Zapier pricing in 2026 is structured into four tiers: Free (100 tasks per month, 2-step Zaps only), Professional from $29.99 per month (750 tasks, unlimited multi-step Zaps), Team from $103.50 per month (2,000 tasks, shared workspaces) and Enterprise (custom quote, typically £40,000-£120,000 per year for UK mid-market). Most UK SMEs land on the Professional plan; agencies typically need Team or Enterprise once they manage 4+ client accounts.
Last updated: 25 May 2026. Prices verified against zapier.com/pricing on this date. UK prices add 20% VAT to the USD-denominated headline.
Zapier still bills in US dollars regardless of where you sign up. UK businesses pay USD and reclaim or absorb 20% VAT depending on your VAT registration. The platform has four publicly available tiers as of May 2026, plus a quietly extended grandfathered tier for legacy accounts from before the 2024 pricing restructure.
The Free plan gives you 100 tasks per month, 2-step Zaps only (one trigger, one action), and a 15-minute polling interval for trigger checks. Tasks are the unit of work in Zapier: every action a Zap runs counts as one task. A Zap that pulls a new Typeform submission and creates a Trello card uses one task per submission. A Zap that takes the same submission, adds a row to Google Sheets, and sends a Slack message uses two tasks per submission.
For a UK sole trader or hobbyist, Free works for the first 50-100 submissions per month per single workflow. It stops working the moment you try to chain three steps or run automation across multiple workflows. Most UK businesses outgrow Free within 3-6 weeks of starting.
Professional is the workhorse tier for UK SMEs. The entry-level Professional starts at $29.99 per month (annual billing) for 750 tasks. The plan scales by task volume: at 2,000 tasks the price jumps to roughly $73.50 per month, at 5,000 tasks roughly $193.50, at 10,000 tasks roughly $343.50, at 50,000 tasks roughly $1,243.50, at 100,000 tasks roughly $2,193.50.
Tasks scale steeply. A UK business automating 30 customer-onboarding workflows per week, each involving 6 steps, uses 180 tasks per week, 720 per month, fitting just inside the 750-task entry tier. Add a single email-marketing automation that fires once per new lead and you exceed the tier within a fortnight.
Professional includes unlimited Zaps, multi-step workflows, premium app access (Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk), webhooks, filters, formatters, paths, and 2-minute polling. For most UK businesses doing serious automation, this is the floor.
Team starts at $103.50 per month (annual) for 2,000 tasks and 25 users. It adds shared workspaces, shared connections (so a single Salesforce connection works for all team members), folder permissions, and SAML SSO at the higher tiers.
Team is built for agencies and growing UK businesses with multiple people building Zaps. A 4-person UK marketing agency managing automations across 8 client accounts typically needs Team, because Professional caps shared connections and folder permissions. The price scales with task volume the same way Professional does.
Enterprise is custom-priced and typically lands between £40,000 and £120,000 per year for UK mid-market firms. It adds advanced admin controls, custom data retention, SCIM provisioning, dedicated technical account manager, advanced security review for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 documentation, and uptime SLA.
Enterprise makes sense at 100,000+ tasks per month or when your IT security review demands SCIM, audit logs and contracted SLAs. Below that volume, multiple Team plan accounts often cost less than a single Enterprise contract.
Headline pricing is misleading because task consumption drives cost more than the plan tier. Three common patterns explode UK task budgets:
The fix: log task consumption per Zap weekly via Zapier’s Task History export, identify the top 5 task consumers, and rewrite them to consolidate steps. A typical UK business audit reduces task consumption by 30-50% without removing any automation.
Beyond the headline plan price, four hidden costs catch UK Zapier users:
Premium app surcharge: Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Microsoft Dynamics, Marketo, NetSuite are gated as Premium apps. They are included in Professional and above but excluded from Free. Some apps within these vendors (Salesforce CPQ, HubSpot Operations Hub) require additional vendor licensing that Zapier does not cover.
Data storage: Storage in Zapier Tables and Zapier Interfaces is metered above generous free limits. Heavy users storing 10,000+ records per month start paying $9-29 per month additional storage.
USD-to-GBP conversion friction: Zapier bills in USD with a card-issuer FX margin of typically 2-4%. A UK business paying $103.50/month effectively pays £85-87 once card fees apply, depending on the issuer. Annual prepay reduces this by avoiding monthly FX hits.
