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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.
- 57
AI
- 52
OpenAI
- 51
HTTP Request
- 42
OpenRouter
- 40
DeepSeek
All 30 apps
- 1AI
Generic AI utilities for generating text, images, and other content using configurable AI models inside workflows.
57score - 2OpenAI
OpenAI's AI models for chat, image generation, audio, and embeddings.
52score - 351score
- 4OpenRouter
Unified API gateway to many AI models for generating text, code, or images via OpenRouter.ai.
42score - 540score
- 6Gemini
Google's Gemini family of AI models for text, multimodal, and embedding tasks.
39score - 733score
- 8Code
Run custom code snippets (such as JavaScript or Python) to transform data and add custom logic inside workflows.
30score - 9Schedule
Trigger workflows on a fixed schedule, such as intervals or cron-style timing.
29score - 10Tongyi
Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen) family of AI models for text generation and related tasks.
29score - 11Google Sheets
Google's online spreadsheet service for creating, editing, and collaborating on spreadsheets.
28score - 12Volcengine Ark
ByteDance's Volcengine Ark model platform; call endpoints for LLM, text embedding, and speech-to-text.
28score - 13Webhook
Receive incoming HTTP requests at unique URLs to trigger workflows with external data.
28score - 14OpenAI-API-compatible
Connect to any model provider compatible with OpenAI's API standard, such as LM Studio or llama.cpp.
27score - 15Storage
Built-in key/value storage for persisting and retrieving data across workflow runs.
27score - 1626score
- 17Text Helper
Text processing utilities such as find, replace, split, and formatting.
25score - 18Activepieces Tables
Activepieces' built-in table database for storing and managing structured records within workflows.
25score - 1925score
- 2025score
- 2124score
- 22Hunyuan
Tencent's Hunyuan family of AI models, including standard, pro, turbo, and long-context variants.
24score - 2324score
- 2423score
- 25Dify Agent Strategies
Dify's official collection of agent reasoning strategies for agentic workflows.
23score - 2622score
- 27SiliconFlow
SiliconFlow's unified API for LLMs, text embedding, reranking, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech models.
22score - 28Telegram
Telegram messaging platform for sending and receiving messages, media, and bot interactions.
22score - 29Date Helper
Manipulate, format, and extract time units for date and time handling in workflows.
21score - 30Flow Helper
Utilities for controlling workflow execution, such as stopping or managing flow behavior.
20score
Activepiecesby projects
By the number of projects using each node on Activepieces' cloud, as its index reports.
- 1AI6,888
Send a prompt to a language model and use the generated text or its answer in later steps of the flow.
- 2Schedule1,178
Start the flow automatically at set times, such as every few minutes, daily, or on chosen days of the week.
- 3Webhook376
Give the flow its own URL so an outside system can start it by sending an HTTP request carrying data.
- 4Storage252
Save values under a key and read them back later, so data can carry over between steps and between runs.
- 5Manual Trigger175
Start the flow on demand with a button click, which suits testing and one-off runs.
- 6Tables155
Keep structured records in built-in tables, reading, adding, and updating rows from the flow.
- 7Human Input66
Collect answers from a person through a form or chat prompt and start the flow with what they submit.
- 8Delay64
Pause the flow for a chosen length of time, or until a specific date and time, before continuing.
- 9HTTP62
Call any web address with a chosen method, headers, and body, then use the response in later steps.
- 10Date Helper61
Work with dates and times: change format, add or subtract time, and pull out parts like day or month.
11–30
- 11Flow Helper58
Steer how a run proceeds, such as repeating steps over a list, branching, or stopping the run early.
- 12MCP57
Expose the flow's actions through a server that AI clients can connect to and call as tools.
- 13Sub Flows41
Call another flow and use what it returns, or let this flow be called by others as a reusable piece.
- 14Text Helper41
Change text along the way: find and replace, split, join, trim, and switch upper or lower case.
- 15Approval (Legacy)28
Pause the run until a person approves or rejects, then continue down the path that matches their answer.
- 16Files Helper23
Create, read, convert, zip, and unzip files, and check their details, while passing them between steps.
- 17Data Mapper22
Reshape data by renaming fields, picking out parts, and building new objects for the steps that follow.
- 18Todos17
Create a task for a team member and wait for them to review, approve, or do the manual work needed.
- 19OpenRouter16
Reach many different AI models through a single service to produce text, code, or images.
- 20PDF11
Work with PDF documents, such as pulling out text or combining, splitting, and creating pages.
