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Alteryx One vs Zapier comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 16, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.6
Alteryx delivers quick ROI with enhanced efficiency, justifying higher costs through automation, time savings, and improved data accuracy.
Sentiment score
5.7
Zapier is valued for its integration and efficiency, offering perceived ROI and savings compared to hiring, despite some cost concerns.
Tasks that earlier took hours in Excel or SQL are now completed in minutes.
Senior Rpa Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
From a time-saving perspective, we saved 60 to 75 percent of the human workforce needed and eliminated other disparate ETL tools, ultimately saving us over 600,000 dollars.
Senior Staff Cyber Security Cloud Data Architect at GE Healthcare
Alteryx helps familiarize managers with artificial intelligence-driven possibilities.
Chief Information Officer at granistr
In a scenario where employing three resources for three months might cost approximately $18,000 to $20,000, Zapier provides substantial cost savings.
Chief Technology Advocate at PURESOFT GLOBAL LLC
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.1
Alteryx's support is praised for responsiveness and community, though some note occasional delays and varied support quality.
Sentiment score
7.1
Zapier support is praised for responsiveness and knowledge, but criticized for delays and lack of chat options.
Customer support from Alteryx has been amazing.
Senior Staff Cyber Security Cloud Data Architect at GE Healthcare
they do have a website for resolving doubts and accessing helpful resources, including various tools and filters.
Senior Analyst at Guardian India Operation
I contacted customer support once or twice, and they were quick to respond.
Experience Technocrat driving IT initiatives at WISDOMBOWL
Their technical support is good; they respond promptly and are very helpful.
Go High Level Manager at Virtual Worker Now
This can help if you need assistance, as you can communicate with the community and support system, and most issues are already resolved by AI.
Automation Engineer at Axe Automation
The experience was positive with prompt responses from their team.
Chief Technology Advocate at PURESOFT GLOBAL LLC
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Alteryx is scalable for enterprise needs, handling large datasets efficiently, but cost and Designer limitations are concerns.
Sentiment score
7.4
Zapier is scalable and adaptable for businesses, though costs and complexities can increase with intricate automations.
Alteryx is scalable for most enterprise analytics and data preparation workloads.
Senior Rpa Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Suggestions for improvements in Alteryx include areas for increasing efficiency, particularly in processing telemetry data, which involves dealing with large volumes of unstructured data.
Senior Staff Cyber Security Cloud Data Architect at GE Healthcare
Alteryx is scalable, and I would give it eight out of ten.
Experience Technocrat driving IT initiatives at WISDOMBOWL
Zapier is suitable for small or simpler automation but not for complex ones.
Automation Engineer at Axe Automation
Scaling it gets quite expensive, and while I cannot evaluate it purely from a technology perspective, compared to Workato, I would give Zapier a seven for scalability.
Product Owner | Integration
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Alteryx is praised for its stability and reliability, especially with large datasets, outperforming competitors in speed and consistency.
Sentiment score
6.8
Users find Zapier stable and reliable, though issues arise from external triggers; resolutions are quick, but improvements are suggested.
I didn't need to reach out to Alteryx for support because available documents usually provide enough information to resolve issues.
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I have not encountered any lagging, crashing, or instability in the system during these three months of usage.
Legal Coordinator at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Alteryx is a reliable tool, but it is also very heavy, requiring good laptop configurations, a minimum of 8GB RAM, and a recent processor such as i10.
Senior Analyst at Guardian India Operation
In my current company, we had significant challenges with Zapier regarding maintenance, as Zaps were often broken, not necessarily due to Zapier, but due to changes in the input variables.
Product Owner | Integration
 

Room For Improvement

Alteryx needs better database connectivity, visualization, pricing, cloud deployment, documentation, and user interface for improved usability and performance.
Zapier is seen as costly, with users seeking improved integrations, interface, support, documentation, and advanced workflow capabilities.
The tool could include more native connectors, such as for global ERPs, instead of requiring additional fees for these connections.
Legal Coordinator at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The support structure changed; initially, we received great support, however, it later became less reliable due to licensing issues and a tiered support system.
Senior Capacity Planner at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The additional features that Alteryx needs to work on to make it more competitive include better collaboration and easier integration through API.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
The error message options in the dashboard should be improved. It should be user-friendly so that beginners or non-technical users can figure out the problems and solutions on their own.
Webflow Developer at Qureos
You can build similar or dependent automations in one Zap, which helps with understanding the process without switching between different records.
Product Owner | Integration
Having flexibility in creating more complex automation would eliminate the need to transform data within the source or destination.
Business Intelligence Developer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
 

Setup Cost

Alteryx is praised for features but noted for high costs, leading some to seek affordable alternatives for smaller teams.
Zapier, though expensive compared to competitors, is valued for automating workflows without developers, with prices scaling by usage.
The price is very high, with licensing typically starting around five thousand dollars plus user per year.
Senior Rpa Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
We found excellent use cases for automation through Alteryx, which provided the means to reduce operational costs and streamline the build of ETL pipelines without extensive coding.
Senior Staff Cyber Security Cloud Data Architect at GE Healthcare
Alteryx is more cost-effective compared to Informatica licenses, offering savings.
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The pricing is in accordance with market standards and even lower in some cases.
Chief Technology Advocate at PURESOFT GLOBAL LLC
The pricing of Zapier is slightly higher compared to other market automation tools such as Pabbly, Make.com, and N8N, which have good features but are priced lower than Zapier.
Go High Level Manager at Virtual Worker Now
 