VAT treatment: Zapier is a US company without a UK VAT number, so they invoice net of VAT. UK VAT-registered businesses must self-account for 20% VAT under the reverse-charge mechanism. UK non-VAT-registered businesses simply pay the headline rate, but the VAT cannot be reclaimed. This adds 0% or 20% to the effective cost depending on your VAT status.
The 2026 automation market gives UK businesses three legitimate Zapier alternatives, each better-positioned for different use cases:
n8n is open-source, self-hostable, and offers a Cloud plan starting at $24 per month for unlimited workflow executions (charged per active workflow instead of per task). For UK businesses with technical capability or those needing data sovereignty (NHS suppliers, regulated finance, councils), self-hosted n8n on UK AWS removes all USD billing and US data-residency concerns.
n8n’s 600+ integration count is smaller than Zapier’s 7,000+, but covers all major SaaS platforms (Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Notion, GitHub, Stripe, Xero, QuickBooks). For UK businesses, n8n typically costs 20-40% of equivalent Zapier spend at scale.
Make.com (formerly Integromat) charges in ‘operations’ rather than tasks, with a Core plan at $9 per month for 10,000 operations. A Make operation is roughly equivalent to a Zapier task but typically cheaper because Make does not charge separately for filter and router evaluations.
Make’s visual workflow editor is more capable than Zapier’s for branching, iteration, error handling and data aggregation. UK businesses doing complex multi-system orchestration usually find Make better-suited than Zapier. The trade-off: a steeper learning curve.
Pabbly Connect offers a one-time lifetime deal (around $249 for 12,000 tasks per month forever) and ongoing plans from $19 per month for 5,000 tasks. Integration count is smaller (500+ vs Zapier’s 7,000+) but Pabbly covers all common SaaS platforms.
For UK businesses with predictable, narrow automation needs (CRM-to-email-to-Sheets workflows), Pabbly often costs 70-80% less than equivalent Zapier spend. Not suitable for businesses needing premium app coverage (NetSuite, Marketo, Microsoft Dynamics).
Despite the alternatives, Zapier remains the right choice for UK businesses in five specific scenarios:
The honest test: if your monthly Zapier task usage stays under 10,000 and you are happy with the spend, Zapier is fine. Above 10,000 tasks per month, the economics flip and the alternatives almost always cost less for equivalent capability.
GDPR and data residency: Zapier processes data through US infrastructure. For UK businesses, this requires a UK-EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) addendum to the Zapier DPA, plus an internal data transfer impact assessment. NHS suppliers and regulated finance firms often struggle to clear procurement review with Zapier due to US data processing.
UK payment methods: Zapier accepts UK credit and debit cards, including business cards. Direct Debit and BACS are not available. Larger UK businesses can request invoice billing at Team and Enterprise tiers; this requires a procurement review and typically a minimum 12-month commitment.
UK support hours: Zapier support is US-timezone-led. Premium support and dedicated technical account managers (Enterprise) work UK hours by agreement. Standard support typically responds 9-12 hours after a UK morning ticket, which can be operationally difficult during a production incident.
For a typical 5-15 person UK SME running 10-30 active Zaps:
Add 15-30% headroom on top of base subscription for premium app surcharges, storage, and overrun fees from task miscalculation. For most UK SMEs, the annual reality is 20-25% above the headline plan price.
Migration off Zapier costs time, not money. Plan 2-3 weeks of effort for a typical UK SME with 15-25 active workflows. The migration is worth it when:
If none of these apply, stay on Zapier. The cognitive switching cost and migration time exceeds the saving for most UK SMEs spending under £400/month.
A London marketing agency with 6 staff and 8 client accounts uses Zapier to automate client onboarding, monthly reporting, social media scheduling and lead routing. They run 28 active Zaps across the 8 clients, consuming roughly 4,500 tasks per month.
Plan choice: Team at 5,000 tasks (£237/month inclusive of VAT and FX). Per client this works out to £30/month, which the agency rebills at £100/month as part of their monthly retainer. Net contribution margin from Zapier alone: £560/month. The trade-off is 1.5 days per month of agency time managing Zaps, which they bill at £75/hour to the same clients.
Within 18 months this agency typically outgrows Team and either negotiates volume pricing on Team or migrates the highest-volume client to Make.com or self-hosted n8n.
A Manchester DTC fashion brand processes 8,000 Shopify orders per month with 4 Zaps handling order confirmation extra steps, abandoned cart recovery, inventory alerts and customer service ticket routing. Each order triggers an average of 3.2 task executions across the 4 Zaps. Monthly task consumption: 25,600.
