Activepieces · in Europe?
Is Activepieces hosted in the EU?
Yes. "Our cloud runs in Frankfurt by default", and its MIT-licensed Community Edition runs on your own servers. Where its cloud's own AI models run isn't named.
Free to start: 300 trial credits once, for every model. No card.
Side by side
Activepieces alternative in the EU.
What people worry about in Activepieces, beside Chat with Work. Each row links its source.
| Concern | Activepieces | |
|---|---|---|
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Its cloud's AI region isn't named
Activepieces pricing
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Partly: Free can't bring its own keys | Yes: GPT, Gemini, and Claude, all in the EU |
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Approval only where a flow adds it
Approval piece
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Partly: Wait for Approval is a Legacy piece | Yes: Changes ask first, unless you let them run |
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Flows are built step by step
Building flows
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Partly: A trigger, then each action | Yes: Plain words; it works out the steps |
Pick Activepieces when
- You'll run it on your own servers
- You want open source you can change
- You'll pick your own model provider
Pick Chat with Work when
- Bots in the EU on every plan
- You'd rather describe a bot than build one
- Changes ask first, unless you let them run
- GPT, Gemini, and Claude, all in the EU
- Self-serve, free to start
- You may need to self-host
Every detail, side by side, from Activepieces's own pages
| Dimension | Activepieces | Chat with Work |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An open-source automation platform: flows of a trigger and steps across hundreds of apps, with agents, tables, MCP, and chat. | AI bots and an assistant for your team's tools, as a service or on your own servers. |
| Bots that work by themselves | "There are various types of triggers available, such as Schedule Trigger, Webhook Trigger, or Event Trigger based on specific service." Agents run as a step in a flow, or from chat. | Bots start on a time, or when something happens: mail to their address or in Outlook, a GitHub issue, a webhook, the API, another agent, or a message in Slack, Discord, or Chatwoot. They work through the integrations you give them, on every plan and the trial. |
| How you set one up | Agents start from a sentence: "Write the job in a sentence and the agent is written for you." Flows are built as a trigger and its actions, step by step. | Say what it should do in a chat, and approve the bot on one card, or start from one of 104 recipes. Its instructions stay plain words, and it works out the steps each time: no workflow to wire. |
| Before it changes anything | A flow can pause on a "Wait for Approval" step, from a piece it now labels Legacy. Its agent docs don't say an agent asks before it acts. | Integrations start at Read. Changes ask first, shown as they will run, unless you let a bot's changes run; deleting asks unless you allow that one tool. Every change and question waiting for you, from every chat and bot, is in one queue. |
| Available in Europe | Yes, with its cloud in Frankfurt by default. | Yes, on every plan and the trial. |
| Where your data and the models are | "Our cloud runs in Frankfurt by default, and we can host elsewhere if your policy needs it." Free can't bring its own AI keys and doesn't say which provider answers; Plus and up can bring keys for Azure, Bedrock, Vertex AI, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. | The app on our servers in Germany, and GPT, Gemini, and Claude, all in the EU. Web search, off by default, leaves the EU. Or on your own servers. |
| Self-hosting | Yes: "Activepieces' Community Edition is released as open source under the MIT license"; enterprise features need a commercial licence key. | Yes. Ask about self-hosting. |
| Price | Free: 1,000 credits. Plus $20 a month for 10,000, Team $200 for 50,000, then $0.007 a credit. Ultimate and Embed by quote. | Free to start. From €20 a month for one person, and from €25 per person for teams plus VAT. |
Checked November 13, 2026. Activepieces changes often; these are the sources, with the date each shows. Where a page refused us or we read a third party, it says so.
- Activepieces pricing
- Activepieces security
- Create an agent
- Building flows
- AI providers and keys
- Approval piece
- Activepieces license
- Activepieces on GitHub
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FAQ
Activepieces in Europe, answered.
Is Activepieces hosted in the EU?
Yes. "Our cloud runs in Frankfurt by default", and its MIT-licensed Community Edition runs on your own servers. Where its cloud's own AI models run isn't named.
Where does Activepieces run its AI?
Its cloud runs in Frankfurt, but its pages don't name where its own AI models run; on Plus and up you can bring keys for Azure, Bedrock, Vertex AI, or another provider. Chat with Work runs GPT, Gemini, and Claude in the EU on every plan.
Can I self-host Activepieces?
Yes: its Community Edition is open source under the MIT licence, and its enterprise features need a licence key. Chat with Work can be self-hosted too, with local models if you like.
What is an Activepieces alternative in the EU?
Chat with Work: bots you describe in a chat instead of flows you build step by step, in the EU on every plan, with changes that ask first unless you let them run.
AI bots in Europe, today.
Pick a bot from a recipe, or describe it in a chat. It runs in the EU on every plan, and its changes ask first unless you let them run.
Free to start: 300 trial credits once, for every model. No card.