Gumloop Alternatives: 10 Agent and Automation Tools Compared

Gumloop Pro costs $37 a month for the whole organization's shared pool of 20,000 credits, with unlimited seats and no free plan ^[1]. Which alternative fits depends on why you are leaving. Teams that want to host the software themselves, or pay a fixed unit for each finished run, should look at n8n. Zapier suits buyers who need the longest app list. Make fits fixed, step-by-step processes priced per module action. Lindy prices a seat per person and asks for approval before outside actions. Manus and Genspark center on one person's general agent, Sintra on a small business's ready-made helpers, and Relevance AI meters agents by Actions. CrewAI is an open-source Python framework you run yourself, and Botpress builds agents your customers talk to, billed by conversation.

Where Gumloop pinches enough to shop around

Gumloop is a hosted platform where a team describes agents in plain language, connects them to 300+ connectors and runs them in Slack, Microsoft Teams, their own email inbox, the API or MCP. Billing is the hard part to forecast. Each credit is worth $0.005, and a run pays model tokens at list price, at least 1 credit per successful connector call (data tools such as Apollo or Firecrawl add their own charge), 5 credits per session-minute of compute and an 8% orchestration fee. Gumloop's docs give two examples: the same agent might spend 2 credits on a quick question and 200 on deep research ^[2].

By our arithmetic, $37 buys 7,400 credits at the list price, so 12,600 of the monthly 20,000 are bonus, and overage costs $5 per 1,000 credits once you switch it on. The pool resets monthly with no rollover outside Enterprise, and with overage off by default, agents stop when credits run out; the Gumloop pricing breakdown covers each cost line. There is no free plan. The 14-day Pro trial needs a card and becomes paid Pro unless you cancel first.

The other exits are about control and audience. SSO, SCIM, audit logs, custom roles, org-wide connector policies and data exports are Enterprise-only. On Pro and trials, Gumloop's Terms let it train its own models on your content, while on Enterprise it does not unless the customer asks in writing . Hosted agent pages require every visitor to sign in with a Gumloop account, and iframe embedding is not officially supported . Those are the usual exits.

n8n, Zapier and Make: builders where you draw every step

Gumloop's older step-by-step builder, Workflows (once called Flows), still appears on the pricing page marked Legacy; Gumloop's current docs and product are built around agents. Buyers who want a predictable path for every run usually land on one of these three. The trade is improvisation. An agent that picks its own tools mid-task fits messy research and triage. A drawn flow fits invoices, routing and syncs that should never vary.

n8n: a fixed unit per finished run

n8n bills on workflow executions: a full run from start to finish, with no per-step or per-user charge and unlimited users and workflows on every plan. n8n Cloud Starter is $20 a month billed annually or $24 billed monthly for 2,500 executions a month, and n8n Cloud Pro is $50 a month billed annually or $60 billed monthly for 10,000. n8n Business, at $800 a month billed annually or $960 billed monthly, is self-hosted only. The free Community Edition is self-hosted too, so you run and pay for the server.

One turn with a standalone n8n agent counts as one execution, and sub-agent calls add nothing. The execution price does not cover model tokens, though: you pay those separately, through n8n's prepaid Gateway credits or your own provider key. Agents there are still Preview. n8n lists 500+ native integrations plus any API through its HTTP Request node, and its hosted trial lasts 14 days with no card. Gumloop's comparison page claims n8n agents need every tool wired in advance, while its own agents pick tools mid-task through MCP. That is Gumloop's claim. Our Gumloop vs n8n comparison has the full split.

Zapier: the longest app list, billed by task

Zapier counts tasks, and only successful actions use them; triggers and built-in steps such as Filter, Formatter and Paths do not. Zapier's Free plan gives 100 tasks a month with two-step Zaps only. Zapier Professional is $19.99 a month billed annually or $29.99 billed monthly for 750 tasks a month. Zapier Team is $69 a month billed annually or $103.50 billed monthly for 2,000 tasks a month and up to 25 users, and SAML SSO starts there. New accounts get a 14-day Professional trial with no card.

Agents are a separate meter. Zapier Agents Free gives 400 activities a month, and Zapier Agents Pro is $400 billed annually, or $33.33 a month, for 1,500 activities. Zapier says its agents work across 9,000+ apps. One Zapier MCP tool call uses two tasks, and at the task limit Zapier either bills extra tasks at a higher rate or pauses Zaps until the next period. Pick it for breadth.

Make: visual scenarios, one credit per module action

Make counts each module action in a scenario as one credit. Make's Free plan gives 1,000 credits a month with 2 active scenarios and a 15-minute minimum interval. Make Core is $12 a month billed annually or $16 billed monthly for 10,000 credits. Make Pro is $21 a month billed annually or $28 billed monthly, and Make Teams is $38 a month billed annually or $51 billed monthly, adding team roles and shared scenario templates. Its AI Agents are in beta on all plans, on Make's AI provider or your own model key, and there is a Make MCP server.

Lindy, Relevance AI, CrewAI and Botpress: agents on other meters

Lindy: a seat per person, approvals on outside actions

Lindy bills every active user a monthly seat that comes with credits. Its pricing page starts at $29.99 per user a month for 3,000 credits; on some visits the same page instead opens at $49.99 per user a month for 5,000 credits. Lindy top-ups cost $10 per 1,000 credits, monthly credits do not roll over, and at zero Lindy pauses credit-using actions rather than billing more. All purchases are non-refundable. A free start gives $50 in Lindy credits for 7 days with no card.