- 21DeepSeek8
Send prompts to a hosted large language model and use the returned text or answers in later steps.
- 22Math Helper8
Do basic arithmetic on two numbers (add, subtract, multiply, divide) or produce a random number for later steps.
- 23WhatsScale8
Send WhatsApp messages, read and update contacts, and drive chat replies through a WAHA server.
- 24Brevo6
Manage email marketing contacts and lists and send campaign or transactional messages to them.
- 25Connections5
Look up stored account connections at run time so a step can pick credentials based on the data passing through.
- 26Crypto5
Create random passwords and compute hash values from text, for example to sign or compare data.
- 27CSV5
Turn CSV text into rows and fields a flow can work with, and build CSV text back out of records.
- 28RSS Feed5
Watch a feed address for newly published items and read their titles, links, and content.
- 29Video AI5
Create or analyse video clips with an AI model and pass the resulting file or description onward.
- 30Calendly3
Start a flow when someone books or cancels a meeting, and read the booking and invitee details.
Difyby installs
By the install counts of Dify's marketplace, every plugin kind: tools, model providers, agent strategies, extensions and data sources.
- 1DeepSeekmodel1,907,565
Send prompts to a hosted model family that reasons step by step, calls tools, and in the V4.1 Flash version reads images directly.
- 2Tongyimodel1,678,528
Connect to Alibaba Cloud's hosted language models so a flow can generate text and chat responses.
- 3Volcengine Ark (Endpoint)model1,279,824
Call a hosted model endpoint by its endpoint ID to generate text, create embeddings, or transcribe speech.
- 4OpenAI-API-compatiblemodel1,266,872
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.
- 5OpenAImodel1,044,028
Use hosted models for chat and text generation, embeddings, content safety checks, and audio tasks.
- 6Ollamamodel1,007,812
Run open models on a local or self-hosted server and use them for text generation and embeddings in a flow.
- 7Hunyuanmodel894,013
Use Tencent's hosted language models, including long-context, role-play, and larger variants, to generate text.
- 8Dify Agent Strategiesagent-strategy790,380
Give an agent step a ready-made reasoning loop, such as tool calling or plan-then-act, instead of writing the control logic yourself.
- 9SiliconFlowmodel758,043
Reach many hosted models for chat, embeddings, reranking, speech-to-text, and speech output by naming the model and supplying a key.
- 10Geminimodel645,836
Use Google's hosted multimodal models to generate text and work over mixed inputs.
11–30
- 11Anthropicmodel432,226
Generate text and reason over long inputs using Claude models.
- 12Tavilytool387,985
Search the web and pull the raw text out of result pages, so a model can read fresh sources.
- 13JSON Processtool343,289
Read, filter, and edit JSON with path expressions so a flow can pull out or reshape specific fields.
- 14Azure OpenAImodel320,953
Call models deployed in your own Microsoft cloud subscription for chat, embeddings, and related tasks.
- 15Xorbits Inferencemodel304,996
Connect to a self-hosted inference server to run open models for generation, embeddings, and reranking.
- 16OpenRoutermodel248,178
Route requests to many commercial and open-source models through one gateway and a single key.
- 17Minimaxmodel236,128
Generate text, create embeddings, and turn text into spoken audio with one hosted model family.
- 18MinerUtool226,055
Convert documents such as PDFs into machine-readable markdown or JSON so later steps can extract their content.
- 19Jina AItool220,757
Fetch web pages as clean text, search the web, and prepare content for models to read.
- 20Firecrawltool203,089
Crawl a whole site or scrape single pages and return the page content as structured text.
- 21Googletool188,388
Run a web search query and get back result snippets along with the matching page content.
- 22ZHIPU AImodel185,920
Use GLM-family hosted models for chat, text generation, and embeddings.
- 23Regextool184,753
Pull matching pieces of text out of a string using a pattern.
- 24Markdown Exportertool182,618
Turn markdown into DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, PNG, SVG, HTML, notebook, CSV, JSON, XML or wiki files, and save code blocks as source files.
- 25GitHubtool178,877
Read and act on repositories, issues, and other data held in a hosted source code service.
- 26Jinamodel175,617
Add embedding and reranking models for building search and retrieval steps.
- 27Wecomtool161,868
Post messages into a workplace chat group through its bot.
- 28DingTalktool156,148
Send messages to a team group chat through its robot webhook.
- 29Text Embedding Inferencemodel151,957
Run text embedding models on a fast self-hosted endpoint for search and retrieval steps.
- 30DuckDuckGotool147,116
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.