Pipedream alternatives
8 other tool marketplaces & pay-per-call apis compared on one normalised price. Where a vendor states a per-call rate, it is normalised to dollars per 1,000 tool calls after any free allowance. Many bill in other units (credits, tasks, compute units, RPCs) or at each underlying provider's own rate; those show no figure rather than a guess. Marketplaces such as treg.to pass through provider rates, so cost depends on which tool you call.
| Vendor | Plan | Listed price (as on vendor page) | $/1k calls | Free tier | Source | Status | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smithery | Pay as you go | $10/mo incl. 100K RPCs (consumed as $10 credits), then $0.10 per 1K RPCs RPC = a request to an MCP server (not necessarily one tool call). The page states 'Smithery is now a part of Arcade.dev'. | $0.10/1k | Hobby: free, 50K RPCs / month, 3 namespaces | source | verified | 2026-10-19 |
| Composio | Hobby / Pro usage | Hobby $0: 100,000 tool calls/mo free; then $0.0003 per tool call (Pro $29/mo incl. $29 usage credit) Derived: $0.0003 x 1,000 = $0.30 per 1k tool calls after the free 100K. Composio-managed Instant Tools list $0.0005/call. | $0.30/1k | Hobby: 100,000 tool calls / month free, no credit card | source | verified | 2026-10-19 |
| Toolhouse | Go | $5 per 1,000 requests (agent worker runs); credits at $0.005 each in the usage calculator Toolhouse sells finished agent work (credits per task), so $/1k requests is not like-for-like with raw tool-call APIs. | $5.00/1k | — | source | verified | 2026-10-19 |
| Arcade | Team | $25/month platform fee + tool calls at $0.01 each + auth events at $0.10 each Derived: $0.01 x 1,000 = $10 per 1k tool calls. Smithery is now part of Arcade (see Smithery row). | $10.00/1k | Free: 2,000 tool calls and 2,000 auth events / month, no card | source | verified | 2026-10-19 |
| treg.to ★ owner uses | Pay per call (prepaid) | Prepaid balance, metered per call at the provider's own rate, no markup; catalog rates from $0.00012/call (Google Keyword Data) to $0.00038/result (People & contact data) Not one rate: price depends on the underlying provider's own rate (4,000+ endpoints, 113 providers per treg.to homepage), shown before each call. Own-key (BYOK) calls are never metered. DISCLOSURE: the site owner uses treg.to. | — | First $1.00 free; no subscription, no seats | source | verified | 2026-10-19 |
| Apify | Free / Starter | Free $0 (+$5 prepaid usage); Starter $19/month; Scale $199; Business $999; compute $0.2 per compute unit Billed per compute unit or per-event Actor pricing set by each Actor author; no single per-call rate. | — | Free plan: $5 monthly usage credit | source | verified | 2026-10-19 |
| Zapier MCP | Free / Professional | Free: $0 (100 tasks per month); Professional starting from $19.99/month Zapier bills in 'tasks'; the page does not give a per-MCP-call price, so none is derived. | — | Free forever plan, 100 tasks / month | source | verified | 2026-10-19 |
| RapidAPI | (not read) | no price read Pricing page returned no readable text (JavaScript app); RapidAPI is a marketplace where each API sets its own price. No price recorded. | — | — | source | unverified | 2026-10-19 |