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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.
- 68
OpenAI
- 54
Google Sheets
- 51
Gemini
- 39
Google Drive
- 35
Slack
All 30 apps
- 1OpenAI
OpenAI's AI models for chat, image generation, audio, and embeddings.
68score - 2Google Sheets
Google's online spreadsheet service for creating, editing, and collaborating on spreadsheets.
54score - 3Gemini
Google's Gemini family of AI models for text, multimodal, and embedding tasks.
51score - 4Google Drive
Google's cloud storage service for storing, sharing, and backing up files.
39score - 535score
- 633score
- 7Airtable
Cloud platform combining spreadsheet and database features for creating and managing structured records.
31score - 8OpenRouter
Unified API gateway to many AI models for generating text, code, or images via OpenRouter.ai.
30score - 9Code
Run custom code snippets (such as JavaScript or Python) to transform data and add custom logic inside workflows.
30score - 1030score
- 11Schedule
Trigger workflows on a fixed schedule, such as intervals or cron-style timing.
30score - 12Send Email (SMTP)
Send email messages through any SMTP server directly from workflows.
29score - 1329score
- 14Storage
Built-in key/value storage for persisting and retrieving data across workflow runs.
29score - 15Tongyi
Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen) family of AI models for text generation and related tasks.
29score - 16Text Helper
Text processing utilities such as find, replace, split, and formatting.
28score - 1728score
- 18OpenAI-API-compatible
Connect to any model provider compatible with OpenAI's API standard, such as LM Studio or llama.cpp.
28score - 19AI
Generic AI utilities for generating text, images, and other content using configurable AI models inside workflows.
27score - 2027score
- 21Volcengine Ark
ByteDance's Volcengine Ark model platform; call endpoints for LLM, text embedding, and speech-to-text.
27score - 2226score
- 23Activepieces Tables
Activepieces' built-in table database for storing and managing structured records within workflows.
25score - 2425score
- 2525score
- 26Hunyuan
Tencent's Hunyuan family of AI models, including standard, pro, turbo, and long-context variants.
24score - 27Webhook
Receive incoming HTTP requests at unique URLs to trigger workflows with external data.
24score - 28Dify Agent Strategies
Dify's official collection of agent reasoning strategies for agentic workflows.
23score - 29JSON
Utilities to convert between JSON and text and manipulate JSON data in workflows.
22score - 3022score
Activepiecesby projects
By the number of projects using each node on Activepieces' cloud, as its index reports.
- 1Schedule1,765
Start the flow automatically at set times, such as every few minutes, daily, or on chosen days of the week.
- 2Storage413
Save values under a key and read them back later, so data can carry over between steps and between runs.
- 3Manual Trigger344
Start the flow on demand with a button click, which suits testing and one-off runs.
- 4Human Input328
Collect answers from a person through a form or chat prompt and start the flow with what they submit.
- 5Google Sheets282
Read rows from an online spreadsheet, append new rows, or update existing cells as part of the flow.
- 6Tables264
Keep structured records in built-in tables, reading, adding, and updating rows from the flow.
- 7Webhook171
Give the flow its own URL so an outside system can start it by sending an HTTP request carrying data.
- 8Sub Flows122
Call another flow and use what it returns, or let this flow be called by others as a reusable piece.
- 9Delay103
Pause the flow for a chosen length of time, or until a specific date and time, before continuing.
- 10MCP92
Expose the flow's actions through a server that AI clients can connect to and call as tools.
11–30
- 11Text Helper82
Change text along the way: find and replace, split, join, trim, and switch upper or lower case.
- 12Google Drive73
Upload, find, download, and organize files and folders in cloud storage from the flow.
- 13Date Helper63
Work with dates and times: change format, add or subtract time, and pull out parts like day or month.
- 14Airtable61
Find, create, and update records in hosted spreadsheet-style tables, so a run can look up rows, add entries, or keep data in step.
- 15OpenAI59
Generate text, images, audio, or embeddings from hosted models for drafting, transcribing, or search.
- 16Google Forms58
Starts a run whenever someone submits a response to a linked form, passing the submitted answers into the rest of the steps.
