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The real difference
Activepieces and Tray.ai are answering different questions.
Activepieces answers “how do I get a good visual automation builder I can run myself, or buy cheaply?” It does that well. The builder is familiar to anyone coming from n8n, the project is genuinely active, 765 pieces were listed when we counted on 2026-10-08, and there is a managed cloud if you would rather not host it. It has also kept pace on AI: agents on every plan, and a built-in MCP server that lets an AI assistant build and publish flows.
Tray.ai answers “who is accountable when this breaks, and what do I show the auditor?” That is a less exciting question, and it is the one that decides most enterprise purchases.
The honest framing is that these are different stages rather than different qualities. A team building its first twenty automations is well served by Activepieces. A team whose automations now touch customer data, and whose security review has started asking for certifications and access logs, is shopping in a different aisle.
Where Activepieces wins
Price transparency, and the candour behind it. Activepieces publishes its tiers: free, Plus at $20 a month, Team at $200, with Ultimate priced on request. Tray.ai publishes nothing, so if you want to know what something costs before talking to a salesperson, they win that outright.
They are also straight about what they do not yet have. Their own pricing page says: “Our SOC 2 program is in progress, so we will not claim a certification we do not hold yet.” We read that on 2026-10-08. It is a better answer than most vendors give, and it is worth saying plainly that a vendor who writes that sentence is telling you the truth about harder things too.
Open source is the third advantage, and it is real. You can read the code, run it on your own hardware, and leave without asking permission.
Where Tray.ai wins
- A compliance answer that already exists. SOC 1 & SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA and GDPR, today, with the reports to hand to a reviewer. Activepieces says its SOC 2 program is in progress. Programs complete, so check their current status rather than this page, but if your gate is this quarter, the difference matters this quarter.
- Governance included rather than tiered. On Activepieces, SSO starts on the $200/month Team plan, and SCIM, custom RBAC and audit-log streaming to your SIEM start on Ultimate, which has no published price. Those are the controls a security review asks for, so the tier you need is usually higher than the tier you priced.
- Policy on every agent call. Activepieces has agents and an MCP server, and lets you switch MCP tool categories on or off per project. Agent Gateway goes further: it decides what an agent may call, per tool and per user, on every call, and logs each one.
- Someone else carries the uptime. 1T+ processes a year across the platform and 99.99%+ execution uptime as a track record, against an instance you would otherwise size, patch and page someone about at 3am.
- Tray Headless. Build workflows, connectors, authentication and validation in natural language from Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client, against the hosted platform, with everything opening in the visual builder afterwards.
Pricing reality
Activepieces publishes full list pricing, and Tray.ai publishes only its starting price, $50 a month. Take that seriously when you read the rest of this page: they are being more open with you than we are.
What we can tell you is how to read their page. The headline tiers are $0, $20 and $200 a month, with overage at $0.007 per credit. The tier that matches an enterprise security questionnaire is Ultimate, priced on request, because that is where SCIM, custom RBAC, audit logs and your own secret manager live. The $36,000 a year figure on their page is the starting price of Embed, their white-label product, not Ultimate. Price the tier your reviewers will require, not the one your pilot fits in.
Tray.ai is priced as a platform plan plus Tasks, with no per-user fees and a fixed annual quote, one contract covering the platform and its add-ons, with support, SLAs and compliance inside the line rather than above it.