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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
- 49
HTTP Request
- 44
OpenRouter
- 40
Gmail
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 - 349score
- 4OpenRouter
Unified API gateway to many AI models for generating text, code, or images via OpenRouter.ai.
44score - 5Gmail
Google's email service for sending, receiving, and managing email messages.
40score - 6Gemini
Google's Gemini family of AI models for text, multimodal, and embedding tasks.
39score - 7Google Sheets
Google's online spreadsheet service for creating, editing, and collaborating on spreadsheets.
39score - 833score
- 931score
- 10Airtable
Cloud platform combining spreadsheet and database features for creating and managing structured records.
30score - 11Text Helper
Text processing utilities such as find, replace, split, and formatting.
30score - 12Code
Run custom code snippets (such as JavaScript or Python) to transform data and add custom logic inside workflows.
30score - 13Schedule
Trigger workflows on a fixed schedule, such as intervals or cron-style timing.
29score - 14Tongyi
Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen) family of AI models for text generation and related tasks.
29score - 15Volcengine Ark
ByteDance's Volcengine Ark model platform; call endpoints for LLM, text embedding, and speech-to-text.
28score - 16Webhook
Receive incoming HTTP requests at unique URLs to trigger workflows with external data.
28score - 17OpenAI-API-compatible
Connect to any model provider compatible with OpenAI's API standard, such as LM Studio or llama.cpp.
27score - 18Storage
Built-in key/value storage for persisting and retrieving data across workflow runs.
27score - 1926score
- 2025score
- 2125score
- 2225score
- 23Flow Helper
Utilities for controlling workflow execution, such as stopping or managing flow behavior.
24score - 24Hunyuan
Tencent's Hunyuan family of AI models, including standard, pro, turbo, and long-context variants.
24score - 2524score
- 26Send Email (SMTP)
Send email messages through any SMTP server directly from workflows.
23score - 27Dify Agent Strategies
Dify's official collection of agent reasoning strategies for agentic workflows.
23score - 28MCP
Model Context Protocol server integration, letting MCP clients connect and invoke workflow tools.
23score - 29Notion
All-in-one workspace for notes, documents, databases, and project management.
22score - 30SiliconFlow
SiliconFlow's unified API for LLMs, text embedding, reranking, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech models.
22score
Activepiecesby projects
By the number of projects using each node on Activepieces' cloud, as its index reports.
- 1AI7,216
Send a prompt to a language model and use the generated text or its answer in later steps of the flow.
- 2Schedule1,289
Start the flow automatically at set times, such as every few minutes, daily, or on chosen days of the week.
- 3Webhook493
Give the flow its own URL so an outside system can start it by sending an HTTP request carrying data.
- 4Storage279
Save values under a key and read them back later, so data can carry over between steps and between runs.
- 5Manual Trigger217
Start the flow on demand with a button click, which suits testing and one-off runs.
- 6Human Input103
Collect answers from a person through a form or chat prompt and start the flow with what they submit.
- 7Flow Helper64
Steer how a run proceeds, such as repeating steps over a list, branching, or stopping the run early.
- 8MCP64
Expose the flow's actions through a server that AI clients can connect to and call as tools.
- 9Text Helper52
Change text along the way: find and replace, split, join, trim, and switch upper or lower case.
- 10Sub Flows51
Call another flow and use what it returns, or let this flow be called by others as a reusable piece.
11–30
- 11HTTP48
Call any web address with a chosen method, headers, and body, then use the response in later steps.
- 12Approval (Legacy)30
Pause the run until a person approves or rejects, then continue down the path that matches their answer.
- 13Files Helper29
Create, read, convert, zip, and unzip files, and check their details, while passing them between steps.
- 14Data Mapper26
Reshape data by renaming fields, picking out parts, and building new objects for the steps that follow.
- 15Airtable22
Find, create, and update records in hosted spreadsheet-style tables, so a run can look up rows, add entries, or keep data in step.
