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Activepieces: the most used nodes

By the number of projects using each node on Activepieces' cloud, as its index reports.

  1. 1
    AI

    Send a prompt to a language model and use the generated text or its answer in later steps of the flow.

    Activepieces6 actions

    7,365
    projects
  2. 2
    Schedule

    Start the flow automatically at set times, such as every few minutes, daily, or on chosen days of the week.

    Activepieces6 triggers

    1,328
    projects
  3. 3
    Webhook

    Give the flow its own URL so an outside system can start it by sending an HTTP request carrying data.

    Activepieces2 actions1 trigger

    539
    projects
  4. 4
    Storage

    Save values under a key and read them back later, so data can carry over between steps and between runs.

    Activepieces6 actions

    292
    projects
  5. 5
    Manual Trigger

    Start the flow on demand with a button click, which suits testing and one-off runs.

    Activepieces1 trigger

    224
    projects
  6. 6
    Human Input

    Collect answers from a person through a form or chat prompt and start the flow with what they submit.

    Activepieces1 action2 triggers

    119
    projects
  7. 7
    HTTP

    Call any web address with a chosen method, headers, and body, then use the response in later steps.

    Activepieces2 actions

    89
    projects
  8. 8
    MCP

    Expose the flow's actions through a server that AI clients can connect to and call as tools.

    Activepieces1 action1 trigger

    68
    projects
  9. 9
    Flow Helper

    Steer how a run proceeds, such as repeating steps over a list, branching, or stopping the run early.

    Activepieces3 actions

    67
    projects
  10. 10
    Text Helper

    Change text along the way: find and replace, split, join, trim, and switch upper or lower case.

    Activepieces12 actions

    60
    projects
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  1. 11
    Sub Flows

    Call another flow and use what it returns, or let this flow be called by others as a reusable piece.

    Activepieces3 actions1 trigger

    57
    projects
  2. 12
    Gmail

    Send, search, and read messages in a Google email account, and start the flow when mail arrives.

    Activepieces11 actions4 triggers

    50
    projects
  3. 13
    Google Sheets

    Read rows from an online spreadsheet, append new rows, or update existing cells as part of the flow.

    Activepieces27 actions4 triggers

    49
    projects
  4. 14
    Tables

    Keep structured records in built-in tables, reading, adding, and updating rows from the flow.

    Activepieces9 actions3 triggers

    39
    projects
  5. 15
    Approval (Legacy)

    Pause the run until a person approves or rejects, then continue down the path that matches their answer.

    Activepieces2 actions

    31
    projects
  6. 16
    Files Helper

    Create, read, convert, zip, and unzip files, and check their details, while passing them between steps.

    Activepieces7 actions

    31
    projects
  7. 17
    Airtable

    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

    29
    projects
  8. 18
    Data Mapper

    Reshape data by renaming fields, picking out parts, and building new objects for the steps that follow.

    Activepieces1 action

    26
    projects
  9. 19
    PDF

    Work with PDF documents, such as pulling out text or combining, splitting, and creating pages.

    Activepieces9 actions

    23
    projects
  10. 20
    Tally

    Start the flow each time someone submits one of your online forms, with their answers as the input.

    Activepieces1 action1 trigger

    23
    projects
  11. 21
    Math Helper

    Do basic arithmetic on two numbers (add, subtract, multiply, divide) or produce a random number for later steps.

    Activepieces6 actions

    21
    projects
  12. 22
    OpenRouter

    Reach many different AI models through a single service to produce text, code, or images.

    Activepieces9 actions

    21
    projects
  13. 23
    RSS Feed

    Watch a feed address for newly published items and read their titles, links, and content.

    Activepieces2 triggers

    20
    projects
  14. 24
    Notion

    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

    18
    projects
  15. 25
    SMTP

    Sends email messages out of a flow by connecting to a mail server with your own credentials, setting recipients, subject and body.

    Activepieces1 action

    18
    projects
  16. 26
    Telegram Bot

    Reacts to messages sent to a bot and sends replies, files, or other chat actions back to users in that messaging app.

    Activepieces20 actions1 trigger

    18
    projects
  17. 27
    Supabase

    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

    17
    projects
  18. 28
    Todos

    Create a task for a team member and wait for them to review, approve, or do the manual work needed.

