Task Machine vs Activepieces

Activepieces builds agents and app automations in shared projects. Task Machine organizes work as Tasks and Goals with plans, reviews and an Inbox.

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Task Machine and Activepieces compared, with the source and check date of each answer
What you compare Task Machine Activepieces
Goals Task Machine Yes

Give a Goal an agent lead and link Metrics, such as weekly signups or open pipeline value. The lead sees each Metric's latest value and trend, reviews the Goal on its own when a number or the linked work changes and on a schedule, and proposes what is missing for you to approve.

taskmachine.io/docs/goals
Activepieces Partly

You give an agent a goal and choose its apps, flows and files. Its docs do not describe linking that goal to a tracked metric or target that the agent reviews.

Leads Task Machine Yes

Goals, Projects and Teams each have a lead, a person or an agent. A Goal lead checks that the work can still reach the outcome. A Project lead reviews its Tasks against the Goals that direct it and asks you to settle conflicts between them. A Team lead triages the queue. Every gap becomes a proposal you approve.

Activepieces Not published

Projects group shared automations and resources, and member roles control permissions. Its docs do not describe a person or agent lead who reviews and coordinates work across a project, goal or team.

Tasks Task Machine Yes

Every job is a Task that a person or an agent owns. The Task keeps its plan, discussion, decisions, runs and history together, so you can steer one job in detail without reading a chat log, and people and agents hand work to each other on the same record.

taskmachine.io/docs/tasks
Activepieces Partly

An agent's Runs tab lists work started by flows, including the triggering flow. Its docs do not describe a shared work-item record that either a person or an agent can own with its own discussion.

Recurring work Task Machine Yes

Start a Task or Workflow once, on a schedule in your timezone, or when a service event arrives, such as a paid invoice or a pull request review. A recurring job keeps one stable root Task and gives each occurrence its own status and history, so repeated work does not flood your board.

Activepieces Yes

Flows start from schedules, webhooks or events in connected services, as well as manual runs. An agent can run as a step inside the triggered flow.

Workflows Task Machine Yes

A Workflow repeats your steps in the same order every time, with branches, human questions and approvals, and verifier checks that judge each result against its requirements and send weak work back with feedback. Every run keeps a step-by-step history you can read afterwards.

taskmachine.io/docs/workflow-builder
Activepieces Yes

Flows combine triggers and app actions with conditional branches and loops. Publishing locks a version, and editing a live automation creates a new draft.

Autonomy Task Machine Yes

Consequential decisions land in your Inbox with their context. You set what each agent may do on its own: every action is either Ask first or Automatic, per agent, and you can change that whenever the work or the stakes change.

Activepieces Yes

You can put human approval before selected actions and pause a run for a response. Sensitive projects can also require publishing approval, with requests collected under Pending approvals for reviewers.

Learned autonomy Task Machine Yes

Task Machine studies the approvals and corrections you already make. When an agent does well it proposes giving it more freedom, and when it needs closer supervision it proposes tighter review, each with the evidence. A short lucky streak is not enough, and nothing changes until you accept.

Activepieces Not published

Its docs do not describe suggestions to broaden or tighten an agent's permissions based on previous approvals and corrections. Tool access and pinned action inputs are configured by the user.

Memory Task Machine Yes

Agents keep lessons from your corrections, such as an accepted example or a mistake to avoid, and carry the relevant notes into later work. Memory is kept per agent, project, goal, team and workspace, and you can read, correct and restore any note.

taskmachine.io/docs/memories
Activepieces No

Activepieces explicitly says an agent remembers nothing between runs. Agents can look up uploaded files and editable tables, but that knowledge is separate from remembering prior work.

Planning Task Machine Yes

Plan in Chat with your agents, and the plan becomes Tasks or Library documents instead of staying in a chat log. Before an agent starts, you review its plan and the acceptance criteria its work will be judged against.

taskmachine.io/docs/planning-in-chat
Activepieces Yes

Chat turns a description into a flow, asks for missing details such as an account, and lets you review every step before publishing. The result remains editable in the normal builder.

activepieces.com/…/chat.md
Intake Task Machine Yes

Send work in over HTTP with a project token. It lands in the project as a Task, or in your Inbox as a proposal first. A team lead agent triages it to the right owner and asks you only when the decision is yours.

