How do Activepieces credits work?

A standard flow run costs one credit, however many steps the flow contains. AI steps cost more on top: reported rates are 1 credit when you bring your own AI key, 2 for a fast model, 10 for a smart model, and 20 for a frontier model. So a five-step flow with no AI costs the same single credit as a one-step flow, and the AI model you pick is what moves the number.

Is Activepieces still $5 per active flow?

No. Through mid-2026 Activepieces Cloud gave you 10 active flows free, then charged $5 per active flow per month with unlimited runs. In August 2026 it replaced that model with credit-based plans. Many review sites still describe the old per-flow pricing, so treat any page quoting $5 per flow, or older $25 Plus and $150 Business tiers, as out of date.

Is Activepieces cheaper than Zapier?

For most multi-step flows, yes. Zapier counts every action step as a task, so a flow that finds a HubSpot contact and then writes a note costs two tasks per run. Activepieces counts the whole run as one credit. Zapier Professional is $19.99 per month billed annually for 750 tasks; Activepieces Plus is $16 per month billed annually for 10,000 credits. The gap narrows if your flows use AI steps, which Activepieces bills at up to 20 credits each.

Does Activepieces have a free plan?

Yes. The Free plan needs no credit card and includes flows, agents, tables, MCP servers and API access, with a capped credit allowance. Sources disagree on whether that allowance refreshes daily or monthly, but they agree on what happens at the cap: there is no overage billing on Free, so your flows pause until the allowance refreshes.

Can Activepieces connect Notion to HubSpot?

Yes. Activepieces has both a Notion piece and a HubSpot piece, and lists the Notion piece as included on every plan, including Free. The Notion piece triggers on a new database item, an updated database item, a new comment, or an updated page, and its actions include appending content to a page. Activepieces' own Notion and HubSpot pages pair those triggers with HubSpot actions such as adding a note. What moves is whatever you map into the HubSpot action, usually properties or text, not a live view of the Notion page.

What happens if I run out of Activepieces credits?

On Free, flows pause until your allowance refreshes. On Plus and Team, extra credits are billed at $0.007 each, so 10,000 extra credits cost $70. One user on the Activepieces community forum reported using about 10,852 of 12,000 credits in 30 days on a flow where most runs never reached the AI step, so budget with margin and watch the usage dashboard in your first month.

Activepieces Pricing: Credits, Plans and Real Costs in 2026

Activepieces is one of the cheapest ways to automate between Notion and HubSpot, and since August 2026 it is also one of the easiest to misprice. The old model, 10 free active flows and then $5 per flow with unlimited runs, is still what most review sites describe. It is gone. Activepieces Cloud now sells credits, and how many you burn depends on how often your flows run and which AI models they call.

This page covers what the current plans cost, how credits are counted, how that compares to Zapier, and what a real Notion to HubSpot flow bills at.

Products	Activepieces Plus	Zapier Professional	NoteLinker
Entry Price	$20/mo ($16 yearly)	$29.99/mo ($19.99 yearly)	$19/mo flat ($16 yearly)
Priced By	Credits (1 per flow run)	Tasks (1 per action)	Flat per account
Included at Entry	10,000 credits	750 tasks	Unlimited
Notion + HubSpot	Build a flow, copies data	Build a Zap, HubSpot is premium	Live Notion rows on records
Free Option	Free plan, capped credits	Free plan, no HubSpot	14 days, no card
Best For	Cheap multi-step automation	Largest app catalogue	Notion notes on HubSpot records

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How Much Does Activepieces Cost?

Activepieces Cloud has four plans:

Plan	Monthly	Billed yearly	Credits	Users
Free	$0	$0	Capped allowance, no overage	1
Plus	$20/mo	$16/mo	10,000 per month	Up to 5
Team	$200/mo	$166/mo	50,000 per month	25 included, then $25/user
Ultimate	Custom	Custom	Yearly credit pool	Custom

Extra credits on Plus and Team cost $0.007 each, so a 10,000 credit top-up runs $70. Free has no overage at all: when the allowance is gone, flows pause until it refreshes. Ultimate adds the governance layer, SSO, role-based access and audit logs, on an annual contract with no public price.

There is also the self-hosted Community Edition, which is free and MIT licensed. You pay for your own server and maintenance instead of credits, which is the right trade for a team with an engineer who wants to run it, and the wrong one for a sales team that wants a working flow by Friday.

$16/moPlus billed yearly, 10,000 credits

1 creditPer flow run, however many steps

$0.007Per extra credit on Plus and Team

The August 2026 Switch From Active Flows to Credits

Until mid-2026, Activepieces Cloud charged by active flow: any flow switched on counted, whether it ran once a month or ten thousand times. You got 10 active flows free, then paid $5 per flow per month, with unlimited runs.

That model rewarded a few busy flows and punished many quiet ones. The credit model reverses it. Now you can build as many flows as you like, and you pay for how much they do.

For a Notion to HubSpot user, the switch cuts both ways. A single flow that runs constantly was nearly free under the old model and now costs credits on every run. A collection of small, occasional flows was $5 each and is now close to free.

How Activepieces Credits Are Counted

Two rules decide your bill.

1
Every flow run costs one credit
A run is one execution of a flow, from trigger to last step. The steps inside it are free. A flow that finds a HubSpot contact, formats some text, and writes a note costs one credit per run, the same as a flow with a single step.
2
AI steps cost extra credits on top
Reported rates are 1 credit per AI step when you bring your own API key, 2 for a fast model, 10 for a smart model, and 20 for a frontier model. These sit on top of the run's own credit.

