Relay.app
SHUTTING DOWN: Relay.app closes on 14 September 2026 for paying customers, and new signups are already disabled.
What is Relay.app?
Relay.app is an AI-powered workflow automation platform that connects apps and adds human-in-the-loop approvals and AI steps into automations. It targets teams wanting more collaborative, reliable automation than traditional trigger-action tools.
Best known for: AI workflow automation with human-in-the-loop approvals
Key features
- Multi-step app automations
- Human-in-the-loop approval steps
- Built-in AI actions and agents
- Collaborative, shared workflows
- Paths and conditional logic
- Data enrichment integrations
Who Relay.app is best for
- Nobody new: signups closed on 16 July 2026 and the service ends 14 September 2026
- Existing paying customers, who should be exporting data and migrating now
- Readers who arrived here looking for a replacement, covered on our alternatives page
Ideal team: No longer available to new customers. Relay.app was aimed at ops and GTM teams wanting AI-assisted automations with human review; those teams should now be looking at Zapier, Make, or n8n.
Relay.app pricing
Free
$0
- 200 steps + 500 AI credits
- 1 user
- All integrations included
Professional
$19/flat / mo
- 750 steps + 5,000 AI credits
- All connectors & templates
- Team collaboration
Team
$69/flat / mo
- 2,000 steps + 5,000 AI credits
- Up to 10 users
- Custom branding & priority support
Enterprise
Custom
- Unlimited steps
- SOC 2 / GDPR
- Dedicated support
Costs to watch before you commit
- Relay.app announced its shutdown: free accounts ended 15 August 2026 and paid accounts end 14 September 2026.
- New signups and free-to-paid upgrades were switched off on 16 July 2026, so the pricing below is historical.
- Existing customers can export their data during the wind-down; workflows keep running until the end date.
- The historical rates required annual billing, with month-to-month at double ($38/$138).
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