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Across the three: the apps behind the nodes
The apps and services behind the nodes, matched across the three sources and scored from ranks only: 31 minus the best rank in each source, summed.
- 62
OpenAI
- 57
AI
- 56
Google Sheets
- 48
Gmail
- 44
HTTP Request
All 30 apps
- 1OpenAI
OpenAI's AI models for chat, image generation, audio, and embeddings.
62score - 2AI
Generic AI utilities for generating text, images, and other content using configurable AI models inside workflows.
57score - 3Google Sheets
Google's online spreadsheet service for creating, editing, and collaborating on spreadsheets.
56score - 4Gmail
Google's email service for sending, receiving, and managing email messages.
48score - 544score
- 6Gemini
Google's Gemini family of AI models for text, multimodal, and embedding tasks.
40score - 7JSON
Utilities to convert between JSON and text and manipulate JSON data in workflows.
40score - 8Google Drive
Google's cloud storage service for storing, sharing, and backing up files.
36score - 9OpenRouter
Unified API gateway to many AI models for generating text, code, or images via OpenRouter.ai.
33score - 1033score
- 11Code
Run custom code snippets (such as JavaScript or Python) to transform data and add custom logic inside workflows.
30score - 1230score
- 1329score
- 14Schedule
Trigger workflows on a fixed schedule, such as intervals or cron-style timing.
29score - 15Tongyi
Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen) family of AI models for text generation and related tasks.
29score - 16Volcengine Ark
ByteDance's Volcengine Ark model platform; call endpoints for LLM, text embedding, and speech-to-text.
28score - 17OpenAI-API-compatible
Connect to any model provider compatible with OpenAI's API standard, such as LM Studio or llama.cpp.
27score - 18Webhook
Receive incoming HTTP requests at unique URLs to trigger workflows with external data.
27score - 19Storage
Built-in key/value storage for persisting and retrieving data across workflow runs.
26score - 2025score
- 2125score
- 22Telegram
Telegram messaging platform for sending and receiving messages, media, and bot interactions.
24score - 23Activepieces Tables
Activepieces' built-in table database for storing and managing structured records within workflows.
24score - 24Hunyuan
Tencent's Hunyuan family of AI models, including standard, pro, turbo, and long-context variants.
24score - 25Dify Agent Strategies
Dify's official collection of agent reasoning strategies for agentic workflows.
23score - 26SiliconFlow
SiliconFlow's unified API for LLMs, text embedding, reranking, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech models.
22score - 27Text Helper
Text processing utilities such as find, replace, split, and formatting.
21score - 2821score
- 2920score
- 30Flow Helper
Utilities for controlling workflow execution, such as stopping or managing flow behavior.
19score
Activepiecesby projects
By the number of projects using each node on Activepieces' cloud, as its index reports.
- 1AI6,887
Send a prompt to a language model and use the generated text or its answer in later steps of the flow.
- 2Schedule1,156
Start the flow automatically at set times, such as every few minutes, daily, or on chosen days of the week.
- 3Google Sheets559
Read rows from an online spreadsheet, append new rows, or update existing cells as part of the flow.
- 4Webhook356
Give the flow its own URL so an outside system can start it by sending an HTTP request carrying data.
- 5Storage248
Save values under a key and read them back later, so data can carry over between steps and between runs.
- 6Manual Trigger173
Start the flow on demand with a button click, which suits testing and one-off runs.
- 7Tables145
Keep structured records in built-in tables, reading, adding, and updating rows from the flow.
- 8Gmail123
Send, search, and read messages in a Google email account, and start the flow when mail arrives.
- 9JSON86
Turn a JSON text string into structured data, or turn structured data back into text.
- 10Delay62
Pause the flow for a chosen length of time, or until a specific date and time, before continuing.
11–30
- 11Human Input58
Collect answers from a person through a form or chat prompt and start the flow with what they submit.
- 12Flow Helper55
Steer how a run proceeds, such as repeating steps over a list, branching, or stopping the run early.
- 13MCP55
Expose the flow's actions through a server that AI clients can connect to and call as tools.
- 14Date Helper52
Work with dates and times: change format, add or subtract time, and pull out parts like day or month.
- 15Google Drive44
Upload, find, download, and organize files and folders in cloud storage from the flow.
- 16HTTP44
Call any web address with a chosen method, headers, and body, then use the response in later steps.
- 17Sub Flows39
Call another flow and use what it returns, or let this flow be called by others as a reusable piece.
- 18Text Helper39
Change text along the way: find and replace, split, join, trim, and switch upper or lower case.
