Pipedream Free Plan: What You Actually Get Before Paying

Pipedream Workflows shuts down 31 March 2027 and new signups are closed. Existing free users keep 100 credits a month until then. How to migrate.

By Galactic News Editorial · Published 2026-11-09T13:28:36+00:00 · Updated 2026-11-09T13:28:36+00:00

Pipedream free plan and Workflows shutdown dates with migration steps

Pipedream Free Plan: What You Actually Get Before Paying

The Pipedream free plan has a hard deadline. Pipedream Workflows and String shut down on 31 March 2027. New signups and subscriptions closed on 30 September 2026. If you are reading this as a new user, you cannot start a free Workflows account at all. If you are an existing user, your free plan keeps running until the shutdown date. This article explains what the free plan actually included, what Pipedream offers now, and how to move your workflows before they are deleted. Everything here comes from Pipedream's own documentation and its current pricing page, checked on 2026-11-09.

The Pipedream free plan is closed to new users

Pipedream announced the shutdown in its documentation in late September or early October 2026. The notice is blunt. Pipedream Workflows and String will shut down on 31 March 2027. Workflows is in maintenance mode now. Pipedream accepts no new signups or subscriptions for it. It will ship no new features. Existing workflows keep running until the shutdown date. All Workflows data will be permanently deleted by 30 April 2027. That includes connected-account credentials and OAuth tokens. Subscriptions stay active until 31 March 2027. Pipedream then cancels them and issues a prorated refund. Pipedream Connect, its MCP servers, and the API Proxy are not affected. Pipedream is focusing on Connect, its toolkit for embedding integrations inside other products. Workflows did not fit that plan. Pipedream was acquired by Workday, with the deal agreed in November 2025.

What the Pipedream free plan actually included

Before the shutdown, the Workflows free tier cost $0 and included 100 credits a month. Credits metered compute time, not steps. One credit covered 30 seconds of compute at 256 MB of memory. The free tier also included 1 million AI tokens a month, 3 active workflows, and 3 connected accounts. Paid Workflows plans added capacity. Basic cost $29 a month billed annually, with 2,000 credits, 20 million AI tokens, 10 active workflows, and 5 connected accounts. Advanced cost $49 a month billed annually, with 2,000 credits, 50 million AI tokens, and unlimited workflows. Those plans are no longer sold. Do not sign up for them anywhere. Any page still listing them is out of date. The free tier was generous for a developer tool. Three active workflows and 100 credits a month covered small personal automations. It was never meant for production workloads. That was the point of the paid tiers.

What Pipedream offers now: Connect pricing

Pipedream's current pricing page lists only Connect plans. Connect is a different product from Workflows. It lets developers embed managed authentication and integrations inside their own apps and AI agents. It exposes over 10,000 tools across more than 3,000 APIs. The free Connect tier costs $0 and covers development use only. You can build and test integrations, but you cannot serve real external users in production. Startup costs $150 a month billed monthly, or $99 a month billed annually. It includes 10,000 usage credits and auth for 100 external users. Extra credits cost $0.012 each. Extra users cost $2 each a month. Business is custom-priced, billed annually, with volume pricing, SSO, SCIM, HIPAA, and SLAs. If you are a developer building a product, the free Connect tier is a real way to start. If you are an automation user looking for a free Workflows replacement, Connect is not it. It solves a different problem.

How to move your Pipedream workflows before 31 March 2027

Existing users should treat the shutdown date as final. Pipedream deletes all Workflows data by 30 April 2027. Export early and keep a copy outside Pipedream. Follow these steps.

  1. List your live workflows. Open each project and note which workflows still run. Kill the dead ones. You only need to move the ones that matter.
  2. Export each project. In Project Settings, choose Export Workflows. Pipedream writes a ZIP file with each workflow as JSON. The export writes to the project's File Store, which Pipedream lists as an Advanced-plan feature. On a Free or Basic plan, use the REST API instead. The endpoint GET /v1/workflows/{id} returns the workflow definition. An open-source CLI can pull all of them to your own computer.
  3. Save your data stores and files. Data stores and File Store files are not in the export. Copy those records before 30 April 2027. About 17 percent of converted workflows in one community analysis used data stores, so check yours.
  4. Pick a replacement and rebuild. No tool imports Pipedream workflows directly. n8n is the closest match for code-first users. It runs Node.js and Python, and its Code node can run your code steps. Zapier and Make suit no-code users, but expect to rebuild each workflow by hand. Budget a few hours per workflow, not minutes.
  5. Test before you switch off. Run the new workflow alongside the old one. Point webhooks and triggers at the new tool. Switch Pipedream off only after the replacement has run clean for a week.

Where to go instead of Pipedream Workflows

Three options cover most former Pipedream users. n8n fits developers who liked writing code steps. It is open source, self-hostable, and its cloud plans start with a free tier. Zapier fits teams who want the widest app directory and the least setup. Make fits users who want visual workflows with branching and error handling. None of them is a drop-in replacement. Pipedream's strength was code-first workflows with npm packages and a huge component library. n8n comes closest to that. If your workflows are simple triggers and actions, Zapier or Make will feel faster. If your workflows run custom code, n8n is the honest pick. Start the move now. The shutdown is about five months away, and rebuilding takes longer than anyone plans for.

Bottom line

There is no Pipedream free plan to sign up for anymore. New signups closed on 30 September 2026. Workflows shuts down on 31 March 2027, and all data is deleted by 30 April 2027. Existing free users keep 100 credits a month until then, and nothing more. Export your workflows, save your data stores, and rebuild in n8n, Zapier, or Make. The free Connect tier is for developers building products, not for replacing your automations.