    Activepieces3 actions

    17
    projects
  19. 29
    Google 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

    15
    projects
  20. 30
    Discord

    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

    14
    projects

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.

  1. 1
    DeepSeek

    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

    2,001,033
    installs
  2. 2
    Tongyi

    Connect to Alibaba Cloud's hosted language models so a flow can generate text and chat responses.

    langgeniusmodel

    1,736,138
    installs
  3. 3
    Volcengine Ark (Endpoint)

    Call a hosted model endpoint by its endpoint ID to generate text, create embeddings, or transcribe speech.

    langgeniusmodel

    1,357,971
    installs
  4. 4
    OpenAI-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

    1,310,743
    installs
  5. 5
    OpenAI

    Use hosted models for chat and text generation, embeddings, content safety checks, and audio tasks.

    langgeniusmodel

    1,117,251
    installs
  6. 6
    Ollama

    Run open models on a local or self-hosted server and use them for text generation and embeddings in a flow.

    langgeniusmodel

    1,015,495
    installs
  7. 7
    Hunyuan

    Use Tencent's hosted language models, including long-context, role-play, and larger variants, to generate text.

    langgeniusmodel

    952,092
    installs
  8. 8
    Dify 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

    815,917
    installs
  9. 9
    SiliconFlow

    Reach many hosted models for chat, embeddings, reranking, speech-to-text, and speech output by naming the model and supplying a key.

    langgeniusmodel

    778,066
    installs
  10. 10
    Gemini

    Use Google's hosted multimodal models to generate text and work over mixed inputs.

    langgeniusmodel

    700,366
    installs
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  1. 11
    Anthropic

    Generate text and reason over long inputs using Claude models.

    langgeniusmodel

    475,522
    installs
  2. 12
    Tavily

    Search the web and pull the raw text out of result pages, so a model can read fresh sources.

    langgeniustool

    402,090
    installs
  3. 13
    JSON Process

    Read, filter, and edit JSON with path expressions so a flow can pull out or reshape specific fields.

    langgeniustool

    359,848
    installs
  4. 14
    Azure OpenAI

    Call models deployed in your own Microsoft cloud subscription for chat, embeddings, and related tasks.

    langgeniusmodel

    327,242
    installs
  5. 15
    Xorbits Inference

    Connect to a self-hosted inference server to run open models for generation, embeddings, and reranking.

    langgeniusmodel

    312,818
    installs
  6. 16
    OpenRouter

    Route requests to many commercial and open-source models through one gateway and a single key.

    langgeniusmodel

    250,061
    installs
  7. 17
    Minimax

    Generate text, create embeddings, and turn text into spoken audio with one hosted model family.

    langgeniusmodel

    245,456
    installs
  8. 18
    Jina AI

    Fetch web pages as clean text, search the web, and prepare content for models to read.

    langgeniustool

    228,396
    installs
  9. 19
    MinerU

    Convert documents such as PDFs into machine-readable markdown or JSON so later steps can extract their content.

    langgeniustool

    227,973
    installs
  10. 20
    Firecrawl

    Crawl a whole site or scrape single pages and return the page content as structured text.

    langgeniustool

    204,330
    installs
  11. 21
    Google

    Run a web search query and get back result snippets along with the matching page content.

    langgeniustool

    192,647
    installs
  12. 22
    ZHIPU AI

    Use GLM-family hosted models for chat, text generation, and embeddings.

    langgeniusmodel

    192,021
    installs
  13. 23
    Regex

    Pull matching pieces of text out of a string using a pattern.

    langgeniustool

    191,566
    installs
  14. 24
    Markdown 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

    184,711
    installs
  15. 25
    Jina

    Add embedding and reranking models for building search and retrieval steps.

    langgeniusmodel

    182,116
    installs
  16. 26
    GitHub

    Read and act on repositories, issues, and other data held in a hosted source code service.

    langgeniustool

    181,491
    installs
  17. 27
    Wecom

    Post messages into a workplace chat group through its bot.

    langgeniustool

    169,717
    installs
  18. 28
    DingTalk

    Send messages to a team group chat through its robot webhook.

    langgeniustool

    161,087
    installs
  19. 29
    Text Embedding Inference

    Run text embedding models on a fast self-hosted endpoint for search and retrieval steps.

    langgeniusmodel

    154,841
    installs
  20. 30
    DuckDuckGo

    Search the web through a privacy-focused engine and return the results to the flow.

    langgeniustool

    151,986
    installs

n8n: the nodes most used in templates

By how many of n8n's gallery templates use the node, counted once a week.

