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Best agent for workflow automation

Connecting apps and automating repetitive multi-step business processes.

Leader

Narrow lead

Zapier Agents

Index

90.5

Lead

+1.5

% ahead

1.7%

over n8n.

Full ranking

Task index, 0 to 100. Bars are scaled to the field, so small gaps look small.

  1. 1
    Zapier Agents
    90.5

    Thousands of integrations, mature governance.

  2. 2
    n8n
    −1.589

    Open and self-hostable.

  3. 3
    Make
    −4.586

    Visual scenarios with AI modules.

  4. 4
    Claude Haiku 5.5
    −4.586

    Cheap, reliable AI steps.

  5. 5
    Gemini 3.5 Flash
    −5.585

    Fastest AI steps.

Key takeaways
  • 1Zapier and n8n lead for reliable, auditable automations.
  • 2Use fixed workflows with AI steps before fully autonomous agents.
  • 3Haiku 5.5 and Flash keep per-run costs tiny.

Recommended setup

Zapier or n8n for orchestration, a small fast model for classification and extraction steps, a frontier model only for judgement steps.

Prompts that work

Extraction step

From the email below, extract JSON: {"customer": string, "order_id": string|null, "intent": "refund"|"question"|"complaint"|"other", "urgency": 1-3}. If a field is missing, use null. Email: {{email}}

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