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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
- 53
HTTP Request
- 52
OpenAI
- 46
Google Sheets
- 44
Gmail
All 30 apps
- 1AI
Generic AI utilities for generating text, images, and other content using configurable AI models inside workflows.
57score - 253score
- 3OpenAI
OpenAI's AI models for chat, image generation, audio, and embeddings.
52score - 4Google Sheets
Google's online spreadsheet service for creating, editing, and collaborating on spreadsheets.
46score - 5Gmail
Google's email service for sending, receiving, and managing email messages.
44score - 6OpenRouter
Unified API gateway to many AI models for generating text, code, or images via OpenRouter.ai.
39score - 7Gemini
Google's Gemini family of AI models for text, multimodal, and embedding tasks.
39score - 833score
- 9Code
Run custom code snippets (such as JavaScript or Python) to transform data and add custom logic inside workflows.
30score - 1030score
- 11Text Helper
Text processing utilities such as find, replace, split, and formatting.
29score - 12Schedule
Trigger workflows on a fixed schedule, such as intervals or cron-style timing.
29score - 13Tongyi
Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen) family of AI models for text generation and related tasks.
29score - 14Airtable
Cloud platform combining spreadsheet and database features for creating and managing structured records.
28score - 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 - 17Telegram
Telegram messaging platform for sending and receiving messages, media, and bot interactions.
27score - 18OpenAI-API-compatible
Connect to any model provider compatible with OpenAI's API standard, such as LM Studio or llama.cpp.
27score - 19Storage
Built-in key/value storage for persisting and retrieving data across workflow runs.
27score - 2026score
- 2125score
- 2225score
- 2324score
- 24Hunyuan
Tencent's Hunyuan family of AI models, including standard, pro, turbo, and long-context variants.
24score - 2524score
- 26Dify Agent Strategies
Dify's official collection of agent reasoning strategies for agentic workflows.
23score - 27MCP
Model Context Protocol server integration, letting MCP clients connect and invoke workflow tools.
23score - 28Send Email (SMTP)
Send email messages through any SMTP server directly from workflows.
22score - 29Flow Helper
Utilities for controlling workflow execution, such as stopping or managing flow behavior.
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.
- 1AI7,365
Send a prompt to a language model and use the generated text or its answer in later steps of the flow.
- 2Schedule1,328
Start the flow automatically at set times, such as every few minutes, daily, or on chosen days of the week.
- 3Webhook539
Give the flow its own URL so an outside system can start it by sending an HTTP request carrying data.
- 4Storage292
Save values under a key and read them back later, so data can carry over between steps and between runs.
- 5Manual Trigger224
Start the flow on demand with a button click, which suits testing and one-off runs.
- 6Human Input119
Collect answers from a person through a form or chat prompt and start the flow with what they submit.
- 7HTTP89
Call any web address with a chosen method, headers, and body, then use the response in later steps.
- 8MCP68
Expose the flow's actions through a server that AI clients can connect to and call as tools.
- 9Flow Helper67
Steer how a run proceeds, such as repeating steps over a list, branching, or stopping the run early.
- 10Text Helper60
Change text along the way: find and replace, split, join, trim, and switch upper or lower case.
11–30
- 11Sub Flows57
Call another flow and use what it returns, or let this flow be called by others as a reusable piece.
- 12Gmail50
Send, search, and read messages in a Google email account, and start the flow when mail arrives.
- 13Google Sheets49
Read rows from an online spreadsheet, append new rows, or update existing cells as part of the flow.
- 14Tables39
Keep structured records in built-in tables, reading, adding, and updating rows from the flow.
- 15Approval (Legacy)31
Pause the run until a person approves or rejects, then continue down the path that matches their answer.
- 16Files Helper31
Create, read, convert, zip, and unzip files, and check their details, while passing them between steps.
- 17Airtable29
Find, create, and update records in hosted spreadsheet-style tables, so a run can look up rows, add entries, or keep data in step.
- 18Data Mapper26
Reshape data by renaming fields, picking out parts, and building new objects for the steps that follow.
- 19PDF23
Work with PDF documents, such as pulling out text or combining, splitting, and creating pages.
- 20Tally23
Start the flow each time someone submits one of your online forms, with their answers as the input.
- 21Math Helper21
Do basic arithmetic on two numbers (add, subtract, multiply, divide) or produce a random number for later steps.
- 22OpenRouter21
Reach many different AI models through a single service to produce text, code, or images.