  1. 1
    Code

    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

    7,734
    templates
  2. 2
    HTTP 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

    6,791
    templates
  3. 3
    Google 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

    4,659
    templates
  4. 4
    AI 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

    4,217
    templates
  5. 5
    OpenAI Chat Model

    Supply an OpenAI chat model, with its key and settings, as the brain that an agent, chain or extractor step uses.

    n8n

    3,053
    templates
  6. 6
    Gmail

    Send, reply to, label, search and read mail in a Google mailbox, including drafts and attachments.

    n8n

    2,950
    templates
  7. 7
    Slack

    Post and update messages in channels or direct messages, and work with users, channels and files in a team chat workspace.

    n8n

    2,170
    templates
  8. 8
    Structured Output Parser

    Force a model's reply into a defined JSON shape so later steps get predictable fields instead of free text.

    n8n

    2,125
    templates
  9. 9
    Telegram

    Send and edit chat messages, photos, files and keyboards through a bot, and act on chats and members.

    n8n

    1,622
    templates
  10. 10
    OpenAI

    Use OpenAI directly for one-off jobs such as text replies, image generation, audio transcription, embeddings and file or assistant calls.

    n8n

    1,563
    templates
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  1. 11
    Google Drive

    Upload, download, copy, move, share and search files and folders in a Google cloud drive.

    n8n

    1,422
    templates
  2. 12
    Basic 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

    1,333
    templates
  3. 13
    Google 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

    1,273
    templates
  4. 14
    Simple 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

    1,082
    templates
  5. 15
    Send Email

    Send a plain text or HTML message with attachments through any SMTP mail server, without being tied to one mail provider.

    n8n

    710
    templates
  6. 16
    OpenRouter Chat Model

    Supply a chat model served through OpenRouter, giving steps access to many vendors' models behind one key.

    n8n

    534
    templates
  7. 17
    Airtable

    Create, read, update, delete and search records in a hosted database table, so a base can act as input or storage.

    n8n

    492
    templates
  8. 18
    Anthropic 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

    421
    templates
  9. 19
    Google Gemini

    Use Google Gemini directly for single jobs such as text replies, image and video handling, audio transcription and file uploads.

    n8n

    404
    templates
  10. 20
    Default Data Loader

    Turn incoming files or text into document chunks that embedding and vector store steps can index or search.

    n8n

    401
    templates
  11. 21
    Notion

    Create and update pages, blocks and database entries in a workspace wiki, and search or read existing content.

    n8n

    397
    templates
  12. 22
    Embeddings OpenAI

    Turn text into OpenAI numeric vectors that a vector store or retriever step uses for similarity search.

    n8n

    351
    templates
  13. 23
    HTML

    Pull values out of HTML with CSS selectors, or build and tidy HTML markup from the data flowing through.

    n8n

    345
    templates
  14. 24
    Postgres

    Run SQL queries against a Postgres database, and insert, update, upsert, select or delete rows in its tables.

    n8n

    329
    templates
  15. 25
    Information Extractor

    Pull named fields out of messy text with a language model and hand them on as clean structured values.

    n8n

    297
    templates
  16. 26
    Google Calendar

    Create, update, delete and list calendar events, and check when someone is free or busy.

    n8n

    290
    templates
  17. 27
    Call 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

    262
    templates
  18. 28
    WhatsApp Business Cloud

    Send text, template and media messages to customers over the business messaging cloud API and handle incoming ones.

    n8n

    256
    templates
  19. 29
    Groq Chat Model

    Supply a chat model hosted on Groq, giving steps a fast low-latency brain for agents, chains and extractors.

    n8n

    252
    templates
  20. 30
    Google Docs

    Create documents and read or insert and replace their text, so written content can be generated and updated automatically.

    n8n

    251
    templates

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.

