# Frends review (2026): is it worth it? > European iPaaS for integration, APIs and AI orchestration Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Frends is a low-code integration platform that combines process automation, API management, application integration and AI orchestration. It can run in the cloud, on-premises or in a hybrid setup, and the vendor positions it as a European platform for regulated industries and the public sector. Pricing is by quote. - **Category:** Automation - **Made by:** Frends - **Website:** https://frends.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want published prices, as every plan is quoted on request. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing Frends's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Process Builder:** A low-code, BPMN-style canvas for building integrations and automated processes, with a visual data mapper and CI/CD pipelines. - **API management:** Manages APIs alongside integrations on the same platform, with an optional API Portal add-on. - **Long-running processes:** Supports processes that run over long periods, with a Business Automation Portal add-on for people-facing steps. - **Frends MCP and AI:** Frends MCP and Enterprise MCP expose systems as governed tools to AI, and AI-powered workflows are billed against monthly AI credits. - **Integration templates:** Prebuilt integration templates, connectors and tasks speed up common ERP, HR and finance integrations. - **Flexible deployment:** Deployable in the cloud, on-premises or hybrid, and the top plan lists a fully air-gapped deployment. ## Good for - Mid-size to large organizations consolidating integration and automation - European and public-sector teams with data-residency requirements - Teams migrating from BizTalk or SAP PI/PO ## Worth knowing - No plan shows a price: Growth, Business, Enterprise and Enterprise Infinity are all quoted on request. - Plans differ by processes and monthly executions; Growth allows up to 25 processes and 0.5 million executions a month. - Hybrid deployment, SSO with Azure and the platform API start at the Business plan. - Frends MCP and AI features need current contract terms or an AI amendment, per the pricing page. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Frends is a low-code integration platform for process automation, API management and AI orchestration, in the cloud, on-premises or hybrid. No plan shows a price, and plans are set by processes and monthly executions. It's built for enterprise teams, and Frends MCP and AI need current contract terms. - **Value for money: C.** No plan shows a price: Growth, Business, Enterprise and Enterprise Infinity are all quoted on request. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan or trial on the pages read. - **Features: C.** Process builder, API management, long-running processes, MCP and AI, templates. Hybrid deployment and the platform API start at Business. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. A low-code builder still means building the processes yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with 7 integrations and cloud, on-premises or hybrid deployment. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Frends's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among automation tools - Frends's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 10 of the 134 other automation tools we grade, and level with 15. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 39 of 134) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/automation ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Frends you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 109 of the 134 other automation tools grade higher. - You could make: Templates: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: A builder that other people can use without writing code. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, HubSpot, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Azure **Tags:** Workflow automation, No-code, AI agents, Public API, Templates ## Alternatives - [Boomi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/boomi): Integration, API management and AI agent platform. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/boomi-vs-frends) - [MuleSoft](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mulesoft): Integration, API and AI agent management from Salesforce. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/frends-vs-mulesoft) - [SnapLogic](https://toolgpa.com/tools/snaplogic): Integration and AI platform with package-based pricing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/frends-vs-snaplogic) - [Workato](https://toolgpa.com/tools/workato): Enterprise integration and automation platform with AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/frends-vs-workato) - [Jitterbit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jitterbit): Low-code integration, API and app-building platform. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/frends-vs-jitterbit) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://frends.com - https://frends.com/pricing Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/frends Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).