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Zapier pricing explained: tasks, plans and where the bill grows

Zapier charges for each successful action step. Here are the published plans and tiers, what does and does not count, and a simple way to count your tasks.

Zapier pricing is based on tasks: each successful action step your Zaps complete in a month. As at November 2026, Zapier’s pricing page lists a Free plan with 100 tasks, a Professional plan from $19.99 a month billed annually for 750 tasks, and a Team plan from $69.00 a month billed annually for 2,000 tasks, with higher tiers for more tasks. To know what you will pay, count your tasks first.

A disclosure: CentriWeb builds most client automations in n8n, a different tool, and we use Zapier less. Every plan and price below comes from Zapier’s own pages as at November 2026. Check their page for current prices.

Zapier plans at a glance

Zapier’s pricing page lists four plans:

  • Free: 100 tasks a month, one seat, two-step Zaps only, checking for new data every 15 minutes. Pay-per-task is not available.
  • Professional: one seat, multi-step Zaps, checking every 2 minutes. Tiers from 750 to 2,000,000 tasks a month.
  • Team: up to 25 seats, multi-step Zaps, checking every minute and a 6 month audit log. Tiers from 2,000 tasks a month.
  • Enterprise: unlimited seats and an annual task limit, priced with Zapier’s sales team.

The page shows bare “$” amounts. It also says Zapier bills in a list of other currencies converted at the exchange rate on the payment date, so confirm which currency you will be charged in, and expect the figure to move with the exchange rate.

Zapier pricing by task tier

A selection of the published tiers, per month:

Tasks a month Professional, annual Professional, monthly Team, annual Team, monthly
750 $19.99 $29.99 Not offered Not offered
1,500 $39.00 $58.50 Not offered Not offered
2,000 $49.00 $73.50 $69.00 $103.50
5,000 $89.00 $133.50 $119.00 $178.50
10,000 $129.00 $193.50 $169.00 $253.50
20,000 $189.00 $283.50 $249.00 $373.50
50,000 $289.00 $433.50 $399.00 $598.50

Annual prices are the monthly equivalent, billed once a year. The page lists tiers up to 2,000,000 tasks.

Professional or Team

At the same task count, Team costs more than Professional. At 2,000 tasks billed annually, the page lists Professional at $49.00 a month and Team at $69.00. What the extra pays for:

  • Seats. Professional has one. Team has up to 25, so several people can build, edit and fix Zaps under their own logins instead of sharing one.
  • Speed. Team checks for new data every minute, against every 2 minutes on Professional. For most enquiry workflows a minute either way makes little difference, but it can matter for urgent alerts.
  • An audit log of 6 months, which helps when you need to see who changed what.

If one person builds and maintains everything, Professional is usually enough. If two or more people need to change Zaps, or a login is being shared to get around the seat limit, Team is the cleaner choice. A shared login also means nobody can tell who broke a Zap.

What counts as a task

Zapier’s help page on task usage sets out what counts. The short version is that a task is one action step that worked.

These use tasks:

  • Each successful action step, such as creating a contact, sending an email or adding a row.
  • Successful steps inside an error handler path, and steps that run again when you replay a Zap run.
  • Action steps inside a sub-Zap, plus the steps that call and return from it.
  • A search step set to carry on when it finds nothing.

These do not:

  • Triggers, including polling for new data.
  • Filter, Paths and Formatter steps, and steps skipped because a filter or path stopped them.
  • Delay, Looping, Digest, Storage, Zapier Tables and Zapier Forms steps.
  • Failed or halted actions, and tests run in the editor.

The pricing page adds that AI steps are charged by model tier and that Code by Zapier runs past the plan’s included time use extra tasks. The help page also notes that from 1 December 2026, Next Gen Zaps and the Zapier SDK will use tasks. If you use either, read that section before you size a plan.

