A Gumloop alternative without a surcharge on every run.
Gumloop charges 20,000 credits a month plus an 8% orchestration fee on top of whatever you use, and there's no permanent free plan, just a 14-day trial before the bill starts. It's cloud-only too; the closest thing to running it yourself is a VPC deployment inside your own cloud, and that's Enterprise only.
Unmeshed has one flat number, a free tier that never expires, and self-hosting available from day one.
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Overview
About Unmeshed
Unmeshed is a workflow orchestration platform built by the team behind Netflix Conductor. You define workflows in JSON or YAML, with code-based workers in Java, Go, TypeScript, or Python. Retries, waits, and durable state come built in, and the free plan never expires or requires a trial clock to start.
About Gumloop
Gumloop is a cloud-based AI agent platform where teams build and share agents on a visual canvas or through chat, connected to 300+ tools. It runs exclusively in Gumloop's cloud, with a VPC deployment inside your own AWS, Azure, or GCP account available only on the Enterprise plan. Usage is metered in credits, plus an 8% orchestration fee on top of whatever credits you use, and there's no permanent free tier, just a 14-day trial.
Comparison
Unmeshed vs Gumloop.
| Unmeshed | Gumloop | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | ||
| Built for | Code-first orchestration for developers and technical teams | AI agent building for both technical and non-technical teams |
| Workflow definitions | JSON, YAML, or code | Agent instructions and connected skills, built visually or via chat |
| Native integrations | 100+ | 300+ connectors |
| Visual designer | Included | Included |
| Resiliency and operations | ||
| Automatic retries | Included | |
| Hold, skip, rollback, restart as direct commands | Included | Not included |
| Self-host without extra infrastructure | Included | Not included |
| Self-hosted deployment | Included | Not included |
| Pricing | ||
| Pricing model | Flat, predictable plans | Credit-based, plus a percentage orchestration fee on top |
| Orchestration fee on top of usage | Not included | Included |
| Free tier usable in production | Included | Not included |
| Upgrade without a sales call | Included | Included |
| Security, compliance, and governance | ||
| Role-based access control | Included | |
| SSO / SAML | ||
| Audit logs | Included | |
| Self-hosted / on-premise deployment | Included | Not included |
No surcharge. No trial clock running out.
Start building workflows on one flat number, on a free tier that never expires and never needs a credit card.
Pricing
Two charges for every run, not one.
Gumloop's Pro plan includes 20,000 credits a month, then adds an 8% orchestration fee on top of whatever credits you actually use. There's no permanent free plan either, just a 14 day trial before the $37 a month bill starts. Unmeshed counts one flat number, a workflow execution, with a free plan that has no expiration date.
Free forever
For solo builders exploring workflow orchestration.
$0/month
No credit card required
Get Started Free- 2,000 workflow executions / month
- Unlimited steps per workflow
- Community support
Premium
For individuals and small teams ready to orchestrate at scale.
$20/month
Billed monthly, annual saves 2 months
Get Started- 10,000 workflow executions / month
- Batch job scheduling
- Email support
Enterprise
For organizations with scale, compliance, and infrastructure requirements.
Custom pricing
Tailored to your scale and compliance requirements
Contact Sales- Unlimited executions, workflows & seats
- SSO / SAML and RBAC
- Dedicated support with SLAs
Gumloop pricing, for reference
See Gumloop's pricing pagePro, starts at $37/mo
After a 14 day trial. Unlimited agents and seats, 35+ models, bring your own key, 20,000 included credits, plus an 8% orchestration fee on usage
Enterprise, contact sales
Custom credits, discounts available on the orchestration fee, optional VPC deployment, RBAC, SSO/SCIM, audit logs
Pricing details change often, treat this as a quick reference and confirm current numbers on Gumloop's site.
Agentic AI
Every action costs credits. Code steps don't have to
Gumloop
Gumloop's entire platform runs on credits; every agent action draws down the same meter, whether it calls a model or just moves data between two connected tools. There's no separate lane for deterministic work that doesn't need a model in the loop.
Unmeshed
Unmeshed keeps code steps free of charge and prices only the AI steps, showing the cost of each one live as the workflow runs, so a workflow that leans on code instead of a model costs less by design, not by careful credit budgeting.
Cost and infrastructure
There's no free plan waiting at the end of the trial
Gumloop
Gumloop's only path to trying the product is a 14-day trial on the Pro plan, $37 a month once it ends. There's no permanent free tier to fall back to if you're not ready to commit, and no self-hosted community option either, since Gumloop runs exclusively in their cloud unless you're on Enterprise with VPC.
Unmeshed
Unmeshed's free plan has no expiration date, and self-hosting is available from the first plan, not gated behind a custom deal.
Feature comparison
Gumloop makes you plan for this. Unmeshed already did.
The stuff you won't have to build yourself.
Free tier
No trial clock, no credit card at the start.
Unmeshed
Free forever, $0 a month, no credit card required, no expiration date.
Gumloop
The only way to try Gumloop is a 14-day trial on the Pro plan, $37 a month once it ends.
Pricing predictability
One number, not a fee on top of a number.
Unmeshed
Workflow executions are counted flat, no matter how long a workflow runs or how much compute it uses.
Gumloop
Pro includes 20,000 credits a month, then adds an 8% orchestration fee on top of whatever credits you actually use.
Self-hosting
Run it yourself, not just in their cloud.
Unmeshed
Self-host on your own VM or Kubernetes cluster, or use Unmeshed Cloud. On-premises deployment is included on the Enterprise plan.
Gumloop
Runs exclusively in Gumloop's cloud. The closest option to your own infrastructure is a VPC deployment, and that's an Enterprise-only add-on.
Governance
Some access control before the custom deal.
Unmeshed
Role-based access control is available as a baseline platform capability, not held back for a custom Enterprise conversation.
Gumloop
Pro includes no role-based access control, SSO, or audit logging at all; every governance control sits behind Enterprise.
Code sample
Just functions. No credits to track.
Workers are plain functions. Register them, start a process, and the platform takes care of the durable execution machinery; no credit balance to watch while it runs.
Retries, state, and scheduling come built in, so there's no extra worker choreography to hand roll.
from unmeshed.sdk.configs.client_config import ClientConfig
from unmeshed.sdk.unmeshed_client import UnmeshedClient
from unmeshed.sdk.decorators.worker_function import worker_function
client_config = ClientConfig()
client_config.set_client_id("your-client-id")
client_config.set_auth_token("your-auth-token")
client = UnmeshedClient(client_config)
@worker_function(name="charge-order", namespace="default", max_in_progress=100)
def charge_order(input: OrderInput) -> ChargeResult:
# your business logic — the engine handles
# state, retries, and observability
return charge_card(input)
client.start()Frequently asked questions
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