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OutcomeOS vs Zapier, Make, n8n, Activepieces
OutcomeOS is an open-source (MIT) automation platform for growing businesses, agencies and developers who need to know a business result happened, not just that a workflow ran. Starter is free; paid prices are set at launch. Zapier, Make, n8n and Activepieces meter tasks, credits or runs. OutcomeOS tracks outcomes with explicit success criteria and marks them achieved only from verified events, such as a signed webhook or a provider-signed payment event. It has far fewer integrations than any of them today.
Scenario: 1,000 qualified leads a month. Each lead starts one workflow: a webhook trigger, then 3 actions (look up the lead over HTTP, send an SMS, notify the owner). That is 1,000 runs and 3,000 action steps a month. Prices are the cheapest listed plan that covers this usage.
| OutcomeOS | Zapier | Make | n8n | Activepieces | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price on the scenario | Starter free; Growth price set at launch | $89/mo billed annually ($133.50 monthly), Professional 5,000 tasks | $9/mo Core (10,000 credits), country-dependent | €20/mo billed annually (Starter) | $0 (Free, at the 1,000-credit limit) or $20/mo Plus |
| What the meter counts | Executions (one run of one workflow) | Tasks: each successfully completed action step | Credits: most module actions, including reading a webhook | Executions: one full workflow run | Credits: one per run, more for AI steps |
| Outcome marked achieved only from verified events | Yes. Signed webhooks, authenticated API calls and provider-signed events; unverified events are logged and ignored | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
| Automatic retries | Per-step retry policy with exponential backoff | Autoreplay, set per Zap: always or never | Exponential-backoff retry for connection, rate-limit and timeout errors (incomplete executions are off by default) | Automatic retries on every plan | Retries; runs resume from their last checkpoint |
| Non-idempotent actions held instead of retried | Yes. A POST without an idempotency key that fails ambiguously goes to Requires attention | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
| Replay after a failure | Replay from failure, reusing outputs of steps that already succeeded | Replay errored steps, or the entire run (every step runs again and counts tasks again) | Retry an incomplete execution from the module that failed | Re-run just the step that broke | Resume from the last checkpoint |
| Open source and self-host | MIT. Docker locally, or deploy to your own Cloudflare account | Not listed | Not listed | Community Edition on GitHub; Business €667/mo self-hosted | Cloud or on-prem on every plan; pieces are MIT |
| API and MCP for agents | REST API, OpenAPI, MCP server at /mcp, llms.txt | Zapier MCP (one MCP tool call = 2 tasks) | MCP server; 300+ REST API endpoints | MCP server trigger and client; API and CLI | MCPs and API access on every plan |
| IntegrationsThey're ahead here — we say so. | 2 available (signed webhooks, HTTP) + 3 beta (Twilio SMS, HubSpot contacts, Stripe) | 9,000+ apps | 3,500+ apps | 500+ native integrations | 770+ pieces |
| AI agents and code stepsThey're ahead here — we say so. | Not in v1 | Zapier Agents; Code by Zapier (JavaScript or Python) | AI Agents; custom JavaScript or Python | AI Agent node; JavaScript or Python code steps | Agents; inline TypeScript |
| Security certificationThey're ahead here — we say so. | None yet | SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3 | SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3 | Not listed | SOC 2 program in progress |
| SSOThey're ahead here — we say so. | Not yet | SAML SSO on Team | SSO listed on the homepage; plan not stated on pages checked | SSO and LDAP on Business | SSO on Team ($200/mo) |
Prices and plan details checked Nov 10, 2026. “Not listed” means we couldn't find it on a public page.
- Zapier pricing · checked Nov 10, 2026
- Make pricing · checked Nov 10, 2026
- n8n pricing · checked Nov 10, 2026
- Activepieces pricing · checked Nov 10, 2026
Where OutcomeOS is different
An outcome counts only when a verified event proves it.
Each outcome has explicit success criteria. It is marked achieved only from signed webhooks, authenticated API calls or provider-signed events. A finished workflow never marks it achieved.
Zapier counts a task "whenever Zapier successfully completes a unit of work". n8n bills when "a workflow runs from start to finish". Both meters measure the workflow, not the business result. Source
We don't blindly retry actions that can't safely run twice.
Every step has a retry policy with exponential backoff and an idempotency key. A non-idempotent call, such as a POST with no idempotency key, goes to Requires attention instead of being retried. Replay from failure reuses outputs of steps that already succeeded.
Make automatically retries connection, rate-limit and module-timeout errors, starting again with the module that caused the error. Zapier's autoreplay is one setting per Zap: always or never. Source
MIT open source. Run it on your own Cloudflare account or in Docker.
The hosted product and the public repo are the same Worker code. Run it locally in Docker through workerd, or deploy it to your own Cloudflare account.
Zapier's pricing page lists Free, Professional, Team and Enterprise, all hosted by Zapier, with no self-hosted option. (n8n and Activepieces do offer self-hosting.) Source
Where we're behind
- Far fewer integrations: 2 available and 3 in beta, against thousands on Zapier and Make.
- New and unproven: no customers, case studies or track record yet.
- No SOC 2 or other security certification. Zapier and Make state SOC 2 Type II.
- No AI agents or code steps in v1. All four competitors have both.
- Workflows start from webhooks only in v1; competitors offer polling triggers for thousands of apps.
- No SSO, SCIM or custom roles yet.
- Paid prices are not published yet; every competitor shows a price today.
Start automating what actually matters.
Define one outcome, connect a webhook, and see what got done. Free to start, no card needed.