Tool Introduction

Pipedream, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its CEO and founder is Tod Sacerdoti, previously founder and CEO of BrightRoll, and the leadership team draws on backgrounds from BrightRoll, Yahoo!, Affirm, Dropbox, and Instacart.

By November 2025 the company had grown to more than 5,000 customers and tens of thousands of users. On November 18-19, 2025, Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Pipedream, a transaction that has since closed, and Pipedream now operates as part of Workday.

Demo Available?

The Free plan ($0/mo, no credit card) is an unlimited hands-on trial; customers can contact sales to request a trial of Advanced or Business features.

Tool's Accuracy

There is no independent, disclosed-methodology benchmark of Pipedream's workflow execution correctness, and the company does not publish an accuracy or success-rate figure for workflow runs. The only disclosed, live measurement of platform reliability is Pipedream's public status page (status.pipedream.com), which reports 90-day uptime by component:

Public APIs, REST API, Connect API, and Backend: 100.0% uptime over the trailing 90 days.
Event Sources, Workflows, Destinations, GitHub Sync, Connect, and Integrations: 100.0% uptime over the trailing 90 days.
Frontend dashboard (labeled "Pipedream"): 99.11% uptime over the same 90-day window, with "All Systems Operational" at the time of check.

This is an availability measurement, not a correctness benchmark of workflow logic itself.

Aggregate Rating

4.1/5 stars (based on 32+ verified reviews across the internet)

Detailed Overview

What Pipedream Does

Users assemble workflows that react to events and move data between services without writing integration glue. Each workflow begins with a trigger, an HTTP or webhook request, a schedule as frequent as every 1 second on paid plans, inbound email, or an app event, then runs ordered steps that either call pre-built app actions or execute custom code with npm and PyPI package access.

Who Pipedream Is For

The platform targets developers and, increasingly, AI-agent builders who need to reach many APIs without hand-building OAuth flows and credential management. Startups such as Alter and Lindy embed its integrations into their own products, while a vertical SaaS company like Mangomint uses it to ship a customer-facing integration quickly. Solo developers automating personal tasks and teams running production workflows also fit.

Top Differentiators

Unlike no-code automation tools, Pipedream runs a full code editor with Node v18, Python v3.9, Go, and Bash, plus npm and PyPI packages, giving code-level control alongside no-code blocks. Schedule triggers can fire as often as every 1 second. Its structural difference is that Connect and its MCP servers are built to be embedded in other companies' apps and AI agents, not only used in a standalone builder.

Founding Year

2019

Target Industry

B2B, B2D, SMB, Enterprise, Developers, SaaS companies, AI agent startups

Available Integrations

Slack: post, react to, and manage messages and channels as workflow steps; the OAuth connection requests only a narrow scope set including chat:write and files:read.
Google Sheets: acts as a lightweight database and reporting layer with polling and instant triggers; the OAuth grant requests broad full-Drive access rather than a Sheets-only scope.
HubSpot: syncs CRM contacts, companies, and deals with granular property-change triggers; flagged Premium, so it is gated to paid tiers.
Salesforce: handles sales and service-cloud automation with Bulk API 2.0 batch actions; marked Premium and requires an org edition with API Access.
OpenAI (ChatGPT): adds chat, image generation, embeddings, and speech steps; authenticates via a user-supplied API key rather than OAuth, so costs and limits stay on OpenAI's side.
Notion: automates page and database creation, edits, and comments; the account only sees pages shared at consent time, so new databases require reconnection.
GitHub: automates issue, PR, commit, and release workflows using instant webhooks for repo admins; the OAuth request asks for broad scopes.
Node.js: a native code environment treated as a first-class integration, with access to most of npm's 400,000+ packages.
Python: a native code environment treated as a first-class integration, with access to 350,000+ PyPI packages.
Zendesk: a notable app flagged Premium in the directory, so connecting it requires the Advanced plan or above.

