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They market themselves with lifetime and mapped out to new plans. Support them. They don’t honor their LTD. Bought it to support them and their future present. Then they turn around and charge you. Then give you a sob story. Another rug pull from appsumo to the community that supported them in the first place. Utter lies.

As a Tier 5 early adopter on AppSumo, I invested significantly in ActivePieces, hoping to support the growth of a promising automation platform. Unfortunately, my experience has been one of deep disappointment, defined by a pattern of behavior that suggests the company prioritizes short-term fundraising over product development and loyalty to its foundational supporters.

The most glaring issue has been the decision to gate new, critical features like Tables and MCP servers, making them unavailable to the very AppSumo community that provided early capital. This is an indefensible move that breaks faith with early backers. While competitors like Boost.space are actively rolling out similar features to their users, ActivePieces has chosen to sideline its initial supporters.

This decision is symptomatic of a broader problem. The platform's development has been glacial, with a slow rollout of new integrations that leaves it feeling perpetually immature and unsuitable for serious production use cases. Beyond some initial testing, I have been unable to justify using ActivePieces for any real-world workflows. Community support, when available, has been sporadic and unhelpful in my experience.

For those considering an open-source, self-hostable automation tool, I would strongly recommend looking elsewhere. Both ActivePieces and N8N are open-source, but the comparison ends there. N8N's community and development velocity are in a different league, a fact reflected in their respective GitHub stars: N8N has over 115,000, while ActivePieces lags with around 15,000. This is not a coincidence; it's a clear indicator of a project's health and trustworthiness.

Given that both platforms can be self-hosted with a Docker instance and a Cloudflare tunnel, your time and energy are far better invested in a project that respects its community and is committed to long-term value. ActivePieces has demonstrated a history of acting in bad faith, and it's unlikely their reputation will recover. Whether you seek a managed service or a self-hosted instance, the market offers far more reliable and community-focused alternatives, making ActivePieces a risk not worth taking.

Unfortunately, this turned out to be a scam. I purchased the tool with the expectation of future improvements and development.

They openly admitted that they never intended to fulfill the terms of the deal — it was just marketing and deception.

How can you build a business using such unreliable tools, where an agreement means nothing?

I hate to bring this up, but as a Lifetime Deal supporter, I feel let down by the recent changes. The AppSumo deal promised “all future Activepieces Cloud Pro Plan updates,” and that if the plan name changed, we’d keep the same benefits.

Now with the new pricing and “Plus” plan, it seems like LTD users are getting far fewer features than current Plus/Pro users—like fewer AI credits, servers, tables, and agents.

This doesn’t match what was promised when we supported you early on.

New Plan "Plus" User
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500 AI credits & buy more
Unlimited MCP servers
Unlimited tables
Unlimited AI Agents

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LTD User
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1 table
5 AI Agents
1 MCP Server
200 AI Credits

Where's the logic? I was one of the early supporters of this app, and whatever I invested early on, based on the founders' vision, is not equal to what new users receive now. Aside from investing money, the risk we took 2-3 years ago was much higher than it is for users today, now that the company is established. Honor what you promised. You're overwhelming us with new features that we don't deserve!

Honestly I thought Activepieces would be the last company I'd have to worry about. These guys put on a great show for awhile, and then pulled the plug. LTD was for the 'Pro plan' and now has been "upgraded" to basic. Are you actually serious?
I hope you get sued and demolished by the competition.
APPSUMO YOU NEED TO STEP IN AND SET AN EXAMPLE.

So we are indirectly mapped to their FREE plan now. Only thing we have retained are the number of tasks! Rest everything is something you can get on their free plan.
- You can create max of 5 agents (free plan)
- You can create just 1 MCP server...woww!! (Free plan)
- You get just 200 AI credits per month (Free plan)

So, what are we, as the LTD users, getting out of your new 'Agents Launch'? We are completely sidelined.

