Mastra vs Zapier

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

Zapier is the stronger AI pick in AI Agents: it has a visibility score of 13.5 versus 1.2 for Mastra, and ranks ahead in 100% of the answers that name both.

Choose Mastra if…

AI answers describe it more positively (100% vs 29% positive)
Flat tiers pricing suits your budget better than usage-based
Type-safe, production-grade application code
Suited to serious production systems

Choose Zapier if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (13.5 vs 1.2)
You want a lower entry price ($19.99 vs $250)
You need SOC 2 Type II or SOC 3 or GDPR or CCPA coverage
You prefer a larger, established vendor (501–1,000 employees)

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	Mastra	Zapier
Visibility score	1.2%	13.5%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in AI Agents	#56	#10
Share of voice	0.5%	2.6%
Mentions this run	3	18
Positive in AI answers	100%	29%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

Mastra 0pp · Zapier 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Zapier leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

13.5%

AI Mode

1.7%

6.8%

Perplexity

1.9%

20%

MastraZapier

Head to head in AI answers

1 engine answers name both brands

0Mastra ranked higher

1Zapier ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	Mastra	Zapier
What are the best AI Agents tools in 2026?	Perplexity	#12	#8

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	Mastra	Zapier
Pricing model	Flat tiers	Usage-based
Entry price	Free; paid from $250 / mo	Free; paid from $19.99 / mo
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Deployment	Self-hosted on any Node.js-compatible environment, or hosted on Mastra Cloud and Mastra Platform.	Multi-tenant cloud
Integrations	—	9000+
Compliance	—	SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, GDPR, CCPA
Support	Shared Slack support channel (Enterprise), Dedicated support engineer (Enterprise), SLA support 8-5 Monday-Friday, 8am-6pm PST	Email support, Live chat on Professional plans from the 2,000 task tier, Priority support on Team and Enterprise, Technical Account Manager on set thresholds or as an add-on
Founded	2024	2011
Headquarters	San Francisco	San Francisco, CA
Employees	11–50	501–1,000
Funding	Series A · $35M raised	Equity crowdfunding
Best for	Developers and teams building AI agents in TypeScript and JavaScript	Businesses from first-time founders to the Fortune 500 that want AI and automation across many apps.