Pipedream

Pipedream is two products sharing one platform: Workflows, a serverless step-based automation builder (like Zapier/Make, but you can drop into real Node.js, Python, Go or Bash code at any step instead of being boxed into no-code fields), and Connect, an embeddable managed-auth layer that lets a developer's own app or AI agent authenticate end users into 3,000+ third-party APIs without building OAuth flows themselves. Both surface the same underlying registry of 10,000+ pre-built "tools" (actions/triggers) — that figure and the 3,000+ integrated-app count both appear on the public pricing page's feature comparison table, not just in marketing copy.

Pipedream runs a hosted MCP server (mcp.pipedream.com) that exposes its 10,000+ tools to any MCP-compatible client, with a documented OAuth flow, a static server URL (https://mcp.pipedream.net/v2), per-tool read/write/destructive annotations (toolAnnotations) for client-side safety gating, and a documented error-attribution scheme that tells the calling LLM whether a failure originated in the tool's code, the upstream API, or the network layer. This shipped as a dated changelog entry, and Pipedream also publishes Python, TypeScript and Java SDKs for Connect plus docs in both plain-text (llms-full.txt) and markdown form aimed at being consumed by coding agents.

Five tiers, all published with real numbers on pipedream.com/pricing: Free ($0/mo, 100 credits/mo, 1M AI tokens, 3 active workflows, 3 connected accounts); Basic ($29/mo billed annually at $348/yr, 2,000 credits/mo); Advanced ($49/mo billed annually at $588/yr, 2,000 credits/mo, unlimited workflows and connected accounts); Connect ($99/mo billed annually at $1,188/yr, 10,000 credits/mo, Connect in production, auth for 100 external users included then $2 per additional user); and Business (custom, volume pricing, HIPAA support, uptime SLAs). A credit is 1 unit per 30 seconds of compute at the default 256MB memory tier; doubling memory to 512MB doubles the credit cost for the same runtime, and triggers that fire a downstream workflow aren't double-charged. Monthly (non-annual) prices are shown on the same page toggle but weren't captured here — the annual figures above are the ones the page defaults to.

The public repo (github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream, 11,680 stars, 5,780 forks as of this check) is licensed under Pipedream's own "Source Available License v1.0," not MIT or Apache — it explicitly forbids using the software for any competing SaaS/PaaS/IaaS offering. The repo is overwhelmingly the connector/component registry (thousands of per-app action and trigger definitions), which is what most of those stars and forks reflect; the workflow execution engine itself runs only as Pipedream's hosted service. There's no path to self-hosting the core product under this license.

The repo is actively maintained by the vendor, not community-driven in the open-source sense: as of September 9, 2026 the most recent push was same-day, and the most recent merged pull requests (checked via the GitHub API) were opened and merged by Pipedream staff (author association COLLABORATOR) within minutes, batch-publishing AI-optimized connector components. Open issue count is high (4,400 open) relative to a connector-registry repo of this size, consistent with a public tracker for thousands of third-party API integrations rather than a sign of neglect.

Pipedream publishes a detailed security page (not a marketing summary) covering: SOC 2 Type II compliance with reports available on request, continuous compliance monitoring via Drata with a public Drata security report, annual third-party penetration testing, a GDPR Data Protection Addendum with Standard Contractual Clauses and a public subprocessor list, HIPAA support via signed BAAs (with a dedicated HIPAA docs page), AWS us-east-1 hosting with AWS KMS-managed AES-256-GCM encryption at rest, TLS in transit, and JWT-based (ED25519-signed) OAuth access tokens that expire after 1 hour. This is meaningfully more than the "enterprise-grade security" line most vendors of this size publish.

Pipedream's own about page and Wikipedia carried no usable company/funding detail as fetched, and Crunchbase blocked automated access with a CAPTCHA challenge; web search was unavailable for this entire research session (all providers failed). Founded in 2019 per its GitHub repo creation date; no funding round, investor, or headcount figure could be independently confirmed today. Any funding claim seen elsewhere about Pipedream should be treated as unverified until checked against a primary source (SEC filing, official announcement) in a session where search or Crunchbase actually works.