I purchased this deal a long time ago, hoping the platform would grow and improve. They have definitely made significant improvements, but they are violating the original terms of the deal. It’s like buying a share for $1, the company does well, and the share is now worth $100, but then the company tells you, “Sorry, your share is now worth only £0.50, and we won’t pay you the $100.” This is very disappointing, and it’s why I’ve stopped buying on AppSumo, despite having spent thousands on their platform. Over 60% of the deals have been changed, so it’s better to buy software you truly need and give up on lifetime deals if this is the kind of experience we get. The problem is that AppSumo only guarantees refunds for a limited time, so after that, you’re on your own. There’s no real protection for the Sumolings.

Great flow builder and they just added mCP and table which means one less step to get to your database only got tier 1 but Im still Feeling pretty lucky ... Hopefully you guys come back so I can upgrade ... If not it would be great if you can add a kick on and kickoff feature where if my monthly limits is reached the unlimited subscription kicks on then kicks off for the next month unless I reach my monthly limit that way flows aren't interrupted and I only pay for the unlimited when my account needs it .. think about it thanks again for all your hard work team
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I was a big supporter of this project and really happy with how actively it was being developed. I considered this one of the best deals I ever got from AppSumo. That’s why the recent changes are so crushing.

Everyone who purchased the Activepieces "lifetime plan" with the expectation of receiving "All future Activepieces Cloud Pro Plan updates" - which were supposed to be mapped to any new plan names with all accompanying updates - now finds their plan downgraded to... slightly improved free plan with a higher number of tasks allowed. That’s it.

Browsing the platform and its settings now is a traumatic experience, as almost everything is locked and we keep seeing "upgrade now" everywhere. We can't even provide API keys for AI providers in the settings!

Meanwhile the cheapest paid plan, called "Plus," offers unlimited AI Agents, unlimited MCP Servers, unlimited Tables, and more. But we lifetime plan holders get only one AI Agent, one MCP Server, and one Table. And padlocks everywhere to "upgrade now", even for simple things like displaying an overview. It's just sad.

Still, I cannot force myself to give Activepieces less than three tacos, as objectively it's a solid tool and I feel like I can do a lot with those tasks I have.

After purchasing Tier 2 and actually trying to use it, the experience has been pretty disappointing. For the price paid, the functionality feels extremely basic. Most of the platform is locked down, I can’t create additional projects, can’t access audit logs, and anything under the “Security” section is restricted. It feels more like a demo account than a usable product.

To be fair, I should have tested it more thoroughly during the refund window, that’s on me. But I’ve also seen others who bought up to Tier 5 expressing the same frustration, which just confirms what this really was: a way to fund Activepieces’ development using lifetime deal buyers while building a feature set meant for their monthly subscription customers.

So what was the point of the AppSumo deal? It feels like they took the money and shifted focus entirely to MRR users. And judging by how community feedback and support requests are handled (or ignored), it’s hard to believe they ever intended to support lifetime users seriously.

If this deal ever comes back on AppSumo, my advice is simple: avoid it. You’re not getting a sustainable product, you’re just funding their roadmap for others and you won't get support so I would advise against it.

The product does seem good though but unfortunately due to the way the team managed to make me feel cheated, I wouldn't even pay monthly.

Unless you're tech savvy, forget about getting proper support on this app. After a month-long and numerous attempts get a simple discord bot to work, it simply doesn't not connect. I've done everything. I may be in the wrong but trying to find support is like trying to get through a maze. I sure hope improvements are on the way.

I like the idea of ActivePieces. The interface is pretty intuitive. Unfortunately the integrations, or 'pieces' as they are known, are often half-baked. For example the Xero piece has actions available - but no triggers, so you can't trigger an automation based on an invoice being paid (a pretty basic requirement). This is typical of the sort of frustrations you come up against when using this software.

Development is slow, REALLY slow. but I still retain optimism that at some point the project will gain traction and become a real alternative to Zapier and Pably. When that happens I will be happy to up the number of Tacos I'm awarding.