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Runwork vs Zapier

Zapier connects your tools. Runwork keeps what your team works out with AI.

Quick Verdict

Zapier is the fastest way to wire two apps together, and for "when this happens in A, do that in B" it is usually the right answer. A Zap is still a rail one person configured once. Runwork does the other job: it keeps what your team works out with their own AI, from a quick answer up to a tool that runs on its own, and hands it to every teammate's AI. Most teams end up with both.

Overview

Zapier made connecting apps something anyone can do, and nobody has a bigger connector library. If the job is "a form comes in, add a row, post to Slack", a Zap will be running in ten minutes and you should just build the Zap. What a Zap cannot do is hold what your team knows. It does one configured thing until somebody edits it. Meanwhile your people are teaching their own AI how your quotes get priced, how a customer email should be answered, which numbers matter on Monday, and none of that reaches anyone else. That part is what Runwork holds. Your agent does the making. Runwork keeps it, runs unattended overnight, and gives it to the rest of the team.

Zapier is a Workflow Automation Platform.

Runwork Strengths

  • What one person teaches their AI, every teammate's AI knows. Nobody pastes prompts.
  • The range goes from a one-line skill up to a running tool with its own screens and data.
  • Work keeps running after everyone logs off, on a schedule or on an event.
  • Your people keep their own AI tools. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, 60+ AI tools in all.
  • 3,300+ integrations for when you do need to reach an outside service.
  • Roles, permissions, and audit logs on everything your team's AI can touch.
  • A dashboard that shows who on the team is actually getting better at AI.
  • Switch models or AI tools whenever something better shows up. Nothing resets.

Zapier Strengths

  • 8,000+ app integrations, the largest library in the category by a distance.
  • The trigger-action model is understandable in about a minute.
  • Whatever one-to-one connection you need, there is probably a template for it.
  • Years in production, well documented, and dependable.
  • You need no technical help at all to get a working Zap.

Feature Comparison

What each one is for

Feature Runwork Zapier
Connect two apps with a trigger and an action
Pre-built connectors 3,300+ 8,000+
Holds what your team teaches its AI -
Works inside the AI tools people already use 60+ AI tools -
Range of what can live there A quick skill to a running tool Trigger to action

What the team gets

Feature Runwork Zapier
One person teaches it, everyone else's AI knows it -
Work keeps running after everyone logs off
Every teammate's AI can use it -
A place the whole team can find it Shared Zap folders
You can see who is getting better at AI -
Screens people can use: dashboards, forms, tables Interfaces (basic)

Running the work

Feature Runwork Zapier
Scheduled and event-driven runs
Multi-step logic and branching
Long-running work (hours or days) Limited
Agents run in your team cloud Beta
Its own data to work on Entities + file storage Tables (basic)
Public APIs and webhooks

Team and security

Feature Runwork Zapier
SSO / SAML Soon
Audit logs
Role-based access Team plans
Team workspaces
Custom domains -
Adoption dashboard -

Pricing model

Feature Runwork Zapier
Per-task billing -
Flat workspace pricing -
Unlimited runs -
Free plan -
Trial without a credit card 14 days 14 days

Which Tool is Right for You?

Choose Runwork if you need...

  • * Teams where everyone uses AI separately and none of it adds up
  • * Keeping the skills, automations, and small tools your people work out with AI
  • * Work that runs on its own overnight
  • * Giving every teammate's AI the same context and the same abilities
  • * Keeping the capability yours while models and AI tools keep changing

Choose Zapier if you need...

  • * Wiring two SaaS apps together today, with no setup
  • * One-to-one connections where a template already exists
  • * Teams with no technical help at hand
  • * Simple notifications and record syncing between known apps
  • * Cases where connector count matters more than anything else

Pricing Comparison

Zapier bills per task, which is fine at low volume and gets watched closely as it grows. Runwork is priced per seat with a monthly usage budget, and unlimited apps and data, and starts with a 14-day trial, no credit card. Zapier has a free plan. Runwork does not.

View Runwork pricing

How to Migrate from Zapier

There is not much to migrate. Your Zaps keep doing the connecting they are good at. Runwork picks up the part that has nowhere to live today, which is what your people work out with their own AI.

Typical migration: About a day to get a team running

1

Leave the good Zaps alone

Point-to-point connections between two SaaS apps are exactly what Zapier is best at. Turning those off would be work for no reason.

2

Find what is stuck in one person's chat history

The prompt somebody keeps reusing, the checklist they refined over a month, the report their AI writes well that nobody else can reproduce. No Zap can hold any of it. That is your list.

3

Get the team connected

Everyone keeps the AI tool they already chose. Runwork shows up inside it, plus a desktop app, so nobody has to change how they work.

4

Teach it once

Someone explains the process to their own agent, the way they would explain it to a new hire. The agent saves it into your workspace, and from then on every teammate's AI has it.

5

Move the laptop-bound work into the cloud

Ask your agent to put the things that should not depend on one machine on a schedule in Runwork. If a Zap only existed because there was nowhere else to put the work, that is the one to turn off.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I keep using Zapier alongside Runwork?
Yes, and most teams do. Zapier stays good at what it is good at. Runwork holds the part Zapier was never meant to hold, which is what your team teaches its AI and the tools your people make with it. The two can call each other through webhooks.
Is Runwork just another automation tool?
Automation is one of the things that lives there, not the point of it. The point is that what your team works out with AI stops disappearing. Sometimes that is a skill every teammate's AI picks up, sometimes a job that runs every morning, sometimes a small tool with its own screens. Same cloud, same permissions, same place to find it.
Who builds this, Runwork's AI?
Your own. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, whatever your people already use. They describe what they want to their own agent, it builds against your workspace, and the result lands in the team cloud. Runwork does not chat with you and does not generate anything by itself.
What about Zapier Tables and Interfaces?
They are useful add-ons to a Zap. In Runwork the data, the screens, and the automation belong to the same thing, with roles and audit logs around them. The difference shows up the day an Interfaces page turns into something the team depends on.
Will I lose my task history?
Zapier's history stays in Zapier. In Runwork you get audit logs across everything, including what each person's AI did and which skills it used, not only what an automation ran.

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