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Activepieces: the most used nodes
By the number of projects using each node on Activepieces' cloud, as its index reports.
- 1AI
Send a prompt to a language model and use the generated text or its answer in later steps of the flow.
Activepieces6 actions
7,216projects - 2Schedule
Start the flow automatically at set times, such as every few minutes, daily, or on chosen days of the week.
Activepieces6 triggers
1,289projects - 3Webhook
Give the flow its own URL so an outside system can start it by sending an HTTP request carrying data.
Activepieces2 actions1 trigger
493projects - 4Storage
Save values under a key and read them back later, so data can carry over between steps and between runs.
Activepieces6 actions
279projects - 5Manual Trigger
Start the flow on demand with a button click, which suits testing and one-off runs.
Activepieces1 trigger
217projects - 6Human Input
Collect answers from a person through a form or chat prompt and start the flow with what they submit.
Activepieces1 action2 triggers
103projects - 7Flow Helper
Steer how a run proceeds, such as repeating steps over a list, branching, or stopping the run early.
Activepieces3 actions
64projects - 8MCP
Expose the flow's actions through a server that AI clients can connect to and call as tools.
Activepieces1 action1 trigger
64projects - 9Text Helper
Change text along the way: find and replace, split, join, trim, and switch upper or lower case.
Activepieces12 actions
52projects - 10Sub Flows
Call another flow and use what it returns, or let this flow be called by others as a reusable piece.
Activepieces3 actions1 trigger
51projects
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- 11HTTP
Call any web address with a chosen method, headers, and body, then use the response in later steps.
Activepieces2 actions
48projects - 12Approval (Legacy)
Pause the run until a person approves or rejects, then continue down the path that matches their answer.
Activepieces2 actions
30projects - 13Files Helper
Create, read, convert, zip, and unzip files, and check their details, while passing them between steps.
Activepieces7 actions
29projects - 14Data Mapper
Reshape data by renaming fields, picking out parts, and building new objects for the steps that follow.
Activepieces1 action
26projects - 15Airtable
Find, create, and update records in hosted spreadsheet-style tables, so a run can look up rows, add entries, or keep data in step.
Activepieces15 actions2 triggers
22projects - 16Gmail
Send, search, and read messages in a Google email account, and start the flow when mail arrives.
Activepieces11 actions4 triggers
21projects - 17OpenRouter
Reach many different AI models through a single service to produce text, code, or images.
Activepieces9 actions
20projects - 18Tally
Start the flow each time someone submits one of your online forms, with their answers as the input.
Activepieces1 action1 trigger
20projects - 19Notion
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.
Activepieces15 actions4 triggers
18projects - 20Google Sheets
Read rows from an online spreadsheet, append new rows, or update existing cells as part of the flow.
Activepieces27 actions4 triggers
17projects - 21Todos
Create a task for a team member and wait for them to review, approve, or do the manual work needed.
Activepieces3 actions
17projects - 22PDF
Work with PDF documents, such as pulling out text or combining, splitting, and creating pages.
Activepieces9 actions
16projects - 23RSS Feed
Watch a feed address for newly published items and read their titles, links, and content.
Activepieces2 triggers
16projects - 24SMTP
Sends email messages out of a flow by connecting to a mail server with your own credentials, setting recipients, subject and body.
Activepieces1 action
15projects - 25Supabase
Read and write rows in a hosted Postgres database and handle its sign-ins and stored files as steps in a run.
Activepieces22 actions1 trigger
14projects - 26Discord
Connects a flow to a chat and voice community service so it can post messages, manage channels and roles, and act on server events.
Activepieces16 actions2 triggers
12projects - 27Math Helper
Do basic arithmetic on two numbers (add, subtract, multiply, divide) or produce a random number for later steps.
Activepieces6 actions
12projects - 28Google Calendar
Work with a user's calendars: create, update, find or delete events, invite attendees, and react when meetings are scheduled or changed.
Activepieces9 actions7 triggers
11projects - 29HubSpot
Add, update, and look up contacts, companies, deals, and tickets in a sales and support customer database, and act when those records change.
Activepieces45 actions24 triggers
11projects - 30DeepSeek
Send prompts to a hosted large language model and use the returned text or answers in later steps.
Activepieces1 action
9projects
Dify: the most installed plugins
By the install counts of Dify's marketplace, every plugin kind: tools, model providers, agent strategies, extensions and data sources.
