Zapier vs Axiom
The OG automation platform — 8,000+ app integrations + Zapier Copilot AI
vs. Observability for logs, traces, events — serverless-first, infinite scale
Pricing tiers
Zapier
Free
100 tasks/month. Two-step Zaps. Zapier Copilot with daily limits. Unlimited Zaps, Tables, Interfaces.
Free
Professional
$19.99/month annual. Multi-step Zaps. Unlimited premium apps. Webhooks. Email + chat support. AI fields.
$20/mo
Team
$69/month annual. 25 users. Shared Zaps/folders. Shared connections. SAML SSO. Premier support.
$69/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Unlimited users, advanced admin, VPC peering, observability, TAM.
Custom
Axiom
Personal (Free)
No credit card. 500 GB/month ingest, 10 GB-hr compute, 25 GB storage, 30-day retention max.
Free
Axiom Cloud
$25/month minimum platform fee. Volume-based ingest + query credits. Always-free allowances: 1 TB/mo ingest, 100 GB-hr queries, 100 GB storage.
$25/mo
RBAC Add-on
+$50/month for role-based access control.
$50/mo
Audit Logs Add-on
+$50/month for audit logs.
$50/mo
Directory Sync Add-on
+$100/month for SCIM.
$100/mo
SSO Add-on
+$100/month for SAML SSO.
$100/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Dedicated cluster option, private connectivity, SLA.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Zapier vs personal on Axiom.
| Metric | Zapier | Axiom |
|---|---|---|
| ingest gb month | — | 500 GB/month |
| query compute gb hr | — | 10 GB-hr/month |
| retention max days | — | 30 days |
| storage gb | — | 25 GB |
Features
Zapier · 18 features
- AI Actions — LLM-powered actions inside Zaps (summarize, extract, classify).
- Chatbots — AI chatbots that trigger Zaps.
- Code by Zapier — Run JS or Python inside a Zap step.
- Delays — Schedule step execution.
- Filters — Condition-based step skipping.
- Formatter — Data transforms (date, text, number, utilities).
- Paths — If/else branching inside Zaps.
- Premier Support — Team+ chat + email priority.
- SAML SSO — Team+ SAML authentication.
- Storage by Zapier — Simple key-value store across Zaps.
- Webhooks by Zapier — Custom HTTP triggers + actions.
- Zapier Agents — Autonomous AI agents with 8k+ app access.
- Zapier Canvas — Visual workflow diagrams for planning.
- Zapier Copilot — Build Zaps from natural-language description.
- Zapier Interfaces — No-code forms + pages + chatbots from Zaps.
- Zapier MCP — Bring 8k+ Zapier integrations to Claude + other MCP clients.
- Zapier Tables — No-code DB integrated with Zaps.
- Zaps (workflows) — Multi-step automations across apps.
Axiom · 15 features
- API Tokens — Scoped tokens for ingest or query.
- APL (query language) — Axiom Processing Language — Kusto-inspired pipes (`|`). Fast + expressive.
- AWS Lambda Extension — Native extension to ship Lambda logs + traces.
- Cloudflare Integration — Workers + Pages log drain. Log pull from any Cloudflare zone.
- Dashboards — Visualizations from APL queries: line/bar/pie/heatmap/table.
- Datasets — Logical partitions of data. Schema-free; fields auto-indexed.
- Elastic Bulk API compat — Elasticsearch Bulk API endpoint — drop-in replacement.
- Field Explorer — Auto-detected field stats, histograms, top-values per dataset.
- Monitors (alerts) — Threshold + anomaly-based alerting on APL queries. Route to Slack/PagerDuty/emai…
- next-axiom — Next.js logger with automatic correlation + Web Vitals capture.
- OpenTelemetry-native — Ingest OTLP/HTTP + gRPC. No proprietary agent.
- Saved Queries — Save + share APL queries as starters.
- Stream (live tail) — Live tail of incoming events with filter bar.
- Traces — OpenTelemetry-native. Distributed tracing across services.
- Vercel Integration — One-click: Vercel logs + Web Vitals → Axiom.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Zapier | Axiom |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | Zapier Platform CLI | Axiom CLI |
| SDK | — | axiom-go, @axiomhq/js, axiom-py, axiom-rs, next-axiom |
| REST | Zapier Platform API | Axiom REST API, Ingest HTTP endpoint |
| MCP | Zapier MCP | Axiom MCP |
| OTHER | Webhooks by Zapier, Zapier Web App | — |
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