Free: $0/mo, no credit card required, for individuals getting started, with up to 100 credits/mo, 1M AI tokens, 3 active workflows, 3 connected accounts, unlimited workflow testing, and Connect in development mode only.
Basic: $29/mo ($348 billed annually), for individuals with growing needs, including 2,000 credits/mo, 20M AI tokens, 10 active workflows, 5 connected accounts, and everything in Free.
Advanced (Popular): $49/mo ($588 billed annually), for teams running production workflows, including 2,000 credits/mo, 50M AI tokens, control-flow operators, unlimited workflows and connected accounts, premium apps, GitHub Sync, and everything in Basic.
Connect: $99/mo ($1,188 billed annually), for developers building integrations, including 10,000 credits/mo, Connect in production, authentication for 100 external users with $2 per additional user, and everything in Advanced.
Business: custom Contact Sales pricing, for companies building at scale, including volume pricing, custom invoicing, priority integration development, dedicated Slack support, HIPAA workload support, and uptime and availability SLAs.

Credits are usage-based compute units: 1 credit equals 30 seconds of compute at the default 256MB memory tier, scaling linearly with memory. Workflow builder testing is always free, source executions from the public component registry are free, and unused included credits do not roll over. Paid plans are charged immediately via Stripe, with overage billed at the start of the next billing period. Cancellation keeps access through the end of the current billing period with no proration. Payment by invoice is available only on the Business plan.

Pricing last verified: 07/09/2026
Disclaimer: Pricing is subject to change. Please confirm current pricing on the vendor site.

Features & Specs

Integration scale: 3,000+ integrated apps and 10,000+ pre-built tools available through Connect and MCP servers.
Code steps: Node.js, Python, Go, and Bash with npm, PyPI, and Go package support.
Triggers: HTTP/webhook, schedule as frequent as every 1 second on paid plans, inbound email, and app events.
Memory: default 256MB per execution, configurable up to 10GB, with credits scaling by memory.
Timeouts: default 30 seconds for HTTP and email triggers and 60 seconds for cron, raisable to 300 seconds on Free and 750 seconds on paid tiers.
Payload limits: HTTP body capped at 512KB by default (up to 5TB via large-file upload), email-trigger payloads at 30MB, and combined logs and exports at 6MB.
Rate limit: HTTP endpoints at an average of 10 QPS, raisable for paying customers.
Storage: fixed 2GB /tmp disk per execution, plus Data Stores up to 500 keys and 1MB on higher tiers.
Event retention: Event History 7 days on Free and up to 30 days on paid tiers, with execution detail kept 365 days.
Token security: OAuth tokens issued as ED25519-signed JWTs expiring after 1 hour; Connect SDK tokens and Connect Link URLs expire after 4 hours.

Security & Compliance

Pipedream has demonstrated SOC 2 Type II compliance via annual third-party audits monitored continuously through Drata, with the report available on request, and it undergoes an annual third-party penetration test. It supports GDPR as both Controller and Processor, with a Data Protection Addendum including EU Standard Contractual Clauses built into its Terms of Service, and it deletes a user's personal data on account deletion. HIPAA Business Associate Addendums (BAAs) can be signed for customers passing PHI, with HIPAA workload support called out as a Business-plan feature.

Hosting runs on AWS in the us-east-1 region, with intrusion detection via AWS WAF, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and Datadog. Data at rest is encrypted using AWS KMS-managed 256-bit AES-GCM keys rotated automatically once a year, and data in transit uses HTTPS/TLS via AWS Certificate Manager certificates. OAuth client secrets are salted and hashed before storage, and API access tokens are ED25519-signed JWTs that expire after 1 hour.

For Pipedream Connect, the platform does not store or log request payloads or response bodies when integrations are used via API or MCP. The pricing comparison table lists Single Sign-On (SSO), Restrict Login Methods, Virtual Private Clouds with unique egress IPs and VPC peering, custom security questionnaires, and SCIM user provisioning at the Business tier. Internal application logs are deleted within 30 days, and account and data deletion is completed in backups within 30 days.

Industry Use-Cases

Scaling integrations for an AI assistant

Lindy, an AI-assistant and agent-automation platform, had spent over $1M building about 250 integrations in-house over two years before adopting Pipedream Connect. Switching to Connect's registry, the team could immediately offer 2,500 integrations drawing on 7,000+ production-ready actions. Per the company's published case study, integrations shifted from an engineering bottleneck to a competitive advantage, shortening sales cycles and freeing engineering time.