  1. 57

    1. AI

    Generic AI utilities for generating text, images, and other content using configurable AI models inside workflows.

    Activepieces #1n8n #4n8n #8n8n #12n8n #14n8n #20n8n #25

  2. 53

    2. HTTP Request

    Send HTTP requests to any URL and use the response in a workflow.

    Activepieces #7n8n #2

  3. 52

    3. OpenAI

    OpenAI's AI models for chat, image generation, audio, and embeddings.

    Dify #5n8n #5n8n #10n8n #22

  4. 46

    4. Google Sheets

    Google's online spreadsheet service for creating, editing, and collaborating on spreadsheets.

    Activepieces #13n8n #3

  5. 44

    5. Gmail

    Google's email service for sending, receiving, and managing email messages.

    Activepieces #12n8n #6

  6. 39

    6. OpenRouter

    Unified API gateway to many AI models for generating text, code, or images via OpenRouter.ai.

    Activepieces #22Dify #16n8n #16

  7. 39

    7. Gemini

    Google's Gemini family of AI models for text, multimodal, and embedding tasks.

    Dify #10n8n #13n8n #19

  8. 33

    8. Anthropic

    Anthropic's Claude AI models for chat, reasoning, and multimodal tasks.

    Dify #11n8n #18

  9. 30

    9. Code

    Run custom code snippets (such as JavaScript or Python) to transform data and add custom logic inside workflows.

    n8n #1

  10. 30

    10. DeepSeek

    DeepSeek's AI models for chat, reasoning, tool calling, and vision.

    Dify #1

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  1. 29

    11. Text Helper

    Text processing utilities such as find, replace, split, and formatting.

    Activepieces #10Dify #23

  2. 29

    12. Schedule

    Trigger workflows on a fixed schedule, such as intervals or cron-style timing.

    Activepieces #2

  3. 29

    13. Tongyi

    Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen) family of AI models for text generation and related tasks.

    Dify #2

  4. 28

    14. Airtable

    Cloud platform combining spreadsheet and database features for creating and managing structured records.

    Activepieces #17n8n #17

  5. 28

    15. Volcengine Ark

    ByteDance's Volcengine Ark model platform; call endpoints for LLM, text embedding, and speech-to-text.

    Dify #3

  6. 28

    16. Webhook

    Receive incoming HTTP requests at unique URLs to trigger workflows with external data.

    Activepieces #3

  7. 27

    17. Telegram

    Telegram messaging platform for sending and receiving messages, media, and bot interactions.

    Activepieces #26n8n #9

  8. 27

    18. OpenAI-API-compatible

    Connect to any model provider compatible with OpenAI's API standard, such as LM Studio or llama.cpp.

    Dify #4

  9. 27

    19. Storage

    Built-in key/value storage for persisting and retrieving data across workflow runs.

    Activepieces #4

  10. 26

    20. Manual Trigger

    Start a workflow on demand with a button click.

    Activepieces #5

  11. 25

    21. Human Input

    Trigger workflows through human input such as forms and chat interfaces.

    Activepieces #6

  12. 25

    22. Ollama

    Run and serve open-source AI models locally via Ollama.

    Dify #6

  13. 24

    23. Sub Flows

    Trigger and call other workflows as reusable sub-flows.

    Activepieces #11n8n #27

  14. 24

    24. Hunyuan

    Tencent's Hunyuan family of AI models, including standard, pro, turbo, and long-context variants.

    Dify #7

  15. 24

    25. Slack

    Channel-based team messaging and collaboration platform.

    n8n #7

  16. 23

    26. Dify Agent Strategies

    Dify's official collection of agent reasoning strategies for agentic workflows.

    Dify #8

  17. 23

    27. MCP

    Model Context Protocol server integration, letting MCP clients connect and invoke workflow tools.

    Activepieces #8

  18. 22

    28. Send Email (SMTP)

    Send email messages through any SMTP server directly from workflows.

    Activepieces #25n8n #15

  19. 22

    29. Flow Helper

    Utilities for controlling workflow execution, such as stopping or managing flow behavior.

    Activepieces #9

  20. 22

    30. SiliconFlow

    SiliconFlow's unified API for LLMs, text embedding, reranking, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech models.

    Dify #9

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.