The difference from Gumloop is the default posture. Lindy says that by default anything with outside impact, such as sending an email, waits for approval while read-only lookups do not; users can loosen that once a job is trusted. Gumloop's per-connector approval preset defaults to Always allow, so you set Ask for writes yourself. Lindy admins can also set a monthly credit limit per person, which Gumloop reserves for Enterprise custom roles. Lindy also states that your data is never used to train models, and it lists 3,000+ integrations plus MCP. Seat billing is the cost. Gumloop Pro covers unlimited seats from one pool.

Relevance AI: Actions plus Vendor Credits

Relevance AI (4.01; Relevance AI review) bills in Actions, where one Tool run is one Action and a failed Tool still counts, plus Vendor Credits for model and tool costs with no markup on models. Relevance AI Pro is US$29 a month billed monthly or US$19 a month billed annually, with 2,500 Actions and 10,000 Vendor Credits a month. Relevance AI Team is US$349 a month billed monthly or US$234 a month billed annually, priced per organization.

Extra Relevance AI Actions cost $80 per 1,000, and Vendor Credits $20 per 10,000. Plan Vendor Credits roll over while you stay subscribed, but plan Actions reset at each renewal. Own API keys are optional on every plan. Failures still bill. A flaky tool chain burns Actions on Relevance AI, while Gumloop charges nothing for a failed connector call.

CrewAI: an open-source framework you run yourself

CrewAI is an MIT-licensed open-source Python framework for role-based agent crews and Flows that runs on your own machines, plus CrewAI AMP, a platform that builds, deploys and monitors them with a no-code Studio. AMP's Basic plan is free with 2 automations and 50 workflow executions a month, and Enterprise is priced on request; model and tool API bills go to your own providers. It answers the self-hosting exit Gumloop leaves open, but someone on the team needs Python or AMP's Studio. Our CrewAI review covers both layers.

Botpress: agents your customers talk to, billed by conversation

Botpress answers the exit Gumloop's hosted pages create: its website chat widget and WhatsApp channel put an agent directly in front of your customers. Agents are built in the browser-based Studio, or in TypeScript with the ADK, and in new workspaces a handoff to a person goes to Botpress Desk. Billing counts conversations, not credits or seats: Botpress Free includes 100 conversations, Botpress Plus costs $150 a month billed annually or $189 a month billed monthly for 250 conversations a month, and Botpress Team costs $750 a month billed annually or $939 a month billed monthly for 1,500 conversations a month. On paid plans Botpress adds a 100-conversation pack automatically at 95% of the quota, and that cannot be turned off. Our Botpress review covers Studio, Desk and the plans.

Manus, Genspark and Sintra: one general agent or ready-made helpers, not a team builder

Manus: a general agent with its own cloud machine

Manus is a general agent that works on its own cloud machine, closer to a personal assistant than a team platform. Manus Free costs $0 and refreshes 300 credits a day, usable only in Manus 2.0 Lite and capped at 1,500 a month, plus 1,000 credits once at sign-up. Manus Pro is from $20 a month billed monthly, or $17 a month billed yearly ($200 a year). Manus Team is from $20 per seat a month with 4,000 credits per seat, pooled. Manus also describes a seven-day free trial for some subscriptions.

Genspark: free daily credits before you commit

Genspark Free gives 100 credits a day, up to a lifetime cap on free credits. Genspark Plus is from $24.99 a month billed monthly, or $19.99 a month billed annually ($239.99 a year), from 10,000 credits a month. Genspark Team is $40 per seat a month billed monthly or $35 per seat a month billed annually, with a minimum of 2 seats. It suits a buyer who wants to test a general agent on real tasks before paying anything.

Sintra: ready-made AI employees

Sintra sells one plan, Sintra X, with 12 ready-made AI employees and 250 credits a month. Sintra X is $48.50 a month billed monthly, $23.60 a month billed quarterly ($70.80 every 3 months) or $15.60 a month billed yearly ($187.20 a year). There is no free plan or trial on its pricing page, but the first web purchase carries a 14-day money-back guarantee. Nothing to build. That is the point for a small-business owner, and the limit for anyone who wanted custom agents wired into company apps.

Reading the reputation and Gumloop's own comparison pages

Public reviews of Gumloop are still few on every platform, so the ratings below are early signals, not a trend.

Gumloop publishes comparison pages against n8n, Zapier, Relevance AI, Dust, Glean, Claude Cowork, ChatGPT Work and Grok Bot. Read them as vendor claims. On its Zapier page, Gumloop says its agents write and run their own code in a sandbox and can trigger on several async conditions at once. On its Relevance AI page, it says usage scales without per-seat fees. The rival side of each table is Gumloop's framing, so check every rival on its own pricing page. Our Gumloop review weighs the product on its own.

Should you leave Gumloop at all?

Leave when the job, not the bill, stops fitting. Agents that read and act across Slack, Teams, email and a cloud browser, shared by any number of teammates from one pool, are what Gumloop does well. If you need visitors to chat without a Gumloop account, servers you run yourself, a fixed unit per finished run, or SSO without an Enterprise contract, one of the rivals above answers that need directly. Write down the one reason first. Then shortlist only the tool that meets it.