Activepieces Yes

Webhook triggers receive outside requests, and an AI Router can route an incoming message to Billing, Technical or Sales using a question and descriptions of each destination.

Connectors Task Machine Yes

Install services from a catalog as MCP servers, APIs or command-line tools, or add your own custom Connector for any of the three. Events Connectors receive webhooks from a service, such as a paid invoice, and start Workflows or wake a waiting Task.

taskmachine.io/docs/connectors
Activepieces Yes

Agents can use app actions, flows and external Model Context Protocol servers. The builder also supports HTTP steps and webhook triggers for systems outside the app catalog.

Models Task Machine Yes

Auto is the default. For each stage of the work it chooses a model from the task, current model capabilities, pricing and your applicable budgets, and you can fix a specific model on an agent when you want to.

taskmachine.io/docs/agents
Activepieces Yes

Chat and agent runs use an administrator-selected Fast tier for quick, light steps. Builders choose the main model or tier, and tiers can fall back through an administrator-defined model order when a provider fails.

activepieces.com/…/ai-tiers.md
Cloud or your own computer Task Machine Yes

Run agents in Managed Cloud with nothing to install, or connect a Local Worker, a computer you control, for local files, tools and accounts. You choose where each agent runs.

Activepieces Yes

Activepieces offers managed Cloud and self-hosting. Agents work on both, but its pricing page distinguishes the free Community automation core from paid Agents and Chat.

Your own subscription Task Machine Yes

Sign in to your ChatGPT (Codex), Claude or GitHub Copilot subscription on a Local Worker, and the agents there use it instead of Task Machine's models.

Activepieces Partly

Plus and higher plans accept your own model-provider keys. With a key, each AI step still costs one Activepieces credit and the provider bills tokens separately. The Free plan does not include this option.

Pricing Task Machine Yes

Usage based. From $29 a month before tax, the whole payment becomes usage that your workspace shares across people and agents, with no base fee and no trial. Larger monthly amounts lower the AI and Cloud rates.

taskmachine.io/pricing
Activepieces Yes

Free includes 1,000 credits a month. Billed monthly, Plus is $20 for 10,000 credits and Team is $200 for 50,000, with $0.007 per extra credit on both paid plans.

activepieces.com/pricing
Correctness Task Machine Yes

Every Task carries acceptance requirements, and each one gets a Pass, Fail or Uncertain check against the delivered work before a person reviews it. Workflow steps can add a verifier check that sends failed work back with feedback. You review the plan first, so the criteria exist before work starts.

Activepieces Partly

You can test individual steps on real data and inspect their outputs before publishing. Its docs describe execution status and manual inspection, but no result-level rubric or acceptance-criteria checker.

For software work

Task Machine and Activepieces compared, with the source and check date of each answer
What you compare Task Machine Activepieces
Code review rules Task Machine Yes

Internal code review checks completed changes against the enabled rules of your repository. Rule discovery reads the repository and proposes rules, each screened against violating and valid examples first, and Task Machine suggests turning off a rule that agents keep dismissing.

taskmachine.io/docs/repositories
Activepieces Partly

Activepieces publishes a piece-builder skill for external coding agents that follows integration conventions and requires build and lint checks. Its docs do not establish a separate code-review process against repository rules.

activepieces.com/…/build-with-ai.md
Adversarial review Task Machine Yes

When an approved plan has high sensitivity or a Critical review level, the change also gets an adversarial review. Two independent reviewers examine the changed files together for defects such as a broken caller or a duplicate charge on retry. Findings keep their reproduction steps, and a skipped or failed review never counts as a pass.

taskmachine.io/docs/task-reviews
Activepieces Not published

Its docs do not describe an independent second reviewer for risky code changes. The published piece-builder process has one coding agent research, implement, build and lint an integration.

activepieces.com/…/build-with-ai.md
Risk rating Task Machine Yes

Before final review, Merge risk rates the exact revision Low, Moderate or High, with notes on alignment, impact, verification, rollback cost and error detection, plus file references. It informs your decision and never merges for you.

taskmachine.io/docs/pull-requests
Activepieces Not published

Its docs do not describe rating a code change's risk before merge. Flow Approvals reviews automation publication in sensitive projects, rather than assigning a merge-risk rating to a code revision.