- 19Approval (Legacy)26
Pause the run until a person approves or rejects, then continue down the path that matches their answer.
- 20Google Forms24
Starts a run whenever someone submits a response to a linked form, passing the submitted answers into the rest of the steps.
- 21OpenAI22
Generate text, images, audio, or embeddings from hosted models for drafting, transcribing, or search.
- 22Tally21
Start the flow each time someone submits one of your online forms, with their answers as the input.
- 23Data Mapper20
Reshape data by renaming fields, picking out parts, and building new objects for the steps that follow.
- 24Files Helper20
Create, read, convert, zip, and unzip files, and check their details, while passing them between steps.
- 25ConnectUC18
Connect to a business phone and communications service to act on its calls, users, and messages.
- 26Slack18
Post messages to channels or people in a team chat workspace, and react when activity happens there.
- 27Todos17
Create a task for a team member and wait for them to review, approve, or do the manual work needed.
- 28OpenRouter16
Reach many different AI models through a single service to produce text, code, or images.
- 29Telegram Bot16
Reacts to messages sent to a bot and sends replies, files, or other chat actions back to users in that messaging app.
- 30Google Gemini12
Sends prompts to Google's Gemini models and returns generated text, images, video, or spoken audio for later steps to use.
Difyby installs
By the install counts of Dify's marketplace, every plugin kind: tools, model providers, agent strategies, extensions and data sources.
- 1DeepSeekmodel1,897,267
Send prompts to a hosted model family that reasons step by step, calls tools, and in the V4.1 Flash version reads images directly.
- 2Tongyimodel1,676,788
Connect to Alibaba Cloud's hosted language models so a flow can generate text and chat responses.
- 3Volcengine Ark (Endpoint)model1,272,290
Call a hosted model endpoint by its endpoint ID to generate text, create embeddings, or transcribe speech.
- 4OpenAI-API-compatiblemodel1,261,977
Connect to any local or third-party model server that speaks the common chat API, such as a desktop inference app or a lightweight C++ runtime.
- 5OpenAImodel1,024,626
Use hosted models for chat and text generation, embeddings, content safety checks, and audio tasks.
- 6Ollamamodel1,006,909
Run open models on a local or self-hosted server and use them for text generation and embeddings in a flow.
- 7Hunyuanmodel887,543
Use Tencent's hosted language models, including long-context, role-play, and larger variants, to generate text.
- 8Dify Agent Strategiesagent-strategy787,678
Give an agent step a ready-made reasoning loop, such as tool calling or plan-then-act, instead of writing the control logic yourself.
- 9SiliconFlowmodel755,971
Reach many hosted models for chat, embeddings, reranking, speech-to-text, and speech output by naming the model and supplying a key.
- 10Geminimodel645,400
Use Google's hosted multimodal models to generate text and work over mixed inputs.
11–30
- 11Anthropicmodel431,571
Generate text and reason over long inputs using Claude models.
- 12Tavilytool386,553
Search the web and pull the raw text out of result pages, so a model can read fresh sources.
- 13JSON Processtool341,576
Read, filter, and edit JSON with path expressions so a flow can pull out or reshape specific fields.
- 14Azure OpenAImodel318,005
Call models deployed in your own Microsoft cloud subscription for chat, embeddings, and related tasks.
- 15Xorbits Inferencemodel304,127
Connect to a self-hosted inference server to run open models for generation, embeddings, and reranking.
- 16OpenRoutermodel247,992
Route requests to many commercial and open-source models through one gateway and a single key.
- 17Minimaxmodel235,171
Generate text, create embeddings, and turn text into spoken audio with one hosted model family.
- 18MinerUtool225,775
Convert documents such as PDFs into machine-readable markdown or JSON so later steps can extract their content.
- 19Jina AItool219,980
Fetch web pages as clean text, search the web, and prepare content for models to read.
- 20Firecrawltool202,948
Crawl a whole site or scrape single pages and return the page content as structured text.
- 21Googletool187,954
Run a web search query and get back result snippets along with the matching page content.
- 22ZHIPU AImodel185,256
Use GLM-family hosted models for chat, text generation, and embeddings.
- 23Regextool184,076
Pull matching pieces of text out of a string using a pattern.
- 24Markdown Exportertool182,248
Turn markdown into DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, PNG, SVG, HTML, notebook, CSV, JSON, XML or wiki files, and save code blocks as source files.
- 25GitHubtool178,578
Read and act on repositories, issues, and other data held in a hosted source code service.
