Zapier pricing: plans, the free plan, and what a task really costs you

The short answer

Yes, Zapier has a free plan: 100 tasks per month, with Zaps limited to one trigger and one action. The first paid plan, Professional, costs $29.99 per month billed monthly, or $19.99 per month billed annually, for 750 tasks per month.

The billing unit is the task: one successful action. The trigger doesn’t count, and neither do filters. A Zap with four actions therefore uses four tasks every time it runs, and that product (actions × runs) decides which tier you need.

How to read the grid

Zapier sells two things at once:

• a feature level: Free, Professional (one user, multi-step Zaps, webhooks, AI steps), Team (25 users, shared Zaps and connections, from $103.50 per month for 2,000 tasks), Enterprise (custom pricing);
• a monthly task volume: 17 tiers for Professional, from 750 to 2,000,000 tasks, and 15 for Team, starting at 2,000.

The plan table shows the first tier of each level; the tier table shows all the others. Every row has two prices: billed monthly, and billed annually expressed per month. The vendor’s page leads with the annual price (“Pay yearly (Save 33%)”), so compare like with like.

The tiers aren’t evenly spaced. After 750, 1,500 and 2,000 tasks, the next one is 5,000, then 10,000, 20,000 and 50,000. If you need 2,500 tasks, your choice is between the 5,000 tier and pay-per-task billing.

Three scenarios, counted in tasks

Rule applied: 1 task per successful action, 0 for the trigger and for the Filter step, and 1, 3 or 5 for an AI by Zapier step depending on the model tier.

Scenario	Tasks per run	Runs per month	Tasks per month	Professional tier that covers it
Web form → CRM contact + confirmation email	2	300	600	750
Order → filter → invoice + spreadsheet row + email + team message	4	1,000	4,000	5,000
Inbound email → AI step (“Standard” model) → ticket + reply	3	500	1,500	1,500, with no headroom
Same, with an “Advanced” model	5	500	2,500	5,000
Same, with a “Premium” model	7	500	3,500	5,000

Three takeaways:

1. The free plan covers none of these. It only accepts single-action Zaps, and 100 tasks a month is about three runs a day of such a Zap.
2. A single Zap can move you up a tier. The order scenario uses 4,000 tasks, more than five times the Professional entry quota, though it only runs 1,000 times.
3. The AI model you pick changes the bill without changing the Zap. Between “Standard” and “Premium”, the same job goes from 1,500 to 3,500 tasks.

The cost calculator reruns this math with your own step and run counts, and compares the result across tools.

Past your quota: pay-per-task billing

On paid plans, going over your quota doesn’t switch your Zaps off. The account moves to pay-per-task billing until the end of the period, at a higher per-task rate than the subscription. According to the help article:

• it is on by default for accounts created after January 2024, and can be turned off in the billing settings;
• it is capped at three times the plan’s quota, subscription included: 750 included tasks, then up to 1,500 billed per task, for 2,250 in total;
• past the cap, Zaps are paused until the next period;
• if it is turned off, or on the free plan, Zaps are paused as soon as the quota is reached.

The vendor’s pages contradict each other on the rate. The help article and the tooltip on the pricing page give no figure and point to your account settings. One version of the pricing page says 2.5 times the base rate on monthly billing and 1.25 times on annual billing. The data in that same page works out to about 1.25 times the tier’s unit price, monthly and annual alike.

Here is what that means in tasks, for an account on the 2,000 tier that uses 4,000 in a month (the order scenario):

• 2,000 extra tasks, under the 6,000 cap;
• at 1.25 times the unit price, they cost as much as 2,500 tasks on that tier; at 2.5 times, as much as 5,000;
• so the month’s bill comes to between 2.25 and 3.5 times the price of the 2,000 tier.

Compare that multiple with the “5,000” row in the tier table. Pay-per-task is there to absorb a spike; if you go over every month, the next tier up is the one to look at. Your exact rate is shown in your account’s billing settings.

What uses tasks when you don’t expect it

• AI steps: 1, 3 or 5 tasks per AI by Zapier step.
• Zapier MCP: 2 tasks per successful tool call, when an AI assistant acts in your apps through that channel.
• Lead Router: 5 tasks.
• Code by Zapier: 1 task per run, plus 1 per 30-second block beyond the included run time.
• Fallback paths and replays. A successful action also counts inside an error-handling path, during a full replay of a Zap, or in a sub-Zap; a search step set to continue when it finds nothing counts 1 task (Zapier help center, “How is task usage measured in Zapier?” (accessed November 11, 2026)).
• There is one shared quota: Zaps, AI steps, code, MCP and the SDK all draw on the same tasks. According to the help article, the Zapier SDK will start using tasks on December 1, 2026, while another vendor page still lists it as free in beta.

On the other side, these use nothing: triggers (polling included), Filter, Paths, Formatter, Delay, Looping, Tables and Forms. Zapier Agents has its own meter, in “activities”, billed separately.

The same scenario elsewhere

Take the order workflow again: one trigger, one filter, four actions, 1,000 runs a month.

• Zapier: 4,000 tasks.
• Pabbly Connect, which also counts actions only: 4,000 tasks.
• Make, which counts the trigger too: 5,000 credits, plus one credit for every check that finds nothing.
• n8n, which counts the whole execution: 1,000 executions.
• Activepieces: 1,000 credits, one per run.

Those numbers can’t be compared as they stand: each unit has its own price. The guide to billing units explains the rules, and the head-to-heads Make vs Zapier and n8n vs Zapier bring everything back to one scenario. For more options, see Zapier alternatives.

What isn’t published

Enterprise pricing is quote-only. The rate for an extra task isn’t given in the help center. Everything else about what the product does and doesn’t do is in the Zapier profile.