Pine AI vs Activepieces
Plans, free access, limits and intended use side by side, taken from each vendor’s own pages. No score and no winner: the facts show where the two differ.
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AI assistant that phones companies to cancel, dispute and negotiate bills for you
Open source workflow automation with AI agents, priced per run in credits, on its cloud or your own servers
- Free access
- Pine AI: Free access
- Activepieces: Free access
- Paid from
- Pine AI: USD 9.00 per week billed monthly; $6.10 per week billed annually
- Activepieces: USD 20 per month
- Plans listed
- Pine AI: 7
- Activepieces: 6
- Public API
- Pine AI: Not confirmed
- Activepieces: Yes
Where Pine AI and Activepieces differ
- PlansPine AI lists 7 plans and Activepieces lists 6.
Head to head
Each value from the tool’s profile and the vendor’s own pages
| Pine AI | Fact | Activepieces |
|---|---|---|
| Access and price | ||
| Free access availableFree · USD 0 | Free accessSame | Free access availableFree · USD 0 |
| USD 9.00 per week billed monthly; $6.10 per week billed annuallyPro | Lowest listed paid plan | USD 20 per monthPlus · $16/month billed yearly |
| Free plan with daily credits; Pro from $6.10 a week billed annually; Plus $99.9 a month billed annually ($139 monthly); Enterprise custom | Pricing model | Free cloud plan (1,000 credits/month); Plus $20/month, Team $200/month; Ultimate and Embed custom; Community Edition self-hosts free |
| 7 | Plans listedDiffers | 6 |
| Not confirmed | Public API | Yes |
| Not confirmed | Card to start | Not required |
| Not confirmed | Open source | Yes |
| What it is for | ||
| US consumers and small teams who want an assistant to make support calls, cancel subscriptions and negotiate bills, and who will check how credits and the 25% savings fee apply to their plan | Built for | Teams that want Zapier-style flows and AI agents with the option to self-host the open source core |
| Automation | CategorySame | Automation |
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| How current | ||
| Profile sources checked | ||
| Prices confirmed · Nov 1, 2026 | Pricing checkSame | Prices confirmed · Oct 24, 2026 |
Official source check for both tools. No hands-on testing and no score: “Differs” marks a documented difference, not a better tool.
Plans and prices
Pine AI
Prices confirmed · Nov 1, 2026- FreeUSD 0
- ProUSD 9.00 per week billed monthly; $6.10 per week billed annually
- PremiumUSD 18.20 per week billed monthly; $12.30 per week billed annually
- PlusUSD 99.9 per month billed annually; $139 per month billed monthly
- MaxUSD 174.9 per month billed annually; $249 per month billed monthly
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- TeamUSD 291.6 per month billed annually; $419 per month billed monthly
- EnterpriseCustom
Activepieces
Prices confirmed · Oct 24, 2026- FreeUSD 0
- PlusUSD 20 per monthUSD 16 per month billed yearly
- TeamUSD 200 per monthUSD 166 per month billed yearly
- UltimateCustom quote
- EmbedFrom USD 36k a year
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- Community Edition (self-hosted)FreeMIT licence
Strengths and limits
Pine AI
Strengths
- A free plan with daily credits: New users get 200 credits at signup and 50 a day on login, accumulating to 500, so small requests can be tried without paying.
- Fee depends on a confirmed result: On Free and Pro Monthly the 25% bill-negotiation fee is charged only after savings are confirmed, and the hold is released if the attempt fails.
- Credit rules are published: The guides give the spend order, the add-on price and the usual 300 to 1,000 credits for a call.
Limits to plan around
- Results are not guaranteed: The Usage Policy says using Pine creates no obligation to achieve savings, refunds or resolutions.
- Failed attempts can use credits: The bill negotiation guide says calls, research and follow-ups in an unsuccessful attempt still draw credits.
- Pricing pages disagree on the top tier: The plan guide names Team while the credits and payments guides name Enterprise, and weekly personal prices sit beside monthly work prices.
Activepieces
Strengths
- Steps are not metered: A run costs one credit whether it has two steps or twenty, so long non-AI flows do not multiply the bill.
- Open source core: The repository is MIT-licensed outside its enterprise directories, so the core can be read, forked and run on your own hardware.
- Self-hosting on every plan: The pricing table lists cloud or on-prem hosting for Free, Plus, Team and Ultimate, and paid plans apply in-app without a license key.
Limits to plan around
- Free reset is inconsistent: The pricing table says Free credits reset daily and runs over quota wait for tomorrow, while the FAQ says 1,000 credits a month and to wait until next month.
- Short cloud run limits: On Activepieces Cloud a flow run times out after 10 minutes of active time, a worker gets 1 GB of memory and run data is deleted after 30 days.
- No SOC 2 report yet: The pricing FAQ says the SOC 2 programme is in progress; a penetration test summary, DPA and sub-processor list are available on request.
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