":"chat"},{"name":"RSS","native":true},{"name":"Salesforce","native":true,"category":"crm"},{"name":"APIs","native":true,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Gmail","native":true,"category":"email","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams","native":true,"category":"communication","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Apify","native":true,"category":"automation","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"SimpliRoute","native":true,"category":"logistics","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Bexio","native":true,"category":"accounting","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Instagram for Business","native":true,"category":"social","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Teamleader","native":true,"category":"crm","direction":"bidirectional"}]` | `[{"name":"Ansible"},{"name":"dbt"},{"name":"Spark"},{"name":"Airbyte"},{"name":"Dremio"},{"name":"Arrow Flight SQL"},{"name":"Git"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Terraform"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Azure Data Lake Storage"},{"name":"Postgres"},{"name":"JDBC databases"},{"name":"HTTP APIs"},{"name":"Polars"},{"name":"Python"},{"name":"Bash"},{"name":"Node.js"},{"name":"Go"},{"name":"Apache Kafka"},{"name":"Apache Spark"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Google Gemini"},{"name":"Perplexity"},{"name":"Google Analytics"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"Facebook Ads"},{"name":"RabbitMQ"},{"name":"Yahoo Finance"},{"name":"AWS Secrets Manager"},{"name":"HashiCorp Vault"},{"name":"Google Cloud"},{"name":"Google BigQuery"},{"name":"R"},{"name":"Java"},{"name":"Julia"},{"name":"Ruby"},{"name":"Shell"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Dataform","native":true,"category":"data_transformation","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Apache Tika","native":false,"category":"document_processing","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Gemini","native":true,"category":"ai_llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Azure Key Vault","native":true,"category":"secrets_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Secret Manager","native":true,"category":"secrets_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Kafka","native":true,"category":"streaming","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Elasticsearch","native":true},{"name":"Datadog","native":true},{"name":"Splunk","native":true},{"name":"MySQL","native":true}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free forever, no credit card","features":["1,000 credits monthly","Chat to automation","Unlimited flows","Flows, Agents, Tables","MCPs and API access"],"minSeats":1,"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For getting started","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"flows":"unlimited","credits":"1,000/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Plus","summary":"$20/mo + overage at $0.007 per credit","features":["Everything in Free, plus","10× monthly credits","Up to 5 users","Bring your own AI keys"],"minSeats":1,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"credit"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.007,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For daily builders","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"5","credits":"10,000/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$200/mo + overage at $0.007 per credit","features":["Everything in Plus, plus","5× monthly credits","Unlimited projects","25 users included","SSO and standard roles","Global connections","Email support"],"minSeats":25,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":200,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"credit"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.007,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For growing teams","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"25","credits":"50,000/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Ultimate","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Everything in Team, plus","Dedicated workers","Execution priority","SCIM and custom roles","Releases and Git Sync","Audit logs and secrets","Dedicated support"],"description":"For enterprise scale","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Embed","summary":"From $36,000/year","features":["White-label builder","One SDK","Your pieces and templates","Enterprise control"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":36000,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"description":"White-label builder and AI agents","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier, then $20–$200/mo flat with usage-based overage, or custom enterprise pricing","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.activepieces.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-05T10:06:26.180Z","startingPrice":{"amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Open Source","summary":"Free, self-hosted","description":"Self-hosted open-source version","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Kestra Cloud","summary":"Managed cloud with enterprise support","features":["Fully Managed Platform (Hosting, Upgrades, Monitoring)","Built-in Security and Governance Features","Customer Success Program & Enterprise Support with SLA","Audit Logs"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Fully managed cloud platform","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Kestra Enterprise","summary":"Enterprise self-hosted with advanced governance","features":["Run anywhere Cloud, On-Prem, Air-Gapped","RBAC, audit logs, secrets management, asset lineage","AI Copilot (Any LLM Cloud or Self-Hosted)","Human-in-the-Loop Approvals"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Self-hosted enterprise edition","contactSales":true}],"currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://kestra.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-06T16:17:51.489Z","billingPeriods":["year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | mid | low |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":20,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"in_progress"}]` | `[{"name":"SOC 2","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.activepieces.com/blog/compliance-automation-tools | https://kestra.io/docs/configuration/security-and-secrets |

## Capabilities (AI Workflow Automation)

| Capability | Activepieces | Kestra |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Builder UI architecture | Visual node canvas | Visual node canvas |
| Native LLM nodes anthropic openai gemini | ✓ | ✓ |
| Human in the loop approval steps via slack email | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unstructured document extraction PDF image to json | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dynamic conditional routing via LLM classification | - | ✓ |
| Web scraping and browser automation nodes | ✓ | ✗ |
| Bring your own key byok for LLM inference | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom HTTP webhook catch and triggering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sub workflow calling and reusable templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| On premise self hosted deployment option | ✓ | ✓ |
| SOC2 type ii | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISO 27001 | - | ✗ |
| Pricing model | Flat monthly unlimited | - |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T18:31:50.415Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*