Pabbly Connect: how it works, what counts as a task, plans and lifetime deals

Pabbly Connect in three lines

Pabbly Connect is a hosted, no-code automation service: a workflow watches for an event in one app, then performs actions in others. The vendor, MagnetBrains LLC (doing business as Pabbly), is based in the United States and India. It bills “tasks”, and only actions count as tasks.

This page analyzes its pricing, FAQ and terms and conditions as recorded on the date shown. Nobody here has run the product.

What Pabbly Connect actually does

A workflow starts with a trigger and chains actions. In between, internal steps prepare the data: filters, routers (branches for different cases), formatters, an iterator, delays and scheduling. According to the grid, those steps and the instant webhook are included from the free plan up.

On the catalog: More than 2,000 ("2,000+ Integrations Available"), all accessible on every plan source. So no apps are held back for paid plans.

What is held back for the Unlimited subscription: "Code by Pabbly" (JavaScript or Python): Unlimited subscription only, the AI and MCP features, custom variables, automatic re-executions and priority support.

What Pabbly Connect bills: tasks, actions only

The rule: one action performed = one task. The trigger doesn’t count. Internal steps don’t count. Polling checks don’t either: a trigger that checks an app every 5 minutes makes 288 checks a day, which the vendor calls “operations” and doesn’t bill (Pabbly Connect page, definition of tasks and operations (accessed November 11, 2026)).

Run the numbers. A 5-step automation (one trigger, one filter, three actions) that runs 1,000 times a month:

• trigger and filter: 0 tasks;
• 3 actions × 1,000 runs: 3,000 tasks.

Zapier would count the same thing, 3,000 tasks, because its rule is similar. The difference is the quota: Pabbly Connect’s first paid plan includes 10,000 tasks per month, Zapier’s includes 750 tasks. On Make, the same scenario would use 4,000 credits, trigger included. The guide to billing units covers these rules in detail.

The plans at a glance

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Pabbly Connect plans

Plan	Monthly price	Monthly price, billed annually	Monthly quota included	Limits
Freesource	$0	$0	100tasks	2-step workflows. AI and MCP features, custom variables, code module and automatic re-executions not included.
Standardsource	$19	$16	10,000tasks	10,000 tasks per month, multi-step workflows. Not included: AI Agent, AI Assistant, MCP features, Human in Loop, Custom Variables, JavaScript and Python module, automatic re-executions, priority support. According to the FAQ, several Standard plans can be stacked to raise the quota.
Unlimitedsource	$79	$69	100,000tasks	"Unlimited Tasks" under a fair-use policy: 100,000 tasks credited at the start, with a manual reset possible once a day from the account. Use reserved for a single business, not for several clients. Every feature in the grid included (AI Agent, AI Assistant, MCP, Human in Loop, Custom Variables, Priority Support, JavaScript and Python module, automatic re-executions), unlimited team members.

Three subscriptions:

• Free: 100 tasks per month, 2-step workflows.
• Standard: $19 per month billed monthly, $16 per month billed annually, for 10,000 tasks and multi-step workflows. According to the FAQ, several Standard plans can be stacked to raise the quota.
• Unlimited: $79 per month billed monthly, with every feature in the grid.

A subscription’s tasks are valid for 30 days and don’t roll over. No trial of a paid plan is mentioned; according to the terms, the 30-day money-back guarantee applies only to the first purchase of a Pabbly application and to recurring plans. What exactly happens when the quota runs out is not recorded.

The cost calculator compares these quotas with other tools at your volume.

“Unlimited”: what the grid and the terms say

The vendor’s pages contradict each other on this point. The pricing grid says “Unlimited Tasks”. The terms and conditions (section 3.27) specify:

• 100,000 tasks credited at the start;
• a manual reset possible once a day, from the account;
• use reserved for a single business, not for several clients.

100,000 tasks is a four-action workflow run 25,000 times. If your volume stays well below that, the question never comes up; for an agency or a high-volume operation, that is the clause to read before you commit.

Other gaps show up on the same pricing page:

• the annual tab advertises a 15% saving, while the FAQ mentions 25%;
• the FAQ says plans range from 12,000 to 9 million tasks per month, while the grid only shows 10,000 tasks and the Unlimited plan;
• the Free and Standard cards are headed “Unlimited Team Members”, while their tooltip says the feature isn’t accessible on the monthly plans;
• the volume slider has a 20,000-task level without saying which plan it belongs to.

The one-time-payment plans

On top of the subscriptions, the vendor was showing three “Lifetime” plans on the day of our check, paid once, each with a fixed monthly quota: Standard Lifetime (3,000 tasks per month), Ultimate Lifetime (10,000) and Ultimate Plus Lifetime (20,000). Their prices are in the notes at the bottom of this page. The page presents them as a limited-time offer.

What to know before buying:

• No stacking, no switching. You can’t pile up two one-time-payment plans or move from one to another later. For more volume, you have to buy a regular subscription on top.
• The quota doesn’t move. With the example above (3,000 tasks a month), Standard Lifetime sits exactly at its ceiling, with no headroom.
• The pages disagree. For Standard Lifetime, the main page shows unlimited multi-step workflows, while the dedicated page shows 10 two-step workflows. On support, the grid shows one year for all three plans, the tooltip says it isn’t included, and the FAQ includes it only in Ultimate Plus. Finally, the terms (section 3.22) cap a one-time-payment plan at 10,000 tasks, while Ultimate Plus offers 20,000.

Hosting and data

According to the privacy policy: Amazon Web Services (United States) and Hetzner Online GmbH (Finland), according to the privacy policy source. The pages we read show no choice of region and no mention of self-hosting: those points stay “not recorded”.

AI and MCP

"AI Agent" and "AI Assistant": Unlimited subscription only, not on Free or Standard source. The same goes for MCP, the protocol that lets an AI assistant act in your tools (see the MCP guide): "MCP Servers", "MCP Workflow Builder", "MCP Integration Builder": Unlimited subscription only. How AI model usage is billed is not recorded.

Alternatives worth a look

• Same counting rule, bigger catalog, tighter quotas: Zapier.
• To be counted per run instead of per action: Activepieces or n8n.
• The wider picture: Zapier alternatives and workflow automation tools compared.
• A use case: automating invoices.