Pabbly Connect vs Zoho Flow

Pabbly Connect

• High-volume automations where per-task pricing adds up
• Buyers who prefer a one-time payment to a subscription
• Small businesses linking marketing, sales and payment apps

Zoho Flow

• Businesses already running Zoho apps such as Zoho CRM
• Linking cloud apps to on-premises systems and databases
• Teams that want AI to draft a workflow from a description

Pabbly Connect

• The Free plan stops at 100 tasks a month and limits workflows to 2 steps.
• The pricing table says the team member feature cannot be used on monthly plans.
• The Standard Lifetime plan is subject to feature restrictions, and one-time plans include customer support for 1 year only.
• Visitors in India are shown rupee prices; the dollar figures here are the US prices carried in the same page.

Zoho Flow

• The Free plan allows 5 flows and 100 tasks a month, with base apps only.
• Premium apps, on-premises integrations, auto rerun and 5-minute polling need the Professional plan.
• Each action a flow executes counts as a task, so a flow with two actions uses two tasks every time it runs.
• With overage enabled, tasks beyond the plan limit are charged at the end of the billing cycle.

Pabbly Connect

Workflow builder

A workflow has one trigger and one or more actions. Paid plans allow any number of steps, with path routers, filters, iterators, delays and scheduled runs.

Task counting

Only an action performed in an external app uses a task. Triggers, filters, routers, formatters and other internal steps are free, and checks for new data are not charged.

2,000+ integrations

Pabbly lists more than 2,000 app integrations. For anything missing, Action Builder turns an API into a workflow action and the API module sends custom requests.

Code and data tools

A JavaScript and Python module runs code inside a workflow. Built-in tools include text, number and date formatters, an email parser, a JSON extractor and custom variables.

AI Assistant and MCP

AI Assistant adds assistants that work from custom knowledge inside workflows, and the Pabbly Connect MCP server lets MCP clients such as Claude run workflow actions.

Approvals and team sharing

Human in Loop pauses a workflow until a team member approves. Workflows sit in folders and subfolders that can be shared with set access permissions.

Zoho Flow

Drag-and-drop builder

Flows are laid out on a canvas with decision branches, delays, subflows, error branches and variables. Changes stay in a draft until the flow is switched on, and versions are tracked.

Zia AI

Zia generates a workflow from a plain-English description. AI steps can summarize, rephrase or generate text, and agentic actions let the AI choose which action to run from a prompt.

Triggers

A flow can start from an app event, a webhook, a schedule, an incoming email, an RSS or Atom feed, or a URL that is checked periodically.

On-premises integrations

An on-prem agent links cloud apps with systems on a private network, including SQL databases, SAP apps and local scripts. It is part of the Professional plan.

Custom functions

Code written in Deluge, Zoho's scripting language, can be added as an action in a flow. Custom functions are available from the Standard plan.

History and reruns

Flow history logs every execution for 30, 60 or 90 days depending on the plan. Failed runs can be rerun manually, and Professional retries them automatically.

Pabbly Connect

• Free$0

  100 tasks a month and 2-step workflows, with unlimited operations and free internal steps. No credit card needed.

• Standard$16

  per month, billed yearly ($19 billed monthly)

  10,000 tasks a month with multi-step workflows. Longer terms cost less: $15 a month on 2 years and $14 on 3. Standard plans can be stacked for more tasks.

• Unlimited$69

  per month, billed yearly ($79 billed monthly)

  Unlimited tasks, access to all features and unlimited team members. $65 a month on a 2-year term and $59 on a 3-year term.

• Standard Lifetime$349

  one-time payment

  3,000 tasks every month, subject to feature restrictions. Shown as reduced from a normal price of $684, with no end date given.

• Ultimate Lifetime$799

  one-time payment

  10,000 tasks every month with access to all features. Shown as reduced from a normal price of $2,280.

• Ultimate Plus Lifetime$1,298

  one-time payment

  20,000 tasks every month with access to all features. Shown as reduced from a normal price of $4,560.

Zoho Flow

• Free$0

  100 tasks a month and 5 flows, with base apps, logic and utilities, 15-minute polling and 30-day flow history.

• Standard$25

  per month, billed annually, for 5,000 tasks ($29 monthly)

  Unlimited flows, custom functions, 15-minute polling and 60-day flow history. Task tiers run from 5,000 to 5 million a month.

• Professional$41

  per month, billed annually, for 10,000 tasks ($49 monthly)

  Everything in Standard plus premium apps, on-premises integrations, auto rerun, 5-minute polling and 90-day flow history.

Pabbly Connect

• Annual discount

  Save 15% to 25% on longer billing terms

  The pricing tabs take 15% off for yearly billing, 20% for 2-year billing and 25% for 3-year billing, compared with the monthly price.

• Lifetime license

  One-time lifetime plans from $349

  Three one-time plans give a monthly task allowance with no subscription: Standard at $349 for 3,000 tasks, Ultimate at $799 for 10,000 and Ultimate Plus at $1,298 for 20,000.

Zoho Flow

• Annual discount

  Save over 15% with yearly billing

  The pricing page labels yearly billing as saving over 15%: Standard with 5,000 tasks is $25 a month instead of $29, and Professional with 10,000 tasks is $41 instead of $49.