- 17Tally58
Start the flow each time someone submits one of your online forms, with their answers as the input.
- 18SMTP53
Sends email messages out of a flow by connecting to a mail server with your own credentials, setting recipients, subject and body.
- 19Google Gemini52
Sends prompts to Google's Gemini models and returns generated text, images, video, or spoken audio for later steps to use.
- 20Slack44
Post messages to channels or people in a team chat workspace, and react when activity happens there.
- 21WhatsApp Business42
Sends plain text, images or other attachments, and pre-approved message templates to phone numbers from a connected business messaging account.
- 22Supabase40
Read and write rows in a hosted Postgres database and handle its sign-ins and stored files as steps in a run.
- 23Data Mapper37
Reshape data by renaming fields, picking out parts, and building new objects for the steps that follow.
- 24Flow Helper33
Steer how a run proceeds, such as repeating steps over a list, branching, or stopping the run early.
- 25Google Calendar30
Work with a user's calendars: create, update, find or delete events, invite attendees, and react when meetings are scheduled or changed.
- 26RSS Feed28
Watch a feed address for newly published items and read their titles, links, and content.
- 27JSON22
Turn a JSON text string into structured data, or turn structured data back into text.
- 28PDF21
Work with PDF documents, such as pulling out text or combining, splitting, and creating pages.
- 29Files Helper19
Create, read, convert, zip, and unzip files, and check their details, while passing them between steps.
- 30Math Helper18
Do basic arithmetic on two numbers (add, subtract, multiply, divide) or produce a random number for later steps.
Difyby installs
By the install counts of Dify's marketplace, every plugin kind: tools, model providers, agent strategies, extensions and data sources.
- 1DeepSeekmodel2,243,629
Send prompts to a hosted model family that reasons step by step, calls tools, and in the V4.1 Flash version reads images directly.
- 2Tongyimodel1,898,409
Connect to Alibaba Cloud's hosted language models so a flow can generate text and chat responses.
- 3OpenAI-API-compatiblemodel1,470,792
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.
- 4Volcengine Ark (Endpoint)model1,467,120
Call a hosted model endpoint by its endpoint ID to generate text, create embeddings, or transcribe speech.
- 5OpenAImodel1,265,969
Use hosted models for chat and text generation, embeddings, content safety checks, and audio tasks.
- 6Ollamamodel1,054,473
Run open models on a local or self-hosted server and use them for text generation and embeddings in a flow.
- 7Hunyuanmodel1,025,331
Use Tencent's hosted language models, including long-context, role-play, and larger variants, to generate text.
- 8Dify Agent Strategiesagent-strategy884,022
Give an agent step a ready-made reasoning loop, such as tool calling or plan-then-act, instead of writing the control logic yourself.
- 9SiliconFlowmodel859,073
Reach many hosted models for chat, embeddings, reranking, speech-to-text, and speech output by naming the model and supplying a key.
- 10Geminimodel763,135
Use Google's hosted multimodal models to generate text and work over mixed inputs.
11–30
- 11Anthropicmodel683,380
Generate text and reason over long inputs using Claude models.
- 12Tavilytool454,147
Search the web and pull the raw text out of result pages, so a model can read fresh sources.
- 13JSON Processtool429,472
Read, filter, and edit JSON with path expressions so a flow can pull out or reshape specific fields.
- 14Azure OpenAImodel346,612
Call models deployed in your own Microsoft cloud subscription for chat, embeddings, and related tasks.
- 15Xorbits Inferencemodel329,632
Connect to a self-hosted inference server to run open models for generation, embeddings, and reranking.
- 16OpenRoutermodel306,351
Route requests to many commercial and open-source models through one gateway and a single key.
- 17Minimaxmodel285,984
Generate text, create embeddings, and turn text into spoken audio with one hosted model family.
- 18Jina AItool253,692
Fetch web pages as clean text, search the web, and prepare content for models to read.
- 19MinerUtool231,115
Convert documents such as PDFs into machine-readable markdown or JSON so later steps can extract their content.
- 20Googletool220,361
Run a web search query and get back result snippets along with the matching page content.
