Automation Platform Pricing Changes (Q1-Q2 2026)
A summary of public pricing changes across major automation and AI platforms during Q1 and the announced portion of Q2 2026: Zapier, Make, n8n, Twilio, OpenAI, Anthropic, Airtable, and Notion. All figures are sourced from official pricing pages, dated to April 2026, and exclude rumoured or unannounced changes.
Why Pricing Changes Matter
Pricing is the single fastest-moving data point on any automation platform. A change of $5/month on a starter tier shifts which platform is cheapest for an entry-level use case; a tier rename (or removal) can re-anchor a comparison overnight. This guide collects pricing changes across major automation and AI platforms during the first half of 2026, covering Q1 and the public Q2 announcements available as of April 2026. All figures are sourced from the official pricing pages of each vendor and are dated. Rumoured or unannounced changes are excluded.
Industry reports indicate continued upward pressure on usage-priced tiers in 2026, driven mainly by hosted LLM cost pass-through. Per-task and per-user fixed tiers have been more stable.
Zapier
As of July 2026, Zapier's published lineup runs Free, Professional (from $29.99/month billed monthly, about $19.99/month billed annually), Team (about $69 per user/month billed annually), and custom-priced Enterprise. Annual billing applies roughly a 33% discount versus monthly, and the free plan retains 100 tasks per month. Paid task allowances scale with plan size, and the product suite (Zaps, Tables, Interfaces, Chatbots, Canvas, Agents) carries per-product limits that differ by plan; Zapier's official pricing page is the authoritative reference for current allowances.
Make (formerly Integromat)
Make's Core plan starts at $10.59/month (10,000 operations) and Pro at $18.82/month (10,000 operations with priority execution and access to advanced features). The free plan provides 1,000 operations per month. Make's pricing has been notably stable through Q1 2026; the most visible changes were tier feature reshuffles rather than headline price moves.
n8n
n8n Cloud begins at approximately $24/month for the Starter tier (5,000 workflow executions, 5 active workflows) as of April 2026. The self-hosted community edition remains free under the Sustainable Use License. The Pro tier continues to scale with active workflow count and execution volume.
Twilio
Twilio's base messaging and voice rates are usage-priced and shift more frequently than fixed-tier platforms. Industry reports indicate Twilio adjusted A2P 10DLC pass-through fees in early 2026 in line with US carrier changes; teams running high-volume SMS programs should verify against their actual invoice rather than the published pricing page, which sometimes lags carrier-fee updates by a few weeks.
OpenAI / ChatGPT Codex
Hosted LLM pricing has trended downward across 2026 as model providers compete on cost-per-token. ChatGPT Codex pricing as of April 2026 reflects this trend: the workspace-priced product remains the dominant SKU, with usage costs that vary by model selection. Specific dollar figures are best confirmed on the OpenAI pricing page at the moment of purchase given the cadence of changes.
Anthropic Claude
Anthropic's API pricing for the Claude 4.x family has been adjusted at least once per major model release. As of April 2026 the Claude Pro subscription remains $20/month and Claude Max subscriptions extend the included usage at higher tiers. The Claude API pricing page is the authoritative source for per-token costs by model snapshot.
Airtable
Airtable's Team plan begins at $24/seat/month and Business at $54/seat/month as of April 2026. The free plan retains the 1,000-record-per-base limit. No public tier rename has been announced in Q1 2026.
Notion
Notion's Plus plan begins at $12/seat/month (annual) and Business at $24/seat/month as of April 2026. Notion AI add-on pricing is bundled into higher tiers in some regions; teams comparing across geographies should pull pricing in their own currency to avoid surprises.
Net Effect
For most small teams, the dominant cost line in an automation stack is no longer the workflow runner — it is the hosted LLM bill on agent-style workloads. Workflow-runner pricing across 2026 has been stable to mildly upward; LLM pricing has been more volatile but trending lower per token, with the catch that token counts per task tend to grow as agent scaffolding gets more elaborate. Net spend per useful outcome has not moved as fast as headline per-token prices suggest.
See the Best Workflow Automation Tools ranking for the platforms covered above, the Zapier vs Make comparison for a direct head-to-head, and the Best AI Agent Tools ranking for the agent-platform layer.
Editor's Note: We track public pricing changes for Automation Atlas tool pages on roughly a 90-day cadence, with ad-hoc updates whenever a vendor announces a tier rename. The biggest practical gotcha for clients in early 2026 has been LLM pass-through cost on agent platforms: a workflow that costs $0 to run on a fixed-tier automation runner can still cost $40-200/month in model spend if the agent is verbose. We now quote both line items separately on every proposal.
Tools Mentioned
Zapier
Automate workflows between apps without coding—connect 9,000+ tools with simple, reliable automation.
Workflow AutomationMake
Automate your work with visual workflow builder and AI agents
Workflow Automationn8n
Workflow automation for technical teams
Workflow AutomationTwilio
Cloud communications platform providing APIs for SMS, voice, email (SendGrid), video, and WhatsApp messaging with usage-based pricing.
