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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
    Schedule

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

    Activepieces6 triggers

    1,789
    projects
  2. 2
    Storage

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

    Activepieces6 actions

    421
    projects
  3. 3
    Manual Trigger

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

    Activepieces1 trigger

    350
    projects
  4. 4
    Webhook

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

    Activepieces2 actions1 trigger

    209
    projects
  5. 5
    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

    124
    projects
  6. 6
    MCP

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

    Activepieces1 action1 trigger

    95
    projects
  7. 7
    OpenAI

    Generate text, images, audio, or embeddings from hosted models for drafting, transcribing, or search.

    Activepieces19 actions

    60
    projects
  8. 8
    Tally

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

    Activepieces1 action1 trigger

    60
    projects
  9. 9
    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

    57
    projects
  10. 10
    AI

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

    Activepieces6 actions

    45
    projects
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  1. 11
    Slack

    Post messages to channels or people in a team chat workspace, and react when activity happens there.

    Activepieces29 actions14 triggers

    45
    projects
  2. 12
    WhatsApp Business

    Sends plain text, images or other attachments, and pre-approved message templates to phone numbers from a connected business messaging account.

    Activepieces22 actions4 triggers

    44
    projects
  3. 13
    Flow Helper

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

    Activepieces3 actions

    34
    projects
  4. 14
    RSS Feed

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

    Activepieces2 triggers

    30
    projects
  5. 15
    JSON

    Turn a JSON text string into structured data, or turn structured data back into text.

    Activepieces4 actions

    24
    projects
  6. 16
    PDF

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

    Activepieces9 actions

    23
    projects
  7. 17
    Math Helper

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

    Activepieces6 actions

    18
    projects
  8. 18
    Todos

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

    Activepieces3 actions

    18
    projects
  9. 19
    ConnectUC

    Connect to a business phone and communications service to act on its calls, users, and messages.

    Activepieces6 actions8 triggers

    16
    projects
  10. 20
    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

    16
    projects
  11. 21
    WhatsScale

    Send WhatsApp messages, read and update contacts, and drive chat replies through a WAHA server.

    Activepieces41 actions5 triggers

    16
    projects
  12. 22
    DeepSeek

    Send prompts to a hosted large language model and use the returned text or answers in later steps.

    Activepieces1 action

    15
    projects
  13. 23
    OpenRouter

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

    Activepieces9 actions

    14
    projects
  14. 24
    Pinterest

    Connect to a visual bookmarking account to post, update, or fetch pins and boards as part of an automated run.

    Activepieces6 actions3 triggers

    11
    projects
  15. 25
    Tavily

    Run web searches designed for automated agents and pass the returned results and page text into later steps.

    Activepieces3 actions

    9
    projects
  16. 26
    WooCommerce

    Read and change products, orders, and customers in a WordPress-based online store from an automated run.

    Activepieces16 actions12 triggers

    8
    projects
  17. 27
    Reoon Email Verifier

    Check an email address to see if it is valid, deliverable, disposable, or risky before a later step sends to it.

    Activepieces3 actions

    7
    projects
  18. 28
    XML

    Convert XML text into structured data, or build XML from data, so other steps can read or produce that format.

    Activepieces3 actions

    7
    projects
  19. 29
    Video AI

    Create or analyse video clips with an AI model and pass the resulting file or description onward.

    Activepieces1 action

    6
    projects
  20. 30
    WordPress

    Create and update posts, pages, and media on a website built with open-source site software.

    Activepieces5 actions1 trigger

    6
    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

    2,254,559
    installs
  2. 2
    Tongyi

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

    langgeniusmodel

    1,900,178
    installs
  3. 3
    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

    1,476,000
    installs
  4. 4
    Volcengine Ark (Endpoint)

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

    langgeniusmodel

    1,474,693
    installs
  5. 5
    OpenAI

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

    langgeniusmodel

    1,267,137
    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

    1,055,721
    installs
  7. 7
    Hunyuan

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

    langgeniusmodel

    1,031,704
    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

    887,177
    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

    861,235
    installs
  10. 10
    Gemini

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

    langgeniusmodel

    811,781
    installs
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  1. 11
    Anthropic

    Generate text and reason over long inputs using Claude models.