- 1DeepSeek
Send prompts to a hosted model family that reasons step by step, calls tools, and in the V4.1 Flash version reads images directly.
langgeniusmodel
1,981,103installs - 2Tongyi
Connect to Alibaba Cloud's hosted language models so a flow can generate text and chat responses.
langgeniusmodel
1,732,838installs - 3Volcengine Ark (Endpoint)
Call a hosted model endpoint by its endpoint ID to generate text, create embeddings, or transcribe speech.
langgeniusmodel
1,343,250installs - 4OpenAI-API-compatible
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.
langgeniusmodel
1,301,109installs - 5OpenAI
Use hosted models for chat and text generation, embeddings, content safety checks, and audio tasks.
langgeniusmodel
1,114,897installs - 6Ollama
Run open models on a local or self-hosted server and use them for text generation and embeddings in a flow.
langgeniusmodel
1,014,060installs - 7Hunyuan
Use Tencent's hosted language models, including long-context, role-play, and larger variants, to generate text.
langgeniusmodel
940,080installs - 8Dify Agent Strategies
Give an agent step a ready-made reasoning loop, such as tool calling or plan-then-act, instead of writing the control logic yourself.
langgeniusagent-strategy
810,589installs - 9SiliconFlow
Reach many hosted models for chat, embeddings, reranking, speech-to-text, and speech output by naming the model and supplying a key.
langgeniusmodel
773,420installs - 10Gemini
Use Google's hosted multimodal models to generate text and work over mixed inputs.
langgeniusmodel
699,356installs
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- 11474,260installs
- 12Tavily
Search the web and pull the raw text out of result pages, so a model can read fresh sources.
langgeniustool
398,955installs - 13JSON Process
Read, filter, and edit JSON with path expressions so a flow can pull out or reshape specific fields.
langgeniustool
356,134installs - 14Azure OpenAI
Call models deployed in your own Microsoft cloud subscription for chat, embeddings, and related tasks.
langgeniusmodel
325,965installs - 15Xorbits Inference
Connect to a self-hosted inference server to run open models for generation, embeddings, and reranking.
langgeniusmodel
311,144installs - 16OpenRouter
Route requests to many commercial and open-source models through one gateway and a single key.
langgeniusmodel
249,642installs - 17Minimax
Generate text, create embeddings, and turn text into spoken audio with one hosted model family.
langgeniusmodel
243,366installs - 18MinerU
Convert documents such as PDFs into machine-readable markdown or JSON so later steps can extract their content.
langgeniustool
227,648installs - 19Jina AI
Fetch web pages as clean text, search the web, and prepare content for models to read.
langgeniustool
226,699installs - 20Firecrawl
Crawl a whole site or scrape single pages and return the page content as structured text.
langgeniustool
204,080installs - 21Google
Run a web search query and get back result snippets along with the matching page content.
langgeniustool
191,754installs - 22190,598installs
- 23190,035installs
- 24Markdown Exporter
Turn markdown into DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, PNG, SVG, HTML, notebook, CSV, JSON, XML or wiki files, and save code blocks as source files.
bowenliang123tool
184,278installs - 25GitHub
Read and act on repositories, issues, and other data held in a hosted source code service.
langgeniustool
180,941installs - 26180,670installs
- 27167,956installs
- 28159,948installs
- 29Text Embedding Inference
Run text embedding models on a fast self-hosted endpoint for search and retrieval steps.
langgeniusmodel
154,205installs - 30DuckDuckGo
Search the web through a privacy-focused engine and return the results to the flow.
langgeniustool
150,929installs
n8n: the nodes most used in templates
By how many of n8n's gallery templates use the node, counted once a week.
- 1Code
Run custom JavaScript or Python on the items passing through, to reshape, filter, combine or compute data that the ready-made steps cannot handle.
n8n
7,734templates - 2HTTP Request
Call any web API or URL with a chosen method, headers, authentication and body, then pass the response on to the next steps.
n8n
6,791templates - 3Google Sheets
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.
n8n
4,659templates - 4AI Agent
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.
n8n
4,217templates - 5OpenAI Chat Model
Supply an OpenAI chat model, with its key and settings, as the brain that an agent, chain or extractor step uses.
n8n
3,053templates - 6Gmail
Send, reply to, label, search and read mail in a Google mailbox, including drafts and attachments.
n8n
2,950templates - 7Slack
Post and update messages in channels or direct messages, and work with users, channels and files in a team chat workspace.
n8n
2,170templates - 8Structured Output Parser
Force a model's reply into a defined JSON shape so later steps get predictable fields instead of free text.
n8n
2,125templates - 9Telegram
Send and edit chat messages, photos, files and keyboards through a bot, and act on chats and members.
n8n
1,622templates - 10OpenAI
Use OpenAI directly for one-off jobs such as text replies, image generation, audio transcription, embeddings and file or assistant calls.
n8n
1,563templates
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- 11Google Drive
Upload, download, copy, move, share and search files and folders in a Google cloud drive.
n8n
1,422templates - 12Basic LLM Chain
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.
n8n
1,333templates - 13Google Gemini Chat Model
Supply a Google Gemini chat model, with its key and settings, as the brain that an agent, chain or extractor step uses.
n8n
1,273templates - 14Simple Memory
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.
n8n
1,082templates - 15Send Email
Send a plain text or HTML message with attachments through any SMTP mail server, without being tied to one mail provider.
n8n
710templates - 16OpenRouter Chat Model
Supply a chat model served through OpenRouter, giving steps access to many vendors' models behind one key.