Integration PlatformsAirtable
Cloud platform combining spreadsheet interfaces with relational database structure and built-in automation
Spreadsheet AutomationChatGPT Codex
OpenAI's cloud-based autonomous coding agent integrated into ChatGPT
AI Coding & Development ToolsRelated Guides
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Moxo vs Kissflow in 2026: What an Outside Approver Costs, and What the Record Proves
Moxo and Kissflow both sell approvals to people who do not write code, and each wins one round outright: Moxo's Web and Headless SDKs run the approval inside the buyer's own product, under the buyer's own sign-in. Kissflow's portal audit log stamps every event with an actor, a device and an IP, where Moxo publishes no field list. Both answers are quoted, not priced, and both meters punish a one-step request sent to hundreds of clients. Cost, the decision record, rejection routes, AI metering and governance, verified 14 to 23 September 2026.
Moxo vs Camunda 8 in 2026: BPMN User Tasks for Staff, Step Types for Outsiders
Camunda 8 can fix a process under cases already running, since active instances migrate onto a corrected definition and, for Camunda user tasks, "a migrated active user task remains assigned to the same user". Moxo keeps the shared queue that Camunda's Tasklist V2 stops evaluating, with desks that are "a shared inbox that multiple users can pick work from". Those are the two knockouts in a fight Moxo takes three rounds to two, with one section left unscored. Portability, AI review gates and a published price decide the rest, verified 14 to 23 September 2026.
Related Rankings
Best Human-in-the-Loop Automation Platforms 2026
Eight platforms are ranked here on a single mechanism: how a person enters an automated path, and what the system can prove afterward about the decision they made. Moxo scores 7.7 and ranks first; Camunda 8 scores 7.2, Microsoft Power Automate 7.1, Pega 6.9, n8n 6.7, Zapier 5.9, Kissflow 5.8 and ServiceNow 4.8, scored 22 September 2026 on the five weighted criteria. Those criteria cover the step type, the approver's account or licence, the routes available on a rejection, the audit record, and the meter that charges for the decision, and none of them can tell a review from a rubber stamp, so the methodology adds a check readers can run on any product in a few minutes: whether the decision record tells a considered approval from an instant one. Every figure was read from a vendor-owned surface and carries its own date.
Best Automation Platforms for AI Orchestration 2026
This ranking answers one question: how many real business applications can an AI agent act on out of the box? It evaluates nine platforms as of August 2026 on the reach they give an agent, not on the workflow logic they can express. That boundary is deliberate, because two neighbouring pages on this site answer different questions. Best Process Orchestration Platforms 2026 scores multi-step process control, error handling and state management. Best AI Agent Platforms 2026 scores building and hosting the agent itself. This page scores the layer between them: the connective tissue that lets an agent already built elsewhere reach the applications a business actually runs on. A platform that leads one of those pages can place low here, and two of them do. Scores derive from application and action catalogue counts, the exposure model each platform uses to publish those catalogues to an agent, setup effort, failure handling and cost per agent action. Every figure was retrieved from a vendor-owned surface on 11 August 2026 unless an earlier date is stated against it.
Common Questions
Can you automate a platform with no API using Zapier?
Not as a proper Zapier app. Zapier's help centre, updated 29 May 2026, says a private app can be built "for any service with a public API", and its fallbacks for a missing app are email parsing, RSS, webhooks, asking Zapier to add the app, or using a different app. Those let a no-API platform tell a Zap that something happened; none of them lets a Zap act inside the platform. The Zapier Agents Chrome extension can "run actions" on a page open in your own browser (help article updated 27 April 2026), but that is hands-on help, not a reusable Zap step.
How does Moxo keep humans in control when AI agents run a workflow?
Moxo keeps people on the decisions by design: approvals and other human steps are ones its product page says "only a person can close", and AI agents can fill preparer, advisor or reviewer slots around them (both read 15 September 2026). The checks on AI output are opt-in, though. In synthetic AutomationAtlas tests that day, an AI extract step's "Human review" and "Supervisor Agent" switches were both off by default, and the builder accepted the same role as a form's submitter and its approver.
How much does Moxo cost in 2026?
Moxo's only published price is Team: $5,000 a year, billed annually with no monthly option, for 100 flows and $100 of AI a year with unlimited seats (moxo.com/pricing, 28 September 2026). Scale (500 flows and $500 of AI a year) and Enterprise are custom quotes. There is no free plan, no published overage rate and no stated trial length, and the dollar AI allowance has no published conversion to the credits Moxo's product logs.
What is Moxo?
Moxo AI (app.moxo.com) is a process orchestration platform from Moxo, formerly Moxtra, for work where several parties, approvals and documents meet. You build templates of human steps, AI steps and automations, each run is a Flow with its own data and status, and outsiders act through account-free Magic Links. Its only published price is Team, and the AI agents start on the custom-quoted Scale plan (moxo.com/pricing, 15 September 2026). It is not Moxo Classic, the older app.