- 16Gmail21
Send, search, and read messages in a Google email account, and start the flow when mail arrives.
- 17OpenRouter20
Reach many different AI models through a single service to produce text, code, or images.
- 18Tally20
Start the flow each time someone submits one of your online forms, with their answers as the input.
- 19Notion18
Create, update, and search pages and database entries in a shared docs-and-tables workspace, so a flow can log records there or read them back.
- 20Google Sheets17
Read rows from an online spreadsheet, append new rows, or update existing cells as part of the flow.
- 21Todos17
Create a task for a team member and wait for them to review, approve, or do the manual work needed.
- 22PDF16
Work with PDF documents, such as pulling out text or combining, splitting, and creating pages.
- 23RSS Feed16
Watch a feed address for newly published items and read their titles, links, and content.
- 24SMTP15
Sends email messages out of a flow by connecting to a mail server with your own credentials, setting recipients, subject and body.
- 25Supabase14
Read and write rows in a hosted Postgres database and handle its sign-ins and stored files as steps in a run.
- 26Discord12
Connects a flow to a chat and voice community service so it can post messages, manage channels and roles, and act on server events.
- 27Math Helper12
Do basic arithmetic on two numbers (add, subtract, multiply, divide) or produce a random number for later steps.
- 28Google Calendar11
Work with a user's calendars: create, update, find or delete events, invite attendees, and react when meetings are scheduled or changed.
- 29HubSpot11
Add, update, and look up contacts, companies, deals, and tickets in a sales and support customer database, and act when those records change.
- 30DeepSeek9
Send prompts to a hosted large language model and use the returned text or answers in later steps.
Difyby installs
By the install counts of Dify's marketplace, every plugin kind: tools, model providers, agent strategies, extensions and data sources.
- 1DeepSeekmodel1,981,103
Send prompts to a hosted model family that reasons step by step, calls tools, and in the V4.1 Flash version reads images directly.
- 2Tongyimodel1,732,838
Connect to Alibaba Cloud's hosted language models so a flow can generate text and chat responses.
- 3Volcengine Ark (Endpoint)model1,343,250
Call a hosted model endpoint by its endpoint ID to generate text, create embeddings, or transcribe speech.
- 4OpenAI-API-compatiblemodel1,301,109
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.
- 5OpenAImodel1,114,897
Use hosted models for chat and text generation, embeddings, content safety checks, and audio tasks.
- 6Ollamamodel1,014,060
Run open models on a local or self-hosted server and use them for text generation and embeddings in a flow.
- 7Hunyuanmodel940,080
Use Tencent's hosted language models, including long-context, role-play, and larger variants, to generate text.
- 8Dify Agent Strategiesagent-strategy810,589
Give an agent step a ready-made reasoning loop, such as tool calling or plan-then-act, instead of writing the control logic yourself.
- 9SiliconFlowmodel773,420
Reach many hosted models for chat, embeddings, reranking, speech-to-text, and speech output by naming the model and supplying a key.
- 10Geminimodel699,356
Use Google's hosted multimodal models to generate text and work over mixed inputs.
11–30
- 11Anthropicmodel474,260
Generate text and reason over long inputs using Claude models.
- 12Tavilytool398,955
Search the web and pull the raw text out of result pages, so a model can read fresh sources.
- 13JSON Processtool356,134
Read, filter, and edit JSON with path expressions so a flow can pull out or reshape specific fields.
- 14Azure OpenAImodel325,965
Call models deployed in your own Microsoft cloud subscription for chat, embeddings, and related tasks.
- 15Xorbits Inferencemodel311,144
Connect to a self-hosted inference server to run open models for generation, embeddings, and reranking.
- 16OpenRoutermodel249,642
Route requests to many commercial and open-source models through one gateway and a single key.
- 17Minimaxmodel243,366
Generate text, create embeddings, and turn text into spoken audio with one hosted model family.
- 18MinerUtool227,648
Convert documents such as PDFs into machine-readable markdown or JSON so later steps can extract their content.