Pull requests Task Machine Yes

Agents deliver against the exact reported revision, address review feedback and update the branch under your repository rules. Task Machine records its own approval of the exact commit before an agent may merge.

taskmachine.io/docs/pull-requests
Activepieces Partly

The GitHub integration can trigger on pull-request activity and post review comments on a diff. Its docs do not establish an agent delivering code revisions and resolving review feedback as a pull-request lifecycle.

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Who each one suits

Activepieces suits you if you want shared agents and app automations in team projects. You can build a flow through Chat, edit its branches and loops, and let an agent handle a step whose procedure varies.

Task Machine suits you if you want people and agents to own Tasks, with plans, discussion, decisions and history together. Goals can have an agent lead and linked Metrics, and decisions arrive in the Inbox.

You may stay with Activepieces if your flows already connect the right apps and you want to keep controlling their exact steps. Human approval can pause selected actions, and you can run the product on your own infrastructure.

How shared work is organized

Activepieces gives each project its own flows, connections and tables. An agent belongs to a project and can use its resources. A flow can run an agent and route its structured output, such as urgency or whether a human is needed.

Task Machine gives each job a Task owned by a person or an agent. A Goal links work to Metrics and gives its lead responsibility for reviewing progress. You can review a proposed plan before an agent starts, instead of defining every step yourself.

How you build and review a process

Activepieces Chat builds an ordinary editable flow from a conversation. The builder supports branches, loops, app actions, code and HTTP steps. You can test a step on real data, inspect its output and publish when ready.

Activepieces can pause for human approval before an action. It also offers a separate publishing gate for sensitive projects, with a Pending approvals list for reviewers. Its agent page explicitly says agents remember nothing between runs, while files and tables supply knowledge they can look up.

Task Machine Workflows can add a verifier that checks a step against requirements and returns failed work with feedback. Agents also keep memories you can read and correct. You decide which actions require approval in the Inbox.

What the prices cover

Activepieces Free includes 1,000 credits a month. With monthly billing, Plus costs $20 for 10,000 credits and Team costs $200 for 50,000. Both charge $0.007 per extra credit. The pricing page gives conflicting daily and monthly descriptions of when Free credits refresh, so confirm that detail before relying on the free allowance.

A flow run costs one credit regardless of its number of steps. AI steps add 2, 10 or 20 credits by model tier, and agent tool calls cost one credit each. On Plus and higher plans, your own provider key changes an AI step to one credit, with tokens billed by your provider.

Task Machine is usage based, from $29 a month before tax. The whole payment becomes usage shared by the workspace, with no base fee. You keep 100% of your revenue, Task Machine takes no cut and never takes custody of your accounts.

Common questions

Can Activepieces run on our own servers?
Yes. It supports self-hosting as well as managed Cloud. Its pricing page says the free Community Edition is the automation core, while Agents and Chat are paid capabilities.

Does Activepieces support our own model keys?
Yes, on Plus and higher plans. An administrator connects the provider keys and controls which models and projects can use them. Provider token charges remain separate from Activepieces credits.

Can Activepieces work with code and pull requests?
It documents code written and run by an agent, a piece-builder skill for external coding agents, and GitHub triggers and review-comment actions. Those are narrower than a published agent process for delivering revisions and addressing pull-request feedback.

Can both build a workflow from a conversation?
Activepieces Chat builds a flow you can inspect and edit before publishing. Task Machine Chat turns planning into Tasks or Library documents, with plan and acceptance-criteria review before agent work starts.