Top 6 Economical iPaaS Vendors

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updated on Dec 3, 2025

Businesses are struggling with app sprawl, as the average company uses ~370 apps. App sprawl causes employees to copy and paste across applications, resulting in slow, error-prone processes.

An integration platform as a service solution (iPaaS) can resolve this issue. However, selecting these solutions for your company is difficult since:

There are around 100 iPaaS tools in the market.
Pricing can be opaque, with high prices blocking widespread usage and digital transformation.
These tools tend to be closed source, making it hard to switch vendors once you invest in one. Therefore, we recommend that companies carefully evaluate their options.

See the list of affordable iPaaS tools that offer the same number of features as expensive ones but at lower prices:

Vendor	Pricing per year	Trial period	# of pre-built connectors	Automation capabilities
Argos Labs	$2,000	60-day full version	Unlimited with SDK	Python backend low-code RPA for unlimited automation steps
Albato	$1,692	7-day	+800	Yes, but limited to 30,000 automation steps every month. After that, it’s 1 cent per each step.
Dataddo	$1,188	14-day + limited free version	+200	Yes, with a 5-minute sync frequency
Elastic	$2,400	14-day	+100	Yes
Integrately	$2,868	14-day	1,000	Yes
Tibco	$4,800	30-day	+200	Add-on

Our selection criteria for an affordable iPaaS provider are:

A vendor with +25 employees
Publicly available pricing of <$5,000/year
An enterprise-level iPaaS solution capable of hybrid integration between cloud and on-premises apps
Offering a low-code solution, +100 pre-built connections, error-handling and monitoring, and automation capabilities

These vendors passed our checklist:

1. Argos Labs

Argos Labs’ intelligent automation is a low-code integration tool built on Python. Its API management feature enables effortless integration between different SaaS apps, integrating cloud, AI/ML, and data science tools.

Key Features:

API management integrated with cloud, AI/ML, and data science tools.
Unlimited pre-built connectors when using their SDK.
Low-code approach for RPA (Robotic Process Automation).

2. Albato

Albato has more than 500 built-in API connectors for application integration. Users can also create an integration marketplace from scratch.

Key Features:

Wide range of integrations suitable for various SaaS applications.
Automation up to 30,000 steps per month (beyond which additional steps cost 1 cent each).

3. Dataddoo

Dataddoo has been added as a notable vendor offering cost-effective data integration solutions to streamline workflows across multiple data sources.

Key features:

Includes 3 data flows and 15 data sources in its base offering.
Comes with over 200 pre-built connectors that facilitate hybrid integration.
Supports automation capabilities to create intelligent workflows.

4. Tibco

Tibco Cloud is a low-code tool that offers over +200 API connectors. Users can integrate data, apps, cloud, SaaS, and IoT devices with their basic package.

Key features:

Focus on scalability and flexibility for complex integration needs.
Includes add-on capabilities to extend core functionality.

5. Integrately

Integrately can connect with over +1000 apps for data and application integration. It can also integrate with on-premise apps, provided they’re public or have webhooks.

Key features:

Extensive app connectivity, including data and application integration.
Simplifies automation workflows with minimal configuration.

6. Elastic

Elastic.io is a cloud integration platform designed for business users to integrate cloud- and on-premises solutions, enabling seamless data exchange between them.

Key features:

Provides pre-built connectors designed for business users.
Automation capabilities for efficient business processes.

Other vendors

In addition, other iPaaS marketing tools did not meet one or more of our criteria. Most vendors were not added to the list because they either lacked transparent pricing, offered low cost, or employed a hybrid integration model. You can see some of those vendors below:

MuleSoft
Zapier
Boomi
Oracle Integration Cloud Service
Cleo integration cloud services
Talend cloud data integration platform

Why is an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) important?