The first rule is what makes Activepieces cheap. The second is what makes it easy to overspend. A flow that summarises every Notion update with a smart model costs 11 credits per run instead of 1.

Activepieces vs Zapier Pricing

Zapier is the comparison most people are making, so here it is side by side. Zapier counts tasks: every action step that runs is a task, and the trigger is free. Activepieces counts runs.

	Activepieces Plus	Zapier Professional
Entry price, billed yearly	$16/mo	$19.99/mo
Entry price, monthly	$20/mo	$29.99/mo
Included at entry	10,000 credits	750 tasks
What one unit buys	A whole flow run	One action step
Over the limit	$0.007 per credit	Pay-per-task at a premium rate

The structural difference matters more than the headline prices. Take a flow that finds the matching HubSpot contact and then writes a note: two actions. On Zapier that is two tasks per run. On Activepieces it is one credit. Every extra step widens the gap, until you add an AI step, which Activepieces bills at up to 20 credits.

For the full breakdown of Zapier's tiers, and of Make, which bills differently again, see Make vs Zapier.

Activepieces Pricing for a Notion and HubSpot Flow

Here is the case most people searching for this have in mind. Activepieces lists its Notion piece as included on every plan, including Free, and it has a HubSpot piece alongside it. The Notion piece triggers on a new database item, an updated database item, a new comment, or an updated page, and Activepieces' own Notion and HubSpot pages pair those triggers with HubSpot actions such as adding a note.

A typical build: when a row in your Notion client database is updated, find the HubSpot contact by email, then add a note with the row's content. Two actions, one credit per run.

Assume your team edits about 600 Notion rows a month, the same volume we use in our other pricing comparisons:

Setup	Monthly usage	Activepieces cost	Zapier cost
Find contact, add note	600 credits / 1,200 tasks	Fits Plus: $16/mo yearly	1,500-task tier: $39/mo yearly
Same, plus a smart-model summary	6,600 credits / 1,800 tasks	Fits Plus: $16/mo yearly	2,000-task tier: $49/mo yearly
3,000 edits with a smart-model summary	33,000 credits / 9,000 tasks	Plus plus 23,000 extra credits: about $177/mo	10,000-task tier: $129/mo yearly

At light volume Activepieces is the cheapest automation option in this comparison by a distance. At heavy volume with AI in the loop, the per-credit overage catches up: $16 of Plus plus $161 of extra credits. At that point Team, at $166 per month billed yearly for 50,000 credits, is the better buy.

Before you build the flow, check

How often your rows actually change, because "updated database item" fires on every edit, not once per row.
Whether you need an AI step at all, since it is the single biggest multiplier on your credit use.
What happens on the second edit to the same row: an "add a note" action adds another note, so you need extra logic to update instead of duplicate.
Whether you want a few properties in HubSpot or the whole Notion page, because the flow moves whatever you map into the action, not the page itself.

The third item is the one that surprises people. An automation that writes a HubSpot note every time a Notion row changes leaves a stack of near-identical notes on the record.

If the goal is the Notion note on the record, not a copy of it

NoteLinker shows your live Notion rows on HubSpot contact and deal records for a flat $19 per month. Nothing to build, no credits, and no duplicate notes.

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What Credit Pricing Cannot Price

Activepieces charges per run because it runs flows. Something happens, a flow fires, data moves. For automation that is a sensible unit, and at $16 a month for 10,000 runs it is a cheap one.

A Notion row is not an event, though. It is a document that keeps changing. The call write-up grows after every meeting, someone adds a bullet under objections, the next step gets bolded. An automation turns each of those edits into a separate run that copies a snapshot into HubSpot. The more your team writes, the more runs you pay for and the more stale copies pile up on the record.

Per-run pricing works when the thing you are moving is an event. A sales note is a living document, so copying it on every edit costs more and helps less each time.

NoteLinker takes the opposite approach. It is a HubSpot card that shows the matching Notion rows on contact and deal records, live from Notion, so what the rep sees is always the current version with its formatting intact. It matches on the email or deal name you already have, so there is no flow to build, and it costs a flat $19 per month, or $16 billed yearly, however much your team writes.

To be fair to Activepieces, it does far more than that. It connects hundreds of apps, runs AI agents, and can create contacts, update deals, and post to Slack in the same flow. If you need a general automation platform, NoteLinker is not one. Plenty of teams run both.

Is Activepieces Worth the Price?

PickActivepiecesWhenYou want cheap, multi-step automation across many apps

One credit per run regardless of steps, a free plan to start on, and an open-source edition you can self-host. Watch AI steps, which cost up to 20 credits each.

PickZapierWhenYou want the biggest app catalogue and the most mature builder

Every action is a task and HubSpot needs a paid plan, so the same flow costs more. See the best Zapier alternatives if price is the issue.

Best fitPickNoteLinkerWhenWhat you want in HubSpot is the Notion note, live, not a copy of it

Flat $19 per month, nothing to build, no credits to count, and your Notion rows shown on the record with formatting intact. Two-minute setup from the HubSpot Marketplace and a 14-day trial with no credit card.

For most automation jobs, Activepieces is excellent value, and its credit model is easier to predict than Zapier's task counts once you know your run volume. The price stops making sense when the job is keeping a living document visible somewhere else. There, every edit is a run you pay for and a duplicate you clean up.

For more pricing breakdowns of the tools in this space, see Outfunnel pricing, Whalesync pricing, and Unito pricing. For the full map of ways to connect the two tools, start with the Notion HubSpot integration guide.

Skip the credit count entirely

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