Relevance AI Alternatives: n8n, CrewAI, Gumloop and More by Need

The right Relevance AI alternative depends on what is pushing you off it. Relevance AI's cheapest way in is now Pro at $19 a month billed annually or $29 a month billed monthly, for the whole organization, because the Free plan is retired. If you want deterministic workflows or a server you run yourself, n8n is the closest swap. If your team writes code, the MIT-licensed CrewAI framework is the open-source route. Gumloop suits a team that wants one shared credit pool, Lindy suits per-person assistants, and Botpress fits customer chatbots billed by conversation. Read the billing unit first. It shapes your bill more than the headline price.

What you give up, and what you keep, by leaving Relevance AI

Relevance AI is a hosted low-code platform for building, running and managing AI agents and Workforces, its multi-agent canvas. It bills on two meters. An Action is one Tool run, whether that tool sends a single email or runs a many-step workflow, and failed runs still count ^[1]. Vendor Credits cover model and tool costs at wholesale with no markup. Pro includes 2,500 Actions a month and 2 Build Users. Team, at $234 a month billed annually or $349 a month billed monthly, adds calling and meeting agents, the analytics dashboard and 45 End Users.

Relevance AI's public pricing page shows only a custom Enterprise plan with a Talk to sales button; the self-serve Pro and Team prices are published in its pricing documentation, and you upgrade to them inside the app ^[2]. Every organization now needs a paid plan, and Relevance AI's pricing pages describe no free trial; see whether Relevance AI is free.

Before you migrate for cost alone, check the Team jump. By our arithmetic, Pro billed monthly plus four packs of 1,000 Actions at $80 per pack reaches $349 a month for 6,500 Actions, so above about 6,500 Actions a month on monthly billing, Team billed monthly is the cheaper way to stay. On annual billing the crossover is about 62,000 Actions a year (roughly 5,200 a month), by our arithmetic. Both figures hold if your model spend fits Pro's 10,000 Vendor Credits a month; heavier model use lowers the crossover.

Relevance AI has only a small number of public user reviews so far, so we score user sentiment as neutral rather than reading a trend into them. Our Relevance AI review explains the score, which sits mid-table among the AI agent builders we score. What sends people looking is usually a plan gate, not a defect. SSO, RBAC, audit logs and agent evaluations are Enterprise-only. The service is also hosted only, with the data region fixed when the organization is created.

n8n: workflows billed by execution, or on your own server

n8n is workflow automation with AI agents on a node canvas, billed on workflow executions: one complete run, regardless of steps, with unlimited users and workflows on every plan . Its Starter plan costs $20 a month billed annually or $24 a month billed monthly for 2,500 executions a month. Its Pro plan costs $50 a month billed annually or $60 a month billed monthly for 10,000. Business costs $800 a month billed annually or $960 a month billed monthly for 40,000 executions, self-hosted only. Enterprise is quote only, and the Cloud trial runs 14 days without a card.

Compare like with like. On annual billing, Relevance AI Pro is $19 a month for the whole organization and n8n Starter is $20 a month for 2,500 executions; on monthly billing, the same two plans are $29 and $24 a month. The units are not equal. Relevance AI's 2,500 Actions count each Tool run, while n8n's executions count each complete workflow. AI costs two meters on n8n too: executions plus Gateway credits or your own model provider's bill. Relevance AI lists 2,000+ apps; n8n lists 500+ native integrations, plus any API through the HTTP Request node.

The free path is the self-hosted Community Edition. It is source-available, not open source, and you run the server. It leaves out projects, SSO, workflow and credential sharing and Git version control, which need a paid self-hosted Business or Enterprise license. Relevance AI's product page says it offers an n8n-style workflow builder of its own. n8n fits when you want deterministic workflows or need to run the server yourself. Our Relevance AI vs n8n comparison goes plan by plan, and the n8n review covers the rest.

CrewAI: the code-first, open-source route

CrewAI pairs an open-source framework under the MIT license with AMP, its hosted platform. The AMP Basic tier is free, with 2 automations and 50 workflow executions a month, and 50 is also its ceiling. Either way you still pay your model provider for LLM calls, and AMP's app integrations need an active subscription. Enterprise is custom, and CrewAI publishes no dollar figure for paid use. You give up Relevance AI's Invent builder and its 2,000+ app catalog; in return your engineers write and own the agent code.

Check one thing first. Relevance AI has a code path too: a JavaScript and TypeScript SDK, @relevanceai/sdk, and an MCP server that lets coding agents such as Claude Code build and run its agents. If you must own the runtime, see the CrewAI review.