Adding app access to a macOS AI layer

Alter builds an AI interface layer for macOS and needed broad app connectivity without a large integration team. After adopting Pipedream Connect's MCP server, Alter gained access to 2,000+ applications within two weeks and launched alongside Pipedream's MCP release on Product Hunt. Co-founder Olivier Legris described work that would take hours as now done in three minutes, and integration capability became a reason free users converted to paid plans.

Shipping a customer integration for salon software

Mangomint, a salon and spa business-management SaaS, needed to build and deliver a customer-facing integration quickly. Using Pipedream, the team could test and iterate on the integration while validating that it met the customer's needs. CEO and co-founder Daniel Lang highlighted this fast test-and-iterate loop in a testimonial on Pipedream's comparison page.

Tool's Alternatives

Zapier offers the largest stated app catalog in the category, with 9,000+ integrations and 66,000+ triggers and actions plus a mature no-code builder. Its core positioning is no-code automation, with code a secondary, Beta capability, so deep custom logic is less native than in code-first Pipedream. Zapier foregrounds an enterprise AI-governance layer with a single audit trail, action-level restrictions, and Bring Your Own Model support.

Make (formerly Integromat) provides a visual, node-based scenario canvas covering 3,000+ apps and is trusted by over 400,000 organizations across 200+ countries. Its logic is built primarily through the drag-and-drop canvas rather than arbitrary inline Node.js or Python. Make Grid gives enterprises one visual landscape over their automation and AI-agent estate, paired with a Library of Agents.

n8n is explicitly self-hostable and source-available, deployable on-prem with full source on GitHub and 195,644 stars. Its catalog of over 500 integrations is smaller than Pipedream's 3,000+, though generic HTTP and code nodes fill the gaps. n8n blends visual nodes with inline code and offers step-level replay and mocking to make AI-agent reasoning traceable.

Workato is an enterprise iPaaS with over 1,000 pre-built connectors bundled with API Management, Data Orchestration, B2B/EDI, and RPA. Its site is structured entirely around enterprise IT with no visible free or self-serve entry point. Workato combines recipe-based integration with master data management, EDI, and RPA plus an Agent Studio in one enterprise platform.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many apps and tools does Pipedream support?

Pipedream integrates 3,000+ apps and exposes 10,000+ pre-built tools through its Connect toolkit and Model Context Protocol servers, plus native Node.js, Python, Go, and Bash code steps with npm and PyPI package access.

What does the Pipedream Free plan include?

The Free plan costs $0/mo with no credit card, offering 100 credits/mo, 1M AI tokens, 3 active workflows, 3 connected accounts, unlimited workflow testing, and Pipedream Connect in development mode only.

How much does the cheapest paid Pipedream plan cost?

The Basic plan is $29/mo, billed annually at $348, and includes 2,000 credits/mo, 20M AI tokens, 10 active workflows, and 5 connected accounts, adding to everything in the Free plan.

What is Pipedream Connect and who uses it?

Connect is a developer toolkit that embeds managed authentication and 3,000+ integrations into another app or AI agent. Startups such as Alter and Lindy used it to add thousands of integrations without in-house engineering.

Is Pipedream SOC 2 and HIPAA compliant?

Pipedream has demonstrated SOC 2 Type II compliance via annual third-party audits through Drata and can sign HIPAA Business Associate Addendums for PHI, with HIPAA workload support offered on the Business plan.

How is Pipedream different from Zapier and Make?

Pipedream is code-first, offering a full editor with Node v18, Python v3.9, Go, and Bash, schedule triggers as frequent as 1 second, and Connect plus MCP servers built to embed in other companies' products.

What are Pipedream credits and do they roll over?

Credits are usage-based compute units where 1 credit equals 30 seconds of compute at 256MB memory, scaling linearly with memory. Unused included credits do not roll over on Free or paid tiers.

Who acquired Pipedream and when did it happen?

Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Pipedream on November 18-19, 2025. The deal has since closed, and Pipedream now operates as part of Workday while continuing its product.

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