Alternatives
Self-hosted alternatives to Zapier
Projects in the registry that can run on your own hardware and serve at least one of the same use cases as Zapier.
- Source
- Registry relations over fetched repository records — the evidence sits on each repository page
- Verified
- Evidence not verified
- Confidence
- High
01How this list was built
- Compared against
- Zapier
- Delivery
- SaaS products
- Shared use cases
- Invoice processing automation, Marketing workflow, CRM call summaries
- Selection rule
- open source, or self-hostable, and shares a use case
- Candidates found
- 4
02Alternatives
ComfyUI
Self-hosted projects
Node-based interface for image and video generation models, where a pipeline is an explicit graph that can be saved, versioned and re-run. Runs locally on your own GPU.
- Repository
- comfyanonymous/ComfyUI
- Stars
- 133,870
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Marketing workflow
Dify
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Platform for building LLM applications: visual workflow editor, retrieval pipelines, agent tools, prompt management and an API layer. Available self-hosted or as a managed cloud service.
- Repository
- langgenius/dify
- Stars
- 153,448
- Licence
- Other
- In stacks
- 1
Shares: Marketing workflow
n8n
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Workflow automation tool with several hundred integrations, branching logic, code steps and AI nodes. Can be self-hosted, which is why it appears in on-premise automation stacks.
- Repository
- n8n-io/n8n
- Stars
- 202,375
- Licence
- Other
- In stacks
- 4
Shares: Invoice processing · Marketing workflow · Crm call summaries
PostgreSQL
Self-hosted projects
Relational database used here as the system of record for documents, metadata and job queues, and — with pgvector — for embeddings as well.
- Repository
- none linked
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 4
Shares: Invoice processing
03Repository facts
| Repository | Stars | Health |
|---|---|---|
| comfyanonymous/ComfyUIThe most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface. | 134k | Maintenance 80%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 63%, Community 100%75 |
| langgenius/difyBuild Agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, with rich AI model and tool support on one collaborative workspace. Deploy on cloud, VPC, or self-hosted, so teams move from prototype to production without rebuilding the stack. | 153k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 94%, Community 100%72 |
| n8n-io/n8nFair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations. | 202k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 95%, Community 100%72 |
04Ask about your own case
Which alternative is right depends on how many people will use it, what the data is and what you can operate. Ask and the answer is researched for your organisation.