- 19Jina AItool226,699
Fetch web pages as clean text, search the web, and prepare content for models to read.
- 20Firecrawltool204,080
Crawl a whole site or scrape single pages and return the page content as structured text.
- 21Googletool191,754
Run a web search query and get back result snippets along with the matching page content.
- 22ZHIPU AImodel190,598
Use GLM-family hosted models for chat, text generation, and embeddings.
- 23Regextool190,035
Pull matching pieces of text out of a string using a pattern.
- 24Markdown Exportertool184,278
Turn markdown into DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, PNG, SVG, HTML, notebook, CSV, JSON, XML or wiki files, and save code blocks as source files.
- 25GitHubtool180,941
Read and act on repositories, issues, and other data held in a hosted source code service.
- 26Jinamodel180,670
Add embedding and reranking models for building search and retrieval steps.
- 27Wecomtool167,956
Post messages into a workplace chat group through its bot.
- 28DingTalktool159,948
Send messages to a team group chat through its robot webhook.
- 29Text Embedding Inferencemodel154,205
Run text embedding models on a fast self-hosted endpoint for search and retrieval steps.
- 30DuckDuckGotool150,929
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.
- 1Code7,734
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 Request6,791
Call any web API or URL with a chosen method, headers, authentication and body, then pass the response on to the next steps.
- 3Google Sheets4,659
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 Agent4,217
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 Model3,053
Supply an OpenAI chat model, with its key and settings, as the brain that an agent, chain or extractor step uses.
- 6Gmail2,950
Send, reply to, label, search and read mail in a Google mailbox, including drafts and attachments.
- 7Slack2,170
Post and update messages in channels or direct messages, and work with users, channels and files in a team chat workspace.
- 8Structured Output Parser2,125
Force a model's reply into a defined JSON shape so later steps get predictable fields instead of free text.
- 9Telegram1,622
Send and edit chat messages, photos, files and keyboards through a bot, and act on chats and members.
- 10OpenAI1,563
Use OpenAI directly for one-off jobs such as text replies, image generation, audio transcription, embeddings and file or assistant calls.
11–30
- 11Google Drive1,422
Upload, download, copy, move, share and search files and folders in a Google cloud drive.
- 12Basic LLM Chain1,333
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 Model1,273
Supply a Google Gemini chat model, with its key and settings, as the brain that an agent, chain or extractor step uses.
- 14Simple Memory1,082
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 Email710
Send a plain text or HTML message with attachments through any SMTP mail server, without being tied to one mail provider.
- 16OpenRouter Chat Model534
Supply a chat model served through OpenRouter, giving steps access to many vendors' models behind one key.
- 17Airtable492
Create, read, update, delete and search records in a hosted database table, so a base can act as input or storage.
- 18Anthropic Chat Model421
Supply an Anthropic Claude chat model, with its key and settings, as the brain that an agent, chain or extractor step uses.
- 19Google Gemini404
Use Google Gemini directly for single jobs such as text replies, image and video handling, audio transcription and file uploads.
- 20Default Data Loader401
Turn incoming files or text into document chunks that embedding and vector store steps can index or search.
- 21Notion397
Create and update pages, blocks and database entries in a workspace wiki, and search or read existing content.
- 22Embeddings OpenAI351
Turn text into OpenAI numeric vectors that a vector store or retriever step uses for similarity search.
- 23HTML345
Pull values out of HTML with CSS selectors, or build and tidy HTML markup from the data flowing through.
- 24Postgres329
Run SQL queries against a Postgres database, and insert, update, upsert, select or delete rows in its tables.
- 25Information Extractor297
Pull named fields out of messy text with a language model and hand them on as clean structured values.
- 26Google Calendar290
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 Cloud256
Send text, template and media messages to customers over the business messaging cloud API and handle incoming ones.
- 29Groq Chat Model252
Supply a chat model hosted on Groq, giving steps a fast low-latency brain for agents, chains and extractors.
- 30Google Docs251
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.