What is the best free alternative to Coze?
Windmill is the closest free alternative to Coze: same Workflow Automation sub-category, and it is free. Open-source, self-hostable with unlimited executions on the free tier
Best free Coze alternatives
Looking for a free alternative to Coze? Here are 9 workflow automation worth trying — 9 with a free tier. Coze itself is free tier + paid.
| Tool | Coze (you searched) | Windmill | Langflow | Zapier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | freemium | free | free | freemium |
| Best for | No-code drag-and-drop bot/agent builder from ByteDance, distinct from Doubao's consumer chat app | Open-source, self-hostable with unlimited executions on the free tier | Open source with 138k GitHub stars, free desktop app and free cloud account | Connect 8,000+ apps with AI agents |
| Visit | Open ↗ | Open ↗ | Open ↗ | Open ↗ |
Coze alternatives — straight answers
Are there free Coze alternatives?
Yes — 9 of the 9 alternatives listed here are free or freemium: Windmill, Langflow, Zapier, n8n, Make. None of them are paid-only.
Is Coze free?
Coze is free tier + paid. There is a free tier you can work in, with paid plans above it.
How were these Coze alternatives chosen?
They are the other tools in Workflow Automation, then the rest of AI Agents & Automation, ordered free tiers first and capped at 9. There is no sponsorship and no paid placement in that ordering — only the pricing tier decides.
All Coze alternatives
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Workflow Automation
✦ WhyA Coze alternative — Open-source, self-hostable with unlimited executions on the free tier.
- Open-source, self-hostable with unlimited executions on the free tier
- Turns scripts (Python/TS/Go/Bash/SQL) into flows and full internal apps
- Kubernetes/Docker/Fargate deployable with a hybrid seat+compute enterprise pricing model
Langflow
Workflow Automation
✦ WhyA Coze alternative — Open source with 138k GitHub stars, free desktop app and free cloud account.
- Open source with 138k GitHub stars, free desktop app and free cloud account
- Drag-and-drop visual builder for agents and RAG pipelines on top of LangChain primitives
- Deep integrations across major LLMs, vector DBs and Google Cloud/Slack/MongoDB
Zapier
Workflow Automation
✦ WhyA Coze alternative — Connect 8,000+ apps with AI agents.
- Connect 8,000+ apps with AI agents
- Natural-language automation builder
- AI steps, chatbots and tables
- Free tier for basic Zaps
n8n
Workflow Automation
✦ WhyA Coze alternative — Open-source, self-hostable automation.
- Open-source, self-hostable automation
- Visual AI-agent and LLM nodes
- Full code when you need it
- Free to run yourself
Make
Workflow Automation
✦ WhyA Coze alternative — Visual drag-and-drop automation.
- Visual drag-and-drop automation
- AI modules and agent scenarios
- 1,000+ app integrations
- Generous free tier
Lindy
Workflow Automation
✦ WhyA Coze alternative — Build AI 'employees' from plain English.
- Build AI 'employees' from plain English
- Handles email, scheduling and CRM tasks
- Trigger-based autonomous workflows
- Free starter plan
Gumloop
Workflow Automation
✦ WhyA Coze alternative — No-code canvas for AI workflows.
- No-code canvas for AI workflows
- Web scraping, extraction and enrichment
- Shareable automation templates
- Free plan to start
Activepieces
Workflow Automation
✦ WhyA Coze alternative — MIT-licensed, free-forever self-hosted Community Edition with unlimited runs/users/flows.
- MIT-licensed, free-forever self-hosted Community Edition with unlimited runs/users/flows
- 700+ integrations plus AI-agent building blocks
- Cloud Free plan needs no credit card, includes unlimited flows with daily credit resets
Pipedream
Workflow Automation
✦ WhyA Coze alternative — Free tier: 300 credits/month, 3 active workflows, 3 connected accounts, no card required.
- Free tier: 300 credits/month, 3 active workflows, 3 connected accounts, no card required
- Mixes visual workflow building with full custom code steps (Node/Python)
- 2,000+ pre-built API integrations with fast event-driven triggers