The best Gumloop alternatives for AI automation

Gumloop alternatives at a glance

Entry prices as each vendor lists them on its own pricing page, in the currency shown there, checked on 8 October 2026. Confirm current terms with each vendor before you switch.

What Gumloop includes, and what it charges

Gumloop describes itself as the multiplayer AI agent builder: anyone at a company can build agents with any AI model and any integration, while IT controls access. Agents read and write to your company apps, triggers watch for conditions you describe in plain English, skills are reusable playbooks the agents refine, and artifacts turn results into dashboards, documents, web apps and presentations. It adds a CLI, a Chrome extension and 100+ connectors built on MCP servers.

• Pro starts at $37 a month after a free 14 day trial, with unlimited agents, seats and teams, 35+ models, shared credentials and 20,000 credits a month (7,400 plus 12,600 bonus). Enterprise is custom, with role-based access, SCIM and SAML, audit logs and virtual private cloud options.
• Credits are indexed at $0.005 each and pay for model tokens, compute and paid tool calls at list price, plus an orchestration fee of 8%. Bring your own model key and token credits drop to zero, but the fee rises to 16% of the full list cost.
• Credits do not roll over. When you pass 20,000 in a month your agents stop until you enable pay as you go, which is off by default.
• The pricing page lists Workflows as Legacy, with 5 concurrent workflow runs and 25 concurrent agent chats on Pro.

Sources: Gumloop pricing · Gumloop home page

Why you might look for a Gumloop alternative

Gumloop is well built, and its pricing page announces a $50M Series B led by Benchmark. For a company that wants every team building its own agents under IT's rules it is often the right shape. The reasons to compare are about fit rather than quality.

• You came for the workflow builder. Gumloop's pricing page now files workflows under Legacy, so if fixed, step-by-step automations are your main job, a dedicated workflow tool is the safer home.
• You want to self-host. Gumloop is a hosted platform; n8n has a free Community Edition you run yourself.
• You want a simpler bill. Credits, an orchestration fee that doubles when you bring your own key, and a monthly grant that does not roll over take some modelling before you know a month's cost.
• You do not want to build agents at all. Gumloop gives your team the tools to build them; some buyers want an agent that already knows its job.

Sources: Gumloop pricing · n8n pricing

Workflow builders with AI steps

If what you use Gumloop for is a pipeline you design, step by step, these three do that job with a different trade between control, catalog and price.

• n8n: open-source workflow automation with an AI Agent node and AI steps, and a free Community Edition to self-host from GitHub. n8n Cloud Starter is €20 a month billed annually for 2,500 executions and Pro is €50, also billed annually, for 10,000, with unlimited users, workflows and integrations on every plan.
• Zapier: the broadest trigger-and-action catalog. The free plan has 100 tasks a month on two-step Zaps, and Professional starts at $19.99 a month billed annually ($29.99 monthly) for 750 tasks. Zapier Agents is a separate add-on billed in activities: 400 a month free, or 1,500 a month for $400 billed annually. Canvas, Tables and Zapier MCP are on every plan.
• Make: a visual builder for multi-step scenarios. Free gives 1,000 credits a month and 2 active scenarios; Core is $9 a month for 10,000 credits with unlimited scenarios and runs every minute, and annual billing saves 15% or more. AI Agents run on every plan with Make's AI provider or your own key.

Sources: n8n pricing · Zapier pricing · Make pricing

• n8n vs Qoren
• Zapier vs Qoren
• Make vs Qoren

AI agent builders

If what you want from Gumloop is agents rather than pipelines, these two build them with a different scope. One more name that shows up beside Gumloop is gone: Relay.app, an AI workflow automation tool, says on its site that it shut down in September 2026.

• Lindy: one AI teammate native to Slack threads and mentions, with scheduled routines, 40+ skills, meeting notes, inbox management, 1,500+ integrations and approvals before external actions. Plus is $29.99 a month per user with 3,000 credits after $50 of free credits; Pro is $99.99 with 15,000.
• Relevance AI: the home of the AI Workforce, for companies building agents, tools and multi-agent workforces, with 2,000+ integrations, calling and meeting agents, triggers and agent evaluations. Its pricing page lists one Enterprise plan, priced through sales.

Sources: Lindy pricing · Relevance AI pricing · Relay.app shutdown notice

• Lindy vs Qoren
• Relevance AI vs Qoren

Where Qoren fits, and where it does not

Qoren is not a builder. Gumloop gives your team a canvas to build agents and workflows you design; Qoren runs agents that decide the steps toward a job you give them. Each agent runs on OpenClaw, Hermes or Codex in a dedicated managed environment, a private computer with its workspace files, memory and a browser terminal, and stays online. You start from a template in the gallery or describe the job, and the agent sets itself up with you in its first conversation.

• What it does well: scheduled tasks you can pause, webhook triggers from cal.com, GitHub, Stripe or any signed webhook, Telegram, Slack and Discord bots for OpenClaw and Hermes agents, an email inbox per agent, an encrypted vault, backups about every four hours, health checks with repair, and an Approvals page where a trigger can be set to propose only.
• Spend: prepaid credits with a hard stop, a monthly budget and limits per agent, and your own OpenRouter key on any plan, billed by OpenRouter instead of in credits. For an agency, Clients and cost per client keep each client's agents, keys and spend apart on the Ultimate, Business and Enterprise plans.
• What Gumloop does better: a visual builder your whole team can use, 100+ hosted connectors with shared credentials, a Chrome extension, artifacts such as dashboards and web apps, unlimited seats on Pro, and governance for IT with role-based access, SCIM and audit logs on Enterprise.
• What Qoren does not offer: a visual workflow builder, deterministic step-by-step runs (an agent decides its steps, so for a fixed pipeline a workflow tool is more predictable), a browser extension, or a connector catalog of that size. Most templates draft and report; they do not send, retry or act on their own, and model usage is billed on top of the plan.

Sources: Gumloop pricing · Gumloop home page

• Browse agent templates
• Let an event wake your agent
• Approve what your agents ask to do

How to choose

Start from what you want to change about your current setup, not from a feature list, and check each vendor's pricing page on the day you decide.

• Open source, self-hosted workflows with AI nodes: n8n.
• The most apps, with agents as an add-on: Zapier.
• A visual scenario builder at a low entry price: Make.
• One AI teammate in Slack with routines and approvals: Lindy.
• An enterprise AI workforce, bought through sales: Relevance AI.
• Agents that already know their job, stay online on a managed computer and run per client: Qoren.

Sources: n8n pricing · Zapier pricing · Make pricing · Lindy pricing · Relevance AI pricing

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