AI agents & automation

AI workflow automation: the tech stack of 21 real products

Building automations and workflows that connect apps, with or without AI steps.

The typical stack

The leading pick where at least 8 of them show the decision and the leader has at least a quarter of it.

DecisionMost common pickShareAt default usage
LLM APIOpenAI API11 of 16 · 69%$10/mo · GPT-6 Luna
DatabasePostgreSQL8 of 14 · 57%—
Frontend FrameworkReact12 of 13 · 92%—
Transactional EmailResend7 of 12 · 58%$20/mo · Pro 50k
AI SDK & Agent FrameworkLangChain5 of 8 · 63%—
Backend FrameworkExpress4 of 8 · 50%—
Vector Databasepgvector4 of 8 · 50%—

Monthly bills add up to about $30 at the calculators' default usage, list prices. Set your own usage →

What they chose, decision by decision

Among the AI workflow automation that show each choice, from makers' products and open-source code alike.

Small samples, fewer than 8 products: Authentication (Clerk 4, Supabase 1) · Database Access & ORMs (Prisma 3, SQLAlchemy 3) · Background Jobs & Cron (BullMQ 3, Trigger.dev 1) · File Storage (Amazon S3 4, MinIO 3) · Payments (Stripe 5, Lemon Squeezy 1) · Product Analytics (PostHog 5) · Error Monitoring (Sentry 4) · AI App Builders (Lovable 1, Base44 1) · Hosting (Cloudflare 1, Render 1) · Image & Video Hosting (sharp 3) · Lifecycle Email (Loops 2, Customer.io 1) · LLM Observability & Evals (Langfuse 3)

AI workflow automation we track

15 makers' products and 6 open-source projects. Makers' products first.

giselleGiselle is an open-source tool for building and running AI workflows in a visual node editor, combining models from several providers. It is for teams automating multi-step or long-running AI tasks.+15
SmythOSPlatform for building and deploying AI agents, visually or by describing them to an assistant (Agent Weaver) that assembles the models and APIs. Integrates with providers such as OpenAI, Hugging Face and Amazon Bedrock.+9
MindPalMindPal is a no-code platform for turning a person's expertise into AI agents and multi-agent workflows that can be shared with a team, clients or an audience. It is for coaches, consultants, agencies, educators and creators.+6
IFTTTEvery thing works better together+3
n8nChatn8nChat is a Chrome and Firefox extension that builds, edits and debugs n8n workflows from a plain-English description, inside the n8n editor. It is for people who automate with n8n.+1
SkyvernOpen Source Browser Automation Company+1
GuseA simple spreadsheet to build and deploy any AI agent
ScarlettScarlett is an AI agent that works in Slack as a member of your team, connecting to your other tools to carry out tasks and automate workflows. It is for teams that want to hand routine work to an AI.
Otter ScriptAutomate text based tasks with fully customizable workflows
tracecatOpen-source security automation platform for teams and AI agents+14
reflyThe first open-source agent skills builder. Define skills by vibe workflow, run on Claude Code, Cursor, Codex & more. Build Clawdbot 🦞· APIs for Lovable · Bots for Slack & Lark/Feishu · Skills are in+13
FastGPTFastGPT is a knowledge-based platform built on the LLMs, offers a comprehensive suite of out-of-the-box capabilities such as data processing, RAG retrieval, and visual AI workflow orchestration, letti+11
pyspurA visual playground for agentic workflows: Iterate over your agents 10x faster+8
automatischThe open source Zapier alternative. Build workflow automation without spending time and money.+5
wavefront🔥🔥🔥 Enterprise AI middleware, alternative to unifyapps, n8n, lyzr+4
chat-flow ChatFlow - AI-based chat flow framework, personalize your ChatGPT workflows and build the road to automation。ChatFlow —— 打造个性化 ChatGPT 流程,构建自动化之路 +2
open-agent-builder🔥 Visual workflow builder for AI agents powered by Firecrawl - drag-and-drop web scraping pipelines with real-time execution+1
AgentPilotA versatile workflow automation platform to create, organize, and execute AI workflows, from a single LLM to complex AI-driven workflows.
loonflowA Intelligent and Visual Process Automation System, ticket, workflow