n8n
Alternative to Zapier
Free node based Workflow Automation Tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.
Actively maintained
Real momentum
Apache-2.0, Commons-Clause
Business automation tool that lets you connect different services like Twitter, Slack, and more to automate your business processes (alternative to Zapier).
Automatisch is an open-source automation project positioned as an alternative to Workflow automation, with 14k GitHub stars and a health score of 29/100. It committed 70 times in the last twelve months across 5 of those months, and its status is dormant. Licence: AGPL-3.0. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.
| Status | Dormant — No meaningful commits for months. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-01-15 |
| Days since last commit | 214 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 0 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 70 |
| Months with activity | 5 of 12 |
| Last release | 2025-08-08 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Category | Automation |
| Positioned against | Workflow automation |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
Automatisch is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.
Assume every prospect can find a free version in five minutes. Your wedge has to be something open source structurally cannot deliver: compliance, support SLAs, managed hosting at scale, or a workflow the maintainers refuse to build.
Dormant. Automatisch recorded 70 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 5 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-01-15. Last release: 2025-08-08. No meaningful commits for months.
Automatisch is published under AGPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
Automatisch targets the same job as Workflow automation and is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Adoption sits at 14k stars. Whether it is a good replacement depends on your deployment constraints: self-hosting adds infrastructure, upgrade and security work that a commercial subscription absorbs for you.
34 open-source implementations, 15 of them actively maintained, led by n8n at 201k stars. Saturation score 64/100 — Crowded. Free, maintained alternatives already dominate this category.
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