- 21ZHIPU AImodel214,154
Use GLM-family hosted models for chat, text generation, and embeddings.
- 22Firecrawltool213,357
Crawl a whole site or scrape single pages and return the page content as structured text.
- 23Regextool208,208
Pull matching pieces of text out of a string using a pattern.
- 24Jinamodel203,440
Add embedding and reranking models for building search and retrieval steps.
- 25GitHubtool195,062
Read and act on repositories, issues, and other data held in a hosted source code service.
- 26Markdown Exportertool188,022
Turn markdown into DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, PNG, SVG, HTML, notebook, CSV, JSON, XML or wiki files, and save code blocks as source files.
- 27Wecomtool187,451
Post messages into a workplace chat group through its bot.
- 28DingTalktool174,166
Send messages to a team group chat through its robot webhook.
- 29DuckDuckGotool167,978
Search the web through a privacy-focused engine and return the results to the flow.
- 30Text Embedding Inferencemodel162,033
Run text embedding models on a fast self-hosted endpoint for search and retrieval steps.
n8nby templates
By how many of n8n's gallery templates use the node, counted once a week.
- 1Code8,236
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 Request7,124
Call any web API or URL with a chosen method, headers, authentication and body, then pass the response on to the next steps.
- 3Google Sheets4,937
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 Agent4,284
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 Model3,159
Supply an OpenAI chat model, with its key and settings, as the brain that an agent, chain or extractor step uses.
- 6Gmail3,135
Send, reply to, label, search and read mail in a Google mailbox, including drafts and attachments.
- 7Slack2,316
Post and update messages in channels or direct messages, and work with users, channels and files in a team chat workspace.
- 8Structured Output Parser2,244
Force a model's reply into a defined JSON shape so later steps get predictable fields instead of free text.
- 9Telegram1,681
Send and edit chat messages, photos, files and keyboards through a bot, and act on chats and members.
- 10OpenAI1,589
Use OpenAI directly for one-off jobs such as text replies, image generation, audio transcription, embeddings and file or assistant calls.
11–30
- 11Google Drive1,476
Upload, download, copy, move, share and search files and folders in a Google cloud drive.
- 12Basic LLM Chain1,463
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 Model1,305
Supply a Google Gemini chat model, with its key and settings, as the brain that an agent, chain or extractor step uses.
- 14Simple Memory1,092
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 Email743
Send a plain text or HTML message with attachments through any SMTP mail server, without being tied to one mail provider.
- 16OpenRouter Chat Model544
Supply a chat model served through OpenRouter, giving steps access to many vendors' models behind one key.
- 17Airtable495
Create, read, update, delete and search records in a hosted database table, so a base can act as input or storage.
- 18Anthropic Chat Model466
Supply an Anthropic Claude chat model, with its key and settings, as the brain that an agent, chain or extractor step uses.
- 19Google Gemini415
Use Google Gemini directly for single jobs such as text replies, image and video handling, audio transcription and file uploads.
- 20Default Data Loader405
Turn incoming files or text into document chunks that embedding and vector store steps can index or search.
- 21Notion400
Create and update pages, blocks and database entries in a workspace wiki, and search or read existing content.
- 22Embeddings OpenAI352
Turn text into OpenAI numeric vectors that a vector store or retriever step uses for similarity search.
- 23HTML351
Pull values out of HTML with CSS selectors, or build and tidy HTML markup from the data flowing through.
- 24Postgres351
Run SQL queries against a Postgres database, and insert, update, upsert, select or delete rows in its tables.
- 25Information Extractor307
Pull named fields out of messy text with a language model and hand them on as clean structured values.
- 26Google Calendar306
Create, update, delete and list calendar events, and check when someone is free or busy.
- 27WhatsApp Business Cloud280
Send text, template and media messages to customers over the business messaging cloud API and handle incoming ones.
- 28Call n8n Workflow Tool263
Expose another saved automation as a tool an agent can call with arguments, getting its result back as part of the reasoning.
- 29Groq Chat Model255
Supply a chat model hosted on Groq, giving steps a fast low-latency brain for agents, chains and extractors.
- 30Google Docs255
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.