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) plays a significant role in enterprise integration in today’s digital business environment for several reasons:

Efficient data management: iPaaS tools offer API management capabilities, enabling businesses to connect applications and systems for efficient data exchange, enhanced data security, and easier data accessibility.
Real-time integration: iPaaS solutions can provide real-time or near-real-time integration, ensuring that data across systems remains up to date.
Automated business processes: iPaaS solutions with intelligent automation capabilities can enable trigger-based automation workflows by synchronizing data across various applications.
Scalability, flexibility, and agility: iPaaS solutions can scale easily due to their cloud-based architecture. This allows them to adjust to changes in data volume, integration complexity, or system demand without needing additional infrastructure.
Reduced IT complexity: With an iPaaS, businesses can simplify their IT environments and free up their IT teams.
Cost savings: Automation and process synchronization reduce manual work and increase resource utilization. In addition, an iPaaS platform doesn’t require physical infrastructure, resulting in cost savings.

What is cost-effective iPaaS software?

Cost-effective iPaaS is a cloud-based integration platform that enables businesses to integrate their applications, data sources, and processes with other cloud services and on-premises environments.

Companies need an affordable iPaaS solution because:

Custom integration is costly, with organizations spending $4.7M on custom integration last year.

30% suffer from resource and budget allocation issues:

Source: MuleSoft

High upfront and maintenance costs associated with integration solutions can deter smaller enterprises with tighter budgets

4 main features of iPaaS tools

1. Pre-built connectors

Pre-built connectors are software components that enable communication and data exchange between applications without requiring custom development. Each connector is specifically designed to interact with a particular application’s API or data format. It’d know how to connect apps with:

Authenticate the app
Structure requests to the API
Handle any special requirements or quirks of the API

These are developed and tested by experts and can save significant time and effort. Instead of understanding the details of an application’s API and writing custom code to interact with it, you can use a pre-built connector for API integrations.

For example, suppose an iPaaS platform has pre-built connectors for Salesforce, Slack, and Google Sheets. In that case, you can quickly and easily create API management and custom integrations with a drag-and-drop interface without writing any code.

2. Low-code

A no-code iPaaS tool provides a user-friendly interface for creating integration flows with drag-and-drop, dropdowns, and other graphical elements, without writing any code.

This is beneficial because it democratizes the technology and appeals to a broader range of non-technical users without relying on developers or IT. It also speeds up the integration process since there’s no need to write, test, and debug code.

However, it’s worth noting that no-code doesn’t necessarily mean limited. Many no-code iPaaS platforms offer robust capabilities and flexibility, including support for complex data transformations, multi-step workflows, error handling, and more.

3. Error-handling and monitoring

Error handling and monitoring ensure your app integrations run smoothly, enabling you to identify and address issues quickly.

Error handling

Error handling is the process by which an iPaaS integration solution detects and resolves errors during the execution of an integration workflow. It would:

Send a notification to the administrator
Attempt a retry
Execute a fallback or an alternative process

Many iPaaS platforms allow users to create customized error handling based on their needs, such as defining the number of retry attempts or specifying IF/THEN scenarios for alerting.

Monitoring

Monitoring hybrid integration platforms involves continuously tracking and recording the activity and performance of your integration workflows. Monitoring in an integration platform as a service may include:

Real-time dashboards display the status of your integrations, such as the number of tasks executed, data processed, successful completions, and failures.
Logs of activity for each workflow, including details of any errors that have occurred.
Alerts or notifications are triggered when specific conditions are met, such as a high error rate or a workflow that takes longer than expected to complete.

Monitoring is essential for maintaining the reliability of key integration features, understanding their performance and usage, and identifying areas where they may need improvement or scaling.

4. Automation capabilities

Automation capabilities allow the integration platform to do more than just data integration. So the solution isn’t limited to transferring data; it can also automate processes by applying rules, conditions, or transformations to the data, performing them on a schedule or when triggered.

For your sales and marketing apps, for instance, an integration platform as a service with automation capabilities allows you to set up a workflow that automatically syncs new customer data from your eCommerce platform to your email marketing system every night at midnight. Alternatively, you could create a process that monitors your CRM for new sales deals, automatically sending a notification to a Slack channel and updating a record in the financial system when each deal is closed.

An iPaaS without automation capabilities would move data from one system to another without the ability to apply complex rules, transformations, or scheduling. While this can still be useful for specific use cases, it’s less flexible and powerful than an iPaaS with full automation capabilities.