- 23RSS Feed20
Watch a feed address for newly published items and read their titles, links, and content.
- 24Notion18
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.
- 25SMTP18
Sends email messages out of a flow by connecting to a mail server with your own credentials, setting recipients, subject and body.
- 26Telegram Bot18
Reacts to messages sent to a bot and sends replies, files, or other chat actions back to users in that messaging app.
- 27Supabase17
Read and write rows in a hosted Postgres database and handle its sign-ins and stored files as steps in a run.
- 28Todos17
Create a task for a team member and wait for them to review, approve, or do the manual work needed.
- 29Google Calendar15
Work with a user's calendars: create, update, find or delete events, invite attendees, and react when meetings are scheduled or changed.
- 30Discord14
Connects a flow to a chat and voice community service so it can post messages, manage channels and roles, and act on server events.
Difyby installs
By the install counts of Dify's marketplace, every plugin kind: tools, model providers, agent strategies, extensions and data sources.
- 1DeepSeekmodel2,001,033
Send prompts to a hosted model family that reasons step by step, calls tools, and in the V4.1 Flash version reads images directly.
- 2Tongyimodel1,736,138
Connect to Alibaba Cloud's hosted language models so a flow can generate text and chat responses.
- 3Volcengine Ark (Endpoint)model1,357,971
Call a hosted model endpoint by its endpoint ID to generate text, create embeddings, or transcribe speech.
- 4OpenAI-API-compatiblemodel1,310,743
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.
- 5OpenAImodel1,117,251
Use hosted models for chat and text generation, embeddings, content safety checks, and audio tasks.
- 6Ollamamodel1,015,495
Run open models on a local or self-hosted server and use them for text generation and embeddings in a flow.
- 7Hunyuanmodel952,092
Use Tencent's hosted language models, including long-context, role-play, and larger variants, to generate text.
- 8Dify Agent Strategiesagent-strategy815,917
Give an agent step a ready-made reasoning loop, such as tool calling or plan-then-act, instead of writing the control logic yourself.
- 9SiliconFlowmodel778,066
Reach many hosted models for chat, embeddings, reranking, speech-to-text, and speech output by naming the model and supplying a key.
- 10Geminimodel700,366
Use Google's hosted multimodal models to generate text and work over mixed inputs.
11–30
- 11Anthropicmodel475,522
Generate text and reason over long inputs using Claude models.
- 12Tavilytool402,090
Search the web and pull the raw text out of result pages, so a model can read fresh sources.
- 13JSON Processtool359,848
Read, filter, and edit JSON with path expressions so a flow can pull out or reshape specific fields.
- 14Azure OpenAImodel327,242
Call models deployed in your own Microsoft cloud subscription for chat, embeddings, and related tasks.
- 15Xorbits Inferencemodel312,818
Connect to a self-hosted inference server to run open models for generation, embeddings, and reranking.
- 16OpenRoutermodel250,061
Route requests to many commercial and open-source models through one gateway and a single key.
- 17Minimaxmodel245,456
Generate text, create embeddings, and turn text into spoken audio with one hosted model family.
- 18Jina AItool228,396
Fetch web pages as clean text, search the web, and prepare content for models to read.
- 19MinerUtool227,973
Convert documents such as PDFs into machine-readable markdown or JSON so later steps can extract their content.
- 20Firecrawltool204,330
Crawl a whole site or scrape single pages and return the page content as structured text.
- 21Googletool192,647
Run a web search query and get back result snippets along with the matching page content.
- 22ZHIPU AImodel192,021
Use GLM-family hosted models for chat, text generation, and embeddings.
- 23Regextool191,566
Pull matching pieces of text out of a string using a pattern.
- 24Markdown Exportertool184,711
Turn markdown into DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, PNG, SVG, HTML, notebook, CSV, JSON, XML or wiki files, and save code blocks as source files.
- 25Jinamodel182,116
Add embedding and reranking models for building search and retrieval steps.
- 26GitHubtool181,491
Read and act on repositories, issues, and other data held in a hosted source code service.
- 27Wecomtool169,717
Post messages into a workplace chat group through its bot.
- 28DingTalktool161,087
Send messages to a team group chat through its robot webhook.
- 29Text Embedding Inferencemodel154,841
Run text embedding models on a fast self-hosted endpoint for search and retrieval steps.
- 30DuckDuckGotool151,986
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.