n8n
534templates - 17Airtable
Create, read, update, delete and search records in a hosted database table, so a base can act as input or storage.
n8n
492templates - 18Anthropic Chat Model
Supply an Anthropic Claude chat model, with its key and settings, as the brain that an agent, chain or extractor step uses.
n8n
421templates - 19Google Gemini
Use Google Gemini directly for single jobs such as text replies, image and video handling, audio transcription and file uploads.
n8n
404templates - 20Default Data Loader
Turn incoming files or text into document chunks that embedding and vector store steps can index or search.
n8n
401templates - 21Notion
Create and update pages, blocks and database entries in a workspace wiki, and search or read existing content.
n8n
397templates - 22Embeddings OpenAI
Turn text into OpenAI numeric vectors that a vector store or retriever step uses for similarity search.
n8n
351templates - 23HTML
Pull values out of HTML with CSS selectors, or build and tidy HTML markup from the data flowing through.
n8n
345templates - 24Postgres
Run SQL queries against a Postgres database, and insert, update, upsert, select or delete rows in its tables.
n8n
329templates - 25Information Extractor
Pull named fields out of messy text with a language model and hand them on as clean structured values.
n8n
297templates - 26Google Calendar
Create, update, delete and list calendar events, and check when someone is free or busy.
n8n
290templates - 27Call n8n Workflow Tool
Expose another saved automation as a tool an agent can call with arguments, getting its result back as part of the reasoning.
n8n
262templates - 28WhatsApp Business Cloud
Send text, template and media messages to customers over the business messaging cloud API and handle incoming ones.
n8n
256templates - 29Groq Chat Model
Supply a chat model hosted on Groq, giving steps a fast low-latency brain for agents, chains and extractors.
n8n
252templates - 30Google Docs
Create documents and read or insert and replace their text, so written content can be generated and updated automatically.
n8n
251templates
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
1. AI
Generic AI utilities for generating text, images, and other content using configurable AI models inside workflows.
- 52
2. OpenAI
OpenAI's AI models for chat, image generation, audio, and embeddings.
- 49
3. HTTP Request
Send HTTP requests to any URL and use the response in a workflow.
- 44
4. OpenRouter
Unified API gateway to many AI models for generating text, code, or images via OpenRouter.ai.
- 40
5. Gmail
Google's email service for sending, receiving, and managing email messages.
- 39
6. Gemini
Google's Gemini family of AI models for text, multimodal, and embedding tasks.
- 39
7. Google Sheets
Google's online spreadsheet service for creating, editing, and collaborating on spreadsheets.
- 33
8. Anthropic
Anthropic's Claude AI models for chat, reasoning, and multimodal tasks.
- 31
9. DeepSeek
DeepSeek's AI models for chat, reasoning, tool calling, and vision.
- 30
10. Airtable
Cloud platform combining spreadsheet and database features for creating and managing structured records.
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- 30
11. Text Helper
Text processing utilities such as find, replace, split, and formatting.
- 30
12. Code
Run custom code snippets (such as JavaScript or Python) to transform data and add custom logic inside workflows.
- 29
13. Schedule
Trigger workflows on a fixed schedule, such as intervals or cron-style timing.
- 29
14. Tongyi
Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen) family of AI models for text generation and related tasks.
- 28
15. Volcengine Ark
ByteDance's Volcengine Ark model platform; call endpoints for LLM, text embedding, and speech-to-text.
- 28
16. Webhook
Receive incoming HTTP requests at unique URLs to trigger workflows with external data.
- 27
17. OpenAI-API-compatible
Connect to any model provider compatible with OpenAI's API standard, such as LM Studio or llama.cpp.
- 27
18. Storage
Built-in key/value storage for persisting and retrieving data across workflow runs.
- 26
19. Manual Trigger
Start a workflow on demand with a button click.
- 25
20. Sub Flows
Trigger and call other workflows as reusable sub-flows.
- 25
21. Human Input
Trigger workflows through human input such as forms and chat interfaces.
- 25
22. Ollama
Run and serve open-source AI models locally via Ollama.
- 24
23. Flow Helper
Utilities for controlling workflow execution, such as stopping or managing flow behavior.
- 24
24. Hunyuan
Tencent's Hunyuan family of AI models, including standard, pro, turbo, and long-context variants.
- 24
25. Slack
Channel-based team messaging and collaboration platform.
- 23
26. Send Email (SMTP)
Send email messages through any SMTP server directly from workflows.
- 23
27. Dify Agent Strategies
Dify's official collection of agent reasoning strategies for agentic workflows.
- 23
28. MCP
Model Context Protocol server integration, letting MCP clients connect and invoke workflow tools.
- 22
29. Notion
All-in-one workspace for notes, documents, databases, and project management.
- 22
30. SiliconFlow
SiliconFlow's unified API for LLMs, text embedding, reranking, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech models.
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.