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Zapier MCP
✓ verifiedFreemium
Widely used no-code automation platform connecting thousands of apps, now extended with AI agents, chatbots, and an MCP server.
6.0M visits/mo
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Apify
✓ verifiedFreemium
Full-stack platform for web scraping, data extraction, and automation; category leader.
4.4M visits/mo2.0K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0/mo ($5 included usage)
Starter: $29/mo ($26/mo billed annually)
Scale: $199/mo ($179/mo billed annually)
Business: $999/mo ($899/mo billed annually)
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Core features
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- ✦Zap workflows linking triggers and actions across 9,000+ apps
- ✦No-code AI agent builder for task-specific assistants
- ✦Chatbots for answering customer questions with AI
- ✦Canvas for visually planning and mapping workflows
- ✦Tables for storing data that workflows can read and update
- ✦Forms for capturing inputs that trigger automations
- ✦Zapier MCP server to connect AI chat tools to app integrations
- ✦Web scraping
- ✦Data extraction
- ✦Browser automation
- ✦AI agents
- ✦Anti-blocking
- ✦Proxy rotation
- ✦Open-source tools (Crawlee)
- ✦Ready-made tools and code templates
- ✦Digital Asset Management (DAM)
- ✦Media Asset Management (MAM)
- ✦AI-powered automation
- ✦Cloud, on-premises, or hybrid deployments
- ✦Integration with Adobe Creative Cloud, Cinema 4D, Sketch, and more
- ✦Version control
- ✦Fast search
- ✦Custom brand portals
- ✦Analytics
Use cases
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- →Teams automating cross-app workflows without engineering resources
- →RevOps/Sales teams routing leads and updating CRMs automatically
- →Support teams deploying AI chatbots for common questions
- →Developers connecting AI coding agents to thousands of apps via MCP
- →Data for generative AI
- →Lead generation
- →Market research
- →Sentiment analysis
- →Managing work-in-progress images, graphics, layouts, and documents.
- →Automating video workflows, including transcoding and archiving.
- →Identifying objects, faces, logos, and scenes in media using AI.
- →Generating speech-to-text for search and closed captioning.
- →Creating rough video cuts instantly with AI.
- →Managing campaign assets and distributing them to various endpoints.
- →Enabling secure collaboration for remote and on-premises teams.
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