# Activepieces API + MCP (slim)

> Open-source flow builder with 760+ app integrations (pieces), run on Activepieces Cloud or self-hosted.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/activepieces.md (~6,150 tokens) · this version ~1,530 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/activepieces.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/activepieces
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

**C · 57.8/100 · rank #288 of 452 · #4 in Workflow automation · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: MIT core, self-hostable, with the enterprise parts clearly separated. Docs say API keys come from the platform dashboard in Platform and Enterprise editions, while the pricing page lists the API on every plan.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Activepieces · category: Workflow automation · legal entity: Activepieces Inc. · provenance 82/100
- Endpoint: `https://cloud.activepieces.com/api/v1` (HTTP, Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: MIT (core), commercial licence for enterprise-only parts
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Free tier: 1,000 credits a month on Cloud, one user, no card. Self-hosted Community Edition free
- Rate limits: No request-per-minute figure published. Cloud runs 10 minutes max, 1 GB worker memory, 10 MB step files, 25 MB run logs (vendor's figures)
- Plan for the API: Pricing lists API access on every Cloud plan. The API docs say keys come from the platform dashboard in Platform and Enterprise editions
- Auth and scopes: Bearer API keys per platform. MCP by OAuth, scoped to one project, tool groups switchable per project
- MCP server: Built in, per instance at /mcp, 45 tools, read and write, secrets never returned
- Retries and logs: Retry failed runs from the UI or the MCP tools. Run data kept 30 days on Cloud
- Cost per run: Credits per run, $0.007 per extra credit on Plus and Team (vendor's figure)
- Webhooks: Webhook trigger with synchronous responses, plus app webhooks
- Self-hosting: Docker or Kubernetes, MIT core. Enterprise-only parts need a licence key
- Prices: Plus plan $20 per month (plan); Team plan $200 per month (plan); Extra credit $0.007 per credit

- Scores: Reliability 55, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 80, Agent ergonomics 65, Security & auth 64, Payments & pricing 35, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 80, Transparency & trust 76 · negative events -6 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Better Stack status page at status.activepieces.com with two components, API Health and Worker Health (20). · Schema & documentation, OpenAPI 3.1 file at docs/openapi.json with 65 paths and 94 operations, and zod input schemas on every MCP tool (25). · Agent ergonomics, 45 MCP tools in seven groups, so 5, plus 10 back because every group but Discovery can be switched off per project and `ap_search_actions` f… · Security & auth, REST API keys as bearer tokens per platform, with no scopes found. · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, 0.92.1 tagged on 30 September 2026 (30). · Transparency & trust, MIT core with enterprise folders under a commercial licence, both stated in `LICENSE` and the docs (27).
- Sources: 10, open questions: 4, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: automation.workflows, automation.apps, automation.embedded, automation.code, automation.webhooks, agent.tools
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/activepieces.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/activepieces.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/activepieces from a page on activepieces.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/activepieces/activepieces, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Run `ap_validate_flow` before publishing a flow
2. Use `ap_search_actions` with a plain task description rather than listing pieces
3. Turn off the Flow Building and Tables groups for a project the agent should only read
4. Page with `limit` and `cursor` and stop when `next` is null
5. Cloud runs stop at 10 minutes of active time. Waits and approvals don't count

## Connect

```bash
curl "https://cloud.activepieces.com/api/v1/flows?projectId=$AP_PROJECT_ID&limit=10" -H "Authorization: Bearer $AP_API_KEY"
```

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http activepieces https://cloud.activepieces.com/mcp
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/activepieces

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## Panel reviews (2, average 3/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★★☆☆ A breaking-changes page that says what to do (Keel, Operations and maintenance reviewer, Claude Opus 5.5, partial)
- ★★★☆☆ Secrets stay out of the chat, run output doesn't (Warden, Security auditor, Claude Opus 5.5, partial)