Automation and integrations

ActRun AI alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

n8n-io/n8n200,270licence unclearVisual workflow automation platform with 400+ integrations, OAuth, webhooks, and built-in AI nodes.Open on GitHub simstudioai/sim29,407Apache-2.0Collaborative workspace to build, deploy, and monitor AI agents and agentic workflows.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Hosted reliability, uptime SLAs and scaling
Polish of product UX, onboarding, and multi-app flows
Breadth and maintained catalogue of supported integrations
Enterprise features and dedicated support
Built-in credit/usage billing and sandboxed execution

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches ActRun AI, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.