European Alternatives to Zapier

Looking for a European alternative to Zapier? An automation platform holds credentials to every system it connects — CRM, email, payments, database — and Zapier is a US processor holding all of them, on per-task pricing that scales badly.

Europe leads this category outright: the best visual automation builder and the best self-hostable one are both European, and most options here can run on your own infrastructure.

7 Alternatives
100% GDPR Compliant

7 European Alternatives to Zapier

n8n

Source-available workflow automation you can fully self-host

9.0
Germany

Make

Visual scenario builder with more than 2,000 integrations

8.8
Czech Republic

Kestra

Declarative orchestration for data and infrastructure workflows

8.4
France

Node-RED

Flow-based wiring for APIs, services and hardware

8.3
United Kingdom

Locoia

Integration and automation platform for mid-market operations

7.9
Germany

Automatisch

Open-source Zapier alternative, self-hosted by design

7.8
Germany

elastic.io

Embeddable integration platform for software vendors

7.7
Germany

Frequently Asked Questions

n8n is widely considered the best European alternative to Zapier. Based in Germany, it offers source-available workflow automation you can fully self-host. Other strong options include Make and Kestra.

Yes. Every provider on this page is established in the EU, the UK or Switzerland, which means GDPR (or its UK and Swiss equivalents) applies to them directly rather than through standard contractual clauses. In practice that gives you an EU-law data processing agreement, EU data residency and a supervisory authority you can actually complain to.

Zapier is headquartered in United States (remote-first), so the data it processes falls under US jurisdiction and can be reached through instruments such as the CLOUD Act regardless of which region you select. A European provider keeps processing under EU law, removes the transfer impact assessment from your compliance workload, and keeps the money inside the European technology economy.

This page compares 7 of them, chosen for European establishment, GDPR compliance and genuine feature parity rather than for being merely available in Europe. See our full automation & integration category for the wider list.

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