- 26Jinamodel174,915
Add embedding and reranking models for building search and retrieval steps.
- 27Wecomtool161,047
Post messages into a workplace chat group through its bot.
- 28DingTalktool155,669
Send messages to a team group chat through its robot webhook.
- 29Text Embedding Inferencemodel151,626
Run text embedding models on a fast self-hosted endpoint for search and retrieval steps.
- 30DuckDuckGotool146,579
Search the web through a privacy-focused engine and return the results to the flow.
n8nby templates
By how many of n8n's gallery templates use the node, counted once a week.
- 1Code7,613
Run custom JavaScript or Python on the items passing through, to reshape, filter, combine or compute data that the ready-made steps cannot handle.
- 2HTTP Request6,697
Call any web API or URL with a chosen method, headers, authentication and body, then pass the response on to the next steps.
- 3Google Sheets4,594
Read rows from a spreadsheet and append, update, delete or look up rows in it, so a sheet can act as input, log or storage.
- 4AI Agent4,191
Let a language model decide what to do with a request and call the tools and memory attached to it, looping until it produces an answer.
- 5OpenAI Chat Model3,032
Supply an OpenAI chat model, with its key and settings, as the brain that an agent, chain or extractor step uses.
- 6Gmail2,910
Send, reply to, label, search and read mail in a Google mailbox, including drafts and attachments.
- 7Slack2,143
Post and update messages in channels or direct messages, and work with users, channels and files in a team chat workspace.
- 8Structured Output Parser2,100
Force a model's reply into a defined JSON shape so later steps get predictable fields instead of free text.
- 9Telegram1,595
Send and edit chat messages, photos, files and keyboards through a bot, and act on chats and members.
- 10OpenAI1,541
Use OpenAI directly for one-off jobs such as text replies, image generation, audio transcription, embeddings and file or assistant calls.
11–30
- 11Google Drive1,406
Upload, download, copy, move, share and search files and folders in a Google cloud drive.
- 12Basic LLM Chain1,314
Send a prompt, with the incoming data filled in, to a connected language model and return its reply in one straight pass with no tools.
- 13Google Gemini Chat Model1,261
Supply a Google Gemini chat model, with its key and settings, as the brain that an agent, chain or extractor step uses.
- 14Simple Memory1,074
Keep the last few turns of a conversation in memory and feed them back to the model so it remembers recent context per chat session.
- 15Send Email708
Send a plain text or HTML message with attachments through any SMTP mail server, without being tied to one mail provider.
- 16OpenRouter Chat Model531
Supply a chat model served through OpenRouter, giving steps access to many vendors' models behind one key.
- 17Airtable489
Create, read, update, delete and search records in a hosted database table, so a base can act as input or storage.
- 18Anthropic Chat Model414
Supply an Anthropic Claude chat model, with its key and settings, as the brain that an agent, chain or extractor step uses.
- 19Default Data Loader399
Turn incoming files or text into document chunks that embedding and vector store steps can index or search.
- 20Google Gemini399
Use Google Gemini directly for single jobs such as text replies, image and video handling, audio transcription and file uploads.
- 21Notion398
Create and update pages, blocks and database entries in a workspace wiki, and search or read existing content.
- 22Embeddings OpenAI349
Turn text into OpenAI numeric vectors that a vector store or retriever step uses for similarity search.
- 23HTML343
Pull values out of HTML with CSS selectors, or build and tidy HTML markup from the data flowing through.
- 24Postgres321
Run SQL queries against a Postgres database, and insert, update, upsert, select or delete rows in its tables.
- 25Information Extractor292
Pull named fields out of messy text with a language model and hand them on as clean structured values.
- 26Google Calendar287
Create, update, delete and list calendar events, and check when someone is free or busy.
- 27Call n8n Workflow Tool262
Expose another saved automation as a tool an agent can call with arguments, getting its result back as part of the reasoning.
- 28WhatsApp Business Cloud253
Send text, template and media messages to customers over the business messaging cloud API and handle incoming ones.
- 29Groq Chat Model249
Supply a chat model hosted on Groq, giving steps a fast low-latency brain for agents, chains and extractors.
- 30Google Docs249
Create documents and read or insert and replace their text, so written content can be generated and updated automatically.
Counts are the sources' own: n8n's gallery views, Dify's marketplace usage, GitHub's stars; Activepieces publishes none, so its order is curated. Node counts are the sources' own: Activepieces' projects, Dify's installs; n8n publishes none, so its order is how many gallery templates use the node, counted weekly. Each entry links to its source; the creators keep their rights.