Activepieces Pricing, License and Self-Hosting Costs for Agencies

Activepieces pricing, in short: the self-hosted Community Edition is free under the MIT license, and Activepieces cloud runs on credits, with a Free plan of 1,000 credits a month, Plus at $20 a month, Team at $200 a month and a custom Ultimate tier. One credit covers one flow run, however many steps it has. White-label is not in any of those plans. It comes with Embed, which starts at $36,000 a year.[1]

That makes Activepieces cheap to run and expensive to resell under your own brand. For an agency, the gap between “free to run” and “free to operate as a branded product for clients” is where the money actually goes.

I build TaskJuice for agencies, so I’m not neutral. But I’ve tried to be fair to Activepieces here, because it’s a genuinely good open-source project. The honest version is this: the free part of Activepieces ends almost exactly where “resell automation to my clients under my own brand” begins. Here’s where, and what it costs.

Activepieces pricing at a glance

• Community Edition (self-hosted): free, MIT-licensed, unlimited runs. You run and maintain the servers.
• Free (cloud): $0, 1,000 credits a month. Runs past the quota wait until credits refresh the next day.
• Plus: $20 a month, 10,000 credits, up to 5 users, $0.007 per extra credit.
• Team: $200 a month, 50,000 credits, 25 users, $0.007 per extra credit.
• Ultimate: custom pricing, unlimited users.
• Embed (white-label): from $36,000 a year, including the white-label builder and SDK.

A credit is one flow run regardless of step count. AI is the exception: a step on an Activepieces-provided model costs 2, 10 or 20 credits depending on the model, and bringing your own AI key drops each AI step to 1 credit.[1]

Is Activepieces really free?

The core of Activepieces is genuinely free. Its Community Edition is MIT-licensed, so you can self-host the builder, the engine, and its 280-plus integrations, run workflows as often as you want, and never pay a license fee.[2][3] Two things are not free, though: the time you spend operating it, and the specific features an agency needs most.

Activepieces is dual-licensed. The engine is MIT, but white-label, single sign-on, role-based access, audit logs, and the managed multi-project tooling live in a separate commercial package that requires a paid license even on your own server.[2] So the “it’s free and open source” story is true right up until you want to put your brand on it and run it for clients, which is the whole reason an agency would use it.

The hidden cost of self-hosting: you become the operator

Free software still has to run somewhere, and someone has to keep it running. Self-hosting Activepieces in production means operating the application, a database, and a job queue behind it, wrapped in a deployment you keep patched, backed up, and reachable.[4] The recommended production setup wants around 10 GB of memory and four cores, which is a real server, not a hobby box.

That server is now your responsibility. Version upgrades, database backups, security patches, TLS certificates, keeping webhook endpoints reachable, and scaling when a client’s volume spikes all become your job. On a managed platform that’s someone else’s pager. Self-hosted, that’s your Saturday.

Put an hourly rate on that. An agency owner spending even five hours a month on upgrades, backups, and incidents at $100 an hour is spending $500 a month in time, before the server bill. Free software, meet the cost of running it.

How much does Activepieces cloud cost?

Activepieces cloud moved from per-active-flow pricing to credits in 2026. Plus is $20 a month for 10,000 credits and Team is $200 a month for 50,000, with extra credits at $0.007 each.[1] Because a run costs one credit no matter how many steps it has, long multi-step workflows are cheap to run, and that’s a genuinely good deal.

For an agency the run price is rarely the problem. The plans are built around one team’s own automations: users and credits grow by tier, but none of the published plans put your brand on the product your clients log into. That’s the line where the cost of Activepieces changes shape.

Where the free story ends: white-label and client isolation

This is the part that catches agencies by surprise. White-label branding is not in the free MIT edition. It’s part of the commercial layer, so you get it either through Activepieces cloud embed or a paid self-hosted license.[1][2] Activepieces lists Embed, which includes the white-label builder and SDK, from $36,000 a year.