Gumloop and Lindy: one shared pool, or one seat per person

Gumloop, for a single meter

Gumloop is the closest swap for a team tired of watching two meters. Its Pro plan costs $37 a month for the whole organization's shared pool of 20,000 credits, and Enterprise is custom. There is no free plan, and the 14-day Pro trial needs a card. Relevance AI's own comparison page says Gumloop is self-serve by design, while Relevance AI pairs customers with a deployment team . That is the vendor's claim, not our finding. On Relevance AI's own plans, implementation help is an Enterprise service; Team and below get limited guidance. Our Gumloop review describes the product from its own pages.

Lindy, for personal assistants

Lindy charges a monthly seat for each active user, and each seat carries credits. Its pricing page opens at $29.99 per user a month with 3,000 credits, though some visits show $49.99 per user a month with 5,000 credits instead. A new account starts with $50 in credits that last 7 days. The model suits a few people who each want an assistant in their email and Slack. Every added person adds a bill, while a Relevance AI plan stays one organization charge. See the Lindy review.

Botpress: when the agent is a chatbot on your site

If what you built on Relevance AI is mainly a website or messaging chatbot, Botpress bills by conversation. Its Free plan covers 100 conversations, 3 seats and 3 AI agents. The Botpress Plus plan costs $150 a month billed annually or $189 a month billed monthly for a workspace with 250 conversations a month, and each extra pack of 100 conversations costs $65. The Botpress Team plan costs $750 a month billed annually or $939 a month billed monthly for 1,500 conversations and unlimited seats. Enterprise is custom; our Botpress review goes deeper.

The chatbot case carries one Relevance AI caveat. An embedded or cloneable agent is public, and anyone with the link runs it on your credits. Since May 2026, project controls can stop public cloning and embedding, and usage alerts and hard usage limits exist on every plan, so a spike can be capped. Botpress works the other way. On its paid plans a 100-conversation pack is added automatically near the quota, and that auto-recharge cannot be turned off. AI usage is a separate allowance that tops itself up in paid credit grants. So a traffic spike on Botpress is billed, not capped. Neither model is cheaper by default. Your traffic decides.

Personal agents, and the names outside our catalog

Manus AI

Manus AI suits one person who wants a general agent rather than a platform for building them. Its Free plan gives 300 refresh credits a day in Lite mode only, capped at 1,500 a month, plus 1,000 at sign-up. Manus AI Pro starts at $20 a month billed monthly for 4,000 credits, or $17 a month billed yearly ($200 a year). It is a different tool for a different job; see the Manus AI review.

Genspark

Genspark is the other general agent for individuals, with a Free plan of 100 credits a day up to a lifetime cap. Genspark Plus starts at $24.99 a month billed monthly or $19.99 a month billed annually ($239.99 a year) for 10,000 credits a month. The Genspark Team plan costs $40 per seat a month billed monthly or $35 per seat a month billed annually, with a minimum of 2 seats. Nothing here replaces a Workforce. The Genspark review has the detail.

Sintra

Sintra sells ready-made helpers to small businesses instead of a builder. Its one plan, Sintra X, costs $48.50 a month billed monthly, $23.60 a month billed quarterly or $15.60 a month billed yearly ($187.20 a year), for 250 credits a month and 12 AI employees. The first web purchase carries a 14-day money-back guarantee. If your agents were simple helpers, the Sintra review lists what you get.

Zapier, Make and the rivals on Relevance AI's own pages

Workflow tools with agents, such as Zapier and Make, also come up in this search; they sit outside our catalog. Relevance AI publishes its own comparison pages against Claude Managed Agents, Clay, Dust, Gemini Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot Studio, OpenAI Codex and Gumloop. Those pages are the vendor's claims. Relevance AI says, for example, that Codex lives in the repository for engineers, while its own agents are run by the business teams that own the work. Treat such lines as positioning.

Matching the exit to what you actually built

Start from the job your agents do today, not from the price list. Sales or support agents wired into many apps, with approvals, Workforces and, from Team, calling, are where Relevance AI is strongest, so a move may cost more than it saves. Deterministic flows or a self-hosting requirement point to n8n. Agent code your engineers own points to CrewAI. A single credit pool points to Gumloop, per-person assistants to Lindy, and customer chat to Botpress. Whatever you pick, unused Actions and Vendor Credits expire when you cancel and are not refunded, so time the switch to your renewal.