# Tines

> Workflow automation and AI agents for security and IT teams

Tines is a workflow platform that started in security operations and is now sold to IT and other teams too. It comes as two products: Tines Stories, a drag-and-drop storyboard for building workflows from actions such as webhooks, HTTP requests and AI agents, and Tines 3B, a newer code-first environment where workflows, apps and agents are built from prompts and run in isolated steps. Both have a free edition, and paid plans are priced by quote.

- **Category:** Automation
- **Made by:** Tines (since 2018)
- **Website:** https://www.tines.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 5, 2026

## Pricing

Tines has a free plan.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Explore 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. Tines Stories has its own free Community Edition.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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. |
| Core | Custom | Paid Tines 3B license on a multi-tenant stack with 100K Tines units a month, unlimited workflows and your own AI model. |
| Scale | Custom | A dedicated stack for larger deployments, with 300K Tines units a month. |
| Power | Custom | A premium dedicated stack for the highest volumes, with 900K Tines units a month. |

Read from https://www.tines.com/pricing/ on Oct 5, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Tines before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Startup Program for Tines Stories** (Startups): 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. Source: https://www.tines.com/blog/announcing-the-tines-startup-program/

## Key features

- **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.

## Good for

- Security teams automating alert intake, triage and remediation
- IT teams that must govern workflows other departments build with AI
- Organizations that need a self-hosted, on-prem or hybrid deployment

## Worth knowing

- 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.

## Works with

Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, CrowdStrike, Okta, ServiceNow, GitHub, Splunk

**Tags:** Workflow automation, AI agents, AI features, Self-hostable, Public API, Templates

## Alternatives

- [n8n](https://toolgpa.com/tools/n8n): Workflow automation and AI agents you can self-host. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/n8n-vs-tines)
- [Zapier](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zapier): Workflow automation across 9,000+ apps, with AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/tines-vs-zapier)
- [Microsoft Power Automate](https://toolgpa.com/tools/microsoft-power-automate): Cloud workflows and desktop RPA in the Microsoft Power Platform. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/microsoft-power-automate-vs-tines)
- [Windmill](https://toolgpa.com/tools/windmill): Open-source platform for scripts, workflows and internal apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/tines-vs-windmill)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 5, 2026:

- https://www.tines.com
- https://www.tines.com/pricing/
- https://docs.3b.tines.com/en/articles/15872428-tines-3b-pricing-and-packaging-overview
- https://docs.3b.tines.com/en/articles/15871664-what-is-tines-3b
- https://www.tines.com/3b/
- https://www.tines.com/stories/
- https://www.tines.com/stories/storyboard/
- https://www.tines.com/stories/docs/quickstart/
- https://www.tines.com/get-started-with-tines-community-edition/
- https://www.tines.com/about/
- https://www.tines.com/blog/announcing-the-tines-startup-program/

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