Tines vs Workflow86 (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Tines if

• Fits if your security team wants alert intake, triage and remediation automated
• Works for organizations that need a self-hosted, on-prem or hybrid deployment

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want to see a price before talking to sales, because paid plans are by quote
• Tight if you're staying free, with 3 live workflows, 5,000 Tines units a month and no public website URLs
• Watch out: paid plans have you bring your own AI model, so token costs go to your provider on top of the license
• Watch out: units used past your allowance are billed as overage, after a one-month grace period for new customers
• Not for you if you only need a couple of personal automations, since paid plans are platform licenses

Pick Workflow86 if

• Fits if you want approvals with AI steps and can start on the free plan
• Works for operations teams that need a person to sign off before a process continues

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you grow past one user, 300 actions or 50 AI actions on the free plan
• Skip it if you want a published paid price, as only a custom Enterprise plan is listed
• Watch out: the pricing page has a question about buying more actions, but its answer could not be read

Tines

• Paid prices are not published: the pricing page only offers a quote request, and plans are sold as platform licenses.
• The free Explore edition stops at 3 live workflows and 5,000 Tines units a month, and does not allow public website URLs.
• Paid plans use a bring-your-own-model approach, so LLM token costs are paid to your own AI provider.
• Tines units used beyond the plan allowance are billed as overage, after a one-month grace period for new customers.

Workflow86

• The only published plans are Free and a custom-priced Enterprise; no self-serve paid tier is listed.
• The Free plan allows one user, 300 workflow actions and 50 AI actions.
• The pricing page has a question about buying more actions and AI credits, but its answer could not be read.

Tines

Storyboard

In Tines Stories, workflows are assembled by placing and connecting actions on a canvas: Webhook, HTTP request, Receive email, Send email, Event Transform, Condition and AI Agent.

Prompt-to-code building in Tines 3B

You describe a process in plain language and 3B writes the workflow as code, proposing tests as it goes. Git integration and branching are standard, and coding assistants such as Claude Code can connect.

Isolated runs and hidden credentials

Each step of a 3B workflow runs in its own sandbox, and credentials are injected through a proxy so that secrets are never shown to the builder or the AI, or stored in the code.

Cases and Workbench

Tines Stories includes Cases for case and incident management and Workbench, an AI copilot. The free Community Edition allows up to 20 Workbench messages a day across the tenant.

Autofix and Autotune

Autofix suggests repairs for anomalies and likely breaks in a workflow. Autotune proposes reliability, performance and clarity improvements on a branch you review before it goes live.

Monitoring and AI spend

Dashboards show workflow performance, spend across LLM providers and models, who has access to which connectors and spaces, duplicate workflows and estimated savings.

Workflow86

AI agents with built-in tools

Agents come with more than 50 built-in tools and can use models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others, with several agents orchestrated together.

Human-in-the-loop tasks

A workflow can pause until an assigned task is done, for days or months, and tasks can go to people without an account.

Form and task builder

A drag-and-drop builder creates custom forms and tasks, which collect in a single Task Inbox across workflows.

Custom code steps

Write custom tools and steps in Python or Node that can make outside requests with stored secrets.

Webhooks and API requests

A secure webhook endpoint starts workflows from any source, and HTTP components call any app that has an API.

Pre-built integrations

Templates for tools such as Salesforce, Zendesk, Airtable, ClickUp, Mailchimp and Twilio.

Tines

• Explore$0

  Free edition of Tines 3B: unlimited users, spaces and connectors, 3 live workflows, 5,000 Tines units a month and a one-time $50 AI allowance.

• CoreCustom

  Paid Tines 3B license on a multi-tenant stack with 100K Tines units a month, unlimited workflows and your own AI model.

• ScaleCustom

  A dedicated stack for larger deployments, with 300K Tines units a month.

• PowerCustom

  A premium dedicated stack for the highest volumes, with 900K Tines units a month.

Workflow86

• Free$0

  1 user, 5 workflows (50 components each), 300 workflow actions, 50 AI actions, chat and email support.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Unlimited workflows, actions and AI outputs, custom user licensing, on-premise support and a dedicated account manager.

Tines

• Startups

  Startup Program for Tines Stories

  Tines offers a heavily discounted, fully featured Tines Stories tenant to startups with under 100 employees, under 5 years old and under $50M raised. Services companies are excluded.

Workflow86

No public discounts listed.