    langgeniusmodel

    720,235
    installs
  2. 12
    Tavily

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

    langgeniustool

    455,811
    installs
  3. 13
    JSON Process

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

    langgeniustool

    431,954
    installs
  4. 14
    Azure OpenAI

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

    langgeniusmodel

    347,328
    installs
  5. 15
    Xorbits Inference

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

    langgeniusmodel

    330,677
    installs
  6. 16
    OpenRouter

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

    langgeniusmodel

    306,648
    installs
  7. 17
    Minimax

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

    langgeniusmodel

    287,224
    installs
  8. 18
    Jina AI

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

    langgeniustool

    254,668
    installs
  9. 19
    MinerU

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

    langgeniustool

    231,285
    installs
  10. 20
    ZHIPU AI

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

    langgeniusmodel

    222,293
    installs
  11. 21
    Google

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

    langgeniustool

    220,910
    installs
  12. 22
    Firecrawl

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

    langgeniustool

    213,591
    installs
  13. 23
    Regex

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

    langgeniustool

    209,134
    installs
  14. 24
    Jina

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

    langgeniusmodel

    204,209
    installs
  15. 25
    GitHub

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

    langgeniustool

    195,444
    installs
  16. 26
    Wecom

    Post messages into a workplace chat group through its bot.

    langgeniustool

    188,381
    installs
  17. 27
    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

    188,295
    installs
  18. 28
    DingTalk

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

    langgeniustool

    174,744
    installs
  19. 29
    DuckDuckGo

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

    langgeniustool

    168,634
    installs
  20. 30
    Text Embedding Inference

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

    langgeniusmodel

    162,391
    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

    8,236
    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

    7,124
    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

    4,937
    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

    4,284
    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

    3,159
    templates
  6. 6
    Gmail

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

    n8n

    3,135
    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

    2,316
    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

    2,244
    templates
  9. 9
    Telegram

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

    n8n

    1,681
    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

    1,589
    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

    1,476
    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

    1,463
    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

    1,305
    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

    1,092
    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

    743
    templates
  6. 16
    OpenRouter Chat Model

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

    n8n

    544
    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

    495
    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

    466
    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

    415
    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

    405
    templates
  11. 21
    Notion

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

    n8n

    400
    templates
  12. 22
    Embeddings OpenAI

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

    n8n

    352
    templates
  13. 23
    HTML

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

    n8n

    351
    templates
  14. 24
    Postgres

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

    n8n

    351
    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

    307
    templates
  16. 26
    Google Calendar

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

    n8n

    306
    templates
  17. 27
    WhatsApp Business Cloud

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

    n8n

    280
    templates
  18. 28
    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

    263
    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

    255
    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

    255
    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. 76

    1. OpenAI

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

    Activepieces #7Dify #5n8n #5n8n #10n8n #22

  2. 48

    2. AI

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

    Activepieces #10n8n #4n8n #8n8n #12n8n #14n8n #20n8n #25

  3. 44

    3. Slack

    Channel-based team messaging and collaboration platform.

    Activepieces #11n8n #7

  4. 39

    4. DeepSeek

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

    Activepieces #22Dify #1

  5. 39

    5. Gemini

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

    Dify #10n8n #13n8n #19

  6. 38

    6. OpenRouter

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

    Activepieces #23Dify #16n8n #16

  7. 38

    7. Send Email (SMTP)

    Send email messages through any SMTP server directly from workflows.

    Activepieces #9n8n #15

  8. 34

    8. JSON

    Utilities to convert between JSON and text and manipulate JSON data in workflows.

    Activepieces #15Dify #13

  9. 33

    9. Anthropic

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

    Dify #11n8n #18

  10. 30

    10. Code

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

    n8n #1

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  1. 30

    11. Schedule

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

    Activepieces #1

  2. 29

    12. Sub Flows

    Trigger and call other workflows as reusable sub-flows.

    Activepieces #5n8n #28

  3. 29

    13. HTTP Request

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

    n8n #2

  4. 29

    14. Storage

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

    Activepieces #2

  5. 29

    15. Tongyi

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

    Dify #2

  6. 28

    16. Google Sheets

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

    n8n #3

  7. 28

    17. Manual Trigger

    Start a workflow on demand with a button click.

    Activepieces #3

  8. 28

    18. OpenAI-API-compatible

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

    Dify #3

  9. 27

    19. Volcengine Ark

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

    Dify #4

  10. 27

    20. Webhook

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

    Activepieces #4

  11. 25

    21. Tavily

    AI-native search engine and web content extraction API providing relevant results and raw page content.

    Activepieces #25Dify #12

  12. 25

    22. Gmail

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

    n8n #6

  13. 25

    23. MCP

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

    Activepieces #6

  14. 25

    24. Ollama

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

    Dify #6

  15. 24

    25. Hunyuan

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

    Dify #7

  16. 23

    26. WhatsApp Business

    WhatsApp Business Cloud platform for sending and receiving WhatsApp messages and media.

    Activepieces #12n8n #27

  17. 23

    27. Dify Agent Strategies

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

    Dify #8

  18. 23

    28. Tally

    Online form builder; receive form submissions from Tally forms.

    Activepieces #8

  19. 22

    29. SiliconFlow

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

    Dify #9

  20. 22

    30. Telegram

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

    n8n #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.