Activepieces does have a genuinely good isolation primitive: Projects, where each project keeps its own flows, connections, and run history, a natural fit for one project per client.[5] But the tooling to manage many client projects at agency scale sits in that same paid tier. TaskJuice bundles white-label and per-client isolation into every published plan from $99 to $499, so each client gets a separate tenant with its own isolated, encrypted credential vault, on your own domain from Growth up, with no separate embed contract. The same gap at the incumbents is in why agencies can’t white-label Zapier.

How TaskJuice compares: managed, compute-time, white-label included

TaskJuice is the managed side of this trade. There’s no server for you to run, patch, or wake up for. You pay for compute time, the actual minutes your workflows run, and each client runs in its own branded workspace. White-label and per-client isolation are in the plan price, not a separate enterprise tier.

The trade you’re making is control for time. Self-hosting Activepieces gives you full control of the box and the source. TaskJuice gives you your evenings back and a branded platform your clients can log into on day one. On Scale, you can also bill those clients through the platform on your own Stripe account, which is covered in Stripe Connect for agencies. The governance side is in per-client governance for workflow automation.

Where Activepieces is the better choice

Activepieces is a strong project, and for the right team it’s the better pick. Don’t switch away from something that fits.

• You have in-house DevOps. If you already run servers and want full control with no vendor in the loop, the MIT engine self-hosted is powerful and genuinely free at the core.
• You want open source and no lock-in. MIT means you can read, modify, and ship the engine however you like. That’s a real advantage over closed platforms, and over open-core tools with stricter licenses.
• You live in AI tooling. Activepieces exposes its integrations as tools for AI assistants and has solid AI agent features. If that’s central to how you work, it’s a leader there.

The line is whether you want to operate infrastructure or manage clients. If it’s clients, and you need your brand on the product without an enterprise contract, that’s where TaskJuice fits.

Frequently asked questions

Is Activepieces really free to self-host?

The Community Edition is MIT-licensed and free to self-host with unlimited runs.[2] But white-label, single sign-on, role-based access, and managed multi-tenant projects are in a commercial package that requires a paid license, even self-hosted. And you own the operating cost: upgrades, backups, patching, and uptime.

How much does Activepieces cost?

The self-hosted Community Edition is free. Activepieces cloud has a Free plan with 1,000 credits a month, Plus at $20 a month for 10,000 credits, Team at $200 a month for 50,000 credits, and a custom Ultimate plan. One credit is one flow run, however many steps it has.[1]

Is Activepieces still priced per active flow?

No. Activepieces replaced its per-active-flow pricing with credits in 2026, so you pay for runs rather than for each enabled flow.[1]

Does Activepieces require ongoing maintenance to self-host?

Yes. A production self-host runs the app, a database, and a job queue that you keep upgraded, backed up, patched, and reachable, on a server sized around 10 GB of memory and four cores.[4] That operational time is the real cost of the free license.

Can I white-label Activepieces and resell it to clients?

Yes, but not through the free MIT edition. White-label is part of the commercial layer, available via Activepieces cloud embed or a paid self-hosted license.[1][2] Embed is listed from $36,000 a year. TaskJuice includes white-label in its published $99 to $499 plans instead.

Is TaskJuice a good Activepieces alternative for agencies?

TaskJuice fits agencies that would rather manage clients than manage infrastructure. It’s fully managed, bills by compute time, and bundles white-label and per-client isolation into the plan price. Activepieces is the better pick if you have in-house DevOps and want the control and openness of a self-hosted MIT engine.

Open source is a real gift, and Activepieces gives away a lot of genuine value. The honest question for an agency isn’t whether the software is free. It’s whether your time is. Every hour on upgrades and backups, and every dollar of the embed tier you need to brand it, is part of the price. TaskJuice trades all of that for a fixed monthly plan with white-label built in. You can start TaskJuice free, and I’ll help you set up your first branded client workspace.

References

[1] Activepieces Pricing: activepieces.com/pricing

[2] Activepieces License: activepieces.com/docs/about/license

[3] Activepieces on GitHub: github.com/activepieces/activepieces

[4] Activepieces Self-Hosting: Docker: activepieces.com/docs/install/options/docker

[5] Activepieces: Manage Projects: activepieces.com/docs/admin-console/manage-projects