Valuable Features

Alteryx offers automation, user-friendly drag-and-drop features, enabling efficient data processing, predictive analytics, and geospatial analysis for diverse industries.
Zapier excels in seamless app integration and automation, allowing users to streamline tasks without coding effortlessly.
Alteryx not only represents data but also supports decision-making by suggesting the next steps.
Chief Information Officer at granistr
Analysts who do not have any coding experience can still work on the transformation and preparation of data, which is quite useful.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Alteryx includes built-in tools such as drive time analysis and linear regression, which are much harder to achieve in standard BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
Senior Rpa Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
A webhook is what helps solve most of it because we can create all the different modules as a separate workflow in Zapier with their own custom webhook URL and then call them or chain them together to create a complex workflow solving a bigger use case problem.
Automation Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
They have approximately 7,000 connections.
Product Owner | Integration
The automation capabilities are impressive.
Business Intelligence Developer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Alteryx One
Ranking in Data Integration
11th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
119
Ranking in other categories
Predictive Analytics (2nd), Data Science Platforms (4th), Data Preparation Tools (1st)
Zapier
Ranking in Data Integration
24th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (13th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (20th), AI Software Development (21st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Alteryx One is 1.2%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zapier is 1.2%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Alteryx1.2%
Zapier1.2%
Other97.6%
Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

ManojBehera - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Staff Cyber Security Cloud Data Architect at GE Healthcare
Automated complex ETL workflows have reduced coding effort and improved data integration
One area for improvement is in integrating mostly the data which comes from telemetry, where I can see some sort of improvisations can be made. It is a massive amount of unstructured data, and I believe Alteryx is able to handle it, but there can be some improvements. Suggestions for improvements in Alteryx include areas for increasing efficiency, particularly in processing telemetry data, which involves dealing with large volumes of unstructured data. Additionally, I believe when we use filter tools immediately after the input source, there can be slowdowns when handling massive data. The user experience of Alteryx is generally good, but there are areas for improvement from a user's perspective, particularly regarding user interface enhancements. I think there's always room for improvement, but otherwise, Alteryx has been a great tool for me. We haven't experienced significant disruptions while increasing data volumes, though I sense there could be performance issues as data grows exponentially. This is an area that could use improvement in Alteryx.
Amrit Dash - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
Modular automations have streamlined onboarding and now orchestrate delayed multi-day workflows
Zapier offers the best features through the capability to make our own webhooks and the delay functionalities, which stand out in Zapier.The delay functionality and custom webhooks are valuable for our organization because of how we deal with things at our organization by creating things in a very modular way. We will have different modules talking to each other for a specific complex workflow. A webhook is what helps solve most of it because we can create all the different modules as a separate workflow in Zapier with their own custom webhook URL and then call them or chain them together to create a complex workflow solving a bigger use case problem. Secondly, the delays, with having a bigger delay in number of days, gives the automation a bigger window to run in, which is not the case with make.com or any other platform that we use for automation. The delays on other platforms are mostly within the range of one to five minutes because the scenario needs to run on that particular go. With Zapier, the scenario can span over multiple days and it does not take up running memory. Rather than that, it goes to sleep and runs back again after the designated time. With Zapier, I am able to handle workflows much faster. I have been able to reduce the effort the manual onboarding team and the operations team had to do in terms of employee onboarding. We have reduced the workflow time and made things more efficient and smoother and avoided any repetitive tasks in the day-to-day workflow of a team member. There is a significant reduction in manual work and team members save time by eliminating multiple workflows which are repetitive in nature that the automation team builds for them using Zapier.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Construction Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business46
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise73
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business32
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What is the Biggest Difference Between Alteryx and IBM SPSS Modeler?
One of the differences is that with Alteryx you can use it as an ETL and analytics tool. Please connect with me directly if you want to know more.
What is the Biggest Difference Between Alteryx and IBM SPSS Modeler?
Alteryx is an extremely easy and flexible data tool, flexible in terms of drag and drop toolset and also has python, R integrations if your team requires this. It can handle over 2 billion rows of...
What is the Biggest Difference Between Alteryx and IBM SPSS Modeler?
I am not familiar with IBM SPSS Modeler, therefore, I cannot compare these two products. Regarding Alteryx I can say the following: - An excellent desktop tool for Data Prep and analytics. - Featu...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zapier?
The pricing is in accordance with market standards and even lower in some cases. The license setup cost is reasonable.
What needs improvement with Zapier?
Zapier can be improved by having more complex running scenarios, such as running code and more custom modules, and maybe multi-router cases which will make the workflows even tighter and more compl...
What is your primary use case for Zapier?
My main use case for Zapier is that it acts as a no-code automation platform which helps us in automating business platforms and business process automation. It is a tool that we were using prior t...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Alteryx Designer Cloud, Alteryx Designer
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

AnalyticsIq Inc., belk, BloominBrands Inc., Cardinalhealth, Cineplex, Dairy Queen
BuzzFeed, Groupon, Spotify, Columbia University, FOX
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