What is an alternative to Zapier when the bill keeps growing?

• Open the usage report and sort by tasks, runs or credits, whichever your vendor counts.
• Write down the five busiest automations and what each one does.
• Look for loops, retries and steps that run when nothing has changed.
• Check your vendor's current pricing page for how your plan counts usage.

• Change plan or platform. The quickest fix, and often enough.
• Tidy the automations. Merge steps, add filters so they run only when something changed, and delete the ones nobody uses.
• Replace the busiest few with a custom workflow. It has a build price and a steady running cost, so it only pays when the busy ones really drive the bill.

A custom workflow needs someone to watch it and to update it when the tools it connects change their rules. A platform does that for you. Count that work, or the cost of having someone do it, before you decide.

Send LOJIK the list of automations and their monthly usage. LOJIK looks at the bill they add up to and tells you plainly whether a replacement would pay for itself, a cheaper platform is enough, or tidying is the answer. A person sets the price, and you approve it before anything starts.

LOJIK is probably not the right choice if:

• Your bill is small or flat.
• You have dozens of different automations that each run rarely. A platform fits that shape well.
• You add new connections every week and need a library of ready-made ones.
• Nobody can say what the current automations do. Write that down first.