Zapier’s free plan: 100 tasks a month, and the two-step limit
The short answer
Free is $0 a month, includes Zaps, Tables and Forms, and allows 100 tasks a month. The limit that breaks first is not tasks, it is steps: free Zaps can only be two steps, so anything that needs a filter, a formatter and a third action cannot run.
What free actually includes
| Thing | Free plan |
|---|---|
| Price | $0per month |
| Tasks | 100per month |
| Zaps, Tables and Forms | Unlimited Zaps, limited by tasks |
| Zap steps | Twotrigger plus one action |
| Multi-step Zaps | Not on free |
What counts as a task
A task is one successful action a Zap performs. If a form submission creates a row and sends a message, that is two actions, two tasks. A Zap that runs 100 times a month with two actions uses 200 tasks, which is already over the free allowance.
That is the number people underestimate. 100 tasks is not 100 runs. It is 100 actions.
The real limit is the two-step rule
Most workflows worth building need a filter, a formatter, or a second destination. On free, the Zap stops at two steps, so you cannot branch, cannot reformat a date, and cannot send the same data to two places. The task count is generous; the step count is what pushes people to paid.
If your workflow is genuinely two steps, free is enough for a long time. If it needs three, the answer is $19.99 a month for Professional, not a workaround that duplicates Zaps and burns tasks twice as fast.
When to pay, and when to move elsewhere
Pay when you have a workflow you already know works by hand and it needs more than two steps. Do not pay to experiment. And if the workflow only touches one app, check whether that app has the automation built in, which is usually free.
For the wider comparison across Zapier, Make and n8n, see Zapier vs Make vs n8n. If you are costing a whole stack rather than one tool, start from what an AI tool stack costs.
Sources
Zapier pricing page (zapier.com/pricing), read 19 October 2026. Free plan task allowance, two-step limit and the $19.99 Professional starting price are from that page.
Prices and plan limits read from the vendor's own pricing page on 19 October 2026. Vendors change pricing without notice, so check before you pay.