Plan choice: Professional at 30,000 tasks (£693/month inclusive of VAT and FX). They have considered Make.com (~£190/month for equivalent volume) but staff comfort with Zapier outweighs the £500/month saving. The day they hire a developer, the calculation flips and they migrate to Make.
A Bristol B2B SaaS handling lead routing, billing automation and customer health scoring across HubSpot, Stripe, Zendesk and Salesforce consumes 200,000 tasks per month. On standard Team pricing this would cost £4,400+ per month including VAT.
Plan choice: They moved to Enterprise after a 6-month evaluation. Annual contract £62,000 including dedicated TAM, SLA, SCIM and audit logging. Per-task economics are better than Team at this volume, plus they get UK procurement clearance via SOC 2 documentation. They considered building on n8n self-hosted but their security review preferred a vendor with contracted SLA.
A solo UK business coach uses Zapier to automate lead capture from Calendly, send pre-call reminders via SMS, generate post-call notes in Notion, and route invoices through Stripe to QuickBooks. 12 Zaps consume roughly 650 tasks per month.
Plan choice: Professional at 750 tasks (£32/month inclusive of VAT and FX). Within budget and saves an estimated 8 hours per week of admin. ROI obvious.
Zapier Enterprise pricing is negotiable. Four levers UK businesses use successfully:
1. Multi-year commitment for rate lock. A 3-year commitment typically gets 15-25% off list. UK businesses with stable automation volume should always negotiate multi-year.
2. Annual prepay discount. 5-10% off list for prepaying the year upfront vs monthly billing. The saving comes from avoiding card-issuer FX fees as well as the discount.
3. Push back on task overage fees. List pricing punishes spikes. Negotiate a rolling 90-day average rather than monthly cap. This protects against single-month spikes (Black Friday, product launch) without forcing you into the next tier.
4. Procurement-led bundling with other Atlassian/Zapier products. If your business uses other tools in the broader automation stack, group purchasing can unlock further discount.
Sales cycles for Zapier Enterprise typically run 4-8 weeks. UK buyers should expect to negotiate through one round of pushback before the final discount lands.
Migration off Zapier without breaking production automations is the single biggest concern UK businesses raise. The safe path:
The two scenarios where migrations fail: trying to migrate everything in one weekend, or migrating without documenting the existing Zaps first. Both are recoverable but expensive.
One task equals one successful action by your Zap. The trigger does not count. Each subsequent action (whether the action itself, a filter that passes, a path that evaluates, a formatter that runs) counts as one task. Failed actions do not count. Filtered-out runs only count the filter evaluation, not subsequent actions. Tasks reset on the first day of your billing cycle.
No. Zapier prices and bills exclusively in US dollars. UK businesses incur card-issuer FX conversion fees on every payment, typically 2-4%. Annual prepay reduces this exposure by paying once per year instead of monthly.
Yes. Zapier subscription qualifies as an allowable UK business expense. VAT-registered businesses self-account for 20% VAT under the reverse-charge mechanism for B2B services from outside the UK. Non-VAT-registered businesses pay the headline rate without VAT recovery.
Professional ($29.99 per month entry tier) is the cheapest plan with Salesforce integration. Free plan excludes all premium apps including Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, NetSuite, Marketo and Microsoft Dynamics. Premium apps work on Professional, Team and Enterprise.
Yes for the software itself. n8n Community Edition is open-source and free to self-host. You pay only for hosting infrastructure (AWS, DigitalOcean, Hetzner) which typically costs £15-£60 per month for a small UK business workload. n8n Cloud is paid (starting $24/month) if you do not want to manage hosting yourself.
Downgrading does not delete Zaps but disables any that require features above your new tier. Zaps using premium apps, multi-step actions or paths simply pause if you downgrade from Professional to Free. Re-upgrade restores them. Task count resets to the new tier on the next billing cycle.
Yes, via the WhatsApp Cloud API (Meta) integration on Professional and above. UK businesses need a registered WhatsApp Business account with Meta, an approved sender phone number, and a Business Solution Provider (BSP) such as Twilio or 360dialog. Zapier connects to the BSP rather than directly to Meta.
No published limit on Professional, Team or Enterprise. Free plan limits to 5 active Zaps. Most UK businesses comfortably run 50-100 active Zaps without performance issues. Above 200 active Zaps, Zapier’s task scheduler can show modest delays during peak hours.
For UK businesses considering an alternative to Zapier or planning to scale beyond off-the-shelf automation, Softomate builds bespoke business process automation systems with full UK data residency, no per-task fees and direct integration to your existing tools. See our AI process automation services or book a discovery call.
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