How to count your tasks before you choose

Do this for each workflow you plan to run:

  1. Write the steps down. List the trigger and every action.
  2. Cross out the free steps. The trigger, filters, paths and formatting do not count.
  3. Count the actions left. On a branching Zap, count the actions on the branch that usually runs.
  4. Estimate monthly runs. Use last month’s real numbers: enquiries, bookings, invoices. Add a margin for your busiest month.
  5. Multiply. Actions per run times runs a month gives tasks a month.
  6. Add the Zaps together. Tasks are one shared pool across the account.

An example with made-up numbers. A trade business has three Zaps:

  • New website enquiry: create a CRM contact, create a job, send an SMS, email the office. Four tasks a run, 200 runs a month, 800 tasks.
  • Booked job: add to the calendar, send a confirmation. Two tasks, 120 runs, 240 tasks.
  • Paid invoice: send a review request. One task, 100 runs, 100 tasks.

That is 1,140 tasks a month. It passes the 750 tier and fits the 1,500 tier, listed at $39.00 a month billed annually or $58.50 monthly. If the enquiry Zap had a filter that dropped spam before the CRM step, the count would fall without costing anything.

Where the bill grows

Most Zapier bills grow in the same few places.

  • More steps on busy Zaps. One extra action on a Zap that runs 1,000 times a month adds 1,000 tasks.
  • Monthly billing. On the published tiers, monthly billing costs about half as much again as annual. If your use is steady, annual is cheaper. At 5,000 tasks, Professional is listed at $89.00 a month billed annually against $133.50 monthly, a difference of $534 over a year.
  • Overage. With pay-per-task turned on, Zaps keep running past your limit and extra tasks cost 2.5 times the base task rate on monthly plans or 1.25 times on annual plans. Usage stops at three times your task allowance. With it turned off, Zaps stop at your limit until the next cycle.
  • Seats. Professional has one seat. Sharing building and fixing across staff means Team, which starts higher.
  • AI and code steps. These have their own rates. Check the rates page before relying on them in a busy Zap.
  • Forgotten Zaps. Automations built for a campaign or a former staff member keep using tasks.

Decide your pay-per-task setting on purpose. For an enquiry Zap, stopping is usually worse than paying overage, because a stopped Zap loses leads quietly. For a reporting Zap, stopping may be fine.

Ways to keep the bill down

  • Put a filter early in any Zap that acts on records it does not need.
  • Use the built-in Formatter instead of an extra app step to tidy data.
  • Check whether your CRM can do the job itself. A follow-up email inside the CRM uses no Zapier tasks.
  • Review the task history each quarter, sort Zaps by tasks used, and turn off what nobody relies on.
  • Check that each busy Zap still matches how the business works. Steps added for a past problem often stay long after the problem has gone.
  • Move to annual billing once your volume has settled.

Our guide to web form to CRM automation shows a common Zap built with fewer steps.

When Zapier stops being the cheaper choice

Per-step pricing suits short Zaps. It costs more as workflows grow longer and run more often. If you have Zaps with ten or more actions running thousands of times a month, compare tools that charge per run. Our Zapier alternatives guide groups the options by who maintains them, and n8n pricing covers the per-run model. The Zapier vs Make vs n8n comparison has a worked example on all three.

If you would rather have someone design, count and look after the workflows for you, that is part of our automation work.

Common questions.

How much does Zapier cost?

As at November 2026, Zapier's pricing page lists a Free plan with 100 tasks a month, Professional from $19.99 a month billed annually for 750 tasks, and Team from $69.00 a month billed annually for 2,000 tasks. Amounts are shown in bare dollars, so confirm your currency.

What is a task in Zapier?

A task is one successful action step, such as creating a contact or sending an email. Triggers, filters, paths, formatting and failed steps do not use tasks.

What happens when I run out of Zapier tasks?

With pay-per-task off, your Zaps stop until the next billing cycle. With it on, they keep running at an overage rate, up to three times your task allowance.

Is Zapier's free plan enough for a small business?

Only for a few simple two-step Zaps. The Free plan has 100 tasks a month, one seat and two-step Zaps, so most businesses running multi-step workflows need a paid plan.

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